chicago juke: dj nate, dj rashad [R.I.P. 2014], leatherface aka kaptain cadillac, dj roc &c &c

more footwork recommendations pls! think i've exhausted B&W2 now.

I know DJ Earl has an album coming out, and it reminds me of the slinkier, jazzed-out end of drum'n'bass (Reprazent etc). Lots of soul samples etc... Not really what you'd expect of footwork, but kind of refreshing.

http://soundcloud.com/djearlteckz

funny people are comparing shangaan electro with footwork as that was the connection I made when I first heard of the style - got into both concurrently.

I like this guy
http://liljabba.bandcamp.com/album/swisher

still grappling with this as a genre but really probably listened to these tracks as much as anything in 2011

wish more footwork producers would do that wheezy blurry techno synth thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpnff1guVuc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6p-FpZyBP8

from jack to juke - 25 years of ghetto house

http://vimeo.com/36275353

Had a go at making my own footwork track out of vintage ska samples. Not sure I've got the hang of it yet, but thought I'd post it here anyway http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/jukeska

dig it

OMG dj traxman your new album is a treat

I'm loving it too. Also 14tracks.com are doing a footwork comp I wanna check out.

am i tripping or does the first track on the traxman album sample the kalimba from roland p young's "crystal motions"?

footworkin on air

vs

crystal motions

i think the sampled bit is about 4 minutes in

but i don't know, i might be tripping

Oowwwwwwww let there be rock / ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA

the Traxman album kills but ^that bit did make me think of, like, the middle of a Fatboy Slim set from the 90s

and that's a bad thing?

i knew it wouldnt be long before someone says my favorite track on the album is sucky, but i didnt think it would be with one post

xp not particularly no! it's fun when new stuff that is 'cool' accidentally sounds like old stuff that is now 'uncool'

yeah, definitely, and anyway I think Fatboy Slim was/ is a good, fun party DJ if you can ignore his rather embarrassing excesses. Dance music history is cyclical, not linear!

i would think its more in the tradition of lil jon

why is black people never allowed to rock

Feels like it's gone a bit quiet from the footwork camp of late (other than Traxman of course)... What am I missing?

Rashad has an album on the way pretty soon I think.

This mix is fire and has plenty of stuff from it.

http://soundcloud.com/djrashadteklife/rashad-spinn-we-trippy-mane

The new Rashad stuff is off the chain

that mix is dope.

this is my first post here so I'd might as well make it count!

"Feels like it's gone a bit quiet from the footwork camp of late (other than Traxman of course)... What am I missing?"

there's all kinds of comps and stuff out now that you should be listening to!

http://japanesemutationbootyism.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-juke-footworks-compilation - the japanese are getting more and more interested in juke. this is a phenomenal comp that covers pretty much all areas of the sound from two and a half min retrigger masturbation sessions to far more abstract works. I can't seem to shake the question of if they realize the kind of music they're making in my mind. yes a lot of it is good but the whole thing seems like a chinese room argument in music.

http://sabacanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fa-fa-chronicle - more jap juke. everything guchon does /everything on that label is worth listening to by the way; he's been in the game for a while now.

http://dubpornrecordscollection.com/album/belly-a-footwork-compilation - a belly inspired comp

http://radology.bandcamp.com/album/province - some russian cats who instantly took to the sound. if you enjoy this at all I highly suggest grabbing vtgnike's album "Sueta Nebitiya"

http://post-religion.bandcamp.com/album/c-h-o-r-i-z-o-ep - juke for kids who identify with net art.

those are all the recent free comps that come to mind. a lot of the people on those comps have tons of free tunes laying around if you look.

not chicago people to look into:

Andrew Juke
Broken Fingers
Damscray
Dream Continuum (supergroup of machinedrum and om unit aka phillip d kick)
Film4D2
Guchon
Hayato6go
Juke Ellington
Leatherface
LiL JaBBA (can't stress this guy enough)
Machinedrum
Noms
Satanicpornocultshop
Side9000
Skimatix
Vtgnike
Wheez-Ie
X-Man

hope that helps~

cool post

nohighs = Dave?

dave quam? no, too hipster-ish.

ahah who is dave and how do I remind you guys of him

Thanks for this nohighs! Fuckin' awesome

I decided to gamble on a 14tracks.com compilation called footwork diffusion - it's not a strictly footwork comp but I'm impressed with a good bunch of the tracks so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1yV7axOsA

dave quam? no, too hipster-ish.

ha, i had the same thought.

for more non-chicago juke stuff, i liked munchi's 'rotterdam juke' EP from last year, and here's a nice pair of tracks from a local dude: http://goldendonna.bandcamp.com/

I've been Instapapering what little things people have written about footwork and I'm pretty much finding that as soon as a writer namechecks Burial, it's dropping the ball

WTF has Burial got to do with footwork? It's Dilla people generally tend to namecheck in these things, I thought?

lol

WTF has Burial got to do with footwork?

I'm saying!

burial is probably closer to "footwork" than dilla if you count machinedrum etc as "footwork"

let's not

(and yeah, I don't really see what Dilla has to do with things either)

agreed

I'm saying too!

i don't know, i mean i've never read that anywhere but it makes sense to me, more than burial. feel like maybe it was rev (?) said he doesn't like jd beats because of the way they lurch & a lot of footwork stuff has the same quality

Footwork's lurch is totally different from the Dilla lurch tho. Dilla's comes from lack of quantization, footwork's comes from 3-based rhythms that often don't resolve themselves by the next down beat, if that makes sense.

o ya that totally makes sense

like

|X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X |
|1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   |

there's another one too, though, that dilla also does, those like -- abrupt spaces -- in beats, not going to find an example right now but maybe soon, i know some tracks on b&w do it for sure

not that im against britishers spending their hard earned 'pounds' to help a kid in inner city chi make a few bucks instead of that money going to dubstep dj dark shadows of nottingham or w/e

^^this is classic

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 21:03 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure what rhythm you're trying to notate there rev?

a lot of the chi footwork i've heard feels unquantized & triggered by hand, but in a totally different way than dilla.

also i feel like drum & bass is the reference point for most of the articles/reviews i've seen.

I feel like d&b only gets referenced because of the tempo similarity.

Footwork tumbles to me more than it lurches.