warning: hot hot hit

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

T2 'Heartbroken'. Anyone come across this? [my guess is that the Lex has probably either loved it or dissed it a million times by now when I wasn't paying attention!]

 youtube-bizniss: here [warning: apparently this is not the proper version, and has the wrong bassline!]

thebopkids and I heard this on 1extra when I was 'crashing' at his 'pad'. We wondered if it was old, but I heard it being plugged on 6music's 'music week' show yesterday (amusingly the hosts were very apologetic after it was played, saying effectively 'yes yes this is 6music for the music that matters and you sad tossers listening are offended by the young people's music'!) and it seems to be 'blowing up' right about now. It is VERY classic speed garage / 2-step sounding (it's been so long I can't remember the difference) and has a real sound-of-summer vibe about it. Sounds like early Craig David sneered one of the 6music bores and there's NO FINER PRAISE in my book. (Sorry Simon R, feel free to scorn my Maoist (?) ways. [Long story, for anyone not following it, STEER CLEAR before you too become infected with the pestilence.)

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I had never even heard of it! Will check it out tonight.

[koganbot]

Never heard this at all. At the start the bass line sounded very '80s electro-funk, as if it were lifted from something like "Jam On It." But then more twisty-bassy things came in sounding like someone with his 303, and the melody and plaintive but spare singing seems very '90s and '00s r&b, and I barely ever knew speed garage or underground garage or 2-step much less was able to distinguish them, but the little I heard from the old garage vocals/samples were that they tended more towards shards of deep-dish diva unlike this small-voiced r&b, but again this is based on very little knowledge.

'Old UP!

[(Anonymous)]

The link my learned friend has posted is in fact to some yewtube foolishness in which the original (and I think superior) bassline has been erased and replaced. Bludgers.

A partial mp3 of the released version can be heard here: http://www.studiobeatz.co.uk/t2-heartbrokensalsa-i2006.html I'm sure you youngsters will eb able to locate more complete versions if you are so inclined.

Random, periodic listens to 1xtra seems to suggest that there's more of this kind of thing being made, or at least played on 1xtra. I, for one, welcome this new-old development.

bopkids

Re: 'Old UP!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

oops, I am a tw@t. My excuse is hardly having slept last night :-(

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I like it but I like this one even more I think:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3N8lTJkO3c&mode=related&search=

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Fantastic urgent bassline here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHCKG3S_4w&mode=related&search=

(I love the way this is YouTube just being used as an audio channel!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

SO IS THIS!

I love the incongruity between the usernames of those uploading the songs, and the subject matter of the songs themselves (heartache, heartbreak etc etc)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

In the last hour or so I have gone from "OMG pop is saved" to "Jesus stop with the wobbly basslines" mind you given that the 'genre' seems to be "bassline" this may be a hopeless request.

In small doses this is awesome stuff tho [/grandad]

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

this, i assume, is what the gentlemen with the large speakers in their small cars are playing (haven't listened yet as at work)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah it's like jump-up/d'n'b basslines crossed with speed garage pop tunes and cut-ups plus loads of ringtone/computergame noises.

The commenters on youtube have names like "boyracer4life07" so I think yr sociological analysis is correct!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

jump-up/d'n'b basslines crossed with speed garage pop tunes and cut-ups plus loads of ringtone/computergame noises.

You have just described the genre from heaven!

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

arbiters of taste, you mean!!

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

THIS IS AWESOME TOO

('dreamer' by livin' joy gone 2-step!)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

THIS IS AWESOME :D