is "monsta" a released thing or a two-minutes-mid-radio-set thingDude does this mean you haven't heard Ill Blu's Mistajam mix? It's a radio set but it's almost exclusively their own stuff and it is apocalyptically banging (also only about 25mins and in good quality).― Matt DC, Friday, March 25, 2011 2:03 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban PermalinkMonsta is straight up single-of-the-year contender for me. We need a Ill Blu hype thread really.― Matt DC, Friday, March 25, 2011 2:03 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
Dude does this mean you haven't heard Ill Blu's Mistajam mix? It's a radio set but it's almost exclusively their own stuff and it is apocalyptically banging (also only about 25mins and in good quality).
― Matt DC, Friday, March 25, 2011 2:03 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Monsta is straight up single-of-the-year contender for me. We need a Ill Blu hype thread really.
― Matt DC, Friday, March 25, 2011 2:03 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i still would like to hear this "monsta"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
As these dudes are shaping up to be producers of the year for a third year running, something tells me it's time.
So what's really good?
r|t|c was right to note that "Warp Speed" is the secret gem on their Mistajam mix.
Also the second half of their 29 March Rinse set is, as matt would say, apocalyptically banging - in fact the words came into my mind independently and then I saw that matt had already used them.
In particular see the tune at 90 minutes: funereal organs and then the biggest drop of all time, all hellspawn bass and sternly commanding string riffs. Is it them? It has stolen my brain by dashing it into a million pieces on the floor and then sweeping it under the door. If we need high production values funky, can it please be like this: it's like a funky take on Orbital's "Know Where To Run".
xpost Jordan just download the mistajam mix, it's really good!
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Mistajam mix I think: http://www.mediafire.com/?7qmql62ot6ppqsc
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks -- i went to the bbc page but they had already taken it down so i just gave up tbh
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
29 March Rinse set: http://podcast.dgen.net/rinsefm/podcast/IllBlu290311.mp3
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ILL BLU MISTAJAM MIX 08/02/11
Ill Blu - Tick TockIll Blu - OverdoseIll Blu - Bhangra Knights Ill Blu - Meltdown Ill Blu - Alrite Mate Ill Blu - Monsta Toddska - Gal From EnglandShay & Sinista - Glitch In The SystemIll Blu - Dirty Monkey Ill Blu - Do That Katy B - Lights on (feat. Ms Dynamite)Troublesum - Boot InstallIll Blu - Chelt Ill Blu - Warp Speed
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 07:53 (thirteen years ago) link
'Tim's Jacka"
― timbo slice (D-40), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
or really, jacka is d40's ill blu, but w/e
anyway i heartily endorse this thread, these dudes rule
It's true.
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the biggest compliment that i can give to ill blu (or to pretty much anyone!) is that their remix of "rock the boat" is almost as beautiful as the original
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJHkpBplxpk
^ i still would like to hear this "monsta"
― ka£ka (NickB), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Nick you're a champ.
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:43 (thirteen years ago) link
no problem, tense tune
― ka£ka (NickB), Sunday, 3 April 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
"eww"?
feels way overdue, this thread! i endorse it and them and all they touch.
this is the single they've actually released this year, "meltdown" - it's insane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0Qyj3W1ik
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"eww" is a ref to their vocal drop right?
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Ages ago Jordan said that in his head the word "eww" now sounds like the high-pitched "Ill!" at the beginning of their tunes.
xpost!
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:04 (thirteen years ago) link
oh right, i never heard it like that. "eww" just makes me think of nicki minaj on "did it on em".
― lex pretend, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I cannot deny that a part of me momentarily wished they'd actually called "Meltdown" "Youtube Masterpiece" in tribute to my honourable service to the cause.
