Rubi Dan & Juxci, “Bashment Funky” MP3
We were reading our friend Erin’s dancehall blog out of Kingston and thinking about pizza and reggae when, gazoing, this track rather appropriately dropped in our lap in a giant flame of fire. It’s theme song of sorts for the emerging bashment/funky mind-meld with the eponymous title and chorus, proffered by London’s Rubi Dan of The Heatwave, and Juxci. Apparently it is on the Bop riddim which we cannot confirm, but we CAN confirm that it is binoculars and has lasers on it.
Download: Rubi Dan & Juxci, “Bashment Funky” (via Ghetto Bassquake)
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posted on Nov 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags bashment, caribbean, electronic/dance, Funky Bashment, Juxci, Rubi Dan, The Heatwave, uk funky
Fabric Birthday Treats: Caspa & Baobinga’s Promo Mix MP3s
This weekend Londoners will not sleep for three days straight if they are lucky: legendary club Fabric is hosting its 10th birthday party and everyone who is awesome in the general vicinity of the UK will be DJing a citywide housequake whose reverberations are so big we may feel them on American shores. Does the phrase “10 pm to 6 am” mean anything to you people? Actually just looking at the lineup here kind of makes us want to cry with longing. In advance of Baobinga’s set (on Friday, room three, before Rusko), he made a hot autumn mix showcasing a lot of the nuevo bass musics gripping the London scene, by some of right now’s hottest producers (also, The-Dream). And dubstep captain Caspa, who plays there tomorrow with fellow bass warriors Skream and Benga (ahhh), and is still amazing despite the fact that he likes the worst American sitcom of the last decade, ponied up some subterranean tremors for his own mix promoing Fabric’s bday. Full Baobinga tracklist after the jump, download Caspa’s mix here. We are still crying, all stuck in New York like it ain’t no thing.
Download: Baobinga Promo Mix
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Baobinga, Benga, Bok Bok, Caspa, dubstep, electronic/dance, Fabric, L-Vis 1990, skream, The-Dream, uk funky
Gabriel Heatwave’s UK Funky Bashment Mixtape MP3
It was only a matter of time before the hottest dance music in London, with its African influences and syncopated jangling, began drifting into reggae territory. On Gabriel Heatwave’s mix for XLR8R, he shows exactly how made for each other UK funky house and bashment are with a vast selection of Jamaica’s hottest deejays (i.e. our girl Natalie Storm, above) and Britain’s most solid emerging funky scions. Not to go heavy on the “heatwave” references but this mix is extra hot fire, let’s face it, you always wanted to hear “Ramping Shop” interpolated with DJ Shredda’s garage-esque synth stabs. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: Gabriel Heatwave’s UK Funky Bashment Mixtape (via The Heatwave)
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posted on Oct 9, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Assassin, bashment, Buju Banton, Busy Signal, caribbean, Crazy Cousinz, Gabriel Heatwave, Lady Chann, Mavado, Ms Dynamite, Natalie Storm, Sean Paul, Shystie, uk funky, Vybz Kartel
Video: T2 f. H-Boogie, “Better Off As Friends”
Nearly two years ago we couldn’t stop listening to T2’s “Heartbroken” and were convinced bassline was the second coming of 2-step, bound to completely blow up and smash dancefloors for the rest of eternity (or at least slightly longer than it did). Fast forward to late 2009: not ones to be outdone, Londoners took the more addictive parts of the Northerner-created bassline—namely, the R&B vocals that got more ladies out to the clubs—and totally usurped bassline’s supposed reign with the ubiquitous and syncopated UK funky house. Which leads us to T2’s new single, “Better Off as Friends,” which is as vocally catchy as “Heartbroken” but peppered with techno trickles and a pinch of bassline’s… bassline. According to the source blog (thanks Hattie) this song got signed to Island, so perhaps he’ll be able to inch back into the UK playlists and reclaim some of his lost ground.
Waer, Drum Cirkill Mixtape MP3
Perhaps spelling it “circle” was too touchy feely, but Waer’s new mixtape definitely kills (wah wahhh). Mixing lots of African-inspired hand-drum tracks (roots of funky?) with the occasional irregular dancefloor electro and focusing entirely on A) unceasing heartbeat-like rhythm and B) lasering his way into your mind. Basically, this is the kind of collection we wish we heard more frequently in the cluhhhb in New York. It is both visceral and entirely corporeal, not too heady either. Waer, if you are reading this, please give us your weblink in the comments, some fronting-ass fronters in Syracuse are making you very difficult to google. Tracklist after the jump.
