Funky/London/UK House

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mms

sometimes
i understood funky to be different mixes of house styles, with brit stuff too, basically pulling in styles of house to create a certain sound, and then on top of that uk people making it and all. Cooly g does this, regardless of whether you as a listener know about some if the music she plays cos you've got a different frame of reference to it if you see what i mean. loads of the djs do this, it' pretty much an accepted part of funky isn't it?
You know like the way those funky must haves bootleg 12s aren't british stuff.
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Logos said:
I just have this thing about DJs skipping across in to genres they don't really know in depth and drawing for obvious stuff, not contextualising it properly and ingnoring the treasures on their own hard drives or record collections. Cooly G isn't even a particularly bad example and fair play, she is allowed to play what she wants. The worst example I have ever heard is DJ Pete, who I saw play possibly the best ever set of Basic Channel/Scion Versions axis techno I've ever heard in a strip club on Hackney Road (no joke), turning up at Plastic People two years later playing nothing but year-old Benga and Skream tunes to a rapidly diminishing crowd.
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Yeah for sure, as with nearly everything there are pluses and minuses to the approach. On the one hand, the fact that they're not closely familiar with the whole genre might lead them to playing a lot of really obvious, overexposed tunes, without fully realising how obvious they are, just because they're the first things that are brought to their attention when they start investigating. But on the other hand, the fact that they're fresh to the music and not bogged down by any received ideas of what's cool, what's an accepted way to do things etc that a long-term insider might have means that they might actually pick up on unusual or neglected tunes, or combine tunes in a way that wouldn't usually be done but turns out to work.
I think it's important to have some kind of axis that guides your selection, otherwise especially with something as vast as house music you're likely to get lost in this sea of music, past and present. With funky, the choice for selection seems to be to do with looking for this particular sort of beat pattern, and this gives some kind of coherence to what tunes people will pick up on outside of the strictly UKF stuff.
I also think that as far as the whole topic of obvious tunes, whilst part of what I really value in a good dj is the ability to expose me to new or obscure music, I do also think there's def a place for anthems; some tunes just deserve to be big, and if they're good enough they can withstand a decent ammount of play before they get tiring. In some situations, audience familiarity with a tune can help boost the vibe, the sense of 'hey, this is our music', y'know? And the flipside would be that it ultimately help much that a dj has exclusive access to a tune months ahead of everyone else, or has the only known remaining copy of an old tune, if the tune is actually rubbish..

In other news, why am I up and posting so early? :slanted: :confused:
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Really enjoying listening to Marcus on Rinse for the first time in ages.

Anyone know what tune features an almost continous 'what what what what what' sample? Drum fill sounds similar to 'Yellowtail' by Gee...
 
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UFO over easy

online mahjong
who's Mad One? loads of tunes by him on this set

edit - LET ME BE YOUR FANTASYYYYYYYYYY



last 15 minutes has been so big

crackish!

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i know it but i don't
 
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Simon78

Simon78

Well-known member
UFO over easy said:
sorry for atrocious recording quality but what's this <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=8,0,18,0" width="325" height="28" id="divmp3"><param name="movie" value="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8447762-0ff" /><embed src="http://www.divshare.com/flash/playlist?myId=8447762-0ff" width="325" height="28" name="divmp3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object>

i know it but i don't
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Its Sami Sanchez - Dirty Trumpet

3rd tune in the player:
http://www.myspace.com/djsamisanchezmuzik
 
Simon78

Simon78

Well-known member
Not sure. I will ask Goldie next time I am in BM. I hope so, I only met him at the instore he did with Malice but he seemed sound.

The tune has been around for a while but I don't know if many people had it. I have never heard it out anywhere.
 
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Tim F

Well-known member
The "what what what..." tune is (surprise!) Sami Sanchez's "What".

Madd.One is one of my favourite producers in the scene!

Not just "House Girls Part One" but also "Tribal Conga" (you know it if you hear it, a particular favourite of Rankin's I think) and my personal fave "Gotta Have It", which is just nuts. He's got heaps of other tunes I don't know the name of too.
 
slackk

slackk

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