FOOTWORKJUKE ALBUM DOWNLOADS DJ Manny Delivers Romantic Footwork Album for Planet Mu. DJ Manny will release Signals In My Head , a new album on Planet Mu. Signals In My Head marks a “new chapter” in DJ Manny’s career, we’re told. Born in March 1990 in Chicago but raised in Harvey, Illinois, Manny, real name Manuel Gaines, encountered juke and footwork before he was 10 years old while out with his brother at a party he was too young to be at. Dancing became a big thing for him—and he began throwing parties, where he met Rashad and DJ Spinn, and made his first recordings at his cousin’s house. His first release, Kush On Deck , came about in 2010 with DJ Rashad’s help. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, Manny’s sound has widened out and taken on a more romantic edge. His goal for the new album was “to do something that nobody (in footwork) had ever done before,” which is an R&B-type of album but still keeping it footwork, juke, house, and techno, with a few breaks. “I just want people to know it’s love out there,” Manny says. We’re told that the album also brings in a drum & bass flavor on cuts like “Good Love” and “Havin’ Fun.” Meanwhile, tracks like “Club GTA” and “That Thang” call back to classic Chicago house, and “Smoke ‘n’ Fade Away” and album closer “At First Site” both “recall the golden era of Detroit techno,” the label tells XLR8R . “Wants My Body,” created with DJ Chap, and “All I Need” are “classic Footwork workouts sure to ignite dance floors.” Tracklisting. 01. Never Was Ah Hoe 02. U Want It 03. You All I Need 04. Club GTA 05. All I Need 06. Wants My Body (ft. DJ Chap) 07. Havin’ Fun (ft. DJ Phil 08. Good Love 09. Signals In My Head 10. That Thang 11. Smoke ‘n’ Fade Away 12. At First Site. Signals In My Head LP is scheduled for July 23 release. Meanwhile, you can pre-order here and stream the title-track below. Bassadelic.com :: #1 samples source online! We help electronic / hip hop producers with sounds, resources, tutz, theory, interviews & more! "STAY PLUR, GET HYPHY!" – Get Inspired, Get Free Tips, & Download Loops/Vocals for Trap, Cloud Rap, Acid House, Grime, Jungle Footwork, Electro Swing, Breakcore, & New Orelans Bounce! footwork samples. All posts tagged footwork samples. Footwork Bundle! On sale for the summer, ready to meet all of y’all 160+ music needs ;) Ahh, it’s been a fucking fun year and a half. I started making footwork music (as 5ifty$ix K), started Juke Music Forum, as well as a footwork- jungle label (Dynasty Shit), and then came back to the mitten and got to see all of my Michigan friends! It’s been fun…well – that 2013 winter was NOT so fun (but I’m refusing to think about that right now) and I’m been working on a lot of other projects, including starting the Big Bass Outlaws (a hardcore footwork jungle trio).. Plus I’ve been trying to promote the hardcore footwork / jungle sound as much as I can :) So those are some of the things I’ve been upto. AAANNNND, now Summer is finally here! So, I decided to put out a bundle for the summer – a super summer sale bundle! A footwork bundle, with Bassadelic’s previous juke/footwork sample packs, compiled into a full 1000+ samples for all of your 160 needs! This ultimate footwork and juke bundle combines Bassadelic.com’s two juke sample packs – one designed for drums, the other specifically containing vocal samples. Footwork is a fast and very rhythmic style of dance music that originated from the city of Chicago and takes influence primarily from ghetto house music. It should come as no surprise that the city that created house music knows a thing or to about how to put together a damn good dance tune, and juke / footwork is a great example of that. Juke has been going heavy for years, but it has recently received international recognition, with artists such as Addison Groove and labels such as Night Slugs and Planet Mu making their contribution to the genre. However, some of the originals (who are still cookin up incredible trax to this day) include DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, just to name a couple. Footwork and juke trax have been exploding in the last few months, and if youre dedicated enough, you can get in on the ground floor right as this exciting genre of electronic music starts to blow up the way dubstep and trap did, so recently. Another exciting aspect of juke music is the footwork dancing you see at parties where juke music might be played. In fact, the music is designed for the dancers, and if you