Download: Waer, Drum Cirkill Mixtape (via Dutty Artz)
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posted on Sep 24, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Africa, Buraka Som Sistema, electronic/dance, Nguzu, Nguzunguzu, uk funky, Waer
Premiere: Venom & Damage, Maximum Carnage II Mix MP3
London duo Venom & Damage’s Maximum Carnage mixtape series possibly references Spider-Man comics, and if you wanna take the metaphor all the way, this collection of originals, remixes, edits and “other” is as evil as the character Carnage’s own wrath of destruction. If you never thought funky house bared its teeth enough, Maximum Carnage II is your baby: a nearly full hour of unrelenting conga syncopation, monster garage and bassline thunder and sick samples straight from the synth doomsday cave, all kicked off with their nasty, soon-to-be-pressed-on-vinyl remix of Bok Bok’s “OMG.” Even their remix of Jeremih’s “Birthday Sex,” as previously mentioned, sounds vaguely creepy and exactly how hard we wanna get down on a dancefloor (no sexual). Check the tracklist after the jump, and if anyone called Demoglobin tries to holler at you at a rave, run away.
Download: Venom & Damage, Maximum Carnage II Mix
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posted on Sep 21, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Earth, electronic/dance, Jeremih, NB Funky, Shystie, Sidechains, Sticky, uk funky, uk garage, Venom & Damage, Wind & Fire
Video: Gracious K, “Migraine Skank”
In our latest issue, FADER #63, we enlisted our friend Tigga Calore to provide a pictorial how-to for the Migraine Skank, the simple twerky UK Funky dance that’s been hot for months and inspired approximately 90,000 billion YouTube dances. Now, actual MC Gracious K has released an official video, and enlisted a crapload of his friends for it, including London luminaries Chipmunk, N-Dubz, DJ Ironik, Ras Kwame, Gemma and more. He is mad at sharing, though, and disabled the YouTube embed, so to see it you will have to go over to his spot—but it’s worth it.
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posted on Sep 10, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Chipmunk, DJ Ironik, electronic/dance, Gemma, Gracious K, N-Duz, Ras Kwame, Tigga Calore, uk funky
Video: Venom & Damage, “Deeper”
We’ve been burying our faces in UK funky house as of late, fiendishly copping anything we can find by Crazy Cousinz, Roska, Fuzzy Logik, Geeneus, NB Funky etc, yearning for its clacky percussion and liberating synth riffs. Brit duo Venom & Damage not only did the only version of Jeremih’s “Birthday Sex” that we can listen to without puking, they also made the single most next level video we have seen perhaps all year. It is an acid-neon wolf wandering the earth, skies and a crossword puzzle. It is to promote the song “Deeper” off their forthcoming mixtape, Maximum Carnage II (best) and as a piece of internet art, it is genius. We are considering moving to London based off this alone. Cory Arcangel: betta watch ya crotch! (via Club Bass & Wine)
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posted on Sep 3, 2009 in MUSIC VIDEO tags Crazy Cousinz, electronic, Fuzy Logik, Geeneus, Jeremih, NB Funky, Roska, uk funky, Venom & Damage
Benga + Roska’s Rinse FM 15th Anniversary Jams
Rinse FM, the legendary East London radio station, turns 15 tomorrow, and they’re celebrating by having a major party, which is unfortunately sold out. But if you do not live in London, or slept on getting your ticket to their party, they’re handing out free cupcakes in the form of exclusive, previously unreleased MP3s: an intensely trippy bass mindspiral courtesy Benga, and some provocative street-holler funk by Roska. Try to listen to them without being really sad that you’re not going to the epic Rinse soirée featuring basically everyone who is awesome. Sigh, happy birthday dudes, we’ll be dreaming of you.
Download: Benga, “Why is Everything Mono?”
Download: Roska, “Hey Cutie”
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posted on Jul 30, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Benga, dubstep, electronic/dance, Rinse FM, Roska, uk funky
Video: Kyla, “Daydreaming”
- story Matthew Schnipper
Lounging in a button-up shirt in her new apartment, Kyla looks like a model in a Method commercial. “Daydreaming,” her followup to the epicly punishing funky house R&B siren song, “Do You Mind?”, is more of a laid back affair, navel gazing funky. A year ago, FADER published a story on bassline music in the UK, which was the then super forward and popular UK dance music poised to disseminate worldwide. We focused on T2, whose track with Jodie Ayisha, “Heartbroken,” is a tightly wound parallel to funky’s wooden percussion base. We waited for bassline to produce more monumental bangers, but, at least in the way that allows them to leak over from the UK, it didn’t. So now we have funky. There are a couple of tracks that have paraded into the US, but it’s difficult to say if funky will bubble up thick. But “Daydreaming,” a slight departure for the genre, even if really not much more than a slightly askew R&B jam, is a sign of evolution, even if that means a move to the middle.
