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

in any case it's amazing

It's the most solid/accomplished/listenable chi footwork release I've heard - not sure about songs, but on its way to greatness

i can't fucking even with that album. album of the year #realtalk

Listening to it again now. Yep, it's fucking ace. The jarring nature of footwork just dissipates by around the time We Trippy Mane comes on, and it really starts sounding like a perfect cross between full throttle dance and experimental lo-tech electronica.

Actually the whole section frok We Trippy through Fly Spray is completely unfuckwithable.

this takes some pretty amazing left turns, have to take my hat off to rashad

bit.ly/LR7vmc

my review and you can stream the record! :)

Thank you based bitly

http://www.spin.com/reviews/dj-rashad-teklife-vol-1-welcome-chi-lit-city

Enjoyed that review, still playing this album. Maybe the first footwork album I can happily play front to back more than a few times with no skipping.

(one for the sticker, yes I know)

wait is comparing footwork to black dice any more or less corny than comparing it to dubstep

Iconoclastic rapper-producer DJ Quik wanted his tenth album to sound like missing tapes from funk-soaked 1991. Instead, it's from an incredible year that never existed, blending baroque '80s roller jams, velvety '90s slow-rides, contemporary Dam-Funk swooshwave, and a breakdown with the late P-Funk guitarist Garry Shider. For every vintage Quik banger, there's a rhythmically unique implosion of backmasked "Paul Revere" drums and Madvillainous drone ("Poppin'"). Lyrically, he's back to his old tricks - shitting on haters, shouting out himself, somehow rhyming "orange" and having "diamonds like kablooie."

that quik review was kinda great

Why do white people criticize one another for being white?

jeez is that a review or a thinkpiece whiney

great review

thanks flop and dog lat. thanks, i think, late great!

it looks awesome and it's always good to see people pushing the boundaries of the capsule review

wish i had the motivation to read it but ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES ALL I DO IS SMOKE TREES

<3

"trap bakk"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i think 'twitter' is my fav so far

Whew, just got back from a seeing (among others) Spinn and Rashad, which was pretty really great.

Guys - I'm so Teklife, I'm so Teklife, I'm so Teklife....

I would love to see Rashad and Spinn, could be on the top of my list right now.

do they beatmatch like dance djs or slam between cuts like hip hop djs?

beatmatchin

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0hTcg695rE

bamp

I wandered off from juke, is there anything new I should be aware of

am i mental or does dj clent's 'dj clent #1' sample sun city girls?

Saw Rashad & Spinn the other weekend, its was fucking ace. Love the Rashad album too, its maybe my favourite of the year so far.

http://vimeo.com/43042667

(dj footmerc - gregory hines discovers distal + machinedrum)

did this footwork-y remix awhile back, out today:
http://soundcloud.com/chantssound/phone-tag

Will take a listen. Btw Jordan I never said how much I enjoyed Chants, it's pretty awesome. Been popping up on shuffle a fair bit but I still need to listen to it through properly.

thanks man! <3

oops apparently i posted that prematurely, had to take it down for a bit

The DJ Rashad album is also one of my favorite albums of the year thus far but I really wish they would release a physical. Is anyone here going to Juke Fest 2012 at Smartbar (http://smartbarchicago.com/juke-fest-2012) and can help me get in as I am only 20?

whoa. wish i could go to that (ie 'wish i wasn't so lazy about driving 2.5 hours and going to shows in general').

my ersatz footwork track is back up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6F1bF3ZbegM

Can't stop listening to this fella.

now what? I'm still quite enjoying the junglefoot hybrid stuff, as well as Rashad, but there's not that much replay value on a lot of juke I guess...

Not sure I've heard a better album than the DJ Rashad this year/decade. Damn.

"DANCE FU" on netflix directed by cedric the entertainer + starring kel of kenan and... is absolutely terrible but i pretty much died at his nickname being "chicago" and it having FOOTWORK BATTLES, there was even actual footwork played when they didn't just show some people dancing and replaced the tracks with trap

http://www.mixcloud.com/doglatin/dj-dog-latin-icklefoot-mix-footwork/

a quick footwork mix I made a couple of months back...

The Young Smoke album (Space Zone) that came out today is quite good. Up there with Traxman and Rashad.

I'm listening to it now actually. This is total sci-fi footwork - like a late '70s space shooter in footwork form. WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

It seems a lot more polished than the Rash and Trax albums, not in a bad way or in a Machinedrummy way, just a bit more fleshed out.

Very very good though so far.

into it

ya

I started a thread on it

http://boomkat.com/downloads/585804-dj-spinn-teklife-vol-2-what-you-need

this thread should have its title amended to incorporate footwork really.