havent seen footwork dancing, I suggest you look it up immediatlely, as it is one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a long time. Footwork dancers move their feet in such a fast and complex, stylistic way; its mesmerizing, and I only wish I knew how to do it, myself (or was physically capable of moving THAT fast – its really insane what footwork dancers can do… It looks UNREAL…). Go here to download it: https://sellfy.com/p/i6qj/ So, if you want to make Chicago style juke beats, youll be purchasing the right product. I hope you enjoy this package, as I spent a lot of time with it and tried as hard as possible to make this the most useful product it could be for making juke tunes. So, without further ado, heres what you can expect from this sample pack, in total: 1072 Audio Samples: -150 Beats: –> 50 Beats @ 145 BPM. –> 50 Beats @ 155 BPM. –> 50 Beats @ 165 BPM. -50 Melodic Juke Loops. -341 Drum One Shots: –>The Complete TR-808 Drums. –>The Complete TR-909 Drums. (You get a complete copy of all the 909 & 808 samples, each sample having received the Bassadelic.com rinse down.) -442 Footwork/Juke Vocal One-shot samples. You also get: 8 Synth Pads. 30 Funky Snares. 20 (DEMO) Hardcore Moombah Beats. 20 (DEMO) Wonky Beats. 20 (DEMO) Trap Music Vocal Samples. So there you have it! You get well over a thousand samples with this bundle package, all of them extremely useful and well put together, making this unique and reasonably-priced product an even better buy. You’ll have a damn hard time finding any other footwork / juke production packs on the market, much less any as good as this one. Even if youre only thinking of doing remixes, this kit will undoubtedly serve you well. With complete beats in three different time signatures (which can be adjusted up or down a reasonable number of beats per minute) sequenced synthesizer melodies (fifty of them.) and a copy of every drum sample from the TR-808 and TR-909 drum machines, this is one of the best electronic music sample products of 2013, hands down. So where the funk is it? Alright, 442 Juke and Footwork Vocal Samples, and not ONE use of the outdated term, “Slammin’.” Damn…. I remember growing up in Michigan, driving to Detroit Electronic Music Festival every year and hearing that vocally-driven, fast paced, funky dance music as I arrived in the city. There was something so unique about it, so retro and futuristic at the same time. Eventually, I learned all about Detroit jit and Chicago juke and footwork, and I became a huge fan. However, I always noticed one problem… Mixing and making tracks became more than an obsession for me, but I always needed to sample vocals from rap songs, because I didn’t want to use my own voice. I soon learned that I was definitely not the only person in that position. The problem, obviously, is that you have to look around forever to find the right rap vocal, and not to mention, if you make ANY money off of it, you’re kinda… breaking the law…. So, I said, “Fuck it, I’m gonna put together a compilation of royalty-free and original vocals designed for footwork tracks. Hundreds of ’em. And they’re gonna be good. Maybe other people can find some use out of ’em, too.” And with that, another fantastic bag of secret sample weapons was born! So, I hope that they are of some use to you in all of your footworking and juking and ghettohouse production desires. From aggressive chants about destruction in the dance circle; colloquial recitations of different popular moves in the footwork scene in Chicago – ghost, drillin, boppin, mike’s, just to name a few of MANY ; as well as HUGE RANGE of other genre-related & energetic phrases & words – this really is the sample pack to help your dance trax. Even if you’re not STRICTLY a producer of ghettotech/footwork material, but want to introduce a little bit of jukey / footwork influence into your glitch hop and trap tunes, these samples will DEFINITELY help. There are a number of variations between tone and recording quality in these samples, but they are all perfectly suited as vocals for your next footwork track, as they definitely hold up against a vast majority of pre-existing vocal-driven 160 bpm tunes. Some sound like they were recorded in a basement in Chicago in 1998, some of them (MANY) sound super hi-fi, many of them are pre-cut to a footwork rhythm, and still some of them have a funky mechanized dual-pitched voice effect that is INSTANTLY recognizable in the 160 dance music community as a classic vocal