Funky/London/UK House

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Ach!

Turd on the Run
nomos said:
where's he upping them? i didn't see anything on his myspaz, but then i was pretty disoriented by all the music and flashing lights.
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He's been upping them every week in his blog section. I liked the one with Ranking and Quincy, but I didn't think as a whole the set was as good as the other one. Great stuff on there though.
 
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mpc

wasteman
Marcus Nasty playing here:
http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=7545

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Logos

Ghosts of my life
Got the Supa D mix cd today...on first listen confirms what I've made of the music so far, which is that a lot of it is so-so MAW/latin/deep house stuff which doesn't really stand up in terms of ideas and production to the US stuff.

However the stand outs are the two Apple tracks and the Prempay thing, which is wicked and only what I'd expect from someone who made 'Bongo Eyes'. Its definitely when they strip it down that the music gets interesting, though wouldn't want them to lose the vocal angle either, just integrate it into the more interesting productions.

A lot of the rawer stuff out there would mix really well with early Strictly Rhythm, that kind of raw bass-heavy pulse really works in this context.

Would love to hear this stuff in its proper context though.
 
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continuum

smugpolice
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http://www.mediafire.com/?lc3nxggajmo

Eddy meets Yannah - U & I (Karizma & Kaytronik dub) - [Compost Germany]
Eddy meets Yannah - Once In A While (Sinbad dub vox) - [Compost Germany]
Mentor Roska - Boxed In (main mix) - [Roska Kicks & Snares]
Uncle Bakongo - Bakongo - [Roska Kicks & Snares]
Mentor Roska - Feeline (original mix) - [Roska Kicks & Snares]
Tribal Audio - Back Into Time - [Karnival Music]
DJ MA1 - I'm Right Here (club mix) - [Karnival Music]
Soil & Pimp Sessions - Sahara (Zed Bias remix) - [Brownswood UK]
Zed Bias - In Your Mind - [Groove Chronicles]
Eddy meets Yannah - Finding Right Tune - [Compost Germany]
Wahoo - Make 'Em Shake It (original) - [Defected]
 
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Ory

warp drive
A lot of funky is way too standard. I'm liking the more UK influenced sounds though.

Stuff like "Tell Me" though, isn't that a dancehall rhythm at house speed with a 4x4 beat on top? I'm not too sure what this soca thing is to be honest.

And Apple... his stuff, "Mr Bean" for example, is not even 4x4. I don't see how his tunes fit in here. It sounds more like a softer version of grime.
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
Could someone be so gracious as to up those Marcus Nasty sets again? The links on his myspace page are dead. Thanks in advance.
 
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doom

Public Housing
you may need to cut n paste the sendspace linx from myspace sickboy, myspace seems to lock them off....

This 1 appears to b live at this end,

http://www.sendspace.com/file/u7o2z2

and I grabbed the 27-03-08 yesterday.


Heres my eerrrr antipodean take on this stuff... def agree the UK tunes r runnin it, Naughtys new EP is sik! and I'm really feeling the Unkle Bakongo stuff Roska is putting out.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/102965903facb1a9/

Erotica - Madonna - M.A.W Dub
Rumba Dance Ft. Gina - Dr. Duda & Dr. M Bee
Apologyze - Dizipline Soca Remix
Love Someone Ft. Robert Owens - Atjazz Deeper Remix
Even Though - Black Coffee
Feel It Ft. Bianca - Tribal Audio
All The Girls - Blaqstarr
Put Your Drink Down - Mr. V (U.S.A) - Copyright Cha Cha Beats
Revolution - Rob Scott - Seiji Dub Remix
The Cure And The Cause - Fish Go Deep - Dennis Ferrer Mix
Bakongo - Unkle Bakongo
Gabz To Mbabane - DJ Cleo
Wearin' My Rolex - Wiley


Not in anyway 'purist' or new (in parts) made it more for local consumption, so some of the tunes might be abit korny from a uk perspective.
 
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Ach!

