So as I get to know Blackstar in the coming weeks, I'll also be playing my sentimental favorites, including but not limited to: 1983's bestselling Nile Rodgers collaboration Let's Dance, which masqueraded as a bland embrace of straight chart pop only to reveal such a move as his trickiest mask of all; 1973's relatively underrated Aladdin Sane, which celebrates the aggression of Stonesy blues-rock while subverting that same aggression with sexual insecurity more gauche and fraught than anything Mick Jagger would ever admit to; and 1976's mind-boggling Station to Station, the ultimate Bowie masterpiece: six long, spacey epics in which he crosses liquid funk with harsh protopunk so as to produce a cross-racial, polyrhythmic genre amalgam the likes of which nobody had approached before or ever will again, closing with a Johnny Mathis cover.
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Liquid funk, liquid drum & bass, liquid DnB, liquid or sometimes just melodic drum & bass is a subgenre of drum and bass. While it uses similar basslines and bar layouts to other styles, it contains fewer bar-oriented samples and more instrumental layers (both synthesized and natural), harmonies, melodies and ambiance, producing a sentimental atmosphere directed at home listeners as well as nightclub and rave audiences. Music genres such as jazz, soul and sometimes blues have a pivotal influence on liquid funk.
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"Album: Twisted Tongue, Twisted Tongue, Acid Jazz" The Independent: Accessed August 27th, 2009 Liquid funk is very similar to intelligent drum and bass and atmospheric drum and bass, but has subtle differences."THE VINYL WORD" Taipei Times: Accessed August 27, 2009 Liquid funk has stronger influences from soca, Latin, jazz, disco, breakbeat, and funk music, while intelligent D'n'B or atmospheric D'n'B creates a calmer yet more synthetic sound, using smooth synth lines, deep bass and samples in place of the organic element achieved by use of real instruments.
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Since 2004, the radio station began broadcasting via satellite to the European territory of Russia. In 2018 more genres has been added to the station including Neurofunk, Techtonik, 2-Step, Trance Hits, Pop Hits, Euro Dance, Liquid Funk, House Classics, Progressive, Electro, Synthwave, Moombahton, Jungle, Hypnotic, Technopop, Disco/Funk, Drum 'n' Bass Hits.
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Commix's sound has been influenced by many different musical genres. Their sound features elements of liquid funk, techno, soul and even house. Levings previously played saxophone, flute and piano, before venturing into the hip hop and electronic music scenes. Similarly, Brewer had a wide-ranging interest in music before being introduced to drum and bass.
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Collectively, they have been credited as one of the pioneers of the liquid funk scene. Together they created the sound they branded "urban fusion" to cover all of the creative influences evident in their music, including jazz, dub, Detroit techno, garage, funk and reggae. During this time, Solid State recorded for Fabio's Creative Source label as well as Renegade Recordings and Alan McGee's Eruption Records (Creation Records' sister label).
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Netsky produces music of the liquid funk style – drum and bass music with many instrumental layers and frequent vocals. High Contrast's 'Gold Digger' remix was a major influence on him. In late 2009, Netsky signed a recording contract with Hospital Records, the same label as other well known liquid artists such as High Contrast and London Elektricity. He also won a nomination as "Best Upcoming Producer" within just months of his first release at the 2010 Drum & Bass Arena Awards.
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The success of liquid funk never left the mainstream, and was followed by Mistabishi's "No Matter What" being played on daytime radio, Chase & Status' More Than Alot album charting and the Brookes Brothers' singles "The Big Blue", "Get On It" and "Loveline" hitting Dance charts. Liquicity emerged as a YouTube channel in 2008, after 2011 gradually growing out to become a record label and events promoter for new liquid DnB artists, especially in the Netherlands, Belgium and the United Kingdom.
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In June 2002, Barrett's debut album, True Colours, was released on Hospital Records, with "Return of Forever" and "Global Love" finding their way into the UK Singles Chart. His second album was High Society. On 6 April 2003, High Contrast was featured on the BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix show. His mix included liquid funk mostly from the Hospital Records label. On 9 January 2005, this Essential Mix was replayed on Radio 1 when another drum and bass artist, Andy C, was unable to deliver his mix.
