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various / soul jazz - Riddim Box
Soul Jazz set their sights on the morphing parameters of UK Funky with a cherry-picked, 21-track double disc compilation. While they've touched on the topic with the Future Bass and Box Of Dub sets, this one is essentially a "Best Of" UKF, locking off stone cold heavyweights from Kode 9, Lil' Silva, Grievous Angel, Crazy Cousinz, DVA, Ill Blu, Roska, MJ Cole, and Altered Natives, among others. The style has emerged as a clearly defined sound in the East London underground over the last couple of years, tying up strands of Bashment House, Soca, Garage, Grime, and European party Techno into a colourful weave of rhythms and patterns sharing the 120-135bpm bracket. The relatively loose set of criteria for Funky tracks have set up the sound as a mongrel cousin to an oft-homogenised Dubstep scene, and provided new options for DJs and dancers tired of halfstep torpor and looking to up their groove quota. The instantly infectious arrangements of scene standards like Hardhouse Banton's 'Sirens' and the NB Funky's 'Riddim Box' (which supplied this comp with its title) laid the template for a sound constantly in flux between junglist propulsion and feminine pressure, which has since been exported to all corners of the floor with fusions like Kode 9's proggy 'Black Sun', the Tech-House ruffige of Radio Slave's 'Blaze 'N' Cook' remix and Roska or DVA's technoid tribalist riddims. This is probably one of the best places for Funky noobs to practice their dutty wine, and even for the "heads", there's some under-the-radar goodies you really ought to get familiar with. TIP!









































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