uk funky

[thembuzz]

i know this is hardly the place, but can anyone recommend any good uk funky? i like the idea, but what i've heard so far has been shit

knid, you must know some

[emef]

haha

[Loz]

emef might not know much uk funky, but he could sort you out on any electrohouse recommendations you might want

[thepigjockey]

What's with the Y? What's next? TECHNOY?

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Check out some recent Kode9 DJ sets if you can find them.

When I saw him last month it was a really sweet mix of Funky, heavy synthy Soca and Dubstep.. but all of it really tinged with a Detroit feel. Really good. In fact the new hyperdub sounds more like straight Detroit, not really like what he was playing out.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=285066

[stinkfinger]

yeah, diggin that release. that dudes from the D as far as i know

[V Knid esq]

Ill Blu is my favourite production team, DVA is great too.

[V Knid esq]

See if you can spot the Sweet Exorcist references!

[Lighter Thief]

UK funky: house
Grime: garage
Overgenrefecation: nonsense

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

See I really have no time for that stuff Knid posted...

It's a bit like the UK Garage effect I think... it sounded great on fuzzy pirate radio stations, but never found out which those particularly great tracks ever were. I don't seem to be able to find anything that sounds like what Kode9 was playing, maybe it's just the old 'distorted rig' thing... The thing I was hearing sometimes sounded closer to Robert Hood with the Ragga Twins doing Soca... whereas those two vids sound like lame General Midi..

[V Knid esq]

Originally Posted by Lighter Thief

UK funky: house
Grime: garage
Overgenrefecation: nonsense

What a load of bollocks.

[V Knid esq]

Originally Posted by Hectic Cum Balthazar

See I really have no time for that stuff Knid posted...

It's a bit like the UK Garage effect I think... it sounded great on fuzzy pirate radio stations, but never found out which those particularly great tracks ever were. I don't seem to be able to find anything that sounds like what Kode9 was playing, maybe it's just the old 'distorted rig' thing... The thing I was hearing sometimes sounded closer to Robert Hood with the Ragga Twins doing Soca... whereas those two vids sound like lame General Midi..

I think you should try finding an MP3 of that track and listening to it clearer than on YouTube quality - I think the rhythm programming AND a lot of the sounds beneath the surface are amazing.

But sorry I did kinda divert from the sort of stuff you're talking about by posting 2 vocal tunes. Try this as a better example of the sort of stuff DVA and Ill Blu do that's closer to what you're after, maybe? http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc...o?Track=FF001B

A lot of the stuff that Kode plays nowadays is actually Hyperdub artists, so he will be playing a whole lot of unreleased tracks by DVA, Cooly G, Ikonika (who, although her album is quite half-steppy, has gone very Funky in her productions & remixes since) and Kyle Hall (who IS from Detroit but is strongly UK influenced I think).

A lot of UK Funky DJs are playing a lot of Karizma these days too apparently.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

I think maybe the biggest part of what I'm saying is that Kode9 is a good DJ, maybe what I was hearing was his skills as much as anything.

[V Knid esq]

So you mean if someone plays the records in the right context you are able to suspend your preconceptions?

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

maybe more the fact that what I was hearing weren't single records

I've heard the Geiom stuff out and there's just something about the production which I find kinda lightweight. YMMV

[V Knid esq]

Well yes, I certainly recognise the experience of hearing a load of tracks and finally starting to realise that what you think of as unsophistication in the synth timbres is actually a different way of playing with tonality...

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

DVA, Ill Blu and Roska is perhaps closer to what it was I was hearing.. but again out of context they just sound quite normal and anodyne.

Bit like hearing a Jah Shaka record out of context, not that great.

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Oh and it's nothing to do with sophistication I don't think... I'd happily hear the 'Energy Flash' of Funky

Something that sounds chunky at home not just in the club... none of those brittle GM drums.

[V Knid esq]

How about this? http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc...o?Track=MRBEAN

EDIT not as an 'Energy Flash', I mean, just a good track.

[V Knid esq]

This one's got 808 drums. http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc...o?Track=BCBASS

[V Knid esq]

This isn't UK Funky but if it's modern house you want I like this.

Shark Chase by floatingpoints

[Lighter Thief]

Originally Posted by V Knid esq

What a load of bollocks.

Okey dokey. UK Funky: not house music. Got it.

Can we at least agree that it's the crappest name for a "genre" ever?

[Loz]

Originally Posted by Lighter Thief

Can we at least agree that it's the crappest name for a "genre" ever?

definitely. When I first heard the name, I wanted to find the person who coined it and punch them in the cock

[gypsy_cream]

NOW YOU KNOW

[gypsy_cream]

[gypsy_cream]

[Hectic Cum Balthazar]

Originally Posted by Lighter Thief

Okey dokey. UK Funky: not house music. Got it.

Can we at least agree that it's the crappest name for a "genre" ever?

It's up there with Drum & Bass.

Really though, I quite like the fact it's a bit of a 'fuck you Grandad' genre name.

[Loz]

R'n'B is a proper "fuck you Grandad" name, too

"Hey, remember Rhythm and Blues? This is NOTHING like that."

[thembuzz]

cheers, everyone. still not really feeling it, though, apart from the deadboy (the untold and the geiom weren't bad, mind). not really as gritty as i imagined it

[gypsy_cream]

a lot of it sounds better in clubs, in context, etc ....a lot dirtier.