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Lenzman (real name Teije van Vliet) is a drum & bass producer from Amsterdam, Netherlands who is signed to Metalheadz. In 2016 he launched his own record label The North Quarter, which, to this day, released music by himself, Redeyes and FD. His musical style can generally be categorized under the Liquid Funk subgenre. At one occasion, he articulated his vision to incorporate 90s' Hip Hop into drum & bass. Lenzman's remix of the Children of Zeus song Still Standing was voted as Best Remix at the 2016 Drum & Bass Arena awards.
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Syncopated City is the fourth studio album and sixth album overall by liquid funk act London Elektricity. It was released on LP on September 1, 2008, on CD on the September 26, 2008, and via digital download a day later. Before release, several of the songs featured on the album were played on the Hospital Podcast presented by London Elektricity frontman Tony Colman. The day after release, on September 27, 2008 London Elektricity performed at "World of Drum & Bass: The Big One" festival in Moscow, Russia, that was headlined by LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad.
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For a time between 2005 and 2009, Noisia also released tracks as Drifter, encompassing liquid funk, as well as releasing an EP under the name Hustle Athletics on Love Break Recordings. They later decided to go back to releasing all their music under the name Noisia so as to not confuse the audience and to avoid being pigeonholed into different genres with different names. Noisia have released music on major drum & bass labels such as Teebee's Subtitles, Goldie's Metalheadz, Rob Playford's Moving Shadow, RAM Records, Virus Recordings, Hospital Records, and Renegade Hardware. The Dutch collective has also received extensive airplay on BBC Radio 1.
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Liquid music continued its growth from 2006–09 with a rise of artists such as Eveson, Alix Perez, Zero T, Lenzman and Spectrasoul to name a few. Like the Liquid preceding it, it came predominately from the UK. These artists tended to steer away from the Amens and 808's and brought new sounds to the drum and bass scene. On 1 October 2007 High Contrast brought liquid funk back to the mainstream with his album, Tough Guys Don't Dance, releasing tracks such as "If We Ever" (featuring Diane Charlemagne) which made Radio 1's Dance singles chart, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", and "Tread Softly". This ended up "crossing over" and becoming one of the most listened to drum and bass albums of 2007.
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Netsky performing in 2008. In 1999, Fabio alongside Sarah Sandy, began championing a new form of drum and bass they called "liquid funk", with a compilation release of the same name on their Creative Source label."Magnetic Soul presents BBC Radio 1 DJ Fabio and MC Joker D @ Heat – 6 Jul 07" Resident Advisor: Accessed August 27th, 2009 This was characterized by influences from ambient, funk, disco, house and trance music, and widespread use of vocals. Although slow to catch on at first, the style grew massively in popularity around 2003–2004, and by 2005 it was established as one of the biggest-selling subgenres in drum and bass, with labels like Good Looking Records (although this label is strongly cross-genred with atmospheric drum and bass), Hospital Records, Liquid V, Creative Source, Shogun Limited, Fokuz Recordings, and artists like Calibre, Netsky, High Contrast, Logistics, London Elektricity, Nu:Tone, Shapeshifter, DJ Marky, and Solid State among its main proponents.
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" She went on to observe that "unlike Ice, Snow really is a skilled performer and an exceptional dancehall talent. That's evident on songs like "Anything for You," a buoyant duet with Nadine Sutherland, "Things to Say"—a Bob Marley tribute sampling Bill Withers' "Use Me"—and "Rivertown," a look at a Jamaican ghetto through the eyes of its young residents."Heidi Sigmund, "Snow Shows Off Dance Talent on ‘Love,’" Review of Murder Love, Los Angeles Times, 15 April 1995, 8. Chuck Eddy of Spin found Murder Love somewhat indecipherable and a departure from 12 Inches of Snow, writing "slow make out mush replaces the debut’s Algerian-rai/dancehall mix with some lighthearted Marvin Gaye liquid funk," and "like most reggae toasters, Snow seems to have learned to rap by studying Dick Van Dyke’s ‘hum-diddle-diddle-did-die-hum-diddl-eye’ chimney sweep scat in Mary Poppins. So I can’t guarantee I got the plots of these poems completely right.
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