vvvwwwv

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"I'd always assumed that with it being, you know, London, everyone had tried everything."

i don't think pills/md were very big or important to grime or funky scenes were they?
the sweaty abandon and the dropping of defences (physically and emotionally) with md doesn't really work for 'road' guys haha, which is i suppose one of the things about this scene that baffles people, and has surprised me. why this music/scene has the audience it has.

@glasshand- to write off reynolds' theory behind the acceleration of uk dance music is to not consider the moment in time (not that i was there:p). 88 through to 94 being the first time people en masse were exposed to the combination of dance music and mdma/amphetamines, i can see how this resulted in producers n djs upping the ante and tempo. everyone collectively going through the initial honeymoon period of drug use and then the inevitable burn out and the lack of serotonin boost etc.

however fast forward to 2013 and mdma + house music ain't nothing new. whether it's newcomers to that experience or not, the room to experiment and warp sounds/genres is much smaller due to 25 years of dance music being behind us now. so i can't really see drugs shaping the music too much. other than the standard procedure of livening up the dance...

ironically the track i would use to suggest this sounds' difference and individuality compared to other house/tech has the vocal 'like we bringing 88 back' throughout so fuck knows, maybe we are about to see uk dance music accelerate into the future once again....lol
 

vvvwwwv

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dnt u wanna interview any of these chaps blkdown?
- little heads up for you fellas.

catching up on saturday's show, 2nd hour is a madness. couple of bangers from max britton and just joe, can't find the actual tunes played but there is this just released on grant nelson's label which is a nice little plodder.
&g=bb">&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%%"> ">they also have an ep out on matt jam lamont's label...didnt realise all these ex-garage dons were getting involved...

&g=bb">&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%%"> ">solid mix from kane law. few different bits in here, disclosure, george fitzgerald but whatever works innit. watch out for round 13 mins in, jeeez!

big up to the guys doing the deep youtube channel and the ithz blog. some of us just don't have the time to put them hours in on soundcloud, cheers.
 

whytea

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- little heads up for you fellas.

catching up on saturday's show, 2nd hour is a madness. couple of bangers from max britton and just joe, can't find the actual tunes played but there is this just released on grant nelson's label which is a nice little plodder.
&g=bb">&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%%"> ">they also have an ep out on matt jam lamont's label...didnt realise all these ex-garage dons were getting involved...

&g=bb">&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%%"> ">solid mix from kane law. few different bits in here, disclosure, george fitzgerald but whatever works innit. watch out for round 13 mins in, jeeez!

big up to the guys doing the deep youtube channel and the ithz blog. some of us just don't have the time to put them hours in on soundcloud, cheers.

That Radford interview is a nice little watch

https://soundcloud.com/plusrecordings/just-joe-max-britton

More heat from Just Joe and Max Britton ^, im sure they were Garage guys previously as well...

Big ups for the support on the blog!
 

vvvwwwv

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that's the tune i was looking for, nice one. you put any thought into putting out singles and that mate? or just gonna leave it at the free ep?
 

whytea

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that's the tune i was looking for, nice one. you put any thought into putting out singles and that mate? or just gonna leave it at the free ep?

I think about it all the time, my dream! could probably manage it financially but i'm in the third year of my degree so spare time is the only thing i don't have much of...

We'll see what 2014 brings...

Also, I don't like to be that guy who plugs on discussion forums cos those guys really piss me off but if you're feeling the blog get us on

Facebook: http://goo.gl/INBb67

Twitter: http://goo.gl/fnjfzU
 
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"It just sounds like normal tech house"

To be fair I'd imagine only a small percentage of dance music listeners can properly define a tech house tune from an ordinary house or techno tune. I certainly wouldn't be able to do it.

As an aside I remember reading an interview with Mr C around 2000 or 2001 where he was touting tech house as the sound to watch out for as it was fresh. He listed various weaknesses for every other genre, including the classic line "alright- UK Garage is doing well in the charts- but it's not going to progress any more, is it?". I'd imagine that this was written round about the time when 138 trek was popular. A year after that the Garage crews would've blown up, a year after that was Pulse X, a year after that was Dizzee's I Love You, Qualifide, plus Benga & Skream. If anything I'd say a decade in Garage probably showed more progression than any other dance genre out there.
 
As an aside I remember reading an interview with Mr C around 2000 or 2001 where he was touting tech house as the sound to watch out for as it was fresh. .

Hello Owen! still in belfast? EZ is playing there soon lol. similarly, i remember watching an interview with some miami twat about 5 or 6 years back, he was asked what the sound of the future was and he said "house".. i laughed at the time but the tragic thing (for me) is he was probably right, house for eternity. purgatory is a deep house dj playing to an indifferent crowd. i love a lot of house music, can't beat it at times.. but this year has been overkill

although a lot of my mates who have been into house since their teens think the shuffling thing is ridiculous, from the videos i've seen it looks much better craic than the shuffling and fist pumping they've been doing at raves.

