Song ID'd: Desloc Piccalo ft. Adiah - Drumz

OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT

i can't find anything on youtube/google & i heard this on the radio today & if it's new i think it's single of the year contender

plz help

BUMP

this is killing me

am0n?

Stacius - Bun Fire Pon A Girl?

Honestly, I have no clue - just playing google games and that hit some of the criteria.

check the radio station's website to see if it has its playlist

yeah i usually do that but it was during a dj mix & they don't log individual song info for those

i don't know what this is but that stacious track is good

Could it be Nicola Roberts upcoming single, "Dance To The Beat of My Drum"?

stacious track is good! this isn't it tho -- the singing was pretty americanized, in the vein of nina sky

Was worth a try. At least we found a pretty good song!

it was like nina sky doing a less funky version of "bongo jam"

i'm beginning to think that i was hallucinating on my drive home

this is another reason i hate the concept of radio and never listen to it btw

well like i said usually it's pretty easy to pick up a song off the radio but this was from a mix show so there's no log of it online

Y'ALL this is so primitive i know the artist/name of the song but it's not even online! it may not have been released yet i guess

i know everyone has been v concerned

it's such a good song

it's

adiah - drumz

also this is the most satisfying turn of events in my life in like a whole month -- i heard the song on the radio again today & made sure i got the lyrics right (i sat in the parking lot!)

also, damn

http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1290888776/4c9beeb5d2839.jpg

ohweeohweeoh

you are apparently the only person who knows of this song's existence except for adiah herself

aw, she talked to you on twitter

Okay she is hottt.

you are apparently the only person who knows of this song's existence except for adiah herself

― 3.5" flopson (The Reverend), Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5:15 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this is pretty much true!

also, damn

http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/1290888776/4c9beeb5d2839.jpg

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 2, 2011 6:30 PM (Yesterday)

yo

yeah, damn

is there a youtube of this

http://twitter.com/#!/Adiahmusic/status/65183622059147264

i can upload a video of me singing it to myself so i didn't forget how it goes

after hearing it again yesterday i oversold it by referencing "bongo jam" -- it's not as percussive as that, but it's a total nina sky summer jam

I have also been trying to find this with no success. Seen a few diff. people mention 'drums' on her twitter but no sign of the song anywhere. Seems pretty strange.

Facebook says she's a wife and mother. wau, because that photo makes her look about 16.

Well it's only this one DJ that has played it during his mix show (tho on a prominent radio station here) so I think it's still "unreleased"

XP to BLD

this is pretty much true!

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, May 3, 2011 5:06 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know, I googled "Adiah Drumz" and it was like...her facebook, her twitter, this thread, and nothing else.

can we get her to post here?if just for the gorg potential wdyll pics

ha

shall now listen to 99jamz for an hour in honour of this thread and the glorious institution that is the radio

don't think "the rickey smiley morning show" is gonna give up the goods but what the hey

if other yanks would like to list their local urban radio stations of choice i will endeavour to spend some time with those too

Still no way to hear this song, apparantly. J0rdan's build-up here has been massive, damnit I want to hear this!

loool theyre doing a doctor phone-in for callers questions on how to lose fat

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c11/miabiboy_14/GIFs%20And%20Funny%20Stuff/ObamaClapping.gif

over mase 'feel so good' instro though so i cant even hate

figure i should really come back later for dj entice drive at 5 if i wanna hear this 'drumz'

i think it's produced by desloc piccolo! - a stupid name i vividly remember from that week i spent digging for ballgreezy/grind mode vibe music

haha this thread is the 4th google result for adiah drumz.

she is beautiful btw

A mod should replace "song id - 2011(or 2010?)" with "Adiah - Drumz"

And yes, when will we hear it? idk if Jordan is part of some viral campaign to promote her but she's definitely picking my interest.

