Funky/London/UK House
matmustard
theta
The mix below was initially conceived in response to Slackk's effort at the top of page 145 (which I enjoyed listening to - the ??? tune is Karizma's All Tech Out, btw).
Being careful not to double up any of the same bits, I also drew for some other, relevant imo, styles.
Since then of course we've had Grevious' radio rips and QoS It'sALot posts, amongst others, so nobody can complain about a lack of variety!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/56632811d7e35c83/
Hard House Banton – Reign
Komonazmuk – Bad Apple
Roska – Gone To A Better Place
Afroganic – Emagbo (Wookie remix)
Dubplate Malice – Gabrielle refix
Perempay n Dee – Time To Let Go
Karizma – ICU
Kenny Dope – Monopoly
Geeneus – In To The Future
Banton – Sirens
Dub War – Generation
Mass Destruction (Kenny Dope & Terry Hunter) – Blackout
Apple – Dutty Dance
Morph – Latin Stepz
Jazmine Sullivan – Need U Bad (Moody Boyz remix)
Being careful not to double up any of the same bits, I also drew for some other, relevant imo, styles.
Since then of course we've had Grevious' radio rips and QoS It'sALot posts, amongst others, so nobody can complain about a lack of variety!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/56632811d7e35c83/
Hard House Banton – Reign
Komonazmuk – Bad Apple
Roska – Gone To A Better Place
Afroganic – Emagbo (Wookie remix)
Dubplate Malice – Gabrielle refix
Perempay n Dee – Time To Let Go
Karizma – ICU
Kenny Dope – Monopoly
Geeneus – In To The Future
Banton – Sirens
Dub War – Generation
Mass Destruction (Kenny Dope & Terry Hunter) – Blackout
Apple – Dutty Dance
Morph – Latin Stepz
Jazmine Sullivan – Need U Bad (Moody Boyz remix)
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
Is Banton's Sirens the Body Killin' of funky?
I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.
slackk
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I love all of these tracks and need to own them. Downloading now, thanks.
I bought a load of American stuff yesterday, gonna try and and do something with that tomorrow. I'll throw it in the mixes forum though.
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Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
M-Dubs' remix of the Vincent J Alvis Project's Body Killin' played a pivotal role in transforming 2step from a minor and somewhat cheesey sub-tributary of house and garage to being the central focus of anyone with a serious interest in dance music, especially if your tastes were more on the darkside. 2step existed before Body Killin', and I was buying loads of it, but I remember that at the time it was Body Killin' that for a lot of people provided a moment of Damascene conversion to the possibilities of 2step.
I wonder if Sirenz could perform a similar function, be being the tune that turns on lots of previously uncommitted people on to the rhythmic potential of funky.
body killin is ridiculous, the other pivotal track is the spirit of the sun remix by bump and flex for me.
anyway..
what's this?
http://vimeo.com/channels/thosecitynights#3506156
video from beyond on thurs... not me but a friend.
anyway..
what's this?
http://vimeo.com/channels/thosecitynights#3506156
video from beyond on thurs... not me but a friend.
slackk
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I'm not educated enough on garage to really refer to this but Sirens gets played in grime sets and all kinds now; it's been readapted at 139. Made me briefly think the thought of "grunky" was actually possible, but it's being pushed aside by the no MCs meeting etc.
I think this is a Geeneus tune you know, I've heard him play it on Rinse before when I should have been working. There's also a more trippy, echoey version (or he was at the eqs when he was playing it.
cheers, i wonder if there is a connection with digidub and funky, alot of the producers come from bedford, so does some of the early digi dub like dread and fred, the blackamix guys http://www.blakamix.co.uk/ - weirdly it's pretty much the same bpm too.
also just the sirens... in this track, if you go to a big sound system doo, you will almost certainly hear these kind of siren effects, sirens are a bit of a meme that passes through dance music, someone should do a mix that just has tracks with sirens on..not me i haven't got enough records, but i did mix sirens into a donna d and da stylus record - an old garage thing that is the same speed and has sirens on too.
