Like I dunno if he writes his own vocal lines but they've all got this ponderous Dev Hynes-Solange recorder lesson thing going on, he's most of what is wrong with 'Latch'.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
gone right off his pubs as well
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
i keep expecting to hear former british number one tennis player and current commentator sam smith, it's all very confusing
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 08:59 (eleven years ago) link
bizarrely i like "latch" a lot more in album context
'so close' is a beauty, love 'animaux' off that single too and his remix of 'waiting all night' is the best version I reckon.
Sam Smith sounds great on that Naughty boy song!
― Benny B, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:02 (eleven years ago) link
It really annoys me, When A Fire Starts To Burn is such an awesome (proper) opener and then you get this limp-dick faux-schaffel thing immediately afterwards.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
interesting to note that Champion records is now rebranded for 2013 and releasing stuff like that great DrDr single 'Addicted'. Very apt when you see the awesome back catalogue.
http://www.discogs.com/label/Champion
― Benny B, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:14 (eleven years ago) link
nothing limp about "Latch" to my ears.. it did take awhile to, er, grow on me though
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
feel like kk's 'so close' might perhaps be underappreciated itt btw
― r|t|c, Tuesday, June 4, 2013 8:51 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love it so much, the percussive section in the final minute or so is O_O
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
presumably u are referring to the club mix?
it's alright tho, i tend to let one run onto the other and pretend it's an epic whole. and yes that bit is amazing!
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah the club mix
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 19:28 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking about how on earth this stuff ever ended up being called deep house given that it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house. But then I realized its not the latest iteration of deep house, it's a reboot. Some clever marketing type somewhere decided to reboot deep house like star trek. Well done them.
― bert streb, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
it really doesn't sound that much like what has historically been called deep house.
Actually a lot of it does!
See also UK Garage, where people used to say "it doesn't really sound like US Garage", but, of course, a lot of the time stuff like Tuff Jam really did, whereas Artful Dodger much less so and Oxide & Neutrino not at all.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 06:54 (eleven years ago) link
mainly for those who are hopelessly behind and need to catch up tbh. Lots of tunes from this thread.http://www.mixcloud.com/bennybrassic/uk-house-pop-2013/
― Benny B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 09:48 (eleven years ago) link
do you have that in downloadable form somewhere?
― give life back to usic (The Reverend), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
(or else it just joins the other twenty tabs I have open to non-downloadable mixes that I may or may not ever get around to)
― give life back to usic (The Reverend), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
sorta surprised that the sophie track, much as i love it, fits into this
mixcloud's non-downloadable platform remains baffling
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:04 (eleven years ago) link
Second the request for a downloadable version. Tracklist looks great.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
The Sophie track totally fits into this, like I don't know anything about anyone involved in it but it's totally the right vibe.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:12 (eleven years ago) link
I prefer the vocal version to the dub, mind, but there's little difference.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:13 (eleven years ago) link
i guess just because i first heard of the sophie track via the glasgow crowd (jackmaster etc) who are a pretty different scene to both the london tastestep crew and your black butter/disclosure axis
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
Looking forward to this mix (Benny B - your mixes are always great!).
I like that Mixcloud is "non-downloadable" because it means that it is streaming at a higher quality than e.g. Soundcloud, and of course it is very hard to make something non-downloadable, anyway.
― toby, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
it is seriously a matter of seconds to google a way to dl mixclouds ffs
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
chiming in to say yeah, benny i luv your work
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:17 (eleven years ago) link
I´ll stick it up for download on zippyshare or something tonight when I get back from work, I had no idea you could dl mixclouds tbh
― Benny B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
(What r|t|c said.)
― toby, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:01 (eleven years ago) link
How about downloading stream-only Ministry of Sound radio sets? Anyone?
(excited to hear this Benny)
Also, re Kidnap Kid, was listening to "Animaux" again today and I just die every time the groove cuts out and that woman shrieks "DREAMER!"