― Tim F, Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
ILL
BLU
― it's in my backpack (sic), Sunday, 3 April 2011 09:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Honestly at some point midway through my first play of that Mistajam mix it occurred to me that Ill Blu are making pretty much the most exciting music in the world right now. Everything they touch is an absolute beast.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Also I would very much like a definitive list of everything that's out there in standalone MP3 format, remixes included.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
nee nee nee, nee nee nawnee nee nee, nee nee nee nawnee nee nee, nee nee nawnee nee nee, nee nee nee nawWUM-WUM-W-W-WUM-WUM-WUM-W-W-WUM-WUM-WUM-W-W-WUM-WUM-W-W-
― r|t|c, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Missed opportunity to subtitle this thread 'Bass in the city, hype in the place' in honour of the Shystie remix which is still my favourite of their remixes, although Cheryl Cole, Sabrina Washington and the Green Light remix run it close.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
although ill blu's radio mixes can often be perfunctory i have missed def-1's fantastically weird glottal elocution and weak liverpool supporter chestbeating so will stick on this 290311 mix shortly
― r|t|c, Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Makes me smile to see this thread...
When did they start playing on Rinse??
― matt damon & the jb's (the anephric project), Sunday, 3 April 2011 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Good stuff, this.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 3 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously Matt you need to hear the track from 88 min in the 29 March set.
― Tim F, Monday, 4 April 2011 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, April 4, 2011 4:02 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
can any of you wizards tell me what the track is that starts around 42/43 mins after a few shout outs? only seems to last 2-3 mins but it's a belter.
― nultybutnice (whatever), Monday, 4 April 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
that is 'room 101' by dj mystery, out now on this essential thing:
http://www.junodownload.com/products/the-underground-collective-presents-the-5-star-ep/1713633-02/
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 April 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
the 88min track was not what i was expecting from the descrip at all somehow -- yet the controlled sternness of it makes it EVEN MORE awesomely dominating than the abandontraxx!!
can i has grace jones vocal plz?
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
abandontraxx?
Yes this would be good!
― Tim F, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:41 (thirteen years ago) link
also listeners be sure to revel in your best opportunity yet to hear the rarely-played 'monsta' breakdown at 74:30, a shamanic orgy of sirens explosions and everything ever all at once - YOU DON'T KNOW THE TUNE TIL YOU'VE HEARD IT
at 67mins (the bmore-swallowing "get freaky with you") is a another recentish one that is best not overlooked
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It all makes for a pleasingly masochistic listening experience. I even love the A1 Bassline tune.
― Tim F, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:46 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't really know who they are but this seems as good an opportunity as ever to voice my total bafflement seldom previously felt regarding whatever that "i'm the information" tune is the blogs seem to be nuts for. jesus people are lame.
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 April 2011 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah everything else they do is weak.
― Tim F, Monday, 4 April 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
major
ill blu top 3 (in no particular order) :
frontlinepull it, wheel it rmxtime to get nasty
^^ tough call tho (come to think of it and the 'parachute' rmx was prob the ill blu track i listened most last year. and 'meltdown' is just huge)
― rusty_allen, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"get freaky with you" has gotta be them, right? The underlying dancehall stabs are similar to "meltdown". I totally love the incorporation of breakbeats and especially
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
... What they do with vocals on this one. Massive massive massive tune!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I have listened to "get freaky with you" about seven times today.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 11:59 (thirteen years ago) link
love these guys! has anybody seen the 'i wonder' instrumental around? i know i've heard it on their show, ill blu at their symphonic best
maybe a few missing?:
remixes:3-2-1 - bring it backaaliyah - rock the boatcheryl cole - parachutecraig david - one more liedonae'o - watching her move (& instrumental)dj sava - i like the trumpetfunky dee - are you gonna bang doe?h two o ft. zoe - pink lovehot chip - i feel better & instrumentalkc - r.a.v.e.kris bayer - heartbreaker (& instrumental)lloyd - all around the worldmj cole - gotta have itmpho - boxes n locksplatnum - trippinroll deep - good timesroll deep - green lightsabrina washington - OMGshontelle - battle cryshystie - pull it (& instrumental)steve hoang - no coming backsuncycle ft. movado - no moreyoung nate - i wonder
solo productions:meltdown epbellion / dragon poptime to get nastyblu magicdotstar - stick up (& instrumental)hoodzee - riderprincess nyah - big boys (& instrumental)princess nyah - frontline (& remix ft coldsteps & instrumental)princess nyah - hooligans (& remix ft griminal & ghetts)princess nyah - i will be there remix ft coldstepsshanique - take it low
― lucas pine, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
+
Ill Blu - Say YesIll Blu - Roll With Me ft. SpeShillDotstar - Stick Up (Remix)
― Tim F, Thursday, 7 April 2011 00:57 (thirteen years ago) link
love ill blu but some of those new tracks are a bit too heavy on the attitude. sounds like theyre trying to get the dubstep crowd on board. i dont mean this in a cruel way, but its like funky that caspa might play (and caspa used to be good, before anyone says anything).
