works better in a mix. hearing it as a single lessen the true potential of it. just IMO.
Show your work.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, October 29, 2010 4:51 PM (Yesterday)
why should I?
― dan138zig (Durrr Durrr Durrrrrr), Saturday, 30 October 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
My this certainly does sound more impressive in high quality. Bass!
― Tim F, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Night Slugs feature @ http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1254Comes with a 47 minute mix.Thanks Lex, WUT revisits me multiple times a day since the start of this thread :)
― willem, Monday, 1 November 2010 11:03 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ jam city's "arpjam" on that mix is fucking insanely good, really hope that gets a release this year
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 1 November 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Kingdom slapping the vocals from Ciara's "Ride" on top of "Every Time" was one of many highlights when I saw him a few nights ago.
― big jeans (lou), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
oh SHIT i'd've lost my shit at that
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, he kind of had my jaw on the floor the whole time. :) Sorry to veer off-topic, but I have really treasured Kingdom's tracks, mixes and remixes this year. His monthly event here has been the source of many euphoric nights. Can't remember the last time I was inspired to go out so much.
― big jeans (lou), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 00:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i get the fbook invites to those and EVERY TIME wish i could go. and i've never managed to catch kingdom over here either - once this year i got to interview him but on the night had a deadline crisis; the time after that i was in spain; and he's coming over in a couple of weeks, when i...will be in miami
AARGH
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh good, the EP is on Spotify. INSTANT LOVE for "Wut" and "Showstoppa", WOW!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
mike (and indeed everyone) should check out kingdom's stuff (esp "mind reader", "that mystic" and "fogs") - not exactly similar but approaching cut-up r&b vox/heavy bass from a different angle
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:41 (thirteen years ago) link
actually i'll just bump his thread - Kingdom ft. Shyvonne - Mind Reader
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 10:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I know "Mind Reader" quite well - Lex, you tipped me to it a few months back. Great track. Will try the other two.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 12:42 (thirteen years ago) link
single of the fucking year finally gets a release
single of the year? hm. i just heard it, and it is good. i can see where the processed vocals can be irritating/nervewracking after a while. tagged it to download later on emusic.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 2 November 2010 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost whole Night Slugs catalogue is available on Spotify and that's so fucking sweet, just type label:"night slugs" in searchbox
― V79, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 13:20 (thirteen years ago) link
this is very great except I want to say wut wut in the butt :(
― dayo, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Wonder what popular internet phrase Girl Unit will use for his next single?
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
LOL
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Deserved that
― Number None, Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo- I don't think that impulse is nearly as strong here as it is with, say, Trey Songz' "Bottoms Up" (Bottoms up, bottoms up/ stick it in your butt). :)
― big jeans (lou), Tuesday, 2 November 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
― willem, Monday, 8 November 2010 21:55 (thirteen years ago) link
i know lex loves them (not least as hes mates with them all) but can there just be a rolling nightslugs thread so there arent new ones started for these guys all the time?
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 10:51 (thirteen years ago) link
This is pretty much the only Night Slugs thread isn't it? Mind Reader wasn't even on Night Slugs.
Don't think there's really much doubt that Lex sincerely loves all this stuff, he's not just street teaming his friends for the sake of it.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 10 November 2010 11:48 (thirteen years ago) link
is this like the post dubstep "d.a.n.c.e."
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
:(
― big jeans (lou), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 13:31 (thirteen years ago) link
deadboy drake remix is so beautiful
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
ysi
― dayo, Monday, 15 November 2010 07:56 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oMgqdAPESY
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 07:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Glad you like Jordan! Though it really does sound like "all I see is tiger woods..."
