"African Warrior (Dub)" isn't as good as the vocal version for the precise (and rather boring coming from me) reason that it sacrifices that perfect balance between singalong vocal tune and hard as nails groove. And heaps of producers fall on each side of the line, like Seany B has made "Stompa" and "Make Your Move", "Dirty Thoughts" Footloose has his hard remixes and "Just Leave", same for Fingerprint with his recent remixes and "The Print". Lots of simple but sexy 4X4 beats, spare piano chords and strings.Īt the moment as far as I can tell no-one's really playing sets that are wall to wall harder tunes from Apple/Roska/Footloose/"African Warrior (Dub)" etc.
One of the things I should have talked more about in my blog post above (but I was kinda feverish and just wanted to finish it) is how even the most grimey of, say, Marcus's sets have heaps of relatively more conservative tunes, falling into two basic categories:ġ) The diva vocal tunes ("Do You Mind", "Tell Me", "I Tried", "Dirty Thoughts", "I See You", "Make Your Move", "High Heels" etc.) - there's no necessary correlation between the vocal and the ruffness of the groove (hence "Rumba" becomes "Mind, Body & Soul") although yeah we're not likely to see vocal versions of Roska or Apple tunes any time soon.Ģ) The deep house tunes, which (in Marcus's sets) are mostly along the lines of Jerome Sydenham/Dennis Ferrer/Quentin Harris (not that these three guys all sound the same, but that's the space in which these tunes fall) - tunes like Perempay's "Hypnotic", and heaps of others I can't name. It's the one with sassy diva going "'cos when the sun goes down my baby got me out of control.") (TNT's "Mind, Body & Soul" is the vocal version of "Rumba", for those of you playing at home. Take Over – VIP Mix (Invasion Recordings) Post Room Remix – Little Silver (Marcus Nasty Special) Piece Of Heaven – Beat Players Ft Lara McClarren Skepta / Wiley / Donao – Rolex Sweep (Special) I don't like them quite as much as his other recent ones though, partly because they're a little bit more conservative, but perhaps mostly because they're missing Shantie, who I rather unfairly now consider to be the voice of funky house (I'm astonished at how much I love this guy).Īlso Marcus has done a 2 hour set for BBC 1Xtra (with tracklisting! Finally!) that I still need to check out.
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Marcus Nasty has two new mixes up in his Facebook group, FREE MIX CDS. See also the myspace pages for Apple and Footloose. This stuff doesn't have much to do with 2-step at all though - it's more like a mixture of soca-house, broken beat and grime.
2-step garage didn't really sound like house at all: admittedly 2-step was also faster than house, but the groove matrix just wasn't compatible. One thing I find really interesting about Roska's stuff and similar productions is how they can be so fucked up beatwise and still sound like house - often there will still be a 4X4 kick buried underneath the other rhythms, or even if there's not you can still here one in your head. If you want examples of really syncopated tunes, check out Roska's myspace page: Be wary of judging from the other tracks on the TNT myspace page, as some of these are bassline productions (a decidedly un-funky post-garage scene based in the north of England). But it's an uneven development: not all new tracks are sharing all these qualities simultaneously and evenly.Ī tune like "Rhumba" (which I assume is what you mean) uses a very heavy 4X4 kick but the production otherwise has all sorts of references to grime. If there's an equivalent of Todd Edwards in terms of being a US producer who kickstarts a UK reponse, it'd be Dennis Ferrer, whose remix of Fish Go Deep's "The Cure & The Cause" was this new post-garage scene's first and perhaps still biggest anthem.īut what's been happening in the last six months is that productions have been getting rougher, more syncopated and, in some ways, "grimier". In some sense it did chap - but what happened (in very basic, general terms) was that a lot of UK Garage heads abandoned garage as it turned into grime and started listening to US-style funky house instead - where the "funky" really only refers to the bassline.
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