What's been your favourite recent discoveries?

[Spandex]

My favourite recent discovery isn't a band but a genre:

Funky

or UK Funky

or UK Funky House - although that seems to drive the bottled-beer drinking, shiny shirted blokes who like the Hed Candi weak-arsed house music played in club-bars mad, cos it's not really funky house.

Its another variation on UK Garage, with (at it's best) soca beats, dancehall influences and more energy than dubstep's ever had.

OK, so the name's shit, that's not really open to debate. I like the music.

Well, not all of it. As with all types of dance music (or even all types of music) there's plenty of rubbish about, but it's the first new type of music that's made me prick up my ears for a few years.

Some tunes:

Roska - Climate change
Apple - De Sieliger
Crazy Cousinz - Inflation Instrumental
Attacca Pesante Ft Shea Soul - Make It Funky For Me
Sticky Ft Sim Simi - How Very Dare You
Hard House Banton - Sirens
Shystie - Pull it (Ill Blue remix)

 

[Nanker Phelge]

They are ace aren't they? Used to feature Burns and Convertino of Calexico as well.

Yeah, I'm enjoying them a lot at the moment.

 

[ShiftyBagLady]

Joe Gideon and The Shark
Have heard a few of their songs that I liked so have ordered the album
I think they're good and that woman looks like she loves what she is doing

 

[Part 2]

Joe Gideon and The Shark
Have heard a few of their songs that I liked so have ordered the album
I think they're good and that woman looks like she loves what she is doing

Brilliant live, she is

 

[Yetman]

Brilliant live, she is

Nice one yoda

I recently discovered that I'm not adopted after all Those jesters eh!

 

[Part 2]

Nice one yoda

I recently discovered that I'm not adopted after all Those jesters eh!

 

[teamB_macro]

Dishwalla. im totally digging Counting Blue Cars and Angels or Devils ♫

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

Some friends played a gig recently. On the same bill was Gideon Conn who was really rather brilliant. And Josephine Oniyama joined him for a couple of numbers, she's an incredible vocalist, bound to pop up on Later with Jools Holland at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later.

 

[twistedAM]

I love them! When are they playing the Windmill??

They're not (i'll lay a bet it's Hoxton B&G) but priority booking #1 are at long last on their way



This could go MASSIVE. A James Murphy-produced rock band!

 

[matt m]

Some friends played a gig recently. On the same bill was Gideon Conn who was really rather brilliant. And Josephine Oniyama joined him for a couple of numbers, she's an incredible vocalist, bound to pop up on Later with Jools Holland at some point, hopefully sooner rather than later.

I think Josephine Oniyama is moonlighting as vocalist for Oi Va Voi at the moment. I can imagine Oi Va Voi being right up Jools Holland's street.

 

[Beanburger]

Alborosie for some massive dancehall tunes. And right at the other end of the musical spectrum, Faun - German folk-rock weirdness.

 

[dodgepot]

the nitty gritty dirt band

 

[Refused as fuck]

Moscow Olympics

 

[dodgepot]

just giving them a listen now on their myspace page. not bad, might have to investigate further. thanks, Raf

 

[tangerinedream]

Sun Araw

 

[Nixon]

Not recent recent but recently been loving Stephan Bodzin and Paul Kalkbrenner.

 

[Refused as fuck]

Raf

Horse Feathers and J. Tillman

 

[Vider]

U-roy.

 

[twistedAM]

Today someone sent me a link to this

www.myspace.com/pepperrabbit

I think I'm only really satisfied by indie bands that are classically trained eg Frontier Ruckus.

 

[El Jefe]

Alberta Cross

 

[stavros]

Stock, Hausen & Walkman. They're one of those bands I initially investigated because of their excellent name.

 

[Magic Sam]

Willie Tee
Johnny Adams
Louis Mr Bo Collins
G.L.Crockett
Dusty Brown

 

[Oriole]

Great Lake Swimmers

Very mellow, a touch folksy but not too whiny.

 

[El Jefe]

Stock, Hausen & Walkman. They're one of those bands I initially investigated because of their excellent name.

fantastic band

eta: well, not a band as such, but you know what i mean.

Have you tried People Like Us? similar sort of thing

 

[stavros]

Have you tried People Like Us? similar sort of thing

I haven't, but she's now on a slsk search. Cheers.

 

[tbaldwin]

Leo Marjane

 

[Part 2]

Bombay Bicycle Club.

I wrote them off at first as another Jo Whiley band when I heard someone on radio1 talking about them but for a bunch of teenagers they sound much more mature. Saw them last night and they were great. The album took a few plays before I got into it, but I expect it'll start popping up as often as The Horrors when I post in the Whats on the CD player? thread.

The singer sounds much like someone else but I can't think who

Anyone?

 

[nicksonic]

Tycho.

Although that may not mean much to most people, hopefully it will

 

[dodgepot]

lars vegas (from america, not to be confused with the lars vegas trio from scandenavia somewhere, or some other lars vegas from germany (i think?))

http://www.myspace.com/larsvegasusa

 

[DotCommunist]

Mumford And Sons 'Lion man'