Marcus B2B Mak10 now.
Show is bumpin' right now
Marcus B2B Mak10 now.
I didn't mean to recycle anti-disco heresies but rather to point out that the issues of swing, syncopation and what I call "generic thump thump" electronica do correspond directly to the conceptual and critical problems that arise when the racialised attributes of musical styles are articulated.
What is disco? Are Chic funky, is Sharon Redd, are The System, Ian Levine and the South Shore Commission? These questions aren't very interesting. But the problems involved in finding, using, claiming and loving the black in this music are, as this thread reveals, still alive.
Some folks love the blackness they hear but aren't quite so keen on the company of the people whose being invests that quality in the music. This matters as we (hopefully) shift towards a post-exotic relationship with black culture.
Above all, I wanted to highlight the evolving and unstable character of contemporary Britain's (europe's) black communities. Ethiopianism is still there but it is residual. Another, postcolonial Africa is emergent. Does unfunky, funky herald its becoming? probably.
yeah, i guess the mistake is to say that in order for the adjective "funky" to be valid, the verb "funk" must be invoked as well.
ashes to ashes, funk to funky...
Awful news about Sami Sanchez, some of his funky productions recently have been excellent. Doesn't he do the one with the stiff descending horn riffs and then the beat that's a bit like "Gabryelle Refix"?
Female vocal, spoken word bit in the middle where she compares herself to the London Eye... what is it? And what does she say about that landmark?
DVA - Hardhouse: the first/only half-step funky track?
DVA - Hardhouse: the first/only half-step funky track?
ez Andy, any audio mate?
Moony's Teedra Moses remix needs a bit more recognition as well, much better than that Perempay & Dee one- that little riff gets stuck in my head for hours at a time.
Mmm. I dont mind the prempay one, probably because thats the only one I have heard...The press is really bad though, I mean like seriously fucking awful man...