World Minimal Hype

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Beats of this variety have been sending us all a little crazy lately… I’ve always said i’m a hater of minimal, but this new wave might be turning me for the better. There’s been the odd exception to the rule with liking some of this stuff throughout the years, and it seems like that hint of radness is finally starting to make a bit more sense…
What’s starting to push this sound forward is a kinda hype take on things – as you mighta realised we’re all about hype music flowing thru tracks here. We try to put it in the tunes we make, we love to put it in our sets, and we definitely center a lot of posts around it. It’s all about feeling rather than genre really. Shit that makes you throw your hands up, jump around like an idiot and shout out chants – hype is all about tracks being upbeat and bouncy. And hype seems to be finding it’s way into minimal beats. which is great, cause i generally find minimal to be a bit too dark, isolating and druggie.
Obviously we’ve been flooded with way too many bangers over the past couple of years. Just a note, there’s nothing wrong with bangers! I still love em, but with such saturation, you can see how people want to turn to something completely different and opposite in nature. People haven’t turned away from party tho, and on top of that world beats, and especially African (especially), south American and Latin drums are infiltrating in a big way. So here we are left with our mold.
This can often turn out into rounded, hype arpegiated synths, lots of congas and shakers, a touch of bmore-ish chants (which we still def need to see some more of, always, tee hee) and some smooth, sparse bass. But for the bass-heads, don’t be discouraged, as it seems like some of the UK Funky scene is putting back some droney and grimey bass into the tunes.
Here are a couple tunes i’m really into at the moment which i think help explain what i’m talking about a little bit… I wish i could put the Sharkslayer remix of “Manges” in as it’s got these styles with even more hype in it, but the track is still unfinished and unreleased, so soon my pretties…

First check out a remix that one of our favourites Mowgli sent in recently. He does the whole minimal thing (which he often terms midget house) real well. He always has tasty synths and is getting more and more drum orientated as of late. This track has a synth sound that i’m getting into in a big way that definitely has a hands up trip out element to it. It’s also apparently getting a radio 1 hammering by Pete Tong so look out. Check out Mowgli’s Twitter which he’s started up. Also his label DeadFish now has a podcast, just search iTunes for Deadfish Podcast and it’s on like kong.

Tommy Sparks – She’s Got Me Dancing (Mowgli Dub Remix)

This N.B. Funky track is a step towards the UK Funky side of minimal. You can definitely see the African roots come thru in the drum production, and the bass is pure dirt. I’m up for more of these kinda basslines AA247. Although the bass, and many of the extra noises are kinda dark and droney, the drums manage to really push your shoulders forward and head back.
Buy more of these releases through ukfunkyhouse.com

N.B. Funky – Riddim Box

This Rubi Dan & Chinski track really is much more of a move towards a worldly bouncey thing, and is pretty far from anything tech. I do find myself dropping this tune regularly, and you’d be surprised with the switch it can add to more techy stuff. It’s got them drums at heart, and then a bit more of a soca-ish feeling to it, so can work nicely.

Rubi Dan & Chinski – Big Boi Spitta

We’d be kinda lost in this post without something Douster related. The dude is doing some great things in a more Triassic related way, ranging from bouncey hip hop to stripped back shakers – all with a great worldly sound. This track is a remix by Mommas Boy (Mikix The Cat‘s alias) and it’s a real trip. The synth has me kinda tranced and jumpy. Works great over plenty of stuff.
…Got this track via the curbcrawlers btw, who have been pushing all this sound for a bit already. They’re doing an big overhaul to their site and bringing in some dope new names to write for it. They’ve already announced L-Vis and Renaissance Man, and the others upcoming are big big too.
Look out for this release coming out on Sound Pellegrino, Apr 20th.

Douster – For Weirdos Only (Mommas Boy Remix)

There’s a definite need for a relation on this stuff that goes back in time a bit, referencing the minimal of time past… Deadset‘s “Tick Tock” has much more drive to it, and starts to get into the territory of that druggy lost in the corner sound i was getting at earlier, but there’s something much more fun about it. I dunno if it’s all them damn clocks, or that wired synth that keeps popping in, but something definitely has me, and it’s got me smiling..

Deadset – Tick Tock

I think the key to keeping these tunes sounding hype is to just keep mixing through them. They’re mostly really housey song structures, and there’s nothing worse than hearing the entire intro and outro in a club. The fact that the tunes have so much space opens them up to be layered and cut up real nicely.
There’s plenty more tunes i could mention obviously, feel free to call out some big ones in the comments. I think that Riva Starr needs a mention in all this also, some of those earlier releases like Scratch n Itch i love to use in between all this stuff…