Tag: soca

Twittered about this but forgot to post about it - Uk Funky (or just 'Funky') - a new genre/type of music coming out of I guess house, dancehall, grime and 4x4/nu garage scenes, adding african beats or soca beats and rather simplistic dancehall/aerobics style lyrics, I love the groove though, and seems like every song has a fun simple dance, a bit like those 70's disco records...this one could go either way ;-) 'Funky' is a terrible name though, stack it next to 'Clubhouse', 'bassline house', 4x4 (that sort of makes sense, although 4 step rather than two step 4 to the floor!) 'electro house' and 'nu breaks' (when they don't have a sniff of a breakbeat or broken/off beat). Love the fact the videos have got kids in, old people, everyone getting funky...like grime not a bling bling supermodels getting low (partly cos they don't have the money) but brings in the fun aspect, which I like. Unpolished videos are the shizzle anyhoos...gangsta and all that crap is on the way out. Here's K.I.G. - Head, Shoulders, Kneez & Toez with a funny video - this penetrated my consciousness earlier this year but then thought it was some grime or novelty offshoot :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?vPmHClIHgnRI Crazy Cousinz feat. MC Versatile - 'It's that Funky' with a new dance (of course) for you - love the schoolkids on this, getting down :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?vTCYhBQ8Jyuk Bigzy & Unkle - RingaRoses doing a response to Knees and Toes, hopefully with less plague/swine flu otherwise this could be rather portent... https://www.youtube.com/watch?vqfgzhNTJx-U Remains to be seen if this goes all DJ Pied Piper on us though...I'd love to see and hear more african/soca and dancehall riddims coming into dance and hiphop though. Even South America - UK Cumbia anyone? :-D If it's going overground (cf Metro paper of all places!) there was little sign of it at Notting Hill Carnival on Sunday, didn't hear much obvious music like this, more dancehall/reggae/rave/techno and ibiza classics :-D Shouts out to CMP for the last video and posting over at GYBO and reminding me to share these :-D P.S. What strikes me is that YouTube is replacing the pirate radio (or ripping those tunes and spreading them far and wide) - take this dark house/funky tune from Karizma: https://vimeo.com/8382423 Weird to hear that booming out of my laptop speakers and not from some FM station from a highrise!

Tag: soca

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