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

I'm not against D-40 posting it, it's just a really shitty thin to happen, and kind of a shitty video in the way they slow down and repeat parts of it like that.

similar thing happened to dj dark shadows of nottingham a while back but i declined to post it in here

Really wish I hadn't watched that video.

deej, I think a lot of the issue here is you posted the video with no context or warning of what it was, which was a pretty tactless thing to do, especially given the rather voyeuristic presentation.

apologies for not giving a heads up i guess

the video was confronting but I had no problem with it being posted

this is good stuff m8s

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2013/07/stream-lil-jabbas-debut-lp-local

it sounds weirdly dubsteppy.

Really enjoying the DJ Rashad Double Cup album. Haven't seen too much about it around ILX, but maybe I haven't been looking in the right places.

Ooh. When is that coming out?
Just saw Rashad in Boston last week... fella was on crutches but still killed it. Talented dude.

I believe that it's supposed to be released on the 22nd of this month, but I think it's floating around out there too.

Rashad is in too much pain post-accident to play out on the reg :( (was gonna see him on Saturday) but Double Cup is really good

Shit, what happened? I haven't been keeping myself in the footwork loop these few weeks. Looking forward to the new Rashad.

Car accident: http://www.factmag.com/2013/10/10/dj-rashad-cancels-european-tour-following-car-accident/

damn, as someone who has been dealing with a back injury while playing gigs over the last year, i feel for him. the new album is so good.

Very unfortunate to hear about his injuries, but I heard Double Cup today and it is something. I could listen to Let U No for days on end.

Double Cup is amazing.

its nice and everything, but teklife vol 1 was much better imo.

Listening now.

Teklife was my fave album of the last few years, so... that'll take some beating.
Sounds great so far though. Def digging the last half more than the first, but... first listen, so who knows?

wow "double cup" wowwwwww

such juke

very footwokay i'll stop now

much bass, so melodies =)

<3 "show you how" and title track

and "reggie" and "let u no" and "i'm too hi" damn what an album

Yahhh double cup is great

: )

Shit

I mean Oh shit

she a go

Let U No is seriously addictive.

its so great no one can respond with more than a few words about it?!

the traxman album on lit city is underrated.

stfu

nice.

What I love about this music is how spare it is. It's almost a challenge, musically, to latch onto things, and yet the songs progress, go through changes just like normal music. I always find myself surprised at how LOUD the snare and hi-hats are, like someone who was blind might be surprised to see how bright light was for the first time. Watching the youtube videos of people dancing to this stuff makes it clear why it sound the way it does, but as a writer of music, and appreciator of new dance music, juke/footwork is like a faberge egg: specialized, seemingly of little use to non-devotees, and utterly unique.

(also, as to making music, I find this style of music EXTREMELY applicable to genre-fuckery. You can add almost anything to a juke template, and make it into a different kind of song. For some reason, this doesn't annoy me the way, say, dubstep or disco reworks might).

such footwork

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Dominique, I posted this recently in another thread:

This is one of the things I find awesome about footwork is basically its whole central premise as music specifically made for dance battles is the tension between how challenging it can be to dance to but still able to be danced to by a skillful dancer.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, October 2, 2013 2:22 AM Bookmark

i'm sitting in an office and i can't help moving my body

and i hardly ever dance to anything, even if it's dancy

This is SO funky! Is it me or is this significantly more polished than anything else he's released so far? Seems like it's coming into its own, as in no longer an interesting curio but stuff I'd happily play in the company of others without them complaining?

I haven't had any interest before in what I've heard of this stuff, but so far Double Cup is great.

I haven't had any interest before in what I've heard of this stuff

I haven't heard much.

yeah same, I tried to get into Teklife Vol 1 and a few other things and it didn't click

but Double Cup is pretty awesome

also what was up w/ this ridiculousness

http://doandroidsdance.com/news/dj-rashad-resign-teklife/

I like the screen name 'Butt Jolokia'

I refuse to believe Rashad is dead.

http://www.complex.com/music/2014/04/dj-rashad-dead

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I can't and won't believe it. I was listening to teklife vol 1 this morning. He was supposed to play here last night. Fuck fuck fuck. Please not be true.

what the hell, what the goddamned hell

Fuck, it's looking like this is real. This is terrible.