― Tim F, Monday, 15 November 2010 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
haha noooooooo that's all i'm gonna hear now
that + the james blake cover of feist = repeat bedtime listening atm
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this is pretty dope
― dayo, Monday, 15 November 2010 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
even tho the use of literal firework sounds at the beginning & end of the track is both obvious and i believe carried over right from the drake song, it works really well w/ the deadboy remix -- its sort of like you're looking up in the sky and witnessing this really pretty thing -- it gives me the the same sort of feeling of intense romance in my chest that i get when i see the fireworks scene in 'adventureland'
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.), Monday, 15 November 2010 08:04 (thirteen years ago) link
ok this crowd video of 'wut' is amazing, somehow it's even huger w/ fuzzy blown-out sound and shakycam, i want to be dancing right now.
― 嬰ハ長調 (c sharp major), Monday, 15 November 2010 12:08 (thirteen years ago) link
endless <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
mixed also with endless ;_; ;_; ;_; ;_; that i couldn't be there
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, 15 November 2010 13:06 (thirteen years ago) link
(not that i'm complaining about having been able to sunbathe on south beach for the past few days)
\_OˬO_/ at the drop at 1:50
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Monday, 15 November 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
also lol at "face down ass up" reconfigured as a grace note for such a pretty and non-concrete, textually, vocal hook
― Know The (ledge) (sic), Monday, 15 November 2010 13:45 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure why i made the justice snark comment above, i don't know why i have inbuilt negativity towards this when actually anytime i open ableton i try and make music like this. think i have some contrarian feelings towards this just cos i live in london, but i like wut. agree with whoever said they wait for a rapper to come in, i feel a lot like this about lots of this kind of music.
agree about the comments about "what to do" with this music too...i've been in clubs where people "bounce" and it's extremely macho/tedious watching people posture...i guess if i went out to clubs where they play rap music it might be like that too but i dunno, maybe more fun.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 15 November 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's the R&B cut-ups that really make this IMO... it doesn't really feel very functional but that's fine.
― Matt DC, Monday, 15 November 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
His remix of Lights On by Katy B is kind of horrible.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 November 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Love Wut and Showstoppa but kind of think both sound like they're missing something. Wut gets boring at its length.
― portrait of the artist as a yung joc (Hurting 2), Friday, 19 November 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Anticipatinghttp://img602.imageshack.us/img602/9245/jamcity.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 22 November 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Say whatever about Night Slugs, their sleeve designs are just out-and-out great.
― Matt DC, Monday, 22 November 2010 22:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Listening through proper speakers for the first time... this is fucking AMAZING music
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i shall be talking to girl unit (and braiden) tomorrow on resonance fm, 7pm http://www.resonancefm.com/ (pre-recorded interview w/girl unit and talking w/braiden live); i'm sure it'll be on the internet afterwards too
there will be EXCLUSIVE MUSIC played!
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
among the topics of discussion: which rapper girl unit would most like to hear over the top of these trax
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 24 November 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
interview in middle of this podcast - http://freakytrigger.co.uk/lollards-podcast/2010/11/freaky-trigger-and-the-lollards-of-pop-series-4-week-11/
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Saturday, 27 November 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow, the last four tracks on the Night Slugs label comp are really fantastic, especially Jacques Greene's 'Baby I Don't Know What You Want'. This sort of colourful space-funk sound works *so* much better for me than the more full-on thick-grey-line bass stuff that comes before it. I'm including 'Wut' in the former category obviously.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the optimum one really surprised me, given what his ep was like. you should hear the velour ep if you haven't, it's all technicolour off-kilter funk like that - you can tell why dâm-funk's a kindred spirit.
this is my favourite on the compilation though, soooo good - posted it in the dance partisans thread already but never sure how many people actually look in there
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs5sEaYGNBU
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Really impressed by the few other Jacques Greene tracks I've heard, too. (<3<3<3 "Tell Me"!!)
His LuckyMe 12" was supposed to come out Monday but I'm not seeing anywhere to buy it yet.
― big jeans (lou), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
funny that the Greene track mis/re-interprets Ashanti's "Baby I don't know why..." from 'Foolish'
think i like the Kingdom, Egyptrixx (maybe filler-y to some but i like the relative oddness) and Velour tracks most (aside from 'Wut') but it's all good and will get bought.
― modrić in paradise (blueski), Wednesday, 1 December 2010 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link