What's obvious by now is that this is the summer of the return of 2Step, 10 years after the climax of this syncopated rhythm it sees it's ressurection via UK Funky, Future Garage, whatever you want to call it. Whistla's L2S label has been on the forefront of reviving that sound and this month has seen his When Eyes Meet EP, as well as Fused Forces Long Weekend twotracker, both heavily on the 2Step tip as if this sound had never died, well in fact Dubstep owns much to 2Step but now is the time to celebrate it and I'm sure we will hear a lot more of that over the following months, which is a nice change from the Halfstep, which I find kind of oversaturated by now.
so we're entering the vaults of what is labeled UK Funky nowadays.
One of the better surprises was Cosmic Revenge's Cold Hearted EP, 4 tracks of genrebending postdubstep niceness and the awaited More Than Ever EP from Hackman on Pattern stand out this month. Both clearly inspired by Garage but taken further by Dubstep's influences, definitely the sound of now and promising for the diversity on dancefloors worldwide.
Martin Kemp has his first release for 200 out on Blunted Robots What U Got / Fix sparkles with latin percussion and Garage vocals and accompanying basslines reminding of the clonkphase of early Warp Records.
Finally available digitally, after it was in everybody's playlist when Modeselektor had this track in their Resident Advisor's Podcast is Venom & Damage's Deeper, very housey in an early 90ies way. The Doc Daneeka Remix puts that extra shovel funk into this summeranthem.
A clear sign how fast this genre is also growing internationally shows the great release Zarbak from Venezuela's Pacheko & Pocz on Senseless with Bleeps and Subs plus Brackles Remix.
If you want to learn more about Senseless, it lately got a label feature on Kmag
Another perpective on that UK Funky thing is taken with Ginz, Baobinga and Cosmin TRG's The Good Stank / I Get Ruff on Build, more wild and frenetic, but still in the groove.
If you want to get deeper on the subject of everything concerning Future Garage and UK Funky, there's now a great resource for it, the site Fundamentalgarage went online this month with great features and Podcasts.
so we're entering the vaults of what is labeled UK Funky nowadays.
One of the better surprises was Cosmic Revenge's Cold Hearted EP, 4 tracks of genrebending postdubstep niceness and the awaited More Than Ever EP from Hackman on Pattern stand out this month. Both clearly inspired by Garage but taken further by Dubstep's influences, definitely the sound of now and promising for the diversity on dancefloors worldwide.
Martin Kemp has his first release for 200 out on Blunted Robots What U Got / Fix sparkles with latin percussion and Garage vocals and accompanying basslines reminding of the clonkphase of early Warp Records.
Finally available digitally, after it was in everybody's playlist when Modeselektor had this track in their Resident Advisor's Podcast is Venom & Damage's Deeper, very housey in an early 90ies way. The Doc Daneeka Remix puts that extra shovel funk into this summeranthem.
A clear sign how fast this genre is also growing internationally shows the great release Zarbak from Venezuela's Pacheko & Pocz on Senseless with Bleeps and Subs plus Brackles Remix.
If you want to learn more about Senseless, it lately got a label feature on Kmag
Another perpective on that UK Funky thing is taken with Ginz, Baobinga and Cosmin TRG's The Good Stank / I Get Ruff on Build, more wild and frenetic, but still in the groove.
If you want to get deeper on the subject of everything concerning Future Garage and UK Funky, there's now a great resource for it, the site Fundamentalgarage went online this month with great features and Podcasts.
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