Lil Sillva is coming up my way soon, I'm prob gonna make a move, have a boogie see what he's playing.
I've not heard much new from him for ages, in fact lots of the peeps that got me looking at the funky sound haven't released much at all in the last year or so. I wana see more Ill Blue, Lil Silva, D Malice, Apple, Hard House Banton, Sticky those are the peeps that got me excited. DVA has just started picking it up with releases, Roska has been fairly solid and Cooly G has been doing her thing but its been a bit sparse release wise apart from that and its a shame really.
Its only the dubstep guys who have been dropping stuff on the regular or vaugly vegular, I love a bit of Shortsuff, Brackles, Pearson Sound, Mosca, Greena, Hackman, Bashmore whoever at the moment as I get to have a few of their releases to play with myself and own. If Ill Blue, Lil Silva, D Malice, Apple, Hard House Banton, Sticky and whoever Marcus Nasty was playing released their stuff, I'd hype it as much as the rest if I was feeling it.
I can't speak for FACT like, and wouldn't want to while you're calling them out but thats what I see from up north. Funky from the acctual funky lot is a mission get hold of and a mission to get behind and thats the only thing holding me back from really getting behind it and trying to create more hype for it.
I dunno if its a geographical case at all... but Wiley's words in the faux skepta dub last year seem to be true right now even if they are right on the edge of shatering... "I've got your throat lumpy, you're stuck in London like funky"...
Does that make sense?