Anyone honestly feeling Juke?

[wilson]

This is pretty much the only juke I rate.
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This is fucking amazing!

Suprised people aren't all over this.

Kinda sounds like what Addison Groove is doing?

[Sageon]

I know this isn't juke but the repetitive vocals have some similarity.

Posting for the jokes.

[fractal]

This is pretty much the only juke I rate.
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This is fucking amazing!

Suprised people aren't all over this.

Kinda sounds like what Addison Groove is doing?

little bit... maybe its the youtube quality, but i'm not catching much sub out of that one

[fractal]

anyone know of anywhere you can find the lab bangz series? sound fantastic

as i stated earlier, he isn't really in the game too much anymore, i got the series between 06-09 from him on myspace, which is now gone. he's doing other things now, which is sad cause I haven't found many producers that can touch this guys sound...
you can find the man here: http://www.facebook.com/bjuicenow
and what's left of his crew here: http://wn.com/MikeNIkeMan

good luck!

[murky21]

saw addison groove go back to back with rashad for 4 hours last night, some absolutely ridiculous beats, bout 30% were too abstract for me but the rest was a mix of juke styled bangers and what just sounded like massively weighty electro hiphop...nuts

[jsml]

This is pretty much the only juke I rate.
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This is fucking amazing!

Suprised people aren't all over this.

Kinda sounds like what Addison Groove is doing?

little bit... maybe its the youtube quality, but i'm not catching much sub out of that one

Yeah, it could use a bit of fine tuning to be fair, maybe a little bit more 808ness. But then again maybe not, the thing I love about it is it has a real UK sound, it isn't really as jukey as Addison (who I do also like, for the record). I'm not that big of a juke fan though, I like the feel of it and I appreciate what they're doing but the music doesn't do it for me a lot of the time.

Anyway, it's a fantastic tune if you ask me, bass is pretty deep, nothing a proper mastering couldn't sort out?

[fractal]

true!

[jam1]

Just found this on Boomkat: http://boomkat.com/downloads/372437-var ... the-circle

DJ Roc - One Blood



Junior Reid ftw!

[general waste]

http://soundcloud.com/chrissymurderbot/ ... t-braaain/


Love it.. Just started this thread again basically //sorry.

[general waste]

http://soundcloud.com/chrissymurderbot/ ... t-braaain/


Love it.. Just started this thread again basically //sorry.

[the wiggle baron]

Wow, alot of listening through this thread and a couple of loefah sets later.

And I dont get juke. At all. I get the juke influenced sounds (work them is one of the biggest tunes ever) but to me the straight juke sound is incredibly mindless, boring and repetitive. I know I know, so is 90% of dubstep...and that stuff is equally shit.

But seriously people? Live all i could get out of it was just a vague percussive variation over the same 808 kicks and long (incredibly bass heavy) sub notes. Out of loefahs sets I can remember 3 tunes (all of which featured 303's i think...) The rest were so mutually bland as to meld into each other. I really, really...really dont get this stuff. And it is a genuinely rare occurance that I can't understand at all how people do get something.

I just want to know what it is people enjoy about it/enjoy above other forms of dance music? I was told for ages that you dont get it until you hear it on a system...well, at dmz it was just bland, and at bloc it was just bland. DMZ particularly, all I could hear apart from the 3 good tunes was the same DUNNN DUNDUNNNN over and over and over again...someone please fill me in. I just...I just...dont get it...

Oh! But quick mention that thats not to say it isn't stuff worth playing. There are the occasional good tune ive heard, and they would sound aaaawesome mixed well into a set. But a set of just juke? Was hands down the most disappointed ive ever been in a set in my life.

[murky21]

Rashad is playing FWD this thursday and also a guest slot on Rinse on Monday, don't miss it...

[trapeez]

Proper hyped for FWD now

[trapeez]

Wow, alot of listening through this thread and a couple of loefah sets later.

And I dont get juke. At all. I get the juke influenced sounds (work them is one of the biggest tunes ever) but to me the straight juke sound is incredibly mindless, boring and repetitive. I know I know, so is 90% of dubstep...and that stuff is equally shit.

But seriously people? Live all i could get out of it was just a vague percussive variation over the same 808 kicks and long (incredibly bass heavy) sub notes. Out of loefahs sets I can remember 3 tunes (all of which featured 303's i think...) The rest were so mutually bland as to meld into each other. I really, really...really dont get this stuff. And it is a genuinely rare occurance that I can't understand at all how people do get something.

I just want to know what it is people enjoy about it/enjoy above other forms of dance music? I was told for ages that you dont get it until you hear it on a system...well, at dmz it was just bland, and at bloc it was just bland. DMZ particularly, all I could hear apart from the 3 good tunes was the same DUNNN DUNDUNNNN over and over and over again...someone please fill me in. I just...I just...dont get it...

I just like it. Simple as. It's not the sort of thing I'd listen to at home at any great length, and I don't think I could handle a whole night of it, but it's fun, danceable music. There's a fair bit of shit (same with all genres) but some tunes are genuinely class.

