@bat020 recuperation in reverse innit. Remember when garage pirate ads always talked about "house and gararrrge"? & it has the UK prefix :) in reply to bat0202 days ago
half-formed theory: perhaps the nondescript term 'funky house' took hold to avoid attentions of Mr Plod? /via @bat0202 days ago
@bat020 well the reality was it came from girls saying they were going to a "funky" rave not a grime rave but... Ain't 1dimensional is it... in reply to bat0202 days ago
Blackdown
“O: All the values I enjoyed in early garage, especially the bpm, the shuffle, the beat base – it’s all coming back again with this new stuff. The whole 'new Wot Do U Call It dark house, Martin Kemp, Doc Daneeka thing” is that I think it fills a gap in where house is meeting dubstep at the moment and I think its really important and relevant to both scenes, because its like what I hear in those records is what definitely what I heard in dubstep in 2004/05 – just a sense of space and atmosphere, not so much about the melody but just bass beats and weird odd sounds.”
Amply demonstrated at Doc Daneeka’s fantastic set at the Harley last night. The pure rhythm, garage-tempo bass and drum, massive subs and crisp beats, that’s what’s working right now.
Though interestingly the biggest reaction of the night was for speed garage, really made the whole venue jump. Bodes well for my remix of Gremino’s Bee and Cee which pretty much merked it on Blackdown and Dusk’s Rinse show in January.
I missed Ben UFO last night though, just too knackered to make it. Would have been good to see what the best DJ in the country is drawing for at the moment to triangulate with Doc Daneeka and OneMan.
Most of my dubstep heroes in room 1. Kode, Mala, Loe, Scuba, Silkie…
Absolutely fucking mental. I cannot believe it.
They want 80s dancehall and “your own productions”. So there’ll be some new funky stuff, maybe the Shabba / Wicked Inna Bed remix that’s I’ve been working. Dying to play some Congo Natty too – probably Your Love, since it’s the greatest record ever made.
Clean living in difficult circumstances: Haiti None of these facts really point towards a supernatural cause belying the natural disasters that Haiti and New Orleans have endured. I’m a strong believer that “The Devil” only really exists as a personification of the horrors that human beings perpetrate upon one another and upon the planet. Such as slavery, for instance. Or being so abjectly terrified of a free black territory that has violently thrown off the yoke of slave owners, that you conspire to undermine its economy and stability in such a way that the repercussions are still being felt centuries later.
Gypsy Lantern on the demonisation of vodoun within the coverage of the Haiti earthquake disaster.
Hollow Earth “though a longtime Mac-user (since Mac OS 8)”
Ah, a new boy! I helped run the introduction of OS7 when I was working in the Mac business. I go back to system 4 and a bit of system 3, but I used System 6 (and for a while, 5) professionally – including when I was a Mac journalist.
All of which shows nothing more than that I’ve got a few more grey hairs than the eternally youthful Mr Ingram
Elijah and Skilliam of Butterz have done a wicked new grime mix! You’ll love it. Lots of purple influence on there, not just Joker and Starkey tunes but some fab new stuff on their own label and Terror Danjah’s fantastic Acid, forthcoming on Hyperdub. You will love this. No wonder Blackdown’s been making grime recently.
Swindle – Open Your Mind (Butterz)
Royal T – Hot Ones Remix (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Acid (Hyperdub)
Swindle – ‘Trending Topic’ (Butterz)
DVA feat P Money – Wind It Up (No Right Turn)
Rude Kid – Absolut Vodka (No Hats No Hoods)
DOK & Terror Danjah – Hysteria (Butterz)
Swindle – Air Miles (Planet Mu)
Silencer – Miss Asia (Wow Bass Level 3)
Joker – Output One Two (Tectonic)
Rude Kid & Terror Danjah – The Best Crawler (No Hats No Hoods)
Tempa T – Boy Off The Ting (No Hats No Hoods)
Terror Danjah – Bipolar (Butterz)
OGZ – Hot Ones (Deeco Remix)
Maniac – Lengman Tune (Unreleased)
Terror Danjah – Sidechain (Swindle Remix) (Planet Mu)
SRC – Powerman 9 (Unreleased)
DOK – Keep Making Grime (Unreleased)
Rude Kid – Electric (Earth 616)
J Beatz – Life & Death (SCUK)
Terror Danjah – Air Bubble (Butterz)
Starkey – Ok Love (Planet Mu)
????? – ?????? (Teaser)
Also soon come is the first release on their own label – and they’ve only scored terror danjah’s fantastic bipolar.