technique. Instant funk. A few of them even sound like Afrika Bambaataa, which is fun. I’m sure there’s something in here to suit your needs; there are 442 different samples. So if you want to spice up your bassy grooves vocally, you don’t need to look around any longer, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s that link again: BONUS : And, seeing as I’m not a million dollar company with shareholders, I don’t have to gauge you by charging 50 bucks!! (If you bought this pack somewhere else, you probably would have to pay close to that… I mean, if you can even find a sample pack LIKE this, which I really doubt…) Footwork: 10 Essential Tracks. An introduction to the long-running Chicago footwork movement—which is marked by hyperspeed dancing and equally frenetic beats—along with a playlist of tracks by innovators including DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn, Traxman, and RP Boo. Starter. Share on Facebook. Traxman, DJ Rashad, and DJ Spinn. Photos by Erez Avissar. Chance the Rapper posted a short video to Instagram a few months ago that illustrates the enduring legacy of footwork music and dance. Chance, who toured extensively with the late footwork pioneer DJ Rashad, holds a new box of shoes—Red Octobers, the infamous crimson high tops designed by Kanye West. Chance opens the box, smiles for the camera, then starts footworking. Rashad’s classic juke track “K-Swiss” thumps in the background. Chance, who is from the South Side, knows footwork has long been written into the style, soles, and bodies of black Chicago. Like Rashad and Kanye, he grew up in places where dancers included footwork in their routines, where DJs played tracks at parties to instantly put dancers in “battle-mode.” Footworking (the dance) and footwork (the music) inspire each other, but the dance pre-dates the music. Chicago’s first footwork battle cliques formed in the early ‘90s, dancing to the sub-bass sounds of ghetto house originators DJ Deeon, Jammin Gerald, and DJ Milton. Things changed later in the decade, when DJs like Clent, Rashad, Spinn, and RP Boo shifted ghetto house’s four-on-the-floor template into a polyrhythmic grid: “I took what I did as a dancer,” RP Boo told me, “and turned it into a style of music.” Footwork tracks are customized to incite footwork dancing. So-called “battle tracks” exemplify the genre because they emphasize drama—war- trumpet-like sounds rile up crowds; halftime rhythms make space for dancers to battle. Like most footwork producers, Rashad started out as first as a dancer. This cycle from dancer to DJ to producer is part of what has kept footwork vital as a culture and collaborative art for over a decade in Chicago. A battle between footwork dancers AG and Litebulb vs. Charles and J-Ron: In the late 2000s, largely because of YouTube videos posted by local dancers and videographers, footwork emerged prominently on international radars. Underground DJs and writers, like Dave Quam, Venus X, J-Cush, and Planet Mu’s Mike Paradinas, were among the first to pick up on the sounds, and book the DJs and release their music across the world. YouTube hit at the right moment in Chicago, too: Rashad and Spinn were on a rampage, holding court at informal venues across the city, often debuting new music at battles, surprising and inspiring dancers while training the next crop of DJs, including DJ Manny, DJ Earl, Sirr Tmo, DJ Taye, Boylan, DJ Tre, and others. By 2011, footwork had migrated from a local Chicago practice at underground venues, parades, and talent shows, to an international business and creative global network. Artists who never left Chicago found themselves touring for the first time, in some cases after nearly 20 years of obscurity. Footwork originator RP Boo justifiably called his 2013 debut album Legacy to call attention to the shadow history behind his sound. Though footwork music is form-fit for footwork dancing, not every footwork track is a battle track. And to understand footwork music, it is crucial to know that it is a DJ’s music—tracks are made to be mixed with other tracks. It’s a paradox Rashad negotiated well: He made songs that sounded extraordinary on their own terms, but when blended with other tracks from his crew’s extended family, a magic was enabled, a formula executed. Some of the most important footwork tracks narrate the stories of the scene itself. These genealogies and histories are not just a matter of context —this stuff is actually on the