LOL rtc -- entice's show is good - he usually plays "drumz" between 5:45-5:50 EST when his set winds down

btw I have most of this recorded on video on my phone but it's too big of a file to upload to Youtube :-(

Also yeah this is actually desloc piccalo ft adiah -- she's on the hook

ricky smiley morning show is what I listen to when I drive to work

she sounds hella Cassie on this btw

saklfjsdklfjsdlkf

lol I hope I havent overhyped this -- it's not "get ur freak on" or anything

NO IT'S TOO LATE, this thread is on an unstoppable course for clusterfuck country

might as well change the title to "say I wanted to hear Adiah's 'Drumz'; where would I go for the hot deals?"

lol

Bernard's right J0rdan, this better be good

american public service adverts are so so depressing, idk how u guys get through a show without blowing yr brains out

24/7 drink driving (BUZZED!), asthmatic kids and fucking smokey bear telling you not to set the forest on fire

and then they just bust 'pretty girl rock' like its no thing

this is another reason i hate the concept of radio and never listen to it btw

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 7:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

lol the list continues to grow

I'm imaging this song is about halfway between Cassie & MIA.

ah but when 'sure thing' unexpectedly came on it was the best i'd ever heard it - you just don't get them kinda acoustics in fortresses of solitude

the opposite of solitary bedroom listening is music in a public space or communal listening, not radio listening per se - that's just solitude + annoying presenter who you wish would fuck off + adverts + having to put up with 50% songs you don't want to hear + ending up thinking about chris brown more than one ever should

I don't think this is that MIA-ish -- Cassie tho yes

Jordan what kind of promoter/manager/publicist doesn't carry around streams/samples/mp3s of the artist he's trying to represent? I'm a telling Adiah to fire you and hang out with me instead. And I'm also buying her dinner because she's insanely hot.

haha "dancehall... so, like MIA, right?"

it's true, she does kinda sound like cassie

implicitly associating this floaty vibe with creep-pop and not vibe music is some str8-up traitor shit though, the sound is right there AND desloc even shouts out drum majorz

the percussion's v reminiscent - even perhaps a jack of, i'll have to check - a big mnml riddim from 04ish whose name i forget

altogether my sense of general relief has occluded any sense of the song's quality for now... good thing i recorded it i suppose

the saga continues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaGwWKPN5Q&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Haha awesome!!!

(surprised to not hear you singing along in the background)

Is there autotune in it, or am I hearing that wrong?

wkiw in your car btw

this show is really fun btw, it's great to listen to rap and r&b again the way i do grime/dancehall/bassline

they just don't transmit the energy like this over here any more

yes it p much gets me thru my drive home at least until he plays the flo rida roid carrier freestyle over "roll up"

Oh, that's nice. Can't wait to hear the whole thing if it ever emerges.

lol @ "roid carrier"

case in point just now - fab 'you be killin em' means nothing whatsoever as a standalone mp3 but here i'm loving it

Sounds good. Also reminds me I miss driving so much... I haven't driven since I arrived to Spain 5 months ago. What city you live in?

Oh wow! I like this.

radio rip (quality not super great but not a lot there to play with)

http://hulkshare.com/azw3yud97tam

kinda freaky watching a slice of life from someone 4000 miles away the same moment this was on

also riddim i was thinking of was the kopa i think

big ups

Sweet.

miami is beautiful

that's a particularly nice part that i was driving thru too

also rtc you're a hero

It's not that far away from Rebecca Black. 'DJ turn it up, let's party, let's party'

oh come the fuck on

It's not that far away from Rebecca Black. 'DJ turn it up, let's party, let's party'

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 6 May 2011 04:29 (1 hour ago) Permalink

^^^^ doesn't understand pop music.

wd be way sweet if she started posting

i miss miami!!

So Drumz and Friday aren't similiar lyrically? They're both pretty empty songs about being ready to party and have fun. Maybe Tim can give us 1000 words on how wrong i am and how Drumz is basically Subterranean Homesick Blues with a funky beat.

I like it but the lyrics are no better than Friday.

