Is no one else jumping on this? So good!
― Tim F, Monday, 6 August 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
Mixmag are giving away a track called 'Turnpike':http://www.mixmag.net/music/mp3-blog/free-mp3-ill-blu
― Mercer Finn, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
I'm loving that Sneakbo track, that's the kind of Ill Blu production I like, fun, ott, ravey, and full of those electro/dutch house-influenced synths. Ill Blu really should be doing more vocal collaborations. I do like "Turnpike" as well, much more than when I heard it on the XLR8R mix.
― Astrochimp32, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
I see the appeal of the tracks in the XLR8R mix now, I guess I just don't like so many of those aggro-bassy tracks in one mix without something by Sneakbo, for example, lightening it up with his talk of pagan yats, riding jet skis, and daggering women with african backs.
― Astrochimp32, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
if by that you're suggesting sneakbo provides a counterpoint or contrast to the production then i disagree i think; he is the finer, literal point of what ill blu are already about and they have an really very unusually natural synergy
the appeal of 'zim zimma' is more in the thuggish ill blu/sneakbo mindmeld's unwitting creation of something like a muscle mary anthem
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
I suspect that where people struggle with recent Ill Blu is that they associate it with other boshy mersh electro-house and etc. (this is not so much of a negative for me but) - if nothing else Sneakbo offers a more attractive frame.
"Zim Zimma" really is so so so good though, that strangely lethargic synth riff like a wrecking ball accidentally knocking over a building is just brilliant.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:22 (eleven years ago) link
i feel more that people are just looking at it from the wrong and boring way round cos they have the "answer" already
like the story isn't oh the guys who did 'meltdown' make mersh electro-house, it's what is up with this weirdly tuff mersh electro-house that doesnt quite fit anywhere easily
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:53 (eleven years ago) link
do you fancy the promo of this btw
hypothetically speaking of course
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
Yes I agree - but I think you need to be at least neutral on the idea of "weirdly tuff mersh electro-house" in the abstract to approach it that way.
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 10:57 (eleven years ago) link
Um... hypothetically already found it.
cos they have the "answer" already
can I say this is particularly OTM
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
bloody addictiveYES
― record-collection rave (Mr Andy M), Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/cahill/cahill-dj-q-play-1-xtra
YASSSS
― r|t|c, Thursday, 9 August 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Woah.
http://images.techtree.com/ttimages/story/81817_overlord_tower_minions_final.JPG
― Tim F, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
I'm really digging these new IB tracks, and I don't think Sneakbo makes 'Zim Zimma' at all- the production on that one is massive on it's own, as an instrumental it would have fit in with the rest of the Mista Jam set of theirs just fine.
― Astrochimp32, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
Been a bit ambivalent about the lurch towards techno seriousness that Ill Blu seem to have taken on their own stuff most recently (e.g. their new single), so it's nice to discover that "419" on this radio set is a marvelous piece of bubbly vocal house:
http://soundcloud.com/madtechrecords/ill-blu-guest-mix-bbc-radio-1
― Tim F, Monday, 15 October 2012 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
so ill blu have signed to island and have reworked a five year old uk funky track for the first singlehttp://soundcloud.com/illblu/blu-magic-ft-max-marshall
apparently the new stuff is influenced by “the musicality of Artful Dodger and Wookie, the bass weight of Shy FX, the sampler’s ear of people like DJ Premier, the soul of Teedra Moses and the future shock production of legendary US R&B producers like Rodney Jerkins and The Neptunes”
sounds promising...my fave recentish ill blu thing is still this though https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQN_2TuK44Y
― Benny B, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
Loving these MixFresh Series DJ mixes - ploughing a really hyper furrow between DJ Q and deep tech, centred around their own current sound, oddly redolent of Tiefschwarz circa 2004:
https://soundcloud.com/illblu/illblumixfreshseries2
― Tim F, Monday, 9 June 2014 12:26 (nine years ago) link
ha this is weirdly engrossing
i mean i kinda feel somewhat as if i'm listening more intently here than this really deserves, through the prism of past glories... but then all these relatively familiar tracks of the moment in this context make a convincing case that the world really has swung their particular, sparsely muscular way
like everyone plays shiba san 'okay' now but only ill blu were the ones deading the funky vibe with it in 2011 before it ever existed
and the tiefschwarz type thing finally works now too next to spinnin's tiptoe from edm to house n bass with tchami (whose remix of garrix 'wizard' eye-catchingly features here - everyone else will play every other tchami cut) and oliver heldens (one of the new ill blu productions here is p much a 'gecko' refix)
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 June 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/maxmarshallmusic/your-love-is-like-ill-blu-1
well ok maybe a dash overstated but still, theory goes
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 June 2014 17:42 (nine years ago) link
tchami (whose remix of garrix 'wizard' eye-catchingly features here
This one is great, yes.
Basically this mix is best when it goes all rifftacular.
― Tim F, Monday, 9 June 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
new single sounds excellent
http://thump.vice.com/en_uk/words/uk-funky-duo-ill-blu-are-back-and-its-not-uk-funky
;_; at the disavowal of the uk funky scene tho
― lex pretend, Friday, 13 June 2014 08:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the interviewer was on some bullshit there too.
― Tim F, Friday, 13 June 2014 09:10 (nine years ago) link
She seems a bit hung up on UK Funky being "over." It's quite an uninspiring premise for an interview. I'd rather just hear about their new material tbh.
― MikoMcha, Friday, 13 June 2014 12:14 (nine years ago) link
"In the summers of 2008 and 2009, UK funky was the sound. At Numbers parties in Glasgow, I could barely finish a drink without hearing Jackmaster drop the in-your-face silliness of Piddy Py - 'Giggle Riddim..."
interviewer is clueless, that was a bassline tune, nothing like uk funky
― Benny B, Friday, 13 June 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
Well if you're basing your understanding of what was going on in UK funky on what Jackmaster was dropping at parties in Glasgow...
But you know, seriously, this is the kind of take that would make sense to a lot of people.
It's almost like a self-fulfilling prophecy:
"I almost view UK funky as a club tool or a series of motifs, rather than a genre or style in itself. Sort of like what Night Slugs now do with Club Constructions - that's why Lil Silva managed to grow with their camp."
People who never really viewed uk funky as a style in its own right are always gonna see it that way.
But I should stop distracting from the greatness of Ill Blu!
― Tim F, Friday, 13 June 2014 12:57 (nine years ago) link