"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".
tbh the most interesting stuff are peeps like mosca, girlunit, lil silva, all the bok bok and lvis 1990 stuff, hot city, deadboy, who are drawing from that music but fusing it with all sort of other influences.
Point taken, I am old and disconnected though and it was the first thing that sprang to mind when I realised all the stuff banging out of cars (like that Fuzzy Logic track) wasn't actually from 2000,
haha i'm just out pedanting you. there is a thriving underground scene which is drawing on the last 10 years of the uk bass music diaspora, like a kind of musical smoothie made out of jungle, garage, soca, grime, hip hop.. . that scene is not about labels, its about dancing, having fun and colourful ideas.
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.
UK Garage to the darkness of DnB circa 2001? (or whenever it was)
exactly
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)?
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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)
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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