I haven't really listened to this song yet but unless it also sounds like it was written by someone who doesn't understand English very well, I'm willing to go along with the "you crazy" crowd.

what is a good lyric

- memorable?
- relatable?
- striking?
- fun to sing along to?
- not-terrible?
- terrible, but in a strikingly memorable and relatable way that makes it fun to sing along to?

it's friday, friday,
friday I'm in love

but when saturday comes, baby
alls I'm in is trouble

eight days a week
and six ways from sunday

gotta get my bowl
gotta get cereal when i hear the drumz

Maybe Tim can give us 1000 words on how wrong i am and how Drumz is basically Subterranean Homesick Blues with a funky beat.

― brotherlovesdub, Friday, May 6, 2011 4:53 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

lol yep im sure that will be tims example of a great song

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D:

case in point just now - fab 'you be killin em' means nothing whatsoever as a standalone mp3 but here i'm loving it

― r|t|c, Thursday, May 5, 2011 9:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

good post. i often think rap gets a bad 'rap' even w/in the states for ppl who dont live near a major metro (or when the only major metro they live near is nyc)

brotherloves....i cant think of a joke

also contenderizer otm :(

i don't know what this is but that stacious track is good

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 26, 2011 5:38 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark

i swear to god that lex is the most baffling person on ILX.

on youtube now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elPbhEYgc0s

the mixing is a lil weird but damn this is awesome -- so much tension in the beat

this sounds like some uk funky ish

^yes

again, does it really excite you guys more to make a weakly refracted analogy like that than about, idk, island pop filtering thru miami freestyle via the vibe music micro-ecology or something

i mean sure it does sound like crazy cousinz a bit but...

Yeah, J0rdan should apologize for not being overly literal.

that last post is some rtc madlibs -- not that he might not be right, but y'know

anyway i hope everyone thinks this is dope

deej, rather xp

yeah yeah, if i'm not contraristanning then i'm undecipherable, whatever

it's a cool song and when i hear it i think of 305 stuff (and things possibly pertaining) moreso than anything else - it's a minor point but i just found it strange people more entitled than i am would do otherwise

dj turn it up

http://i.imgur.com/s2NAa.gif

let's party, let's party

when i say "vibe music" you know what i mean right?

wow i love this! i kinda think it sounds a little better on that radio rip though...?

yeah, like i said i think the mixing on the youtube version is off

Fwiw I just meant ' this uses bongos'

Beat sounds like the applause rhythm

I like this a lot -- it's right in my pop wheelhouse, sing-song girl vox/rhythm/minimal arrangement (see also "pon de replay," "never leave you," "move ya body," etc). But is it wrong to wish it had a more interesting beat? Not a whole lot going on in the rhythm dept. I have a feeling there'll be remixes I like better.

Holding a candle for a HQ mp3.

^this

<3<3 HQ http://hulkshare.com/7r9khcu464nj HQ <3<3

thx

thnx boo this is p good

big ups

I have listened to this song roughly 30 thousand 100 million times this weekend.

KEEP IT JUMPIN LIKE A JUNKINOO

Loving this. Even though she's the guest singer she's the definite highlight in here. Curious to see what she'd do with a richer sound palette backing her.

:D

Massive catch on Jordan's part.

yeah this is great though I could do without the guy. thanks J0rdan!

cheers, & thank u dj entice

wow, so great. a million times better than the youtube (which was pretty impressive to begin with). sharpness of the beats is crucial. ty, jordan!

goddamn this song is good

did anyone make the lumidee comparison in the thread yet?

song of the year

I was thinking lumidee, went with nina sky instead, but yeah

I invoked Lumidee on my blog.

ty J0rdan

It's been over a month since we've mentioned how perfect this is for summer, and now it is hot and summer and this is perfect.

this is setting me on fire

this is the best song

it's actually normal in radio rotation a bit here, always makes my day

I have envies.

This thread title should get changed,

yeah, i'll put in a request

I kind of love the og title just as a curiosity-stoking curio, but it's a pain in the ass to search for.

pitbull went on about how much he loved desloc piccalo when i interviewed him

(he hadn't hard "drumz" though)

(it really is the best song)

title is so good, please don't remove any of the current version

guess what j0rdan i love this

marcus nasty should play this

this hook is :PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP <33

trying to do important stuff but just dancing around my flat by myself to this

wish there was an edit w/o desloc tbh

though I do like other songs i've heard from him

i would like the instrumental to this very much

Naw, Desloc isn't the best thing about this obv, but his parts a v. fun.

first post now ruined ;_;

This is another case of me thinking that the song's lesser parts (Desloc obv) are a big part of its charm.