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
when you and jimitheexploder go on your honeymoon can it please be somewhere far away and for a very long time? thanks in advance.
― r|t|c, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe jimi and i and you and tim can make it a couples weekend? only if you promise not to be a cunt though. thanks in advance.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
Ill Blu are ace always thought it.
http://www.sonicrouter.com/2011/03/recommended-ill-blu-meltdown-ep-numbers/
p.s. I'll happily go on a hunny moon, if anyone is paying I'm skint and need a holiday. Thanx.
thanx for the shout out rtc I fee lat home now ilm goons are calling me out yay!
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh, as if i could afford that little minx.
seriously titch i really don't understand how you can be so wrong and bad about the new stuff, it is plainly some of the most exciting music in donkeys. i'm struggling thinking what else to say here!
― r|t|c, Saturday, 9 April 2011 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
The only thing I'd say about the new bits is that sometimes its a bit ott and dramatic. Not really in a bad way, I'm splitting hairs really. I've just got to be in the mood for it, they've always had that dramatic edge to them but they're really pushing it to the extream at times now and its a bit much and doesn't get the killer raw rolling groove I dig from funky going as much as older bits. They push more and more epic moments into tracks and its cool but I miss that groove a bit unless I'm in turbo drama mode. They still kill it and are some of the best producers around in the scene right now.
― jimitheexploder, Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
erm where did i say it wasnt good? of course its exciting. just think a few of them were surprisingly 'tudey. and i stand by what i said that if caspa (or d1 even) was playing funky, i can imagine this would be *totally* up their street. its got a lot of shared qualities. i know you guys think that ill blu must live in a bubble and wouldnt pay dubstep guys any mind but hello, theyve been on numbers, hyperdub... its not out of the question to think that they might be thinking it might be cool/nice to do something a bit outside their usual box. or that gasp, it might have just rubbed off on them a bit. yes i know it could of course be inadvertent influence from old house tracks but i dunno, dubstep is so unignorable these days, eg - when they did that mix on 1xtra, it was on (unless im mistaken) of all things mistajams 'daily dose of dubstep'!
jimi, life is all downhill once you fail to get rtcs stamp of approval.
ps - that deep teknologi track around 80 mins on that recent rinse show is stupidly good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 9 April 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm a bit meh about 'heisenberg' really, textbook blu that was already bettered on the mistajam set cuts imo. even in that textbook style i prefer 'turnpike'
they are so obv breaking bad fans btw, that just makes perfect sense to me
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
'bassage' is absolutely my shit on this despite the lamentable name
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
I think "Heisenberg" distinguishes itself from the textbook with the trumpet bit at the end.
"Bassage" is immense, yes.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
love their almost kinda campy vincent price-ish halloween horror melodies sometimes
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
(haha i'd written that musing on 'bassage' before i'd come to the great big and somewhat bizarre interlude there on 'alrite wave' just fwiw)
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
haven't got round to the mix yet but "clapper" underwhelmed me.
i'd rather hear ill blu remix pop and r&b songs than disappear down whatever rabbithole they're exploring atm.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 07:42 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty sure Ill Blu consciously boring up their sound for their Hyperdub releases actually.
