ooohgosh

absolutely nuumtastic


(via Man Like Jack)

Excellently observed and reported Guardian feature on Jackin' House by Dominic Morris, aka Datwun aka Musings of a socialist Japanologist .

Thesis: this Northern mutant of house + bass =  rave reborn.  That includes an E-induced loved-up not sexed-up vibe:

"Rather than any unsolicited grinding, the only mating ritual I saw all night was when I saw a muscle man miming an exaggerated bench-press to a girl watching with arms-crossed, an arched eyebrow and a playful half-smile." 

(also via dissensus)

another jackin  relick of 9ties house classic

yes it's

that nick hannam track got me thinking about owls in dance music

Double 99 meets Vanilla Ice = brit-parochical gelato joke

Oh yeah and it was on Ice Cream Records, wasn't it, "Ripgroove"?

 That endlessly spiraling bliss-diva loop is from Tina Moore

This rmx attempts to re-stitch together the two surgically separated Siamese Twins, or something, with only partial success

file under "that's why they call it a continuum folks part 973"...


back to the jackin', another sultry 'n' moody warper (also via dissensus)

smore bits on jackin' house 

in a way it reminds me just a bit of moombhaton, not really in direct sonic terms -- but in the sense of being fresh/buzzy/fun to listen, yet also a reconfiguration of known elements, the established palette, such that it's hard to pinpoint the newness....

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ah seems like Bassline-fiend and North-supporter Continuum did start a Dissensus thread on it a while back, but the response was disinterest / derision from the assembled Dissenserati (and still largely is, now the thread's reactivated)


what is the etymology of this term Electroline then?

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SWAG - a hilarious Jackin' House and Bass blog that Martin Blackdown spotted, which at first I thought had to be a spoof of some kind...

KET, SEX & DC10 NEED I SAY MORE!!!

What a sick tshirt - 3 of our favourite things here at SWAG blog! For those who do not know what DC10 is, its the home of jackin electro house in Ibiza. Its got red walls and fit lasses walk around in bikinis giving out free cat all night long while you dance the night away to mucky wobblers and deep bouncey chicago electro house beats. Its just round the corner from Cafe Del Mar (Where that song was made from kevin & perry) and the world famous OK Kareoke Bar. Personally i've never been to ibiza but me and the boyos plan to smash openings this year, tom's gonna put half oz of cat up his arse before we get ont plane so we can join the mile high cat club hehe naughty :P

I cant wait for all the ket, sex and kareoke, this lass has got it nailed on with this tshirt, if your wearing something with DC10 on it then you are the definition of SWAG...

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We bet you cant wait to wrap your noses round these unreleased beautys, solid gold and look how shiney they are (wont be shiney when they are brimming with my boom cat :P) we have been busy makin these spoons over the past 2 weeks sorry if we havent been around much bt spoons come first as u all know, whats the point in going out if u dont have a spoon on?

here at swag HQ we are all still onit from weekend. been having a reyt time like, one of us mates went under and lost his clothes, cat, geebs and his spoon! hes proper gutterd... you can even see his cat dick on pic...hate it when that happens but its orite we used our new special program to hide his identificaton.

We all gettin off sesh soon so we save some dollah to get him a new spoon

Nuff luff swagsters!!! 

Keep it swag and Sesh on xxx

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SWAG AS FUCK takes me back to my youth this un getting ketty ont dancefloor cos the girls love bass lol ;) x

what's with all the references to ket and cat?  do people really wear little spoons around their necks?

(a different spin on bumpin beats ....)

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"this un"-- the tune that takes Mr Swag back to his "youth.. getting ketty ont dancefloor" is this, another top MC-based tune, but older -- from 2009

not sure about this one though. not at all

other stuff by this lot, who seem to be versatile to a Romney-like degree, sounds like moombhaton, or botched Tiefschwarz

it's grime, oop north (part  3)

tunes like these

                                                        ("hands in the air if you think you're hardcore")

are the continuumation


of tunes like these from four-five-six years ago

a couple more (recent-er) tunes by MC Bonez

that last one's gun-talk seems untypical -- usually the vibe is  less grime, more garage rap  (bouncing flow, party up / nice it up -- as opposed to threats and boasts (the side of grime that went into road rap)

in re. jackin & bass, some people are mentioning donk -- true, another example of rave beats + fast rapping, and from the North - but otherwise can't hear the connection 

but any excuse to post this eh?

another version of Ladies Payback

Dude spots a sound that nobody else (in this sphere) seems to have noticed yet!

Jackin House

As he (Musings of A Socialist Japanologist) concedes there is something a bit
"hyperstatic" /  recent-dance-history-in-shuffle-mode about this Northern mixture of electro house, bassline, speed garage, 2step, dubstep, funky...

but, as in the Grand Tradition, the prominence of MCs lifts it above less-than-the-sum-of-its-parts


lots of luvly nuumy features noted by MoaSJ:

"tracks with a bassline/dubstep wobble are called 'wobblers'"

"tracks using the Double 99/187 Lockdown Speed Garage bass warp are, fittingly, called 'warpers'."

and that hallmark: "the surfeit of cheeky pop tune bootlegs"

by which MoaSJ means current stuff I assume

although he also posts the video for this gorgeously etheralised versioning of a 30 year old R&B hit....

yes that's Chaka Khan's "Ain't Nobody"....

 I like this formulation: 

"For now, it might be fair to call Jackin one of the first Metamodernist dance scenes, neither straight forwardly postmodern/revivalist nor jetting off into a modernist future"

which MoaSJ parallels with a lyric from the Majestic track in this Marcus Nasty mix

"We can't go back,
That's in the past when I reminisce now 
Bring on the future, here for the day,
I'll be making music come what may.
I don't come from the Old Skool,
But I got to big up the Old Skool"


we can't go back but (equally) the past is more present to us, more ransackable, than ever -- hence the way that "Ain't Nobody' sits next to Drake sits next to  Peggy Lee's "Fever" sits next to Notorious BIG next to MIA next to "Fix Up Look Sharp' in the bootleggers arsenal

then again, "metamodernist" is kinda where the nuum has always been at, if you think about it -- metamodernist is a flava-free synonym for "roots and future"

if nothing else (c.f. New Jersey Club)  it's a new twist in the ouroboros