UK FUNKY (NOT 45 RELATED)
mylatency
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SO WHAT IS UK FUNKY? LIKE NEW DANCE NON-2STEP DANCE SCHITT?
PLEASE TO EXPLICATE
THX
PLEASE TO EXPLICATE
THX
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"uk funky" is a kind of heavily syncopated house music often played on london pirate radio stations. A kind of "grimey" (grime influenced) dance music.
some of the common signifiers:
"carnival" style rhythms (eg - soca patterns)
steel drum samples
marimba melodies
hooky basslines
deceptively simple melodies which get stuck in your head
see:
Roska
Scratcha
Crazy Cousinz feat Kyla
Mr Mageeka
Fuzzy Logic feat Egypt - In The Morning
some people think "uk funky" is a funny name and prefer to call it "uk hunky", "uk chunky", or "uk clunky".
terrible house cliches
b/w
counter movement to the darkness of dubstep
check my man stacks mix though, nice mix of the current clash
of styles going on http://soundcloud.com/stacks/stacks-useyourdelusion-mix192
mick is right when he says it is the flipside of dubstep, which ultimately has turned into a very bland, dark and monochrome music. meatheads staggering around to the sound of lfos modulating a sine wave at 40 hz. eurrgh.
UK Garage to the darkness of DnB circa 2001? (or whenever it was)
exactly
What's also weird is that when UK garage champagne-club-culture started, I was also very bored with DnB.
I'm now getting bored of Dubstep. Last year was a brilliant vintage, this year it's purple-synth-overkill or wobble-banger heavy-metal, with not so much inbetween that I'm feeling.
Bored as I was with DnB, I never liked UK garage. I can't see myself ever liking UK funky either.
What's on the cards then? Some producers taking the UK funky template, and re-injecting some ragga darkness elements to balance it out (before that gets too dark, and spawns another neon, girl-friendly sound)?
Something cool always gets spat out at some point though.
this >
:comedy_gold:
while removing a little of
Mosca - Square One.
*gunfingers*
(is it grime, pubstep, or UK funky though?)
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