tracks. DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, especially, maintained the tradition of calling out the names of collaborators, including DJs and dancers. These tracks weren’t like bonuses that come at the end of a record. For Rashad, in the tradition of ghetto house that preceded him, the names of his crew became instruments that he pounded against the minds and bodies of dancers: “Rashad, Rashad, Rashad, Spinn, Spinn, Spinn,” the samples iterate. Even before Rashad became famous outside the Midwest, he inspired thousands to DJ and dance. Rashad’s music converted people into footworkers for life, and the impact was both similar and different when he started to play abroad. Double Cup , his critically lauded 2013 breakthrough, saw Rashad smoothing down some of the edges in his brackish, track-ish approach. This was less about him leaving the footwork dance floor behind, though, and more about his identity as an artist in motion. Rashad stood by the DJ credo: to make the crowd—any crowd— move. Footage from a recent DJ Rashad tribute in Chicago: To do this, Rashad often brought Chicago dancers and DJs with him on the road. As his friends and colleagues testify, Rashad always shared the stage and often split his fees generously with others. Double Cup especially included a surprising amount of Rashad’s protégés and collaborators with co-writing credits. This brotherly approach to music—rooted in all night studio sessions and the closed circuit between dancers and DJs—is part of what makes footwork a window into a world that’s much larger than what we might expect or glean from afar. While the labels Hyperdub and Planet Mu have rightly been celebrated for their footwork releases, it was 2012’s Welcome to the Chi , a 20-track treasure trove put out by a label Rashad himself co-founded, Lit City Trax, that best reflects the way DJs and dancers listen to this music in Chicago—as a data dump, as a .zip file, as “tracks.” Dancers and DJs keep hard-drives and USB sticks full of tracks—it’s big data housed in small, ephemeral archives across the city and world. There are just so many good tracks, so many kinds of tracks and unreleased tracks, so many collaborations and lineages to sort—it’s not surprising that footwork challenges non-native listeners. The following selections offer a few guideposts for a new listener (and reminders of old favorites for the devotee) as to what characterizes Chicago footwork, and some tips on how to listen to and access the plenitude of information and artistry distilled into each track. Admittedly, this historical approach, though useful, is a somewhat contradictory gesture when it comes to appreciating footwork, a genre that has been about hearing the newest tracks, fresh from the basement or bedroom studios of young producers. Nonetheless, with footwork mutating so fast and in such far- ranging ways, it’s valuable to shine a light back on Chicago. (Listen to some of the footwork tracks mentioned below with this Spotify playlist.) DJ Rashad: “Ghost” If you ask footwork dancers and DJs to pick their favorite track, DJ Rashad’s “Ghost” will top many lists. The song’s title and lyric refer to “the ghost,” a footwork move developed in late ‘80s Chicago on the West Side. That move and the idea of that move—an emphasis on gliding, on ghosting, on dance that defies the eye—still defines footwork. “Ghost” hinges on a sample of a sample—Rashad sampling Kanye sampling Diana Ross. “I’m still dreaming,” she sings, an echo of an echo that Rashad grounds with a sample of his own voice: “ghost, ghost, ghost, ghost.” The meaning of “ghost” dissolves into the word’s texture, into the way it hits your body. Later in the track, Rashad recognizes four crucial Chicago dancers: “Poo, AG, Q, Litebulb,” he repeats. “That was everything to me,” Litebulb told me. “To get your name on a Rashad track and to be listed with those guys, that changed my life and helped me launch my career as a dancer.” In Chicago’s footwork inner circles, it’s a rather indisputable fact that DJ Manny—who is among the best footwork dancers in the city—also makes the coldest tracks, and he does it by the dozen. “All I Do Is Smoke Trees” is one sign of Manny’s genius, but most of his tracks—hundreds of them—have not been released. (This is one of many Lil Wayne flips from the footwork scene circa 2010, check Traxman’s “A Milli” for another.) Traxman, a DJ for three decades in Chicago, has been through multiple generations of house music and he’s known for his deep crates—and