PREMIERE: Sub Swara - You Don't Know
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Now this is the kind of mutant dance microgenre we love best: superbass soul riddims featuring Amy Winehouse samples and brain-melting phase. Sub Swara’s genre-bending “You Don’t Know” is our first look at the duo’s upcoming The Rudiment Mixtape (May 1) which will run the gamut from horn-laden Indian beats (with assistance by members of The National and Iron & Wine) to new remixes of MNDR, Escort and Sharon Jones. Until then, give it a run below.
DOWNLOAD: The Weeknd - Rolling Stone (Funkystepz Edit)
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One of the best things about when funky house goes vocal is dem girlz. Dem girlz! Their voices sound so fresh. They sound like they just woke up. You may or not be next to them. Gotta love dem, dem girlz. Here, though, there is no girlz. What? Instead, Funkystepz liberate The Weeknd from the finger-plucked prison of his lonely R&B fantasies, and set his voice flying over the top of insistent snares and scare-away bass groans. In between, though, there's still a whole lotta space; testament, in my fevered and overactive imagination, to the absence of something in The Weeknd's life that's causing him so much pain. And what is that missing something? Dem girlz!
The Weeknd - Rolling Stone (Funkystepz Edit)
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DOWNLOAD: Roots Manuva - Watch Me Dance
UK Funky/Britdub MC Roots Manuva demoed a song. Wily electromaster Toddla T liked it. So much so, that he appropriated it, thereby opening up the floodgates for a slew of gassed-up remixes. Today, Roots Manuva takes it back. “Watch Me Dance,” in its most unadulterated form, is part squishy bass ballad, part freaky-deaky hip-hop, and fully danceable. Find it on 4everevolution, Roots’ new album dropping via Big Dada on September 26.
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DOWNLOAD: Funkystepz - You Got It (Original Mix)
Such is funky's momentum, it wouldn't pay to keep people waiting track-less through the humid summer months its determined shuffle most suits. Funkystepz will soon be following up the debut EP they released earlier this year with a second for Kode9's Hyperdub label, but until then they've come with "You Got It"; its circular, bouncing vocals pushed on by drawbridge synth blares and blown out bass.
Funkystepz - You Got It (Original Mix)
PREMIERE: Will Eastman & Micah Vellian - No Sleep (feat. TT The Artist) (Radio Edit)
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There’s more than enough buttery beats, plush synths, and disco keys to go around on “No Sleep.” But, the true feat of Will Eastman/Micah Vellian’s synapse-popping single is that while it owes heavily to the era of clublands past (specifically 1984), it never even flirts with cheesedom. It’s just good, clean house, heavy on the funk, and a prime example of why Mr. Eastman is D.C. dance royalty 4-life. Check the rest, including a turn by Treasure Fingers, over on Plant.
Will Eastman & Micah Vellian - No Sleep (feat. TT The Artist) (Radio Edit)
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DOWNLOAD: Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (feat. Theophilus London) + Machinedrum Remix
So, you’re Detroit love-child Jimmy Edgar and you’re in need of some hot, raw sex. Do you spend the day moping, or do you get your fly self on the floor and get some with a Purple Rain-style funksplosion illustrating just how hot and raw it would be? For the man dropping a record named XXX, the choice is clear. Below, get greased with two versions starring Theophilus London and Machinedrum. Need the real thing? Hit the NYC release party tonight, or peep the rest of the Perfexxxion tour dates here.
Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (feat. Theophilus London)
Jimmy Edgar - Hot Raw Sex (Machinedrum Remix)
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DOWNLOAD: Roska - Play Gamez
It's pretty simple: if you like drums, you will like Roska. The London-based, Rinse-affiliated funky kingpin has a thing for wet, smacking snares and bullish tempos, and his songs (tracks, really) rarely contain much in the way of melody (in "Play Gamez," that stuff is relegated to some spooky synths and samples that sound like the background music from Unsolved Mysteries). But seriously, those drums! They are snapping our synapses in half! Roska's playing Rinse's 16th birthday bash at Fabric in London this Friday (September 10), alongside Skream and a bunch of other guys with short names.
PREMIERE: Husky Rescue - They Are Coming (Warrior One Remix)
Its title may be foreboding, but "They Are Coming" is pensive, unmistakably Scandinavian avant-pop from Finland's Husky Rescue, sublimated here into equally pensive, markedly more Anglo mutant-funky by London's Warrior One. Montage music for the club–that's what it is, with a synth that sounds like the lovestoned cousin of the one in DJ Mujava's "Township Funk". It's out with the rest of the "They Are Coming" single on July 26 via Catskills.
Husky Rescue - They Are Coming (Warrior One Remix)
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