just found this kinda old mix from Ikonika, and it's been on repeat since. Real dope selection, starts off with what must have been some scloos 09 cooly g dubs and gets into some old garage as well.. big!
if there has been one name that's stuck for me recently, out of all the radio rips and whatnot i've been running thru, it's oneman. this guy has consistently thrown down spontaneous, diverse, hype sets that mix up the old and the new without sounding scattered or all over the place. Serving up a gang of old school garage, funky, grime, dubstep and PURPLE, his sets seldom disappoint. If like me, you're just getting wind of this guy, there is a bunch of material for you to get through:
It feels like I have been listening to more london radio sets and mixes than at any other point in recent memory - its hard to keep up. Every day brings an avalanche of new tunes to retrieve, load up and listen to. One look at the rinse playback feed shows that this funky 4x4 thing has completely taken over and whatever you may feel about this latest phase, (or which theory you employ to make sense of it all) it does seems futile to try to pretend it isn't here to stay. Or, to put it another way, you might as well know about it.
Cooly G - FACT mix Cooly is a new hyperdub signee who produces and sings. This mix is wicked.
LVIS1990 - UK house mix for Curb Crawlers This mix supposedly focuses on the less nursery rhyme / skank side of things. If you find this distinction confusing, check out what Blackdown has to say about it here. Lvis says to file this under uk house, not funky. Either way the set is a big one.
Blackdown and Dusk - live on rinse Droppin' the NUMM! some heavy throwback stuff at the front, and a short mix of zomby specials in the middle.. Check it out.
I am into this. Grevious Angel, big man in the scene, heavy with meticulous mp3 metadata + tracklists, has put together a new uk funky/whatdoyoucallit compilation. Instead of trying to hunt down the crucual tunes, which must be quite a challenge, GA has spliced together bunch of radio sets, and the result is BIG.
This is not a mix. Rather, this is a compilation of the best UK Funky I could find, taken from radio shows. I’m NOT pretending I have these tunes. Rather, I’m showcasing the best in UK Funky. Because, while funky is wonderful, there’s a lot of tunes out there I don’t like that much, and I wanted an hour of music I could point that would say, “this is what I want. This is what I want to make.”
The return of...
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It's been a long time coming. Sorry about the lack of action on here. It is
mostly due to time constraints, laziness and moving to Bristol. I have been
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Dutty Artz is dead, long live Dutty Artz!
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In 2008, after DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek had both returned to the US
from Europe to settle in New York, they joined forces to start a record
label and ...
UPROOT! Rupture wrote a book
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Finished copies of my book have arrived! Uproot: Travels in 21st-Century
Music and Digital Culture will be published on August 16 by Farrar, Straus
and Gir...
Wave Count
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MIT’s Stefan Helmreich and I have collaborated on a mega-mix of music that
evokes or otherwise represents ocean waves. Building on Stefan’s
anthropological...
