New Jersey Club

Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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phil if you're still around, check this vid by missy elliott protege Sharaya J, produced by dj jayhood. fucking sick

 
philblackpool

philblackpool

gamelanstep
"I ride in style, you ride in Greyhound" :-D

Got potential, hasn't it! You'd like to think other people might jump on it now - that's the first fully rapped Jersey one I've really liked, cheers for that!

Yeah, I'm still lurking, looking for bits of interest :)
 
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lilthin

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did you guys grab the UNIIQUE mixtape on Lit City ? that was really good, a few bmore classics in there too, joins the dots with the genres history a bit

as for jersey mixes, there was one Kiff and Rell did a while back (2011 maybe) called Cuff Yo Chick which was unbelievably good. it's disappeared from the internet now, tempted to get a HD recovered just to get it back again. mixing jersey is a lot, if you're on CDJs it's easy enough still. they do damage in the club if you play them right as well, you can't argue with the kickdrum pattern + popular vocal cuts combo really.
 
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lilthin

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but yea, i was chatting about this on twitter the other day. dunno why jersey hasn't had the attention juke or even vogue has, you can hear it's influence all over club music in the UK atm. night slugs club constructions especially, and the kinda jam city percussive movement that inspired. can hear jersey in that new grime/boxed sound as well, the more percussive stuff anyways. then there's the 'EDM' jersey goings on, but that stuff's appalling on so many levels.

someone suggested it's caus juke was so fast and out there it was hard 2 appropriate, and needed it's own space (besides from the jungle developments/connections recently) whereas jersey is 133-140, so it was eaten up and regurgitated under the 'bass music' banner too easily. i can kind of see that. there's probably something about new jersey's reputation as a place as well tho, newark doesn't have the same romance, attraction or heritage (in people's minds anyway!) as chicago/baltimore/new york. maybe that's cynical of me.

s/o missy elliot for bringing through jayhood/sharaya j anyways, really excited to see what those two do now!
 
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Secundus

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lilthin said:
but yea, i was chatting about this on twitter the other day. dunno why jersey hasn't had the attention juke or even vogue has, you can hear it's influence all over club music in the UK atm. night slugs club constructions especially, and the kinda jam city percussive movement that inspired. can hear jersey in that new grime/boxed sound as well, the more percussive stuff anyways. then there's the 'EDM' jersey goings on, but that stuff's appalling on so many levels.

someone suggested it's caus juke was so fast and out there it was hard 2 appropriate, and needed it's own space (besides from the jungle developments/connections recently) whereas jersey is 133-140, so it was eaten up and regurgitated under the 'bass music' banner too easily. i can kind of see that. there's probably something about new jersey's reputation as a place as well tho, newark doesn't have the same romance, attraction or heritage (in people's minds anyway!) as chicago/baltimore/new york. maybe that's cynical of me.

s/o missy elliot for bringing through jayhood/sharaya j anyways, really excited to see what those two do now!
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I think it might just be due to a lack of decent serious releases from the original Jersey scene. Other than brick bandits stuff I can't really find anything that isn't a fun goofy pop song remix.

On the other hand the juke thread was posted here in 2008 and I can only really remember the sound really taking off in 2012, whereas this thread is only two years old, maybe the scene just needs more time to link up with people.
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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lilthin said:
did you guys grab the UNIIQUE mixtape on Lit City ? that was really good, a few bmore classics in there too, joins the dots with the genres history a bit
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cheers i´ll give this a listen

i think you´re otm regarding why NJ club has received less attention than juke btw. still think it could happen but it would probably have to shed most of the really dumb elements (that are the very foundation of most of this music) to gain respect from certain quarters (see also jackin). my fave cuts are the ones where they take some totally obvious chart hit and make something mind-blowingly abstract out of it with as few elements as possible.

its much funkier than juke as well

must say this new fade to mind thing with DJ Sliink and Mike Q is cool though
https://soundcloud.com/fadetomind/mind001-mikeq-dj-sliink-the
 
philblackpool

philblackpool

gamelanstep
lilthin said:
but yea, i was chatting about this on twitter the other day. dunno why jersey hasn't had the attention juke or even vogue has, you can hear it's influence all over club music in the UK atm. night slugs club constructions especially, and the kinda jam city percussive movement that inspired. can hear jersey in that new grime/boxed sound as well, the more percussive stuff anyways. then there's the 'EDM' jersey goings on, but that stuff's appalling on so many levels.

someone suggested it's caus juke was so fast and out there it was hard 2 appropriate, and needed it's own space (besides from the jungle developments/connections recently) whereas jersey is 133-140, so it was eaten up and regurgitated under the 'bass music' banner too easily. i can kind of see that. there's probably something about new jersey's reputation as a place as well tho, newark doesn't have the same romance, attraction or heritage (in people's minds anyway!) as chicago/baltimore/new york. maybe that's cynical of me.

s/o missy elliot for bringing through jayhood/sharaya j anyways, really excited to see what those two do now!
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I've taken my eye off the ball with this stuff cos of what's said here - Sliink (obvious king of it) seemed to have been sucked up into that bland EDM thing...
 
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lilthin

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yea, i meant more 'EDM' artists appropriating the jersey sound tho. it's fucking appalling that these pisstake masked aliases for already established acts are getting all the bookings and attention from the jersey sound tbh.
 
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sadmanbarty

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New (-ish) DJ Diamond Kuts minimix.

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I never got why this stuff didn't take off.
 
philblackpool

philblackpool

gamelanstep
Never seem to come on here now (I always forget to keep a link to the forum & it seems to be difficult to find on Google now - deliberate?!). Anyway, I thought this was worth mentioning - I've missed all this US kids' 'dance challenge' stuff til now, but there's one or two goodies lurking in there, including this from earlier in the year, nicely tracky. I think this is some roughass edit of several copies of the same ina row, but you get the idea:
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
From a city pop playlist I found a new jersey club playlist by the same spotify user and found this EP (from 2011)

 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
Benny B said:
I like it a lot. Chopped vocals, cheeky samples, breakbeats, cool dancing...right up my street and I imagine it will appeal to dissensians too.
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The cool dancing might be where dissensus people come unstuck - not you or I obviously, but some of them
 
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