Video: Donae’o, “Party Hard”
One thing we’ve always loved about Donae’o’s funky house hit is how understated and easily it conveys its sentiment. If an American artist, say Andrew WK for instance, made a song titled “Party Hard,” there would almost certainly be some ragingly testosteroney guitar riffage and Michael Bay explosion samples. Somehow partying hard this minimally seems cooler. The video mirrors that, house party skankers all calm and sexy and taking shots, partying hard in their minds but not acting like frat bags. There is the obligatory drunk-girl pillow fight towards the end (sigh), but it’s pretty PG. Also, we may have to make these “Party Hard” sweatshirts at a Crafternoon or something.
Photomachine, “Burn Up” MP3
This clicky heatrock from Brixton boy Photomachine puts a little xerox shimmy in its warm rhythm party—his creative beat-layering parallels the super-fun creative free vibes coming from a younger generation of non-boxable Brit producers like our faves Bok Bok and L-Vis 1990, and stateside folks such as Kingdom and, to a more bananas extent, Toads. Not to mention that the assortment of alarms, sirens, beepy countdown sounds and yelling-man samples totally remind us that the final season of Lost is coming up, and what in god’s name are we gonna do after it’s over? Go back to living our lives? Start playing Settlers of Catan? The prospect is literally unthinkable.
(via The Fast Life)
Download: Photomachine, “Burn Up”
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bok Bok, electronic/dance, funky, Garage, L-Vis 1990, Photomachine
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 45
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My favourite funky producer right now is a little-known guy from Birmingham called Emvee. His best stuff is so full of melancholy but so tough at the same time. He’s massively underrated.
I was introduced to him by Glasgow’s premier bass-music bon vivant, Jackmaster, who is such a big Emvee fan that he will be putting out a 12″ by him. Below you can listen to the A-side, which will be out soon on Jackmaster’s Wireblock label.
Emvee, “Glitch Dub”
Freeload: Wale Likes Funky
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London is falling apart. A couple inches of snow have completely shut the city down, someone threw a shoe at the Chinese Prime Minister at Cambridge, Lily Allen is prancing around as Little Bo Peep and a red-blooded American named Wale is performing hostile takeovers of UK-indigenous funky house tracks on DJ Semtex’s show. Not that any of that is bad — it’s actually improving our day quite a bit — but please try to pull it together a little bit over there. Prancehall actually talked about both source tracks in his column, so pay attention to him if you want more of this kind of stuff. Meanwhile, in addition to the aforementioned funky massacres, Wale debuted his new single at a recent show in LA. Watch that video after the jump and expect Wale’s album in late spring.
Download: Wale, “Warrior Freestyle”
Download: Wale, “Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes”
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 40
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Move over, Wiley, T-Pain, Timbaland, Dr Dre, Herbie Hancock, Rick Rubin, Butch Vig, Phil Spector, Philip Glass and Pierre Schaeffer. I have just produced a song that is set to redefine and revolutionise music as we know it. No question. Period. End of.
As promised last time, I have made a funky house remix of “Panty, Bras, Coke and Cameras”. It’s kind of a classic but modern funky house track. I’ve only put up a clip so you don’t get to hear this, but half way through I add a Fake Blood-esque fidget bassline before it goes into a half-step section with a wobbly dubstep bassline where the vocal gets some Auto-Tune treatment. Oh, and Wale drops a verse right at the end too. Anyway, you have to buy the song if you want to hear it. As you’d expect, I’ve already had a lot of label interest so expect the single release very soon. (Note to anyone who has made an offer so far: you need to add three more zeros to that before I’ll even think about calling you back.)
Durrty Goodz, “Panty, Bras, Coke and Cameras” (Prancehall remix)
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 39
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Here’s the lowdown: Wiley and Durrty Goodz are currently “at war”. As you’d expect, this doesn’t compare to Mavado and Vybz Kartel’s recent squabbles in terms of hype and worldwide interest, but as far as insults go, it makes the dancehall pair’s disagreement sound like two grannies bickering over the last scone at Waitrose.
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 38
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Said her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in her 2008 Christmas speech to her nation: “Over the years those who have seemed to me to be the most happy, contented and fulfilled have always been the people who have lived the most outgoing and unselfish lives; the kind of people who are generous with their talents or their time.”
Yes, that’s right, here I am, back once again unselfishly giving my time and exuding my talent (musical knowledge) for you eager beavers.
OK, enough chit-chat – let’s, as they say, keep it movin’.
Let’s start by very briefly looking at the above recent grime video by Ghetto (who seems to have semi-changed his name to Ghetts) and Griminal. Although it appears to be a half-finished idea – both in terms of the song (how many times is the chorus and that line at the end repeated!?) and the video (what the hell is that Fonejacker-esque intro all about?) – I still really like it.
