datwun

Well-known member
huge new KG3 EP


Ghetto Corner might be track of the year

huge new KG3 EP


Ghetto Corner might be track of the year

Love love LOVE this track! HARD!

Very happy to say that the Strange Static boys broke it on their mix for us B)
Really hope it goes far!

on a different note... HNH's first release of 2016 is HERE!

https://soundcloud.com/housenothouseuk/sets/hnh-011-malibu-the-malibu-ep-coming

I'm proud of all the music we've put out so far, but this one really is something special. The artist Malibu/Technoman/Shex is a bit of a legend in the bass/house scene here. Safe as fuck and a real character, he dressed exclusively in 80s sportswear and his DJ sets usually end up with him topless but for a gold chain and the crowd going absolutely ham. All his stuff's made on hardware and he churns it out!

This EPs been a long time in the works though. I dunno, I Called U and Satisfied both just sound like absolute anthems to me. Like if MK put I Called U out it would go number 1 standard. Satisfied somehow manages to make breakbeat disco some like the most natural and glorious thing ever. I just hope the EP goes as far as it deserves...

For our first release of 2016 - HNH 011 – The Malibu EP - we're back with something a wee bit special and couldn't be more be more excited to welcome Osaka's Malibu to the family. Malibu, AKA Technoman and Shex, is prodigiously talented and not a little eccentric. Knocking out tons of quality music made on hardware, his raucous DJ sets usually end up with him topless and the crowd in fits of ecstasy.

At the age of 12 in the early 90s, he discovered electronic music with Primal Scream and cites influences from classic rave like LFO and Armand Van Helden to the 1960s experimentalism of Delia Derbyshite; from the Funk of James Brown to the Jazz of Charles Mingus – a deep love for dance music in all its forms that is readily audible in his outstanding 4-track for us.

Kicking off with a BANG is I Called U, a prime-cut of piano house that updates classic 90s New York house tropes with a 2k16 spangly sheen. At times both meloncholic and hands-in-the-air euphoric, it's the little touches like the junglist breakbeats that cut across the uplifting piano stabs that make it the perfect blend of naughty and nice. Anthemic in vibe and massive in scope, you'll be hearing a lot of this one, trust!

Next is Satisfied, a deeply groovy number. Fusing a rolling breakbeat with jangly guitars, a fat analog bass and passionate diva vocals straight out of a classic disco jam, hair-raising string swoons from classic garage house, while tight techy percussive ticks give it a modern twist. The result isn't a hybrid or mutant though – with the elements coming together to form a unified whole, one positively generous in the feel-good vibez it radiates.

On Loreatta Malibu comes with a bumpin' hip-house swing. Turntablist scratches and hip hop vocal chants play off Cajmere-esq 'percolator' wubs and a percussion section that pops and fizzles, while a fuzzy bassline and the deeply infection electric-organ riff provide the groove. Bouncy bouncy!

Finally on Jocelyn, our man goes deep and sexy for the 6AM ravers. Nowhere is Malibu's love of 50s bebop clearer than here in the catchy, jazzy piano and synth chords, creating an urbane polish and sophistication, while later on high-pitched alien synth swirls give it a touch of the future and keep things nice and strange.

4 powerful tracks that taken together read as a love-song to the club, the city and the night. This may be the first you've heard of Malibu, but we guarantee it won't be the last.
 

DMTEK

New member
Feeling that track aswell, cant find it though :(

Its an AR track not sure if it with Shenin Amara or not, its a UK track but Amine Edge & Dance been playing it out so probably will be released on cuff...

Feeling that track aswell, cant find it though :(
 

DMTEK

New member
Any one know the Id for the First Track in this House Warmers Video

Any one know the Id for the First Track in this House Warmers Video

:D
 

Blackdown

nexKeysound
Kept listening to sets of this stuff and last year I found some tracks that worked for me, within the clusters of moods I connect most with. So this year I'm putting out "Be there/Uhh" by Truce on 12" and digi. Thought I'd let you lot know from early.
 

gonzo84d

Active member
Kept listening to sets of this stuff and last year I found some tracks that worked for me, within the clusters of moods I connect most with. So this year I'm putting out "Be there/Uhh" by Truce on 12" and digi. Thought I'd let you lot know from early.

sick. what ended up doing it for you then?
 

gonzo84d

Active member
dunno, i guess it just connects with stuff I tend to like: bassy, bleepy, hypnotic, rolling.

it was through this thread i first heard Truce actually, a Supa D birthday bash set.

nice. hopefully you can start pushing things back in that direction -- lot of it's diffusing towards plain old tech house these days seems like.

12'' would be second deep tech pressing, right? hugo massien on XL then this
 

gonzo84d

Active member
apparently Arun Verone has reinvented himself away from the deep tech vibe

http://uk.complex.com/music/2016/01/complex-sessions-002-arun-verone-02

"Having spent the last six to eight months honing my whole image, sound, and the way I play, I felt as if this mix was the perfect opportunity for me to express how much I have truly re-invented myself. I've selected some of my personal favourites in my collection—some old, some new—but most of the tracks represent the only vibe that I now associate myself with."

he also slams the shufflers

"I think it all just comes down to a personal taste, just like most things, but a trend to do with music that needs to go is the whole dramatic shuffling. I don't mind a good bit of smooth footwork, because it's like euphoria watching someone move effortlessly on the dancefloor, but seeing folks attempting aerobics in clubs is just unfair on other dancers who have to be on guard so they don't unexpectedly dance into a backflip-slide-triangle-moonwalk [laughs]. I've been known to do a lovely bit of footwork myself, at family parties, but I think I'll leave it to the professionals at the raves."

pretty craven huh
 

SKEENNAH

Member
No problem with him re-inventing himself, but he should have left out the comment about shuffling.

What's happening out there, everyones going generic?
 

gonzo84d

Active member
No problem with him re-inventing himself, but he should have left out the comment about shuffling.

What's happening out there, everyones going generic?

the big names yeah -- majesty, AV, radford's half in half out seems. flame still alive though, check jay power strange static crew j cas karlton phillips datwun mr p
 
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datwun

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Thing is, you listen to the Arun Verone mix, and it's pretty hard! Got some really nice moments in there anyway.

The way I've come to see it is, why shouldn't as much great music come out of this techier, housier side of things as the harder UK side?

Like don't get me wrong, I'm fully against artists turning against that UK sound to make some sort of bullshit statement about 'maturity', and I find it depressing as fuck when artists who used to go in hard totally quit doing that sound.

But for me, more than if certain artists are committing treason against the 'nuum or not, the question is how healthy is the rougher, UK edge of deep tech?

I guess as an overriding bit of context to that question is the dire situation with clubs in London. It's pretty obvious that the lack of midsized clubs and club's being really weary of the sort of events they allow to take place (stabbings outside 'urban house' raves etc.) has meant there's barely a club scene for the harder stuff to be played at.

As for the music itself though, I think the health of the harder sound is as much about whether it's still moving forwards and throwing up surprises, as if it's still popular.

In some ways the scene's never produced anything bigger than Hugo's version of Made You Look. But then I hear artists like Dean Allen:

And for me his sound is sui-genisis. Very excited to see where he goes.

Or like with Antonio Noure, who achieves this amazing dark sound which is rich in echoes of all these early UK musics without using any bate elements from them
Digital Danger's banging out like 2-3 amazing dark tracks a week:

But then, like the techier side of the sound is producing a lot of amazing music too, like Majesty was my favourite producer of last year by a country mile.

And even some of the bigger, baiter house stuff is great:
 
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