Yes!

I'm not sure I'd like this as much without "You can Stop! Drop! And rollllll... But you can't put this fire out!"

yes, i wrote on my blog that there's an amateurish charm to the song that i think really works in its favor -- the concept is sorta imperfect, it doesn't seem like they thought the ending out real well, in general it comes off as a bit stitched together. amateurism rubbing up against professional pop isn't usually my thing, but i dig that undercurrent here.

It works because he's going more for Elephant Man than Ace Hood.

well, that goes without saying

Yes. I think (pseudo?) Caribbean amateurishness is a pretty different kettle of fish to other forms of amateurishness in pop and tends to map onto the amateurish/professional divide very differently.

In part because in dancehall (etc) "made in two minutes" and populist success do not seem as inversely proportional as they tend to seem in mainstream western pop.

i don't think they seem inversely proportional in western pop, look at terius (in the good way) and jr rotem (in the bad way)

i like the desloc bits but do wish there was more adiah, just having her on the hook isn't enough

Neither JR Rotem and Terius are exactly amateurish though! Like everything on the first The-Dream album was pretty poliahed, it's only now he's built himself that he thinks "fuck it" and puts out half-hearted crap like "Panties to the Side".

Also the guy who produced LeToya's "All Eyes On Me" is not amateurish! I think there's a difference between the embracing 2010/2011's "deliberately sound like a frankenstein's monster of dance and pop hits" aesthetic and being amateurish per se. Derulo tunes don't actually sound made in 2 minutes. Agreed that they're mostly pretty awful but that's a different metric.

Rotem's most actually-amateurish sounding productions are for Sean Kingston, go figure.

"polished" obv.

terius boasts about making songs in half an hour though, and a lot of the time you can tell (and it doesn't correlate to how good they are - "single ladies" sounds a lot more tossed-off than "panties to the side" for example, but is obviously better)

i refuse to believe jr rotem takes any longer on most of hits than it takes him to copy and paste the horrible obvious sample on top

*his hits

Yes but "Single Ladies" is also obviously a more polished performance in just about every conceivable manner than "Drumz". A lot of this also comes down to a mix of production and performance too - Beyonce is a professional. Derulo can't really sing but he's trying. And the use of big samples actually reduces the sense of amateurism in my opinion because you can hear the money and power and will going into making the result a hit.

I guess the phrase "amateurish" is too broad and vague for the vibe I'm trying to describe. Like I'm sure you'd put Ke$ha (in a bad way) or "Give Me Everything" (in a good way) in that category too and that's not at all the vibe I mean.

If I was looking for an example of real amateurishness (in the sense that I mean) in US pop comparable to "Drumz" I'd probably point to stuff like Baby Bash's "Suga Suga".

O O AYOOOO

this thing has been #1 jam all summer, Adiah kinda makes it feel like dusk and the heat's broken so now you can rejoice and DANCE.

BOO KAK BOO KAKKAK

Yes. I think (pseudo?) Caribbean amateurishness is a pretty different kettle of fish to other forms of amateurishness in pop and tends to map onto the amateurish/professional divide very differently.

You get the same thing with a lot of contemporary African pop (which is obviously heavily influenced by dancehall as well as US hip-hop), and some strands of funky as well. You can get away with a lot if you have charm and energy - the effect of having banged something out in the middle of a party even if most of the time that hasn't happened. You don't get that with most amateurish-sounding rock music, and especially not with someone like Terius who is very polished at his best and doesn't have the charm to compensate for his more tossed off moments, there's rarely a sense of spontenaiety there.

Also no way is Desloc the lesser partner here - you need the roughness and the energy to balance Adiah's smoothness.

