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

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

tbph there's nothing anyone can do to 'little man' any more at this point that wouldn't result in rolling of eye and stifling of yawn for this blasphemer

where that 'locked on you' remix at though, is the real issue #NOTHINGEVERMATTERS

This is probably an even worse thing to say but I've never really understood the outsized classic status of the original exemen "little man" remix. Good track but Sia was annoying even back then.

Meanwhile that Jack N Danny set has ruled my life this past week.

I feel like it articulates a new (for me) shift in deep tech's sense of rhythmic deviation, perhaps it's the way the sound is mixed but it feels like the 4X4 kick is really de-emphasised in favour of this bewitching bass/snare/hi-hat interplay that brings back in some of the feel of funky but doing so with an entirely different rhythmic matrix.

https://soundcloud.com/nightshift-1/lokate-flow-feat-doctor-bay-c-nightshift-official-remix

^___^

(putting that with this in my "nothing to do with ward 21 guv honest" 2014 playlist: http://youtu.be/UXcQF1205o8 )

followed this thread on & off thru the year & enjoyed pace brad as a tourist

tbh i mostly like this bc it all sounds like green velvet's 'shake & pop' which was the anthem when i was going out 3-4 times a week in my mid 20s. in fact i could swear that one of those songs vahid was fucking w/ is a straight rip of its drums.

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.

― Tim F, Monday, December 15, 2014 11:30 AM Bookmark

Still trying to figure out why funky is some of my favorite dance music ever and this stuff leaves me cold. Tbf, I inherently distrust anything with "tech" in the name. I think the clipped, techno-y drum sounds might be exactly it.

this stuff is awesome imo, listened to that last mix rtc posted, its all muscular goth house w/ hip-hop accents

Rev not that you'll necessarily like it, but stuff like Jack N Danny is where deep tech starts to drift closer to funky territory, e.g. this tune (ridiculously given away for free):

https://soundcloud.com/jackndanny/jack-n-danny-heat-mastered?in=jackndanny/sets/free-downnloads

But it's more like that paranoid bugged out sounding end of funky, e.g. Scotty D (who actually became a deep tech producer) or Drew Austin remixing Drake.

This still has those trebly drum sounds I can't stand. I feel like I'd be totally behind this if it had different drums.

rev are you big on old chicago house? like the more jacking/acid end of it?

Yeah basically as funky did to the naturalistic drum sounds of funky/tribal house, deep tech does to the more mechanic hi-hat/snare patterns of early house and techno.

I guess I pay lip service to that stuff but if I'm being real with myself I get my classic house kicks more from 90s NYC.

I don't think I can even tell what drum sounds rev is referring to