Put A Donk On It

Okay so we thought it time to look see what exactly the term ‘Donk’ and more famously ‘Put A Donk On It’ means for 2010, we’ve heard ‘Put A Donk On It’ again and again in 2009 and decided to look a little deeper into this Donk revolution for those wondering what exactly a ‘Donk’ is.

There is actually an official ‘Urban Dictionary’ definition of ‘Put A Donk On It’
” ‘Put A Donk On It’ is a music style classified by adding a repeating ‘donk’, or ‘clunk’ sound (onomatopoeic) to a piece of music when writing or remixing it, typically on the offbeat, characteristic of bassline/scouse house/niche & NRG.”

I’ve heard at least 10 people in the last month say to me;

‘What you wanna do with that right? You wanna put a bangin’ DONK on it!’

So where has this phrase of 2009 come from? It seems that the Liverpool based ‘Blackout Crew’ a group of chavs with a highly entertaining self belief that they are good music producers/MC’s and have attempted to bring Donk to the mainstream. Take a look at this video we found of them with their latest production ‘Put A Donk On It’ and tell us what you think by leaving your comments at the end of this article.

The Donk phenomena is growing in the UK, it is definately not a one off. These guys are part of an entire musical genre that should be familiar for anyone living north of Birmingham. If you haven’t had the pleasure of sampling their lyrics here’s their chorus;

Put a donk on it.
Electro!
Put a donk on it.
Techno!
Put a donk on it.
Ey, thats good that Tony!
Baseline! (Where’d you learn that one)
Put a donk on it.
Electro!
Put a donk on it.
Techno! (Ahh thats sick that mate)
Put a donk on it.
Donk d-donk donk donk donk.

Liverpool is the origin of Donk without a doubt, simply Google ‘Wigan Pier’ and you are sure to find thousands of pages dedicated to the sound of Donk. Bouncy House, or Scouse House is the genre behind the term Donk, the clue is in the name – this is house music for Scousers! So how does the Urban Dictionary Classify the Donk?

Donk n.

A pipe/plank-sound, that is used in Bouncy/scouse house/NRG music. Hearing this sound in a piece of music, one can easily recognise the genre of music it is.

The sound is most commonly placed midway between beats, in the same place as hi-hats, but can be put in other places for different effects and such. The music it is used in is usually played between 150 and 160 Beats Per Minute.

When dancing, a donk commonly makes the dancer bounce on the donk beat.

E.g.1: They’re playing some bouncy donk music tonight at that club!

E.g. 2: Are we goin’ donkin tonight?

How is Scouse House actually created, how can you Put a Donk On It? Here’s a useful video showing you how it can take less than 5 minutes to create your very own Scouse House / Donk Track;

I apologise to Scouse fans across the North West of England, but for now it seems that the world outside of Merseyside isn’t quite ready for this kind of music, and may never be. To be fair the Blackout Crew did have a brush of success with their track ‘Put A Donk On It’ actually reaching number 91 in the UK Charts, their album nearly made into chart success but got no further than Number 42 for about a week. We all once laughed at bassline, that turned into a global genre – Can Scouse House and its Donk do the same???

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