It's a cruel cruel summer: the sounds of deep tech / shuffle / cuttin shapes / upgrunt house / etc. etc. in 2014

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https://soundcloud.com/donaeo/free-download-tazer-wet-dollars-donaeo-remix

donaeo's given his rmx away for free btw

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njTZh0laN28

shoulda mentioned this one too for the faithless kru

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 10:08 (nine years ago) link

i finally figured out the track i asked about way upthread

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

is it g-house?

the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link

hard to accurately pinpoint the timeline now but from the looks of things i would imagine s.e.f might be somewhat pissed if 'wet dollars' gets chart money

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 19:37 (nine years ago) link

"wet dollars" is g-house, shuffle tech or jacking?

the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:18 (nine years ago) link

it's pretty great, i prefer the vocal samples in "m-o-e" but i like the beat of "wet dollars" better

the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link

it's skipper + handclaps

the late great, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:20 (nine years ago) link

the track that starts this thread is finally getting a release, it's on itunes for pre-order. FINALLY I'LL HAVE SOMETHING OTHER THAN A SOUNDCLOUD RIP

lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:21 (nine years ago) link

sotu seem especially laggardly but generally speaking this stuff has the most thorough release infrastructure uk urban dance has had for a decade. proper labels, tons on beatport/juno etc

can't wait for that 'circles' truce dub, dunno why the gits even took the soundcloud down

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link

yeah i'm still waiting for the carnao beats one to get released. and the syap nicki minaj one. (btw he's done a honey cocaine edit which is super as well!)

lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link

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

here is another top 10 eoy 2k14 shufflepop tune, superior even to 'circles', that you yes YOU can buy TODAY

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link

(k i lied, it's top 3 rly)

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link

rtc I know you and I have politely butted heads on here a few times in the past, but I've got to give a big thank you for the mini history lesson and track IDs upthread. Had been hearing & loving One (More) & Go Insane in sets for a while without knowing what they were/who they were by. Hadn't heard that Huxley dub before but it's great.

There's no stopping the thetans from hopping (Mr Andy M), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link

SOTU has turned out to be a much more exciting label than I expected.

There's no stopping the thetans from hopping (Mr Andy M), Monday, 22 September 2014 20:41 (nine years ago) link

oh yeah, thanks all for the mini history lesson!

lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:46 (nine years ago) link

ha i rly rly rly wouldnt take that vague history lesson as gospel (i was rather looking the other way/missing what was under my nose at the time) but i'm glad to hear it might prove to be better than nothing. still encourage all corrections plz if there are any

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link

SOTU has turned out to be a much more exciting label than I expected.

― There's no stopping the thetans from hopping (Mr Andy M), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:41 Bookmark

ya def. love this new 1:

https://soundcloud.com/djtruce/zander-hardy-feat-anton-romero-let-me-show-you-truce-remix-preview

+ i'm absolutely fucking DYING for this to come out arghhh get on with it

https://soundcloud.com/soturecordings/wait-for-u

r|t|c, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link

i was a bit less convinced by tim's defining it according to ilm threads

i guess there's no real geographic location to this stuff? it's all a bit "slight tweak of other things that have existed for a long time". i think i get it but i couldn't explain it?

lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link

x-post YES Wait For U remix is a big one.

There's no stopping the thetans from hopping (Mr Andy M), Monday, 22 September 2014 21:19 (nine years ago) link

ah it's out i can post it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_XZkvFSs0

ANTHEM

r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 01:45 (nine years ago) link

i take it back, that was terrible

the late great, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 05:26 (nine years ago) link

and... there we go.

i guess there's no real geographic location to this stuff? it's all a bit "slight tweak of other things that have existed for a long time". i think i get it but i couldn't explain it?

Still think the easiest way to get it is just to listen to a DJ mix.

Tim F, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 07:15 (nine years ago) link

post invective or bite tongue... eeny, meeny...

r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 10:16 (nine years ago) link

oh go on.