That said the stretch from 'Heisenberg' to 'Alrite Wave' is a belter. The last leg of the mix is somewhat... sterner than we're used to from them? It's not really a direction I want them to go in ('PumpA' is the worst of all possible Ill Blus), I like them when they're gleefully dropping bombs all over the place like most of the Mistajam mix from last year.
i'd rather hear ill blu remix pop and r&b songs than disappear down whatever rabbithole they're exploring atm
These seem to have dried up a bit of late? They need to remix more pop-grime tracks as well.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
i guess it's more like right now they are this sort of amorphous creature of power looking to mould itself into and around something
My guess remains that in a couple of years everyone will be sounding like Ill Blu of varying quality and they'll be getting no credit for it whatsoever.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
I really love Clapper in that 'Pon the Floor' kind of way.
― Josephine, Thursday, 12 April 2012 10:41 (twelve years ago) link
'pumpA' is probably the best rick ross track ever, certainly his finest lyrical achievement
'me x u (plastik cups)' is the one i least appreciate i think, not badly executed or anything but chasing fool's gold all the same
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
less so than just remixing but i agree it's disappointing there've been no follow-ups to sneakbo's 'the wave', they really cracked it there in a way not many funky producers ever have
bless her little cotton socks for trying (and not that sneakbo is a high quality artist either) but princess nyah doesn't count
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/urban-history-x/shystie-bad-gyal-original-dj
gonna put this here cos i'll forget otherwise but the new shystie is very good and very bluish imo (it is produced by p-jam). attn lex
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
fuck i love 'bassage' so much, can't stop putting it on
i hereby rename it.... 'ZOMBIE GUS'
― r|t|c, Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link
Is it pronounced 'bass-idge' or like to rhyme with 'massage'. If it's the latter I'm not sure I approve.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
I can't help but read it as bassaaaage, and I'm sure I don't approve.
Yeah. I like "Clapper" but it's pretty self-conscious, like they thought "Okie Dokie It's Ill Blu on Hyperdub".
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 12:31 (twelve years ago) link
"I like "Clapper" but it's pretty self-conscious"
Why, because its on Hyperdub. We've been here before with DVA Tim lol. Take it you're not a fan of the label then? I'm just happy someone is releasing Ill Blu and Funkystepz right now.
― Josephine, Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
found the xlr8r mix rather dull i'm afraid
but that shystie tune is FUCKING INCREDIBLE OMG THIS IS WHAT I WANT FOREVER
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
and yeah "the wave" def strikes me as a fruitful path not taken, sadly
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
Why, because its on Hyperdub.
No, because it's a lot drier than most of their other tunes, and feels deliberately so. Mixing straight into "Dragon Pop" really underscores the point. Ill Blu going dry for a label release once may have been coincidence, but twice?
If they'd released the Meltdown EP on Hyperdub I wouldn't have been able to make the same comment. And Funkystepz's Hyperdub releases have been great (esp. the first). Believe it or not this is not actually about me and my prejudices.
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
FWIW I feel like Clapper is less of a distance from what I would expect from IB than Dragon Pop was (although listening back to it here Dragon Pop actually sounds better than I remember it being). Anyway listening to the mix another time Legs and Turnpike actually sound the closest to standing out as choons to me, Legs has a nice bounce to it. Still feel overall it's a wee bit average though.
― Mr Andy M, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I like "Clapper" more than "Dragon Pop" (though the latter became better when they re-used it on that Suncycle/Mavado tune).
― Tim F, Thursday, 12 April 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxCw31W_fj4
― r|t|c, Saturday, 21 July 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
This is like an amazing "Flaunt It".
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 July 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
bloody addictive
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 1 August 2012 11:29 (eleven years ago) link
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