also just the sirens... in this track, if you go to a big sound system doo, you will almost certainly hear these kind of siren effects, sirens are a bit of a meme that passes through dance music, someone should do a mix that just has tracks with sirens on..not me i haven't got enough records, but i did mix sirens into a donna d and da stylus record - an old garage thing that is the same speed and has sirens on too.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Sirens was easily one of my favourite tunes of last year, imagine it must have been the same for many other people.
mos dan
fact music
missed most of ma1, but marcus nasty was brilliant, banger after banger (though last 15mins he seemed to lose interest a bit), then geeneus played loads of amazing big room house, yellowtail vip, some new tunes i don't know the name of... his set was even better than marcus's.. i just.. dancing to funky is just an all-consumingly wonderful experience, it's utterly compulsive, involuntary - i love that it involves your arms and upper body, not just the head-down shakedown of skanking to dubstep in the bottom end of the club (literally, i.e. physically).
so many friends of mine - some of them dubstep heads, some of them grime heads, some of them from house and techno backgrounds - have said to me since hearing this stuff in clubs in the last six months, that it's just the best dance music TO DANCE TO they've ever experienced.. to an extent this may be hype from being in the heat of the moment/club/wasted.. but the sheer quantity of sweat (ugh, lol) produced from a marcus nasty set on the PP sound system tells its own story.
let's just say i went to see trouble and bass at fabric yesterday and all i could think was 'i want to be dancing to funky right now'.
Elijah
Butterz
im on really interested in uk stuff. When they start mixing in classic house tunes from all over the globe just pisses me off, coz I think its some wicked tune that was made recently but its some old thing a yankee made. Par. Then I hear certain funky tunes that uk people have made that are just clear rebores of old house tunes, which I also think is wack.
I will agree with you on the funky thing being really danceable I think thats brilliant, about it. Just allow the songs telling you HOW to dance lol.
But yea, when the dark funkys about someone give me a shout then I will be on it.
Another thing I am not really into is some of the laaaaame radio shows. Bloody hell. Some I have heard are all over the place. Only one I check for really is Marcus Nasty he really makes an effort. Some just literally play any house music from 92-09 and thats to wider view of house music for me. Wish most djs just focused on hear and now.
hint
party record with a siren
Why is this an issue for you?
Simon78
Well-known member
I'm playing on Urban FM tonight 8-10
www.urbanfmtv.com
If you haven't got the right plug in it opens up in Windows Media Player.
I have got a load of good new tunes to play. First time using Serato though so hopefully it all goes ok?
Elijah
Butterz
Cause I dont really know what im listening to.
owengriffiths
Owen
When Im over in London I stay in Pimlico. When I first arrived around 2000 you could pick up loads of Garage stations. Recent years all the dance music ones are unlistenable with bad reception, but there seems to be a few reggae ones. Always wondered why the spectrum dried up. Any tall buildings been built that could concievably block the signals
I remember years ago hearing Delight FM (So solids station) in Victoria, but I couldnt pick it up in Pimlico. That would suggest the station wasnt based as far west as Battersea.
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
Funky is MUCH more exciting to me at the moment than wonky or dubstep. Much more vital. I love the idea of the hardkore continuum but anyone who thinks that funky is not a rightful successor to it is off their head.
It has the continuity of personnel that Reynolds was on about (Footloose as he mentioned and best of all Geneeus - someone who has gone from jungle to garage to grime, flirted with (rubbish) slower dubstep beats and is now running things in Funky).
It has the continuity of the jamaican influence - crowds calling for the rewinds, hosts rather than MCs in the backseat to the DJs, still bags of the rudeboy attitude bassline has (in a good way i mean) and the brapbrap-swagger.
It has a great hybrid mongrel sound - Beyond gave to me electro, african house and broken beat vibes in turn, cheesy female vocals, bits sounding like syrup sweet UKG gone lean and feral, the terrifying Grime-gong of Lil Silva's Pulse X remix.
It's club music, so it fits the rave element of the continuum - it's best consumed out and about. It's very dancy.
I don't know about it's technical production so much but it sounds pretty bloody inventive to me, making stuff sound so good when it is simple.
I mean what more would you want from a UK dance genre?? It's a perfect inheritor of the continuum in my opinion. Beyond really sounded like Funky coming together for me, like the start of something great, like how i imagine FWD was in the old days at Velvet Rooms (in my head - probably nothing like what it was in reality).
