ABOUT THIS ITEM

OK blogsters and tweet-heads, are you up on the lastest new genre shizzle? Are you familiar with footwerk (or footwork, or even footwork) and juke?! If the answer is no, take notes now squire and impress your 'followers' (technical twitter term I'll have you know...) as Ramadanman is about to expose a whole new scene that's so down with the kids, the beard-scratchers at DJ History won’t even get a sniff. Footwork and juke are two interconnected scenes that have been bubbling under the Chicago underground for years. This isn't no over 18s club music either, this is music for the KIDS! We're talking 12 years old and up, at high school dances, on the street and, inevitably, in the clubs too; new school b-boys and b-girls dancing to 4/4, 130PM+ bass music. With a full repertoire of original dance moves, anthems and fashion all ready established, we've been somewhat missing the boat here in England (just type in juke or footwerk into YouTube and watch some of the videos. These kids can move!). Anyway Loefah's Swamp81 label has been pushing these sounds into our headspace since 2009 (remember "Footcrab" by Addison Groove?) and on this latest release Ramadanman takes up role as head Juke-master. "Fall Short" begins with a neon-tinged keyboard riff before tuned 808 kicks and rattling snare patterns provide the flavour. Chopped up and manipulated vocal snippets are added to these broken patterns to complete the full juke template - think a UKF / dubstep hybrid with added humour, a Chicago mindset and purely aimed at the feet. "Work Them" on the flip gets more hyper with speeding rhythms and tough bass kicks along with catchy, but chopped-to-fuck vocal manipulation. It's that stuttered, 'on the 1' rhythm and breakdowns riddled with bass tones that categorize this whole footwerk / juke sound and will send your urban dancefloor into frenzied ecstasy. Catch some of the freshest sounds of the street now!