chicago juke: dj nate, dj rashad [R.I.P. 2014], leatherface aka kaptain cadillac, dj roc &c &c

Oowwwwwwww let there be rock / ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA ROCK ROCK RA RA

the Traxman album kills but ^that bit did make me think of, like, the middle of a Fatboy Slim set from the 90s

and that's a bad thing?

i knew it wouldnt be long before someone says my favorite track on the album is sucky, but i didnt think it would be with one post

xp not particularly no! it's fun when new stuff that is 'cool' accidentally sounds like old stuff that is now 'uncool'

yeah, definitely, and anyway I think Fatboy Slim was/ is a good, fun party DJ if you can ignore his rather embarrassing excesses. Dance music history is cyclical, not linear!

i would think its more in the tradition of lil jon

why is black people never allowed to rock

Feels like it's gone a bit quiet from the footwork camp of late (other than Traxman of course)... What am I missing?

Rashad has an album on the way pretty soon I think.

This mix is fire and has plenty of stuff from it.

http://soundcloud.com/djrashadteklife/rashad-spinn-we-trippy-mane

The new Rashad stuff is off the chain

that mix is dope.

this is my first post here so I'd might as well make it count!

"Feels like it's gone a bit quiet from the footwork camp of late (other than Traxman of course)... What am I missing?"

there's all kinds of comps and stuff out now that you should be listening to!

http://japanesemutationbootyism.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-juke-footworks-compilation - the japanese are getting more and more interested in juke. this is a phenomenal comp that covers pretty much all areas of the sound from two and a half min retrigger masturbation sessions to far more abstract works. I can't seem to shake the question of if they realize the kind of music they're making in my mind. yes a lot of it is good but the whole thing seems like a chinese room argument in music.

http://sabacanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fa-fa-chronicle - more jap juke. everything guchon does /everything on that label is worth listening to by the way; he's been in the game for a while now.

http://dubpornrecordscollection.com/album/belly-a-footwork-compilation - a belly inspired comp

http://radology.bandcamp.com/album/province - some russian cats who instantly took to the sound. if you enjoy this at all I highly suggest grabbing vtgnike's album "Sueta Nebitiya"

http://post-religion.bandcamp.com/album/c-h-o-r-i-z-o-ep - juke for kids who identify with net art.

those are all the recent free comps that come to mind. a lot of the people on those comps have tons of free tunes laying around if you look.

not chicago people to look into:

Andrew Juke
Broken Fingers
Damscray
Dream Continuum (supergroup of machinedrum and om unit aka phillip d kick)
Film4D2
Guchon
Hayato6go
Juke Ellington
Leatherface
LiL JaBBA (can't stress this guy enough)
Machinedrum
Noms
Satanicpornocultshop
Side9000
Skimatix
Vtgnike
Wheez-Ie
X-Man

hope that helps~

cool post

nohighs = Dave?

dave quam? no, too hipster-ish.

ahah who is dave and how do I remind you guys of him

Thanks for this nohighs! Fuckin' awesome

I decided to gamble on a 14tracks.com compilation called footwork diffusion - it's not a strictly footwork comp but I'm impressed with a good bunch of the tracks so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT1yV7axOsA

dave quam? no, too hipster-ish.

ha, i had the same thought.

for more non-chicago juke stuff, i liked munchi's 'rotterdam juke' EP from last year, and here's a nice pair of tracks from a local dude: http://goldendonna.bandcamp.com/

I've been Instapapering what little things people have written about footwork and I'm pretty much finding that as soon as a writer namechecks Burial, it's dropping the ball

WTF has Burial got to do with footwork? It's Dilla people generally tend to namecheck in these things, I thought?

lol

WTF has Burial got to do with footwork?

I'm saying!

burial is probably closer to "footwork" than dilla if you count machinedrum etc as "footwork"

let's not

(and yeah, I don't really see what Dilla has to do with things either)

agreed

I'm saying too!

i don't know, i mean i've never read that anywhere but it makes sense to me, more than burial. feel like maybe it was rev (?) said he doesn't like jd beats because of the way they lurch & a lot of footwork stuff has the same quality

Footwork's lurch is totally different from the Dilla lurch tho. Dilla's comes from lack of quantization, footwork's comes from 3-based rhythms that often don't resolve themselves by the next down beat, if that makes sense.

o ya that totally makes sense

like

|X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X  X |
|1   2   3   4   1   2   3   4   |

there's another one too, though, that dilla also does, those like -- abrupt spaces -- in beats, not going to find an example right now but maybe soon, i know some tracks on b&w do it for sure

not that im against britishers spending their hard earned 'pounds' to help a kid in inner city chi make a few bucks instead of that money going to dubstep dj dark shadows of nottingham or w/e

^^this is classic

― waka flocka flame judi dench (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 October 2010 21:03 (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure what rhythm you're trying to notate there rev?

a lot of the chi footwork i've heard feels unquantized & triggered by hand, but in a totally different way than dilla.

also i feel like drum & bass is the reference point for most of the articles/reviews i've seen.

I feel like d&b only gets referenced because of the tempo similarity.

Footwork tumbles to me more than it lurches.

tempo & syncopation. i don't think it's actually all that similar, but can see why it appeals to old d&b heads.

http://soundcloud.com/dj-reverend-dollars/untitled

^this rhythm, although i didn't notate the claps

if you syncopate this you end up with footwork

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leEirSsS8T8&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL9B6EAC0148DDDCD5

Yeah, basically. I think the footwork-Burial/footwork-dnb thing is just down to that certain strain of British dance head who wants to force developments in US beat music into UK narratives where they don't belong. It's the "Timbaland is just ripping off drum n bass!" thing all over again.

very interesting theory to me someone who hates british people & music

lol

The new DJ Rashad album has the "Amen" break right in there, so the connection to drum n bass is a little less than tenuous.

Drum'n'bass and Dilla I can understand at a push why they might be compared to footwork, but Burial is like the polar opposite.

yeah but i think the amen breaks only started showing up recently ... not that the footwork dudes weren't aware of amen breaks but that i'm sure they have the same "lol drum n bass" reaction most other people did until recently

this is up there w/ the original "is dj assault influenced by jungle?!?" when really its more like he was making sped-up techno / miami bass hybrids and was aware of jungle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BkOlkXq8h8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

for more non-chicago juke stuff, i liked munchi's 'rotterdam juke' EP from last year

can we not needlessly bring burial and far more importantly, dilla into this?

in other news, the new world wide juke comp came out today. they're all free so grab them here http://worldwidejuke.com/