That steppy tune on 2nd on the mark radford show is up there ^^ is a banger btw, but the next few bored me.. and i think i'd much rather listen to this tech house than the usual stuff, this seems riffier, busier mixing style and a little more bounce
 

trilliam

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datwun

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Really like that Mark Radford interview! Loads more questions I'd like to ask him/see him asked though!
 

whytea

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Audio Rehab has to be label of the year for me....now they've all been remixing each other with some brilliant outcomes

Shay & Sinista remix Nightshift

https://soundcloud.com/shayandsinista/shay-sinista-over-nightshift

Mark Radford remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/markradford/here-kitty-kitty-louie

Nightshift remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/nightshift-1/louie-anderson-jack-that-body

Hugo Massien remixes Nightshift

https://soundcloud.com/hugomassien/nightshift-made-you-look-hugo

plus Radford just announced an Audio Rehab rave at MoS in feb '14.&g=bb"> https://soundcloud.com/shayandsinista/shay-sinista-over-nightshift

Mark Radford remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/markradford/here-kitty-kitty-louie

Nightshift remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/nightshift-1/louie-anderson-jack-that-body

Hugo Massien remixes Nightshift

https://soundcloud.com/hugomassien/nightshift-made-you-look-hugo

plus Radford just announced an Audio Rehab rave at MoS in feb '14.&g=bb" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%%"> https://soundcloud.com/shayandsinista/shay-sinista-over-nightshift

Mark Radford remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/markradford/here-kitty-kitty-louie

Nightshift remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/nightshift-1/louie-anderson-jack-that-body

Hugo Massien remixes Nightshift

https://soundcloud.com/hugomassien/nightshift-made-you-look-hugo

plus Radford just announced an Audio Rehab rave at MoS in feb '14.">https://soundcloud.com/shayandsinista/nightshift-progressive-shay[/SOUNDCLOUD

Nightshift remixes Shay & Sinista

https://soundcloud.com/shayandsinista/shay-sinista-over-nightshift

Mark Radford remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/markradford/here-kitty-kitty-louie

Nightshift remixes Louie Anderson

https://soundcloud.com/nightshift-1/louie-anderson-jack-that-body

Hugo Massien remixes Nightshift

https://soundcloud.com/hugomassien/nightshift-made-you-look-hugo

plus Radford just announced an Audio Rehab rave at MoS in feb '14.
 

trilliam

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continuum

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Heard this on Mark Radford’s show on Saturday night. Big tune. Only managed to catch the last 40 minutes or so but heard a load of top tracks. Worth a listen back if you missed it.

Keep hearing this tune in mixes and and was desperately trying to work out who it was by. Then realised had already uploaded it on my YouTube channel. Big man Luke Larrell on buttons. Should have worked it out sooner!
 

trilliam

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back to cali off that same luke larrell ep is one of my tunes atm

telepopmusik - try me anyway (dirty channels) is one that i been hearing in sets for the past cupl months now and didnt know d name.
 
Hello Owen! still in belfast? EZ is playing there soon lol

although a lot of my mates who have been into house since their teens think the shuffling thing is ridiculous, from the videos i've seen it looks much better craic than the shuffling and fist pumping they've been doing at raves.

That steppy tune on 2nd on the mark radford show is up there ^^ is a banger btw, but the next few bored me.. and i think i'd much rather listen to this tech house than the usual stuff, this seems riffier, busier mixing style and a little more bounce

If I stray more than 15 miles from a Biffy tech my asbo tag starts bleeping. I take it you're holding down the fort somewhere in Shottingham or Mash Town. EZ in the Deer's Head seems a bizarre combination, might as well open a club night in the diner from Pulp Fiction- but then there might be an upstairs room that I don't know about. Suffice to say I didn't make it down there as I had a Xmas dinner already booked.

I haven't heard much of this shuffling stuff so I'm not that qualified to comment on it but I'll give it my tuppence worth anyway. One of the sets that stood out for me was a high profile DJ that was on Suppliers' show on Rinse- it was posted on this thread a few weeks ago. The guy was (I think) black, from South London but he had a weak midlands/ northern accent. A fair chunk of this kind of stuff it makes me nod my head enthusiastically while I'm on the PC or doing something else- good music to skank while washing dishes or cook dinner to! But it doesn't pass the benchmark of me wanting to know what each track is called and it's unlikely that I'll end up buying any MP3's. It's just functional music that I might dance to in a club in the same way I would dance to ordinary house music that I don't appreciate much- and by that I mean uninspired Mixmag friendly house music (funky house as it used to be called) as purveyed by 90% of DJ's who have no quality control and will just buy ten mediocre tunes a week rather than search out the few amazing quality ones. Of course one of House music's weaknesses has always been is that it's just too big so finding the classics through the avalanche of dross has always been tricky when there's too much choice.

But if I'm going to compare the two strands of 'house', this London tech house stuff versus a night out at Thompson's Garage Belfast circa 2007 (or whatever year that was the last time I was there) I suspect this new stuff might be slightly superior. I'm sure the addition of host MC's and DJ's doing spinbacks will add a bit of excitement along with the shuffling itself. But the whole 'functional' dance music style rather than offering top quality era-defining sounds strictly limits the amount of time I'm going to have for it. I listened to Marcus Nasty's show a few times around 2010- this was after me retiring from record buying and being at the cutting edge of what's going on in Garage/ Dubstep/ whatever- and it was clear that him & his MC's were performing brilliant radio sets and at least a few tracks a week that I just had to find the name of and buy (I very rarely did, too). He played great singalong vocal tunes (admittedly along with more mediocre ones too) that set up the show nicely before moving into darker bits that Rankin & Shanty could ride, and ended up finishing with totally fucked up stuff like 'Mosquito Man'. Despite how good it was my listener-ship tailed off. Then out of the blue I dialled into him a couple of months ago and he definitely seemed to be going in this tech-house direction. And I thought to myself- is this really all that different from Pete Tong's in the mix for a half hour segment of his Friday show. Anyone feel free to call me up on that last comment but that's a concern I have. Is this just like the mainstream stuff listened to all over Europe but with more head nodding vibes and the ability to make me brock out while washing dishes? As I've been thinking ever since I defected from Dubstep (thus ending 8 years of obsessively buying tunes & being on top of what's going on in the London underground)- none of the genres that have come through to fill that gap have quite met the bill. It's too easy to do the northern soul thing and just dig out the 93-08 classics than put the legwork in sifting through what gets put out now.
 
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