Tim F, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:00 (nine years ago) link

Anyway I love the rifftastic section of "From Above", so fabulously unclean sounding.

Tim F, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:04 (nine years ago) link

Seems relevant for this thread.

http://33.media.tumblr.com/802ff5595554035da46e2f22d4c3a482/tumblr_ncbo5qFjGz1qz9ddwo1_500.jpg

MikoMcha, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:31 (nine years ago) link

I share some music taste with my instructor and someone else in the class asked about it and I wasnt really sure what to say. I mentioned deep house and they looked at me in horror. I was surprised at the reaction as I didnt think they would really know what it was, then I remembered the music in this thread is called deep house and would be on his radar

saer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:39 (nine years ago) link

I had momentarily forgotten it was called deep house because I see this many days and subconsciously think it is called upgrunt

saer, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:41 (nine years ago) link

he probably thought you were referring to the disclosure, duke dumont, MoS new sound deep house, deep house

this strain of house is for most intents and purposes a very insular, decidedly london thing although it is starting to reach the fringes of that world.

rizla teef, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 15:59 (nine years ago) link

ha so i think ever since i'd been checking for this stuff i'd been hearing this one tune among many thinking yesss this is a vibes... comes up in a mix now so i'm like right ok finally let me shazam that fucker

and ummmm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zcaqi1z-2y4

turns out completely unbeknownst to me they've been keeping p much bang on the various modern pulses these last couple of years...

r|t|c, Monday, 29 September 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link

https://soundcloud.com/djsupad/just-wat-da-docta-ordered-supa-d-b2b-truce

vibes up a commute a treat. if u cant get to grips with + are not totally down for this stuff after the first hour i can't do nuffin 4 ya guv

r|t|c, Friday, 10 October 2014 11:15 (nine years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z-BVl4EJzI

two of the best b2b

rizla teef, Saturday, 11 October 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link

love that nutty refix (after the hour mark there) of the ar remix of 'so much pressure' with the sam & the womp 'bom bom' sample

hey riz do u ever check for any of the shows on http://usdfm.co.uk/dj-schedule/ and are they any good? seems strange that only scholar tee that ever reposts them... might have a go at taping jack n danny later

r|t|c, Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:00 (nine years ago) link

looping "i'm the cat with the bass and" with that kiddy voice like that kinda bringing the 'charly' / 'sesame's treet' appy ardkore vibe :)

r|t|c, Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link

kinda amazing that no one's really tried to slip a seemingly innocuous ditty about balloons past the chart censors

r|t|c, Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:20 (nine years ago) link

Anyway I love the rifftastic section of "From Above", so fabulously unclean sounding.

― Tim F, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 14:04 Bookmark

it doesnt have the sly wink infantilism of a 'charly' or anything but the clean plaintive innocence of the rest of 'from above' among its own and surrounding dark filth is really what makes the track imo... like if the sample was the old leviticus burial "first you say yeah, then you say no..." rather than just a bit of supremes people would probably grok it immediately

r|t|c, Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:30 (nine years ago) link

"people" largely meaning "those unnamed of a certain advanced age lying face down in a puddle of their own stale n fetid sensibility" obv

https://soundcloud.com/louieandersonmusic/louie-anderson-who-want-it-original-mix-forthcoming-on-shadow-music

ooh talking of which! lex needs this banger in his life if it isnt already!! (kinda hate myself for having allowed the construction of a reality where i can't have this as my ringtone :/)

r|t|c, Sunday, 12 October 2014 10:51 (nine years ago) link

lots of good djs on USD

https://soundcloud.com/majestydj001/majesty-in-my-mind-vol-1-all-tracks-prod-by-majesty

an hour and a half worth of productions by dj majesty, resident and owner of audiowhore/siesta which are two of the biggest parties in london atm

rizla teef, Monday, 13 October 2014 23:15 (nine years ago) link

https://soundcloud.com/musicboxbirmingham/live-recording-marc-ryder-musicbox-oct-2014

hey tim if u could pass this onto ur close chum he may find it of interest wrt recent musings

r|t|c, Thursday, 23 October 2014 14:18 (nine years ago) link

I got the Audio Rehab vol. 1 compilation the other day, which feels pretty urgent and key.

