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

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.

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

oh yeah, thanks all for the mini history lesson!

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

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

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?

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

ah it's out i can post it

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

ANTHEM

i take it back, that was terrible

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.

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

oh go on.

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

Seems relevant for this thread.

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

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

two of the best b2b

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

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 :)

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

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

"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 :/)

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

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

https://soundcloud.com/x5dubs/x5-dubs-agenda-promo-mix-8th-november-at-the-boatyard-wolverhampton

https://soundcloud.com/callelebraun/calle-lebraun-100k-mix

https://soundcloud.com/jackndanny/tektronik-jackndanny

https://soundcloud.com/deejay_dice/dice-and-perch-radio-sessions-91014

^ fave mixes i've heard lately^

might even say why at some point who knows

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

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

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

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

https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/brackles011114

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

"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

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

that's pretty cool

Amazing.

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

same brackles who did this amazing mix?

http://www.discogs.com/Brackles-Songs-For-Endless-Cities-Volume-1/master/336324

Yeah, that looks like the sort of thing he was playing last time I checked.

That Rinse session is a bit of a Hugo Massienathon, and I have no problem with that.

https://soundcloud.com/house-ent/introducing-callelebraun

if anyone enjoyed not listening to the prev calle mix i mentioned then trust me you'll just <3 letting this one slide on by too

As a complete newcomer to this scene and having paid zero attention to this thread before, I can confirm that Audio Rehab 1 makes a fantastic primer.

It's weird to see all these posts upthread going "how does this differ from X or Y?" when the sonic parameters are less interesting than the question of who's dancing this time round. Still, there's so much more techno in this stuff than there than the British house music in adjacent scenes - I hear Detroit in there, but I also hear Sheffield. But it feels defineably London as well, those grimy handclaps, like it would just work driving through wet London streets at night, and it's dark without resorting to the tiresome faux-screwface of so much UK bass music.

It's striking that in the Blackdown interview, Radford pinpoints hearing Booka Shade as the thunderbolt moment because a lot of this stuff is quite similar to peak Booka Shade if not in sonics but in its sleekness, the way the sounds hang in the air, the ability to go for epic without sacrificing economy. But ex-garage crowds, by and large, weren't dancing to that stuff or anything connected to it, give or take a Claude Vonstroke track here or there.

I guess I haven't been paying much attention this year but I knew something was up when Innervisions stuff like Ten Walls started appearing on the 1xtra playlist but it still feels like a big shift for these sounds to be reappearing in this context.

Comp itself is brilliant obv.

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Man how amazing is Hugo Massien's "Now You're Gone"

And this Carnao Beats tune:

https://soundcloud.com/carnao-beats-1/chords-of-life-1

not sure i'm familiar with that massien, where does it live

see e.g. Mark Radford's 6 September set from 56.20.

ooh yeah good spot

Can we caucus on the deep tech songs of the year? We need to get at least one track into ILM's top 100.

Even though I first heard it last year i'd happily swing behind Kane Law's "Free Your Mind" given its 2014 release and impact.