2009 has been the most exciting year since 2005, loads of great stuff coming out and the clubs have been FIRING, people have really gone for it. Every time I’ve played out the vibe has been fantastic, less so in London obviously but everywhere else has been cracking. People have wanted it. Bad.
I’ve loved the way that funky has turned so much around. Both in itself – Cooly G’s Love Dub is my tune of the year, alongside her Dis Boy – but also in its ripples and echoes. Dubstep heads took the hint and created a spectrum of new sounds from Ramadanman / Pearson Sound, Brackles, Untold and many more. The best of the old garage heads saw funky for what it was – an attempt to deal with the unfinished business of UK Garage, and Zed Bias and MJ Cole made some fantastic tracks as a result. Mind you, most of them aren’t out yet.
Dubstep itself was all about the dark rollage of people Kryptic Minds and SP:MC, the psychedelic grime of Joker, and the percussive deepness of Peverelist, Ramadanman and Untold. I’ve done quite a good mix of this stuff for Inverted Audio: http://www.inverted-audio.co.uk/$blog/2009/12/29/_i_a__mix_07_grievous_angel?_c=1
Musically it’s been a big year for me. There’s nothing like seeing a big room go off to your tunes and I’ve seen my funky and garage gear light up crowds – it’s an enormous privilege, I’ll treasure those memories forever. Kode in particular has been caning Move Down Low for months. Loads of DJs have been playing my stuff… Skream, Blackdown, Atki2, Tim Dub Boy, MJ Cole, Jamie Vex’d, Paul Hotflush, Mary Anne Hobbs… I’ve put out three singles (Loser, Soundclash, my funky refix of the grime classic Ice Rink ) that have done well. There are some more to come in 2010. I’ve done a DJ mix for Radio 1 and had loads of play on the pirates. I’ve done guest mixes for loads of websites. I’ve just put another album out, my remix / DJ mix / dub album of the entirety of Blackdown and Dusk’s Margins Music. It’s been one hell of a ride. And I moved into the house I built.
It’s very percussive, deep, techy dubstep – the signature tunes here are probably from Peverelist and Ramadanman so that gives you an idea of what to expect. Plus a bit of techno-y funky, some future garage, some 3:2 to start, and a cheeky bit of r’n'b over thdriving 4×4. I am REALLY pleased with it. There are a couple of nice little dubs from Paul Hotflush on there that not many people have too.
Track list is in the lyrics tab but it’s here for your convenience:
Narcossist: Metronome (Grievous Angel Remix)
Grievous Angel: Culture Killer (Discomix)
Scuba: Klinik
Scuba: Volt
Untold: Dante
Pangaea: You And I
23Hz & Numaestro: Zumo (Sully Remix)
Ramadanman: Revenue
Peverelist: Infinity is Now
Ramadanman: Blimey
SP:MC Taiko Dub
Landslide: Parables (Ramadanman Instrumental Mix)
Kode 9 Vs LD: Bad
Cooly G: Dis Boy
Dfrnt: Headspace (Scuba Version)
Si Begg: I Do Not Dream (Scuba)
Uncle Bakongo: Baga
Jill Scott: A Long Walk
2562: Enforcers
Cooly G: Love Dub Refix
I’m playing some deep space dubstep, bit of garage and pure fire funky. Got loads of fresh dubs and exclusives as well as a load of old stuff.
DARK CRYSTAL presents THE SEVEN CRYSTAL BALLS !!
DJ DISTANCE
GREIVOUS ANGEL
ROGUE STATE & ALEX DEADMAN
JUNGLIST ALLIANCE
AUTOGRAFF, DEADBEAT & VANDAL
MC WALKER
DARK CRYSTAL is back with a bang!
DISTANCE
Part of the small nucleus of South London based Dubstep innovators, Distance has been a name on everyone’s lips since day one, and is widely recognized as having helped to lay the foundations of what dubstep is and develop what it has become. http://www.myspace.com/djdistancedub
GREVIOUS ANGEL
As all locals will know, Sheffield is stuffed full of musical gems. Grevious Angel is one of these gems and has been residing in the seven hills since 2002. He has now created a strong name for himself through punchy ragga licks and deeply moving 2-step garage influenced dubstep. http://www.myspace.com/grievousangelsoundsystem
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So, Forensics was one of the hardest working men in dubstep. And now he’s on this whole other thing which was very hush-hush – except it’s blowing up already, so I guess we can now talk publicly about A Bridge Far Away. Downtempo niceness with vocals and real instruments, including some tunes with the magnificent Indi Kaur. I had the pleasure of remixing one of them, called Drift, which I turned into a crunchy, sour, heavily spiced halfstep pounder.
