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

Ohhh and just realised that his Snows In April tune is one I'd been hearing in sets for ages without having an ID on:
https://soundcloud.com/scottmusik/djscottie-d-snows-in-april
Dark as you like!

Riaz Dhanani - Dark Forest VIP, On A Mission
Adam Cotier - Move Harder
A2H - Sorry's Not Enough, Don't Belong to You
Storm - Back In Touch
X5 Dubs - Boy Is Mine VIP, Because Of Me (X5 Dubs Remix), Nicole's Groove, Le Sex
Calle Lebraun - Sometimes I (Fantasize) ft Abbee Audio, Quiet Storm, Because of Me. Give & Take, Do Me Like Dat, The Essence, Going Back to Calle VIP
Louie Anderson - Dream, 9Ts (Remix), Don't Stop, Who Want It
Nightshift - Telling Me
Majesty - The One, Split Ends
Hugo Massien - All Night, Just Step, Damage, On My Own
Harry Ley - House, Underground, Strobe
S.E.F - What It Is
DJ Pioneer & TJ - Circles ft Dana McKeon (Playtime Remix), (Truce Remix)
Zander Hardy - Let Me Show You ft Anton Romero (Truce Remix)
AR - My Life ft Shenin Amara, What Is Love (AR Remix), So Much Pressure (AR Remix), Not Gonna Get Us (TATU Dub), Ying Yang
Rude Kid - No Stopping
Limit'less - Float VIP, Deepest Part Of Me
Creative Mind - House Of Evil
Anton Romero - Keep Calm
Jay Cas - Don't Be Afraid
London Grammar - Nightcall (Luke Larrell Remix)
Jack n Danny - Heat, Deep Down
Kurtz & Bomber - Such A Rush (Jack n Danny Refix)
Saint & Sinner - Somehow, Until I Die, Only For A Moment
Banton - Some Of Us
Oliver Rees - Eyes, Mango
Camo Crooks - Maestro
Antonio Noure - Pingpong
MNEK - Wrote A Song About You (Arun Verone Rework)
NRKY - Dangers, Enough, Polly Crayon
Nightshift - Telling Me, Forever, Equip For Warfare Clothes Bankrolls & Hoes, What Can I Do, That Hard Street Shit
Playtime Productions & Richie Cane - Truck Stop
J Clarke - Waving The 44, The Truth
Pesci - Stronger On My Own, The Luther Effect
Tech Twins - Wonder
Louis Fingers - Let It Play
Tainted Souls - Deep Down (Holt Blackheath Remix)

nice one, gonna go through that list for a quick catch up

gotta mention the strange static crew here (KG3, Just Jdan, Joseph Curti5, Aaron vibe, Perch), some of the rawest shit out there, ace radio show too.

AR - Not Gonna Get Us (TATU Dub)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anton Romero - Keep Calm

love this

^ gr8 when the beat goes all blurry woozy for "bout to back some juice, now i feel a bit loose..."

big fan of ar as mentioned upthread. he can slink n glower like the best of them but also has his fun with this uniquely nutty strain of sampling off-key things like sam & the womp, tatu, oh and i forgot this one too https://soundcloud.com/arproducer/ar-lance-morgan-next-to-me (which i thought was a v amusing juxtaposition until rodigan later made it come true at the red bull clash) (how come we never talked about that anyway)

the only other producer that comes vaguely close in that regard is louie anderson (see his '9ts' remix, ideally in situ near the start of x5 dubs' agenda set linked upthread) but his is a more bugged-out cokehead loon kinda vibe. was quite pleased when he guested on nightshift's podcast recently and did indeed turn out to be an pwopa nawty essex geezer

i didn't say how much i loved that louie anderson single that sampled nicki did i? big fan of the way this scene samples female rappers (and vocal samples in general)

https://soundcloud.com/mfrrecords/harry-ley-my-neck-original-mix

ur welcome

i still think there's mileage in this otm idea but there remains no evidence of it that i'm aware of; i'd imagine if anything the scene may have codified to become exclusionary tho idk

Queerness in Afro-British dance music?

strictly musically speaking you could say the london shuffle/tech/deep thing right now is (unknowingly) likely the queerest-coding organically indigenous (well, sort of) urban scene there's ever been in the uk, but again that's more in theory than (ime at least) proper evidence of cultural mutuality. as far as i can ascertain it's still kind of like ballroom made and consumed by lumpen str8s; from afar there would seem to me to be logical potential there though, idk

― r|t|c, Monday, 29 July 2013 13:20 Bookmark

nonsense

what is

which part

An aside: love it how this thread begins w/ the same lukewarm response and indignation as 'funky house sceptics'...

Finally checking out Introducing Calle Lebraun mix. Carnao Beats - Chords Of Life: epic.

xp lol yeah same, went on a rant about it there too funky house sceptics, let me draw your attention to this

'chords of life' is v good but i tend to subconsciously sabotage its belleville 3 pomposity by thinking of a sad robot laboriously playing panpipes

this stiff snapping electro direction that deep tech could take which (a) sounds wonderful but (b) just doesn't feel like something that would ever happen? It's a lovely cul de sac in any event.

