Tuesday 22 June 2010

Kode 9/ Martyn freebie

Kode 9's just bought out a mix for DJ Kicks, which, word on the street has it, is a blinder. I managed to sneak a listen to a bit and it seems he's trying to offer up a portrait of where the London dubstep/ funky/ house/ future garage scene is right now. Personally I don't like the name future garage- I don't know when 2 step sounded like anything other than future music.. As a term 'future garage' kinda falls into the same dreary bucket as 'intelligent jungle', and points towards the reappropriation of a fine raw street genre by people who would rather pontificate about music than dance to it.
Still, can't blame Kode 9 for that... the mix he's offering up is a heavy blend of tracks aimed at the floor and the head, stylistically bigger than any flash-in-the-pan labels it might be conveneint to label em with, and a good throbbing snapshot of the capital. He's put about this Martyn remix of his track 'You Don't Wash' as a promo teaser for the album, and it's an interesting piece of techno funky, dark, long and tribal. Me I guess I'd call it house music, but you candecide for yourself--

Kode 9 - You Don't Wash (Martyn mix)

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