Geeneus playing Funky House

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:46 pm

Sorry if this topic's already been covered... but

http://www.myspace.com/sexnights shows that Geeneus will be playing at their latest East London event

I like 4 to the floor stuff and House and everything, but adding the prefix 'funky' to the latter word usually guarantees unimaginative cheese. The flyer suggests that this will be a horrorshow night of Sharon & Tracy shenanigans. Is G going to play a diet of quality old skool garage cuts or is it going to be 10 rewinds of Shapeshifters- I'm a different person?

blackdown · Post by **blackdown** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:50 pm

Mainstream funky house is now 'urban', didnt you hear? Geeneus, Danny Weed and Target have all caught the bug...

bob crunkhouse · Post by **bob crunkhouse** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:52 pm

money, money, money

i like some tropical though

thats basically funky house i guess.

tronman · Post by **tronman** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:54 pm

its where the bitchez is at

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:55 pm

Didn't know it was Geeneus & all. Never heard Target or Danny weed play before so dont know what their sets were like before they did this.

But why is it that all the Garage people play the most cheesiest & commercial tracks in the House scene. There are more underground & better quality house tracks out there.

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:00 pm

Especially in light of the fact that they play really underground stuff when they're in Garage mode.

But if you're from an environment where Funky House is the norm then I suppose it's understandable that you wouldn't be that aware of the more credible stuff.

Blackwdown will hate me for it but I actually like Fish Go Deep's 'Cure & The Cause! Nice chorus if nothing else, heard it months before release on HLC's show, thought it was "you're in the car"

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:01 pm

have a listen: http://www.myspace.com/geeneus

could be worse imo.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:02 pm

funky house is aiight - its got a groove.

conspira · Post by **conspira** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:07 pm

tronman wrote:its where the bitchez is at

u soo right!

conspira · Post by **conspira** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:08 pm

Spaceboy wrote:funky house is aiight - its got a groove.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:09 pm

matt cole dropped some at herbal! i was suprisingly shocked! ed case was like yeah its a garage version of funky house - gwarn ed.

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:14 pm

One of Geeneus's own house productions is good, (emotions, sounds a bit like a 90's tune) manages to avoid many of the cliches that the majority of funky house producers are too thick to realise they don't HAVE to include

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:16 pm

see ya down purple e3

conspira · Post by **conspira** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:18 pm

boomnoise wrote:see ya down purple e3

Smart dressing, innit?

tronman · Post by **tronman** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:21 pm

at least you can dance to all of it...

thats why chef & LD's set at DMZ was everyones favourite. because it was a consistent dance set with no boring dark halfstep records. at the end of the day dubstep is dance music - or at least it all used to be. this is why i play a shit load of UKG in my sets.

spaceboy · Post by **spaceboy** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:22 pm

can't really compare the two scenes.

but bwoy...when the mandem were dropping some oldskool g there was a vibe i hadn't seen for time...

can't forget the ROOTS!

boomnoise · Post by **boomnoise** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:25 pm

so look / i'm in a dancing mood / so i hope you got on your dancing shoes / if you ain't moving i ain't asking you / i can't stop and talk i'm just passing you / coz all i'm asking for is a fun night / i don't get the chance no more / you see that? / that's called a dancing floor / its like nobody don't dance no more

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:32 pm

People not dancing isn't confined just to Grime's glorified concerts or Dubstep's 'too lazy to jump at double time' events. People in the other dance scenes can be static as well. Substitute striking gun poses with MC's with starfucker &/or wiped out audiences staring at ugly 40K salary House/Techno/D&B/Trance DJ's.

Some half step tunes have that fast driving element that makes you forget how slow they really are. One thing I'd like to hear more of is 4/4 hi hats, sometimes better than an actual constant kick drum, they were a bit overlooked once garage became 2-step.

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:35 pm

house (of all types) is amazing party music. the vibe it creates (on the most part) is amazing. its also sick to dj

dubstep cant be the be all and end all for going out, it gets far too boring. as a dj i feel the same way, so im not surprised to hear about grime producers moving that way. especially given how aggressive and masculine the tone of most grime is

still, not that into most funky. mostly feeling fidget and 'deep' house at the moment (even if that means a million things to a million ppl)

owengriffiths · Post by **owengriffiths** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:36 pm

Fuck I'm really liking that Geeneus 'Emotions' tune

Geeneus playing Funky House

Geeneus playing Funky House

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