― Tim F, Saturday, 22 November 2014 19:34 Bookmark

https://soundcloud.com/rinsefm/markradford081114

get the lino out cos radford the master of cul de sacs has something of mild interest for u at 52 mins here (jakkin rabbit 'malteaser') (jakkin rabbit is half marc spence of jackin repute somewhat predictably)

https://soundcloud.com/jackndanny/jackndanny-vs-kurtzbomber-such-a-rush-remix-free-download

yasss. simple and lethal

x5 dubs, calle lebraun, majesty, ar, truce, a2h, jack n danny, louie anderson, riaz dhanani among others have all put out like at least three huge riddims each this year and if we're not riding for those we're not riding for anything, just ideologically vacant personal-brand cherrypick tourism and doglatin discourse blagging

as a tourist of this thread i agree

Would def vote for Babylon System in an ILM EOY poll that said.

as a tourist of this thread i agree

i love tourism fyi. just not if ur ordering chips every place u go

https://soundcloud.com/stan-ritch/soad-byob-stan-ritch-editfree-download

here brad found u a nice welcome present

im drunk af listening to babylon system on repeat B-)

👊

best haunting ode to reepian national football tactics ever

an obstacle for me with scenes like this is i can never sit myself down for sustained mix listening. guess this is growing up

will say of the little i've listened to through the year calle lebraun is my mvp

lol rtc this is literally the most appropriate track for me

What deep tech mixes do I need to be listening to in December? What were the best mixes this year?

https://soundcloud.com/crowdedhouseinc/lhr-london-house-raves-sat-29th-nov-jack-danny-secret-location-east-london

just listened to this one, def the spiciest i've heard in a bit

https://soundcloud.com/crowdedhouseinc/liquorice-fri-21-novarchie-bcasual-bperch-mc-o2-academy-oxford

this is a short but sweet slice of rowdy life as well while i'm there

What deep tech mixes do I need to be listening to in December? What were the best mixes this year?

One that I've kept coming back to a lot is Lee B3 Edward's set from Brixton Splash. Feels like a nice time-capsule of this year in the scene up till that point - perfect mix of Eastside bangers and scene anthems. I wouldn't usually play this card, but I feel that with this one even the dodgy mixing in places just enhances the overall vibe of happy chaos:
https://soundcloud.com/house-ent/b3brixton2014
(Lance Morgan and Jack n Danny sets from the same event are highly enjoyable too).

fuck you all for not including kieran perez's "monster" ep on your end of your lists upthread.

https://soundcloud.com/east-side-10/sets/monster-ep-kieran-perez

Haven't seen any deep tech listed on any EOY music polls so far. It is strange that FACT doesn't cover this given their totally bizarre alternate universe ideas about what was hot and treading anyway.

there's channel 4/fact mag "urban" then there's urban

missed Lance Morgan on Radfords show waiting for the upload, should be sick

I meant the list upthread, but fuck all of them too.

Yeah I know, just sayin' - was curious to see if any of this showed up anywhere in the usual EOY places.

Perez EP is sounding amazing.

deep tech is is so crit-unfriendly - not as a strict sound per se but as a concept or organising principle for an entire genre that one might feel inclined to rally behind.

and i think even for fans there's a real pascalian quality to it, where you have to subject yourself to quite a bit of it to realise just how good it is. Which is difficult to do and keep on top of sun kill moon at the same time, perhaps.

Wait for the Night Slugs style reappropriation I guess.

dunno if pascalian is fair tbh... always thought the ganja kru had a fairly immediate appeal myself

Haha

Hey rtc that jack and danny set you linked is actually changing my life as we type.

The bleep resonances just seem to get stronger, there's that real clanking bludgeoning "we are back" vibe to a lot of this

j&d are on fiyah imo, their new bits 'signs' and 'figure it out' in that mix are soooo goooood

did u see on dissensus someone discovered that one of them was depeo btw!

!!!

Hardcore will never die.

https://soundcloud.com/nicky-longe/nicky-pressure-1am-mix

this guy is an associate of that whole ye old live fm clan, i'm only a minute into this set right now but the pace is telling me it'll be a keeper

https://soundcloud.com/ernest-moseni/a2h-acid-attacks-preview

oh yeah here's some more nu bleep too

and i think even for fans there's a real pascalian quality to it, where you have to subject yourself to quite a bit of it to realise just how good it is. Which is difficult to do and keep on top of sun kill moon at the same time, perhaps.

i think this is an internet only problem..

no shit sherlock I was talking about FACT magazine.

(less snarky)

Like yeah a lot of this music is immediately, intuitively enjoyable and involving, but not in a manner that tends to ring many critical receptors like "this is gonna change the world", for people that care about that sort of thing.

Funky was like that too, but I think with deep tech it even takes some listeners a while to see what it is that makes the music its own distinct thing (see lex's posts upthread for example). Which is remarkable to me but it is what it is.

I don't think this has been listed on this thread either, Leon Renner ft Kerri Ann - Wait For You (Anthony Ranz Remix): https://soundcloud.com/soturecordings/wait-for-u

Reynolds also mentions a few tracks I hadn't heard on his EOY:

Theo Nasa, Area 51 - https://soundcloud.com/house-ent/her008
Shay & Sinista, Boiling Point - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIO12Jag0pA
Area 8, On My Level - https://soundcloud.com/audio-rehab-london/area-8-on-my-level

but not in a manner that tends to ring many critical receptors like "this is gonna change the world", for people that care about that sort of thing.

this doesnt sound v enjoyable but fair enuff..

dude we agree - the critics are in the wrong

Fact deciding to get into deep tech would be the worst thing that could happen to the genre, it should be allowed to develop of its own accord rather than having some agenda-filled critical narrative clunkily superimposed onto it, like when they decided funky was all about Jam City, or that grime would be improved by having more in the way of stern cavernous whiteboy instrumentals.

It's finally here! https://soundcloud.com/rs4house/little-man-club-mix