especially what he finds in them. Here, he samples and elongates an mbira solo played live by Maurice White from Earth, Wind and Fire. In the mid-‘70s, White’s mbira symbolized his connection to Africa. On “Footworkin on Air”, Traxman takes the connection further, interlacing the mbira with the squirming, electric sounds of Chicago acid house. Jody Breeze: “The Way I Move” “The Way I Move” was instrumental in introducing international audiences to the world of Chicago footwork in the late 2000s, and Jody was still a teenager when he cut and customized this Sade sample. Like so many talented young Chicago producers, Jody was in and then quickly out of the footwork game, but “The Way I Move” was promiscuous, slipping into DJ sets and top ten lists of trendsetting artists from London to NYC, laying groundwork for footwork’s current global circulation and popularity. DJ Clent: “3rd World” DJ Clent—who recently released the EP Hyper Feet on Planet Mu—changed the history of footwork with this battle anthem. The trumpets echo RP Boo’s horns—they sound dissident, inside-out. Like RP’s “Baby C’mon,” “3rd World” is considered one of the first footwork tracks—it fed the competitive vibe on the dance-floor, and emphasized half-time rhythms that gave space for dancers to circle up and battle. DJ Rashad and DJ Manny: “R House” Chuck Robert’s “My House” provided the house community with perhaps its most enduring scripture, and Rashad and Manny tear it to pieces in “R House”, tone-poeming the much-remixed sermon into just a few bars: “I am the creator,” they re-iterate, wrecking the manifesto by proving the inclusiveness of its thesis: “This is our house.” DJ Nate made an impact in the footwork scene in the late 2000s, then quickly exited the game. Today, he puts out casio-toned hip-hop anthems that soundtrack bop dancing. But when Nate made footwork tracks, his cuts were among the most exciting—a youthful, sample-happy black experimentalism that channeled older Chicago track-makers and challenged the idea of what dance music—or any music—should sound like. DJ Spinn: “Don’t Shoot” This outlier opens a window into Spinn’s worldview as a kind of footwork filmmaker capable of mixing humor and horror, horses neighing and human screams. Spinn, like other producers on this list, is difficult to pin down because many of his best tracks have not yet been released internationally, including the juke anthem “Bounce and Break Your Back”. “I just had a brand new feeling… it came to me in the night,” this Roy Ayers/Sylvia Cox sample testifies. Hearing certain footwork tracks or sequences of tracks (like the excellently arranged opening songs on Welcome to the Chi , which begins with this version of “Feelin’”) can give you the exhilarating shock of the new—“a new feeling,” indeed. RP Boo: “Heavy Heat” “Heavy Heat” is a quintessential battle track. RP Boo told me about debuting it in Chicago: “It created an instant battle due to the energy the track held. It made footworkers do what they do best—release heat!” “Heavy Heat” followed on the heels of RP’s infamous “Godzilla track”—both sample the film’s menacing noir horn stabs—and the monstrous and the maniacal have played their part in the footwork story, especially in RP’s music. This type of track enhances the tension of the circle, elevating the performance so that it becomes more improvised and vicious. “You belong to me,” the sample intones, as if RP is simultaneously both the DJ behind the tables and the footworker provoking his opponent on the floor. FOOTWORK/JUKE ALBUM DOWNLOADS. released June 17, 2014. Track 1 written and mastered by Dylan Gauthier Track 2 written by Shaun McHale and Spiivak, mastered by Keenan O'Connor Track 3 written and mastered by Justin Laberge Track 4 written and mastered by Keenan O'Connor Track 5 written by Noriko Tajima, mastered by Keenan O'Connor Track 6 written by Frederick Brummer, mastered by Keenan O'Connor Track 7 written and mastered by Ben Midwicki Track 8 remixed by Matt Tecson, mastered by Keenan O'Connor. Original track by Tommy Wright III, on the album Runnin-N-Gunnin, released on Memphiz Undaground Inc and Street Smart Records. Remixed unofficially. Tracks Compiled by Matt Tecson. Album art and site design by Frederick Brummer. Most tracks mastered by Taal Mala. FOOTWORK/JUKE ALBUM DOWNLOADS. released July 24, 2020. Written/Produced by DComplexity - FUSION DIGITAL INFINITI 2020. discography. contact / help. 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