UK Funky was invented in '91

[version]

 

[luka]

This is the tune I most associate with my first immersion in pirate radio. This is the one that was played constantly. Every DJ every day.

 

[version]

I think that'd do my head in. It's a cool tune, but it'd start to sound like road works after a while.

 

[luka]

Well it wasn't this mix.

 

[version]

So, it was a different tune then.

 

[luka]

well, sort of, if you're splitting hairs, yeah

 

[Corpsey]

 

[luka]

have you heard the normal version?

 

[version]

Yeah, I have.

 

[luka]

do you like it?

 

[luka]

it's the skeleton key to my entire personality. it's my Rosebud. cut the midrange, drop the bass. that's what my dying breath will say.

 

[version]

Yeah, I could listen to it a lot more than the remix. That wasn't what the thread was about though. The original sounds like the 90s. The remix sounds like funky.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Cool, not heard that remix before.

I posted this one in the house tunes that uk funky showed us weren't boring thread cos Petchy used to play it (and it's a banger). 1987 Chicago:

 

[RWY]

Always considered NG & Katy B's 'Tell Me' from 2006 to be the first UK Funky track proper - does anyone know of any productions which pre-date this one? I seem to remember Wookie's 'Gallium' being played on 1Xtra quite early on.

 

[Corpsey]

Randomly occurred to me that that tune would potentially mix nicely with

 

[Corpsey]

The first tune I was aware of was "Do U Mind?" cos Blackdown wrote about it.

Not sure if that predated it.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Apple de segalizer was 2005 apparently, shortly followed by Invasion records stuff around same times as that dj NG.

This is an entertaining listen:

 

[Benny Bunter]

Actually I've undersold it - this is essential listening for those interested in what happened at the scrag end of the nuum. Plus Marcus Nasty is fucking hilarious.