Matt gets me. Definitely true of african pop and a lot of funky.

http://soundcloud.com/adiah/adiah-junkanoo-firemp3

desloc h8rs, your time

:)

though tbh i didn't want desloc removed completely and kinda miss him now he's gone

This is pretty patently inferior to the original version.

Also no way is Desloc the lesser partner here - you need the roughness and the energy to balance Adiah's smoothness.

― Matt DC, Monday, 1 August 2011 09:39 (1 month ago)

Wait - does this mean that Drums is no longer the actual song? Or no longer getting a release?

i'm not sure how 'official' "drumz" was in the first place -- i don't think it's adiah's song

but i heard the desloc version on the radio all summer, so i'm sure this is just a re-work or w/e

but yeah the desloc version is far superior

this is cool tho... clearly she's not very developed as a songwriter tho

this is amazing

thank god I ended up on j0rd's P&J ballot and googled this

(((d-_-b)))

my song of the year :D

Not song of the year, but def. up there for me.

i'm so happy that some of y'all latched on to this

i think it could be a dark horse top 20 :o

I really hope so.

Ideally that and the DJ Joker/Sabrina track and maybe the Seany Mac, but the only one I think is a lock on the poll is Desloc/Adiah.

What were the other big 'ILM-only' hits this year?

wait, i thought seany mac wasn't even 2011???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

that for real would've been my #1 on pazz & jop

what's this seany mac song?

Seany Mac isn't 2011. It's 2009/2010. But because none of us new it existed until it showed up on those two mixes in 2011, I rationalized using it for ILM.

Not for Pazz & Jop

It's from 2009 insofar as we have a date on YouTube, but there's no video, no promotion, no release, no writing about it until 2011.

At which point it appears in mixes by How to Dress Well and Physical Therapy and gets written up in FADER and ILM and a couple other places.

\(oo)/

alright, that's cool

i put it #1 on my ilx ballot

what's the seany mac track?

there was some seany mac track i really liked from back then too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTOZyEhj04

THIS ONE

it is... so good

I need r|t|c to verify my sense that zippy organ tunes along the lines of "One Of Those Days" are massive (again) at the moment in the bassline scene. So many amazing tunes floating around - all conveniently titled "Organ Mix" or even just "Organ" as if it's a style.

alright who's got a HQ version of that seany mac song??

I have it at 320 kbps.

Probably the more appropriate thread for this discussion because Drumz is the other best ILM track of the year and it deserves to have its thread to itself.

soooooo good

http://soundcloud.com/adiah/no-one-adiah

I approve!

Also, I just discovered she wears braces. <3

awesome, thank u rev

yes, this is a+ awesome.

cosign this

not a bad popcaan flip! good look

http://soundcloud.com/adiah/idgaf

apparently Adiah hit the studio with Trina today?! excited

http://soundcloud.com/adiah/lay-down-adiah-ft-6lack-mmix2

kinda ciara-ish slow jam? feelin it

oooooh. this is lovely. is any of the stuff post-No One but pre-Lay Down worth checking for?

"IDGAF" is cool. You might like "Mirror Dance" but I think it's kinda thin, sounds kind of like the extended portion of "Get Me Bodied" minus the necessary je ne sais quoi.

I like this non-Adiah amateurish dancehall-r&b track

http://soundcloud.com/the-shye-one/nyah-jewel-thing-4-you-prod-by

the rap is maybe a bit extra tho

She's added a shitload of stuff to her soundcloud page since the last time I was there. Some of it's fantastic.

i was thinking about this thread the other day & then rev quoted this song on twitter so i'm just bumping this to say "drumz" has aged really well. such a good & sweet song.

the drums are even better than i remember actually

I somehow lost the video of me playing it in the club last night :(

(after "I'm So High"!)

omg i was thinking of this song the other day

thread was rad times indeed. pour one out for ilm

also me 4 president, i took down that radio thing hardcore dammmmn

crew hunt and rush for it was way better than the song itself ever was tbrr

j0rd n me recording the same moment is honestly one of my fave things ever

they're both still up too!! >>>>> cdq

<3