And it got played on BBC Asian Network last night by the redoubtable Bobby Friction, who is actually one of the best radio DJs in the UK. Linkage with listen again facilities now up.
In other news, Kiss 100 DJ and crucial new music maven Sinden has been in touch and is also playing some of the new GA gear that is about to hit the stores, so stay tuned to him too.
after years of involvement in dust science I am delighted to now be one of their artists! And I am part of a corking free ep – but hurry to get it…
here’s the info…
To celebrate the label relaunch, Dust Science has a new EP of established and new artists who are based in the label’s hometown of Sheffield (UK). The “In The North EP” seeks to re-establish Sheffield’s reputation as the touchstone of high quality electronic musical innovation.
The Black Dog offer Tesco, a chunky, rolling tech-house with delightful Sheffield-style hooky pads. Carl Taylor’s Walk On By is a moody slice of Omar S-style electronic soul. New signing Grievous Angel, whose dubstep, garage and uk funky releases have torn up pirate radio and dancefloors for the last three years, delivers a heavily swung slice of percussive, techy dubstep. Youthful wobble mentalist The Bass Soldier provides a heavy slice of electro-soaked gutter house that will literally shake the room into life.
Tracklisting
A1. The Black Dog – Tesco (Dark House)
A2. Carl Taylor – Walk On By
B1. Grievous Angel – Show Love v1
B2. The Bass Soldier – You Still Live With Your Mum
FREE DOWNLOAD AVAILABLE NOW
This release is now available as a free download at: http://www.duststoredigital.com . Want some full fat WAV files? Well, you can get those Here
Soundclash is the best thing I’ve ever done. Maybe the best thing I’ll ever do. It’s massive, it moves the crowd every time people play it. But it’s a choon – a song – it’s not a mix tool, though Atki2 uses it that way, it’s a record that people connect to. It’s worth having.
Harpy compared to Wiley… like that… Harpy’s arpeggiated heavy jazz wonk out of eski-bizniz… I’ll take that…
Soundclash artwork is here. It looks amazing. The photography was specially comissioned and is of a little corner of London that us of great personal and psychogeographical importance to me. Very happy about this!
@djlogansama journalism needs more grime. No releases no coverage. My distributor could sell all the grime it gets twice over. in reply to djlogansama#
@donrosco it's through baked goods so it should be easy to get hold of. Will be in at boomkat, rooted, juno etc. No direct – too lazy! in reply to donrosco#
New dirty rnb dub tune at 140… Girl you know it's true… Sounding really grimey and fat #
New broken techno thing us good but a bit, well, fucked #
The next Grievous Angel release in my guise as BUBBLEZ is about to drop on Devotional Dubz… my third release on my own 100% bootleg label is the funky remix of Wiley’s magnificent ICE RINK featuring Riko. I reckon this is the ultimate UK gun man tune in any genre and definitely the ultimate funky gun man tune. Serious Ogun business.
As you know this has been caned already by loads of top DJs… FACT Magazine already covered it as a track of the week… It’s a good tune. And it has to be. Ice Rink is one of THE seminal grime tracks, it’s just awesome. Here’s video of the original with Kano et al.
Anyway. It’s out soon. Well it should be, I’ve had the TPs and they sound alright so it shouldn’t be long. There won’t be many of them and there won’t be a repress.
Amazing new tunage incoming - yes I know, yet more!
Idle Hands is, as the better connected among you know, the fab new label out of Bristol’s magnificent Rooted record shop…
Idle001 was a wonderful bit of subtechno shuffle matched with utterly Bristolian subby skank… and Idle002 is sheer quality, probably even better! The lead cut is Atki2’s utterly RIDICULOUS remix of Hanuman’s Bola which is… well it’s so good I can scarcely put it into words… it’s a superb bit of fat, bouncy deep, deep, DEEEEEEEP house music that is right up there with Theo, MAW, anyone you want to mention. Totally on it, totally next level, if Cooly G had made it she’d the Queen by now. Awesome.
And on the flip is Dub Boy and Atki2’s Tigerflower, a great little post-soca Karnival-style tune that really sets floors alight. Plus of course my own remix of it, which is absolutely BANGING hard crunchy funky. Real peaktime jump up gear. And from a geek perspective, it’s the best mixdown I’ve done yet!
Atki2 is a dynamite producer btw, very underrated – you haven’t heard his simply awesome Time Freezes yet? Ah. Then you haven’t heard the best record of 2010. Trust.