Dude's approach to sampled vocals feels oddly reminiscent to me of how golden age uk funky used to do it, all those unnamed tunes like the ones on that hallowed Mak 10 / Shantie deja set or the tune that sampled Jagged Edge.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://essentialgarage.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/DJ%20Qhttp://www.zippyshare.com/essentialgarage
if you're just after the q sets then the show puts them up themselves
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link
I like Kidnap Kid a lot and played the Alphaville EP loads last year but it would never have occurred to me to mentally group him with any of the rest of this stuff. I'd assumed he was a higher quality version of one of those blippy blog-friendly electronica types, partly because his stuff is so brightly-coloured and melodic (and more than a bit cutesy as well).
Also, this record sleeve:
http://i4.ytimg.com/vi/cQsh1gGCwIE/hqdefault.jpg
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:12 (eleven years ago) link
xp excellent! The 20 May set I was streaming sounded amazing.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:13 (eleven years ago) link
Matt you're not wrong, the stuff on that ep reminds me of Damu as much as anything else. But more recent single "So Close" is a pop-house jam. And "Animaux", though basically a sequel to "Lazarus Taxon", somehow feels more thread-appropriate as well, I think because of how ruthlessly it pivots around its curated vocal samples. Plus its 1993 organ.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
Also his remix of Rudimental's "Waiting All Night" is a lot ruder than you'd expect from his other material.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah matt otm. i really like how kk's stuff is always so clean and self-contained, even when he samples (or rather how he samples - upfront and recognisable with a simple purity) - most of everything else i listen to is blurs and echoes either in function or in spirit whereas he retains a quiet space of his own. and obv that lends itself so well to the sentiment of something like 'so close'
it's basically like total bedroom producer music but in the best, most charming possible way - 'lazarus taxon' et al feels like an afternoon well spent more so than it ever does a ukg dancemix bubbler
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
heh i probably prefer the clean bandit mix of 'waiting all night' precisely for it being the most idyllictronic. it's a nice subtext to things that is thoughtful wrt songcraft
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah this year's EP is fantastic as well. Something a bit 'major label metal album cover c. 2000' about this sleeve though:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k7rbChfwRJM/UTS92VWxZQI/AAAAAAAAPug/BavvkKhSwWQ/s640/artworks-000042114760-69rwvo-t500x500.jpg
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
haha i was just reading an interview where he says the first record he ever bought was 'another planet' by pendulum
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:39 (eleven years ago) link
oh but then in another one he says the first single he bought was 'frontier psychiatrist'! figures
these postbass blogs are like smash hits
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:42 (eleven years ago) link
First the Ball J Afrobeats mixes, and now this - Benny B, you are my new hero.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
mainly for those who are hopelessly behind and need to catch up tbh. Lots of tunes from this thread.
Listening to it now and it tricked me into enjoying Angel Haze. I like when that sort of thing happens.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
much obliged :)
you can download it herehttp://www.mediafire.com/download/bdbbdz69d4tha5k/UK_pop-house_mix_-_wav2.mp3
― Benny B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
"Permission Denied"!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
yeah mediafire don't ramp these days
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:29 (eleven years ago) link
shit, whats happened to mediafire, it used to be the best.
I'll try zippyshare then
― Benny B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
it says ""Got Me" by Sinead Harnett may be available for download from Amazon."
wtf!?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:33 (eleven years ago) link
look i'm sorry but it's just not good enough ben. if you had any respect for our sanctified rights you'd call us up individually and play it down the phone
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
i'm just sort of freaked out by how it's recommending sinead harnett to me.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
How has only zippyshare managed to avoid the censors?
Anyway, the mix is up here. http://www52.zippyshare.com/v/47756244/file.html
― Benny B, Wednesday, 5 June 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
Benny B, you are an absolute star.
― ✌_✌ (c sharp major), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:25 (ten years ago) link
yeah it's a terrific mix
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 19:35 (ten years ago) link
^
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 20:49 (ten years ago) link