It has the continuity of personnel that Reynolds was on about (Footloose as he mentioned and best of all Geneeus - someone who has gone from jungle to garage to grime, flirted with (rubbish) slower dubstep beats and is now running things in Funky).
It has the continuity of the jamaican influence - crowds calling for the rewinds, hosts rather than MCs in the backseat to the DJs, still bags of the rudeboy attitude bassline has (in a good way i mean) and the brapbrap-swagger.
It has a great hybrid mongrel sound - Beyond gave to me electro, african house and broken beat vibes in turn, cheesy female vocals, bits sounding like syrup sweet UKG gone lean and feral, the terrifying Grime-gong of Lil Silva's Pulse X remix.
It's club music, so it fits the rave element of the continuum - it's best consumed out and about. It's very dancy.
I don't know about it's technical production so much but it sounds pretty bloody inventive to me, making stuff sound so good when it is simple.
I mean what more would you want from a UK dance genre?? It's a perfect inheritor of the continuum in my opinion. Beyond really sounded like Funky coming together for me, like the start of something great, like how i imagine FWD was in the old days at Velvet Rooms (in my head - probably nothing like what it was in reality).
In my view the notion of "hardcore continuum" is pretty useless unless its only qualifying requirement is "this is the music that runs things in East London" - all other forms of continuity flow from that really.
But yes, I think that funky has to be seen as something of a reset button returning the sheer physicality of dance music to centre focus. This is why fervent prayers for "dark funky" seem kind of wrongheaded to me: it's not that I don't like darker funky tunes, but wanting darkness to be the organising principle is an implied disavowal of all the positive things that funky has brought to the table (chiefly: dancing as the focus and the capacity to cover a broader range of emotions). Why on earth would anyone want funky that you can moodily nod your head to?
It's not a choice between dark funky, cheesy funky and conservative deep house funky - really, rallying around any one of these notions of funky seems very constrictive to me.
But yes, I think that funky has to be seen as something of a reset button returning the sheer physicality of dance music to centre focus. This is why fervent prayers for "dark funky" seem kind of wrongheaded to me: it's not that I don't like darker funky tunes, but wanting darkness to be the organising principle is an implied disavowal of all the positive things that funky has brought to the table (chiefly: dancing as the focus and the capacity to cover a broader range of emotions). Why on earth would anyone want funky that you can moodily nod your head to?
It's not a choice between dark funky, cheesy funky and conservative deep house funky - really, rallying around any one of these notions of funky seems very constrictive to me.
Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Funky is MUCH more exciting to me at the moment than wonky or dubstep. Much more vital. I love the idea of the hardkore continuum but anyone who thinks that funky is not a rightful successor to it is off their head.
It has the continuity of personnel that Reynolds was on about (Footloose as he mentioned and best of all Geneeus - someone who has gone from jungle to garage to grime, flirted with (rubbish) slower dubstep beats and is now running things in Funky).
It has the continuity of the jamaican influence - crowds calling for the rewinds, hosts rather than MCs in the backseat to the DJs, still bags of the rudeboy attitude bassline has (in a good way i mean) and the brapbrap-swagger.
It has a great hybrid mongrel sound - Beyond gave to me electro, african house and broken beat vibes in turn, cheesy female vocals, bits sounding like syrup sweet UKG gone lean and feral, the terrifying Grime-gong of Lil Silva's Pulse X remix.
It's club music, so it fits the rave element of the continuum - it's best consumed out and about. It's very dancy.
I don't know about it's technical production so much but it sounds pretty bloody inventive to me, making stuff sound so good when it is simple.
I mean what more would you want from a UK dance genre?? It's a perfect inheritor of the continuum in my opinion. Beyond really sounded like Funky coming together for me, like the start of something great, like how i imagine FWD was in the old days at Velvet Rooms (in my head - probably nothing like what it was in reality).
I seem to be sending out big-ups to individual posts a lot at the moment, but I'm going to it again here: excellent post.
I was skeptical about this stuff to begin with, but Marcus Nasty's radio sets in particular have really converted me.