I spend many hours trawling (4+ on Friday) for decent new psy-trance and it's really tough to come up with rookie names who are making quality stuff. Perhaps it's just because house/techno have a larger producer base, but I am astounded that people can actually come up with 10 brand new, decent tracks from completely unknown producers every week. They must just spend all day surfing. (I am referring to Sherburne here, I used to read his stuff a bit).
Also, that was an interesting article. Thanks for posting. It was insightful and quite accurate, I thought. It was only about two hours ago that I became aware of the dubstep/techno fusion happening at the moment, through endyo's set Sutures in the DJ section.
Last edited by Domesticated on Jul-12-2009 at 13:21
Hmm. I'd probably just call that "dubstep" if I heard it. Still, maybe I need to start buying Mixmag again if new trends are arriving without my obsessive awareness of them.
Originally posted by nefardec
El-B
Groove Chronicles
Exemen
El-B, Groove Chronicles, and Exemen were 2-step garage artists... their sound was a bit darker and more ragga influenced, more stripped down and b-line heavy than the more commercial side of 2-step. Basically, a lot of their stuff laid the foundation for what was to become dubstep.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Yeah, I live in the UK and I always try to keep up with the most obnoxious trend-hyping media sources and I've never heard of "funky". It's pretty clear we're not talking about funky house in the sense I know it.
One of the guys on the slam board who runs that wireblock label goes on about it quite a lot.. In fact he gets a plug in the article (Jackmaster)
I still don't quite understand what it is supposed to be, but from what I heard of it in his mixes, I don't like it.
Jul-13-2009 17:31
Sand Leaper
Tension hunter
Registered: Jul 2001
Location: Oslo, Norway
"Funky house" is such a rubbish name for it, but it nevertheless describes a sort of hybrid between house and UK garage that is popular in the UK these days:
I quite like it as long as it stays in the darker and grime-influenced realms, as it is so fun and danceable. However, true to UK Garage-form, it has also spawned a legion of commercial numbers trying too hard to be "sexy", which ultimately ended up in the charts.
quote:
Ben UFO
Jackmaster
Donaeo
Crazy Cousinz
Joy Orbison
Hot City
Cooly G
Martin Kemp
Narcossist
Floatingpoints
Lil Silva
El-B
Jameson
Groove Chronicles
Exemen
Sidewinder
DJ Slimzee
Clandestine Cultivations
Logos
Dusk + Blackdown
These are all names from a quite London-centric perspective of UK Garage/dubstep and related sounds. If you don't keep tabs on those genres (which 95% of the people on this forum do not), you will not have heard of them. That's still no reason to dismiss them though. As far as I'm concerned, they represent one of the few strains of dance music left that still manage to innovate somewhat.
edit: Sidewinder is not an artist, but rather a successful promotion of UK Garage-events. Clandestine Cultivations is a label, it has released tunes from Shackleton, among others.
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Jul-13-2009 17:44
distant
lights
Registered: Dec 2006
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
Hmm. I'd probably just call that "dubstep" if I heard it. Still, maybe I need to start buying Mixmag again if new trends are arriving without my obsessive awareness of them.
that's largely not a selection of "proper" UK Funky. it's mostly fringe stuff that's inspired by that scene. keep in mind that 14tracks/boomkat put up tunes that they have access to, not the fresh shit on whitelabel that's really kicking off.
this thread should serve as a wake-up call to you dullards living in trad house world. "I haven't heard of it, so it doesn't exist", fucking grow up.
Jul-13-2009 21:41
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
quote:
Originally posted by distant
this thread should serve as a wake-up call to you dullards living in trad house world. "I haven't heard of it, so it doesn't exist", fucking grow up.
You can blame Sherburne et al for such cynicism towards obscure sub-genres.
Oh, In terms of something not actually existing, clearly I was referring to the name and not the music itself. I'd never heard someone in normal conversation refer to Funky as a distinct genre...just like I had never heard (and still haven't) heard someone say, "I just finished listening to a great set of ketamine house." But that one was always turning up in older columns like it was something people really called it. I'd rather just say house or techno or dubstep and get on with it is all.