MikoMcha, Thursday, 30 October 2014 06:11 (nine years ago) link

yeah definitely - altho there's so much stuff about it kinda almost feels like a vol 2 is already overdue!!

solid stuff but could have down with a few more vocals and maybe a tad more rowdiness to spice things up iyam (see the strange static above basically), or even just a bit more of the wilder carnao "just say nothing" style basslines to break up the overall austerity

― Benny B, Thursday, 22 May 2014 11:08 Bookmark

it's interesting (instructive possibly) looking back that i was v much in the same place benny was with it in may, i guess coming from a garagey interzoney perspective and finding traction in the subconsciously familiar without necessarily acquiring the zombie taste for and fluency in the austere cold spiky pulsefunk at its essence... like i'd really loved the excellent things q, shorterz, benny have done in terms articulating some of this stuff in/via sympatico contexts but after a while it kinda felt disquieting, something lacking to have this v particular vibe or dialect as subcategorical or subsidiary

now it's clicked everything on arv1 is an unquestionably sick riddim naturally

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/mark-radford-interview.html

along these lines it was kinda funny reading (dimly recalling the worthwhile parts now) some of the things radford said here wrt to being a stubborn dj, knowing ur sound, mentoring ~production values~ etc cos i'd actually have said he has done p much more than anyone to get a bit interzoney referential broadening this stuff's parameters and tbh imo not always valuably in the end, i even went off his shows for a bit eventually even tho those moves were what originally caught my attention somewhat. quite a long leash for a scene godfather

oh yeah look

definitely more varied than the sets i've listened to up to now. its even gone all speed garagey now with this lowsteppa 'benediction' remix and its all blending very nicely with the more techy stuff.

― Benny B, Friday, 6 December 2013 01:14 (2 days ago) Bookmark

ha yeah i'm actually mildly nonplussed by this considering i'd already gone out my way to meet shuffle on its previously icy terms... typically now i half-wonder if it might not be losing the essential run of itself a little :)

― r|t|c, Sunday, 8 December 2013 17:22 Bookmark

r|t|c, Thursday, 30 October 2014 11:21 (nine years ago) link

i do listen to radford again now fyi but it still seems obvious to me that ur still in for something slightly more personal with his sets compared to what anyone else on the scene does

r|t|c, Thursday, 30 October 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link

audio rehab vol 1 shud definitely be considered a primer, ideal for distinguishing what makes this london strain of house different from the rest (strange static arguably pushes the envelope further than the realm of "house music)

doesn't hurt that it's 20 tracks deep with a 90% hit rate

while AR is more polished n profesh, eastside records is definitely grittier and more "raw" sounding, this as close to grime as i can get in 2014

https://soundcloud.com/east-side-10

goldmine

rizla teef, Saturday, 1 November 2014 00:50 (nine years ago) link

https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/brackles011114

brackles show is good now. what a time to be alive

r|t|c, Monday, 3 November 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link

"Depends On Me" sounds like prime LFO circa "What Is House".

― Tim F, Tuesday, 12 August 2014 16:36 Bookmark

https://soundcloud.com/rs4house/rs4-lfo-tribute

r|t|c, Sunday, 9 November 2014 00:23 (nine years ago) link

now that's the kind of "roots 'n' future" I can truly get behind.

Tim F, Sunday, 9 November 2014 01:16 (nine years ago) link

that's pretty cool

the late great, Sunday, 9 November 2014 03:44 (nine years ago) link

Amazing.

MikoMcha, Sunday, 9 November 2014 12:35 (nine years ago) link

Brackles show is ace, thanks for the tip. Since when has he been playing deep tech?

MikoMcha, Sunday, 9 November 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link


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