Skykicking

Last year I had the privilege to contribute an article to the awesome French music criticism journal Audimat. Now that a respectful amount o...

UK FUNKY 2010 HALF YEAR REPORT: WHAT'S REALLY GOOD The most common complaint about - or, at least, resistance to - my uk funky fandom is...

Funkystepz The first time I heard "Funky Sound" I felt this incredibly strong sense of rightness, an intuitive connection like ...

Devine Collective aka Devine Recordings aka Mad One, Murdz and Others I'm not trying to be legislative when I suggest that sometimes cer...

Dubplate Wonder Dubplate Wonder and Hard House Banton occupy a curious niche within the funky scene, almost a cul-de-sac, and one that's...

Ill Blu Ill Blu are without doubt the year's finest producers - not just in uk funky, but period. Their anthems in 2009 - "Pull It...

Pearson Sound - Wad Soule Power - Natty Dub Vato Gonzales - Badman Riddim What is and isn't "uk funky"? What's in and what...

Dotstar - Stick Up Most "skank" tracks don't really survive the transition from homemade youtube craze to proper crossover phe...

Addictive - Domino Effect (OB Remix) Even leaving aside that it's produced by Fingaprint's production partner, it shouldn't surp...

Rudenko - Everybody (Fingaprint Remix) Fingaprint and the other producers in the Invasion Records crew (O.B., who together with Fingaprint ...

Swift Jay - Revenge Hard to select my very favourite development in UK funky over the past 12 months or so, but probably top of my list is t...