whats the nightslugs/ hyperdub axis are nightslugs and hyperdub related and if so how?
Not really related except in the sense Luka notes - more specifically I'd say that the audience for the two appears to be the same or substantially the same i.e. the same people who enthuse about Bok Bok/Mosca/Greena/etc. to me also enthuse about Cooly G/Roska/Scratcha DVA/Kode9's funky tunes.
Julio Bashmore, Doc Daneeka, R1 Ryders and Dark Knight being the other liminal figures who get a lot of love from this audience - although it'd be wrong to simply conflate all of these artists into a single category - it's precisely a function of their liminality that they're mostly very different from one another.
My favourite funky tunes of the last few months are:
Devine Collective - People Keep Dancing, Tribal Day Dream
Funkystepz - For You (vocal mix of "Bounce")
Lethal B ft. Donae'o - Flap Your Wings
Major Notes - Friend of Mine
Bass Boy & Marcus Nasty - Let's Get Nasty
Princess Nyah - Hooligans
Ny - Sea Sick (DJ Naughty Remix)
Screama & Merkz - Kiss
Fuzzy Logick & La Cartier - Call Me (Roska Remix)
J Labels - Touch Me
Almost finished an epic summary on Devine Collective to put my incontinent stanning into some sort of context.