mos dan
fact music
just wait mate, they're planning to have an article explaining what donk is in the near future.. i for one cannot wait to read it lol
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just wait mate, they're planning to have an article explaining what donk is in the near future.. i for one cannot wait to read it lol
lol
surely Reynolds wasn't taking the piss? he's always loved or at least been compulsed by the harder styles... and why not?
Benny Bunter
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There's a new donk-related Reynolds post up.
I have unfortunately came across Scouse House before because all the kids at the secondary school where I work in Gateshead listen to it alongside New Monkey/Makina. Never heard any of em call it Donk as yet mind.
I have unfortunately came across Scouse House before because all the kids at the secondary school where I work in Gateshead listen to it alongside New Monkey/Makina. Never heard any of em call it Donk as yet mind.
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haha mate i brought up donk on here last year when the bassline debate took off. gets called donk round bolton/blackpool/wigan. every tune has exactly the same sound on it. most of it originates in spain i think but its big on the estates in the far north and glasgow.
What a completely horrible thing to have to admit to
Guarantee ghislain poirier will have a podcast by the end of the week
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slackk
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It's endlessly surprising to me that this is only just being noticed by people now. When I was in school in the late 90s (well, before I ended up in London late '02, effectively), this shit was everywhere- it has been for fucking years. It's never changed, always been shite, and these MCs have always had the same weird half-american voices and awful lyrics.
That prancehall column (and the new Reynolds blog) are just scanning the surface. This stuff really has been around forever.
Look, these songs are from what, 97-98;
quality's shit but whatever.
etc;
I only wish there was a scousehousetapes.com now. There's also an MC culture of loads of young MCs in school etc.
That prancehall column (and the new Reynolds blog) are just scanning the surface. This stuff really has been around forever.
Look, these songs are from what, 97-98;
quality's shit but whatever.
etc;
I only wish there was a scousehousetapes.com now. There's also an MC culture of loads of young MCs in school etc.
mos dan
fact music
spain to wigan and glasgow? really? wow.
fwiw, it doesn't surprise me in the least that me/prancehall/most dissensians/the observer arts editor/simon reynolds are just finding out about this this year (even if you already posted about it last year, sorry straight!) - it's the bassline problem again: except for occasional bursts of interest like this, no-one in london gives a shit about anything that happens outside london. that sounds horrible but i'm pretty sure it's true.
scousehousetapes.com? i smell a side-project slackk..
i am tempted to voice some slightly more inflammatory class-based views on this point. that Prancehall column (in the fucking Guardian!) has gotten my blood boiling
slackk
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scousehousetapes.com? i smell a side-project slackk..
Words can't describe how bad an idea that actually is. I always remember going back to Liverpool early '03 to go to this lad's 18th birthday party- he was a bedroom DJ and they'd hired this hall where 6 of his mates (bedroom MCs) spat for literally 5 hours on this bullshit.
I vowed I'd never listen to it again. Sunrise was always passable after a couple of tablets but I guess that was more hard house than "donk".
slackk
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He writes for the Sun now though, got to be against the North! We robbed and pissed on our own when they were dead after all.
mos dan
fact music
eh? i haven't actually read it, i guess i should do. in the meantime feel free to voice away!
mos dan
fact music
definitely. and if it all sounds like donk, can you blame us?
it's all boom boom boom and you can't hear the words!
im wary of voicing opinions when i feel jitteringly angered so will hold onto them for the moment i think. perhaps his prejudice was slightly less naked than i originally read
this is the sort of music they play in my local club at home on a saturday but with terrible mcing over.
yeah, this type of stuff has had a massive following in the NE and NW for well over a decade. makina (bouncy spanish techno) with crap MCing over the top is all you're likely to hear in schools in newcastle/sunderland/middlesborough. and there's not a great deal of difference between that and scouse house. funny to see it getting coverage in mainstream media.
examples (listener discretion is advised):
(mc stompin - the wiley of new monkey!)
i do confess to having a soft (ish) spot for some of the ultra-cheesey female vocalled tunes though.
Benny Bunter
Well-known member
Ha ha! MC Stompin is a total local hero at the school where I work.
Its appeal definitely has a lot to do with the speed of this stuff. I had one kid telling me he thought Scouse house was shit because it was too slow compared to New Monkey!
But we've already had a thread to do with this before haven't we? (about how dance music's bpm rate increases the further you move north).
Martin Dust
Techno Zen Master
It all a bit "common people" this thread.