grime in 2004

The week that Grime went overground:

1. Grime article in Britain's most read music magazine [OMM/ Observer Music Monthly]

2. Rephlex records release "Grime" Compilation

3. John Peel has a "Grime" session special on Wednesday night

26/05 - GRIME NIGHT AT MAIDA VALE with DJ Eastwood, MC G Double E, MC Purple, MC I.E., and MC I.Q.

thanx myke

date for the diary
REPHLEX PRESENT
'GRIME' @ THE END
Friday 18th June 2004
10pm - 5am,
Grime Room: Dj Rephlex Records, Kode 9, Darqwan, Digital Mystiks, Loefah MC's Ras B, Warrior Queen, Mexican, Nika D, JSD & Goldfinger

Does anyone know about about the Renegade Boys? They played (unannouced) along Nasty and Roll Deep earlier this year in Amsterdam, and now they have a booking for a big festival next month (Wiley and Dizzee also performing) here in the Netherlands.

so is anyone gonna go along to this?

http://www.rwdmag.com/music_articles/news/4723/roll_deep/roll_deep_and_nasty_to_play_at_free_concert/

and can someone give me a hook-up on where to get that split mics mix-cd

ta

VEX-U-CASUALTY

yeah i'm going to that as i'm just around the corner. should be interesting. for free who can complain? although personally i find david gray offensive.

theres industry at herbal 1st june, with slimzee and someo ther dubstep people like plasticman i think.

also esmiko dance 1st birthday on 25th june?!? whos up for it?
its in nottingham but....
mix it up!

just noticed that Lady Sovereign is also on the bill for finsbury park! woo!

Calm down Myke, calm down...

the observer article was okay, chris is one of the good guys, though.

the OMM piece was the first grime piece in a broadsheet not to make me livid - it must be decent!

"Ice Rink" didn't start Wiley's obsession with coldness though, "Eskimo" did. "Ice Rink" started grime's ragga-inspired fashion for versions. Shame the Wiley version of Icerink never came out.

the LMHR festival has hit some problems (ie. the met)

http://www.lmhr.org.uk/news/archives/000222.html

Big E D ft. Bruza - The Rush... it's heavy metal grime! Not terribly brill but well funny.

But I love Danny Weed ft. Kano and Demon - Bring Armz! Demon is a perfect fusion of Dizzee and Sharkie! He sounds so utterly outraged and piqued - that high pitched yelp is delightful!

There's an untitled Jammer track on the current Pirate Sessions on 1xtra which is just massive, this minimal loop that could end up having "Grindin"-style ubiquity - it's got a ton of MCs on it and just sounds unbelievably great.

I don't understand all the grumblings about quality control in grime - every time I listen to 1xtra all the grime tracks sound consistently fantastic. Where's the crappy stuff?

Oh Gesh!
Jammer - Untitiled is MURKY
He's obviously been busy in his time away from the limelight. Shizzle, Tinchy Strider and FloDan's versions are my favourites so far.

are the mp3s around? and what happened to DC++, anyway?!

So Demon is a grime MC as well as the French house producer Ronan's been bigging up? Dammit - I was hoping for some insane grime-filterdisco thing.

there is some filtered disco thing on the current Roll Deep album demos. eeek!

oh shit 2!!!!!
"ohshit!!!!!!!!!!!!! i just heard the best tune ever!!!!!!!!

its got this sort of 'hoe' like beat, but just this this amazing pizzicato viola sound with a bowed cello bassline. have to know what this tune is!!!?!?! its only on for a minute in the dvd, then wiley tells carnage to put something else on?!?! wtf?"

i just found out what this is - dizzee rascal - "strings"...should be winging its way to me v soon. this is the only thing that has excited me for a while grime wise. what else.

strings is a bit hyper-on experience dont u think

is that a good or bad thing? dont know much about hyper-on experience. all i know is that strings is heavy. and it sounds deadly on the conflict dvd, all 30 secs of it!!!!!!!!!

v much a good thing. its the bboy beepboop squiggles more than the strings what made me think it

the lady sovereign thing kind of annoys me. not least of which because it's basically the original "check one-two" with "grimey" beats.

summer 2004 = big year for grime LPs.

the Roll Deep LP is actually finished!
Roll Deep mix CD is underway
Dizzee's keeps it dark
Kano's is in progress

not sure Doogz is gonna do much/any grime but i'll check for his LP as and when it drops.

What about TINCHY????

T-Star ft. Fraction-G - Bounds

Those strings!

the first rule of grime artist albums: no album deal, no album! (name one garage album (not mix tape!) that has been come out on the back of the artist themselves!)

Tinchy doesn't have a deal so... no album as far as i've heard.

"I'm here, there, I'm everywhere, I can't be seen. I'm all over, y'naa mean"

Terra Danja also has a track called "Strings" which is pretty insane. Plus his new track with Shola Ama is elegant enough to incite MJ Cole-of-grime comparisons.

anyone seen the grime feature in xlr8r?

good background on Rinse Fm's role in the scene and great pics of Kano, D Double E, Slimzee, Riko, Target, Wonder, Dirty Doogz etc.

I read it. It was passable, I guess. great pics of Plasticman and *le sigh* D Double.

my new grime june 2004 folder may be of interest to some.

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well ok not all that much interest. but it does have some new grime in it. the ruff squad dub at the start of the 24/5 raw blaze show is gorgeous.

toby is yr username toby_gee? just a guess.

also, heres the first 'grimette' tune that i am into, if grimette means gime with girly vocals....

nio - 'no strings' - danny weed and target remix. should be winging its way towards me right now....

no, ambrose - it begins with c and i'm always in the ilm room.

did anyone read martin's interview with terror danjah at hyperdub yet? the r&b/grime thing seems promising (for right now)...

it's quite odd that ilxor and the US 2step list should notice that piece on the same day ... it's been up for weeks. anyone have any idea why?

um, it was my first day off in a while?

er look i was in "manic vinyl" yesterday, had another listen to that nio tune (the danny weed and target remix)and its really really fucking good. anyone else heard it? just want to spread the love....you need this! i would put it on slsk if i could take a deck into work and dgitise surreptiously (ie i can't). maybe i'll ask gareth to do it on his computer

am feeling this. Target is a genius. look out for Target ft. Riko "Hands Up" too. it's a smasher...

yes please ambrose that would be fantastic.

i will try to record ruff squad on raw blaze tonight if i am home in time.

hmmm it hasnt come thru yet! is raw blaze a station? whats the frequency?

actually, can we do a london pirate check here? i am unsure as to whats going on, all i know are:

92.3 deja - now shit, no grime
100.3 rinse - v little grime, too 'forward'

raw mission - never found it, dont know frequency
heat - dont know freq.

what is the main station now?

raw blaze is 96.5
on top is 90.0

they're the grime stations of the month. heat was doing it a month or two ago, but they went off air.

this was a decent poll of the stations .... http://www.rwdmag.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3361&sid=8c5fd20d71921211c53215f87b655aa3

but i think the poll is broken.

i still love Rinse. you cant argue with Hatcha, Kode 9, Target, Wonder, Distance etc...

are you sure, martin?! i thought raw blaze was 90.0. in fact i'm sure it is.

what times for raw blaze? still monday night?

yeah raw blaze, 9 grand

oh maybe i got them the wrong way around...

"BASHY:

MIC FIGHT:

Kano, Shystie, Taz & Demon

Killa Kela

Scratch Perverts

Diplo (Hollertronix/ Big Dada)

Semtex

J33"

this will be shit wont it. i am still mysteriously compelled to go.

Joe Ransom