[jsml]

Wow, alot of listening through this thread and a couple of loefah sets later.

And I dont get juke. At all. I get the juke influenced sounds (work them is one of the biggest tunes ever) but to me the straight juke sound is incredibly mindless, boring and repetitive. I know I know, so is 90% of dubstep...and that stuff is equally shit.

But seriously people? Live all i could get out of it was just a vague percussive variation over the same 808 kicks and long (incredibly bass heavy) sub notes. Out of loefahs sets I can remember 3 tunes (all of which featured 303's i think...) The rest were so mutually bland as to meld into each other. I really, really...really dont get this stuff. And it is a genuinely rare occurance that I can't understand at all how people do get something.

I just want to know what it is people enjoy about it/enjoy above other forms of dance music? I was told for ages that you dont get it until you hear it on a system...well, at dmz it was just bland, and at bloc it was just bland. DMZ particularly, all I could hear apart from the 3 good tunes was the same DUNNN DUNDUNNNN over and over and over again...someone please fill me in. I just...I just...dont get it...

Oh! But quick mention that thats not to say it isn't stuff worth playing. There are the occasional good tune ive heard, and they would sound aaaawesome mixed well into a set. But a set of just juke? Was hands down the most disappointed ive ever been in a set in my life.

Seems to me you just hate that 808 sound. Only about 10% of the stuff Loe plays is influenced by Juke. (Only the Addison stuff really). The rest has a lot more in common with old electro, techno, hip-hop and house. I tend to agree about Juke, I'm not a big fan. But Loefah hardly plays any Juke stuff.

Juke has just become a word that seems to mean anything with an 808 in it now.

[the wiggle baron]

I just like it. Simple as. It's not the sort of thing I'd listen to at home at any great length, and I don't think I could handle a whole night of it, but it's fun, danceable music. There's a fair bit of shit (same with all genres) but some tunes are genuinely class.

I mean fair enough really. Cant argue with liking something. But Ive entirely failed to find anything to like
It just seems to me like heeeavily restricted dance music. Obviously anyone who is restricting themselves to a genre when they produce is doing this, but its generally not that destructively formulaic. Like, back in the day at least, the idea of dubstep was that it was around 140bpm with emphasis on sub (okay, and a bit of a garage-remnant shuffle). House/techno are two wide open worlds of music that restricts you to not much more than a kick drum...

Suddenly Rashad or someone decides to keep producing Juke, and their pallete (from what ive heard) is restricted to (intentionally) rough sounding synthesized percussion, monotone, repetitive sub hits, and (almost universally) annoying vocals being looped in a "rhythmic" pattern that puts me in mind of what the chuckle brothers might have come out with had they got into meth and reason instead of childrens TV programming (but on that note...they may very well be into meth and reason. If so...I want to hear it. Flapjack dub anybody? )

Anyway ive digressed. I made a little edit to my first post, as its definitely fair to say that a well timed/mixed juke track could sound amazing in the middle of a set comprised of beats with some variety...but even 2 juke tunes in a row just bored me to tears!

[the wiggle baron]

Seems to me you just hate that 808 sound. Only about 10% of the stuff Loe plays is influenced by Juke. (Only the Addison stuff really). The rest has a lot more in common with old electro, techno, hip-hop and house. I tend to agree about Juke, I'm not a big fan. But Loefah hardly plays any Juke stuff.

Nah im definitely just talking about Juke here. Not because I particularly like the other 808 styles you were talking about, but cos ive never really listened to any it and cant really comment. If Ive gotten it wrong, and loefahs DMZ 6th bday set actually contained very little juke then I can definitely take that part of what I said back...but all I could hear was very fast (150 bpm or so?) 808s, a continuous bassline of DUNNN, DUN DUNNNNN and repetitive vocals. Again as i said there were a few tracks that appeared like a complete breath of fresh air in the middle of that stuff, and a couple of them were borderline tunes of the night...but the stuff inbetween oh my lord...

[smuttley]

juke has all sorts of sounds,it aint all about the repetitive vocal bashing.fractal has talked sense and as leatherface stated france have some amazing producers.
heres a soundcloud assault of some bits i feel need to be heard.

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also add these bootlegs of a few timeless anthems

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[the wiggle baron]

wow, massive thanks on those links. Good effort!
Going to listen through them now. 5 tunes in though...and so far its all the same to me DUNNN, DUNN DUNNNNNN

edit: You know...it might just be time for me to bow out of this thread and juke as a whole! The further im getting through this list the more bored im getting, despite being able to hear what seems to clearly be the most well thought out side of juke. Its these monotonal sub kick bass lines...they bore the living crap out of me!

Im going to happily step back from this thread/juke, with the knowledge that there are some people trying to do something interesting with it...but I dont think any of it is going to be for me

Keep enjoying being pummelled by DUNNNN's ya nutters

[fractal]

BIG POST SMUTT! tunes galore! the sound definitely isn't for everyone