Turd on the Run
Apparently the tracklisting was set in the winter last year which may be a reason for it not sounding as fresh as it could. I think in that since then have been a fair amount of UK tracks produced that could have worked better. In all honesty most DJ sets still have a large amount of US/Euro productions, much in the same way that UKG did back in 95/96. Perhaps the CD came out a little early, but it does have some good stuff on there, Perempay & Dee, Matic Productions, Geeneus, Apple (although no Mr.Bean!?), Doneao, Tadow etc, but there is some filler.
 
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sometimes
bit of an old new genre this isn't it - except mr bean it all sounds remarkably like music that's been going on for a decade or so at at least, even though ppl have tried to say there is something new about funky house 08 there isn't really with very few exceptions - and i think those exceptions would have been there b4 just ppl weren't looking for them, as it wasn't on the hipster radar.
 
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Member
mms said:
bit of an old new genre this isn't it - except mr bean it all sounds remarkably like music that's been going on for a decade or so at at least, even though ppl have tried to say there is something new about funky house 08 there isn't really with very few exceptions - and i think those exceptions would have been there b4 just ppl weren't looking for them, as it wasn't on the hipster radar.
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Can I just say that part of the Funky House appeal a couple of years ago was that it was an attempt to bring back the sexy old skool UKG days with an almost rare groove approach to DJing i.e. anything goes - in this case anything from Broken Beat (Bugz, King Brit), Tribal/afro (DJ Greogory, Dennis Ferrer), deep (Quentin Harris, Buzzing Fly) and of course more traditional funky house (MAW). So although none of these genres are particularly new, the audience, the DJ circuit, their mixtape network (most with no track list so that other DJs paricularly RnB ones couldn't copy the sets) and most importantly the aforementioned approach was.

Like someone mentioned above UKG started with mainly dub version of U.S. imports before local DJs and producers started to 'customise' the sound, my fear is that in this accelarated culture 'customising' funky means making it harder faster and that isn't sexy (which was it's appeal in the first place)!

The Thug Motivation mix would totally fit within the scene just throw in some Apple, DJ Naughty and Crazi Cousins for 'gun finger' moments and keep it moving.
 
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doom

Public Housing
dj's dj said:
So although none of these genres are particularly new, the audience, the DJ circuit, their mixtape network (most with no track list so that other DJs paricularly RnB ones couldn't copy the sets) and most importantly the aforementioned approach was.
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Exactly. The audience is new & they wanna hear certain kinds of tunes, played in a certain way. Prancehalls interview with NG is really illuminating in this respect. NG like alot of young men, myself & people I know included, grew up with a highly stigmatized view of what house music is / was meant to be.

I think alot of the dubs Marcus is playing are 'new' tho, insomuch as a new perspective is being injected into house music. Sometimes the new producers are subverting tradition in a really subtle way, sometimes not.

Its not just the London 'funky' scene where this is happening tho. Sinden basically said the same things as NG, in differant words, in an interview. Alot of it is house music for people that didnt grow up listening to house music, for better or worse, so some ofit is gonna sound 'tired' to some of the old heads, but are you judging the tunes on their merit or just 'been there done that' fr the sake of it?

At the moment there is an amazing amount on convergance, both in tempo and vybe, under the umbrella of, what could be called 'house' - on both sides of the atlantic. 'vibes music' and 'funky' are pushing 120-130bpm 4x4/broken/sexy club music to an audiance that were either only just born, or still in short pants when 'Move Your Body' dropped & as far as I'm concerned this is 'a good thing'

dj's dj said:
The Thug Motivation mix would totally fit within the scene just throw in some Apple, DJ Naughty and Crazi Cousins for 'gun finger' moments and keep it moving.
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Cheers man :) I didnt have any fresh uk stuff in my crate when I put that mix together, Im gonna have to do a next one when I finally get some stuff I ordered from uptown... I think they musta used the same freight line as capt. cook.... soooo long :mad:
 
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Ory

warp drive
Anybody know where I can get a copy of Fingaprint - The Print 12" online? It's supposedly out on Invasion Records, but Uptown don't have it and beyond that I don't know where to look. :confused:
 
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