grime in 2004

er, so revive. cos this thread is badass. whats new? whats exciting? i cant think of anythign that i have been into recently, whats going to get me back on track?

tonight:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/events/xtra_garage/schedule.shtml

so, whats the news about this? did it come out? when will it if it didnt?

sounds pretty good, quite like the trailer they have. hotheadz obviously is increasing its 'production budget'

Ruff Sqwad - "Anna"
Wonder ft Kano - "What Have You Done"
Kano - "Focus"
Tinchy Strider - "Revenge"
Anger Management

here's the link to the BBC 1XTRA garage weekend thread:
BBC 1XTRA Garage Weekend July 16th -18th

OMGOSH!!!!!!
independence has clips from lord of the mic!!!!!!!!!

freestyling over "cant get you out of my head"?!?!?!?!?!!?

WTFOMG

"click to add to cart"

ok then

Does anyone here know anything about the following -

Creeper 1 (Aim High 2)
Creeper 2 (?)
Predicted Doogz album
Predicted Davinche mix

doogz album?!

Doogz got signed.

There won't be much "grimey" about it, and obviously your enjoyment of it will totally depend on whether you can actually tolerate the guy.

Oh, Heat In The Street 2 is out as well.

So has anyone heard Lord Of Da Mics? I've heard, errrr...."mixed" things about it.

Also, does anyone know about the Mr Wong mixtape?

er well check slsk in a bit getme

dont really like mr wong stuff. why is everyone so into 'orchestra'?

They are? I was just excited to see JME is on it.

Nah i don't really like "Orchestra" much either. There's a fun version of it called "Kung Fu" with DM making ninja noises though. When does the Creeper tape drop? It sounds alright from what i heard on the Wiley 1Xtra thing.

two-three weeks.

hmmm well LOTM seems to suffer from the same irritating "little pauses between tracks" thing that LOTD did. sort that out!

hey tho! this tune with essentials on danviche "shut down shop".....im into this. mnore running commetnary to follow.

lady fury! i liek this too. nice n minimal produced by "chunky bizzle" who the fuck is that?

the tracklisting is good cos it lists who produced all the tunes

people are talking about this Risky Roadz thing coming out next month - Roll Deep, D Double, Essentials, J2K - much, much bigger than the "Lord Of" series.

i dont expect a Doogz album for a while, though he is working on one at the mo. i'd expect it to be very hip hop though.

all about the forthcoming Kano LP i think. (but i'm biased).

i interviewed DaVinChe on Weds and he didnt mention a mix CD.

can't wait for the Roll Deep LP. big!

New garage microsite ...

http://www.steal-life.com/slideshows/164garage.html

Wley wants to work with Alanis and other worrying quotes. The article also mentions that Wiley has a record shop in the West End called Avalanche. Anyone heard of this? Address?

Avalanche is in the basement of Release The Groove I think, that's what Flowdan told me.

Wiley please don't start dancing.

Also I thought he came to the game with no girlfriend and he'll be leaving the game with no girlfriend.

way! terror danjah on the radio

i always found the basement of RTG a bit sub par, compared to uptown, fer instance. well, i guess it just seemed moe of a funky/deep house/us garage type place.

Some odd assumptions in thisarticle...

what's odd in particular? it seems OTM...

"there's a slightly uneasy patronage of this music by the music and style press." I'd guess its patronage is because of the music's grassroots freshness and new soundingness. Nothing uneasy to me about that.

"Most Guardian readers probably appreciate the fact that under the vocals there's usually a track as musically experimental and obtuse as anything in the pages of The Wire." I'll bet most Guardian readers have never read an issue of the Wire in their lives. Also, why wouldn't grime's core audience appreciate its musical experimentality and obtuseness?

"the coverage in the style mags seems to take an almost gleeful pleasure in tales of young deprived black kids beating the shit out of each other at dances." That is very cruel. I'd like to see an example of that. Almost = not quite, so this is a very cheap criticisement.

"(Most of the staff and readers would last about three minutes at a Sidewinder rave or an Eski dance.)" I have never been able to attend, but my good fellow Matt Woebotnik had and he reported no problems at Eski Dance (realting to his person's attendage), as a white, middle-class, 30-year-old (or therabouts). I'd wager the writer is projecting his own fears here.

"It's hard to shake the feeling that grime has been seized upon so enthusiastically by the struggling music industry simply because in a climate so unimaginatively retro it's at least trying to do something different." Yeah, is that supposed to be so bad?

"But whether or not you "like" the music - it'd be interesting to know how many of the Mercury Prize's judges ever stick on a bit of Dizzee when they get home - is irrelevant." As if the only way to "like" music is sticking it on after you get home from work.

"To be honest, if you're even reading this paper, you're probably too old and too nice for grime to produce a record that says much to you." I'm sure there are plenty of broadsheet readers who can get a lot of pleasure, excitement and lots besides out of a Wiley or Dizzee record. Maybe even people reading this thread.

"To be honest, if you're even reading this paper, you're probably too old and too nice for grime to produce a record that says much to you."

This was the line in the article that really got me. If that's what he belives, why is he even writing the piece?

Has anyone heard this Crazy T/DJ Vader mixtape???

i heard the shola ama tunes have been signed to majors, so dont be looking for aftershock promos

quite like d-ee and footsie 'prang man', i find it a nice balance between terra grunge goofy dinosaur roar guitar and target's polite but beguiling outdated-telecommunications utopia thing, what u think

also in vice magazine those knobs list "d double - bare different colours remix", what's this!

I thought you LIKED Vice!

change your mind.

(ok i really really will never feel in the mood to defend vice to the hilt cos i have no probs with bitchy humanism but i tht the grimewatch bit ws quite annoying for thinking itself so lordly badass for hyping the cool underground and calling ppl sellouts readily etc. generally vice doesnt do that stuff at all! thats usually more blogger territory ahem)

hahaha

prang man is pretty decent

for me though, everything is about the essentials and davinche. forget the rest

Track ID please. Very popular track, 1 year old at most. There's multiple MC's and there's a pained growl at the end of virtually every verse... anyone?

anyone? anyone?

errrrrr...D Double?

Hmm, maybe. I might have to call you and sing it.

the pained growl might be your stomach.

eat eat you're nothing but skin and bones

"diplo" from "hollertronix" did a grime rundown in this month's issue of fashionable birdcage liner "fader"

plus bonus killa cam intervier, so zemko should be well plzed hem hem

did anyone watch 'rude girls' on ch. 2?

Kano's "Ps & Qs"! Great bassy groove courtesy of Davinche, it reminds me of "What's Your Fantasy" actually. Silverdollarcircle half-right in that it needs a slightly better chorus but it's okay enough and the rapping is totally fabulous. All I wanna know is whether the Seefeel-ish intro on Cameo's current 1xtra show is actually part of it - Cameo rewound and then it seemed to start with an entirely different groove.

Wow this Cameo show is solid fire!

I love the frisky, multitonal bongo/percussion rolls in so many tracks at the moment - their "funky" liquidity overlays the de rigeur rigid grime beats without cancelling them out, so the tunes occupy both camps simultaneously. See the P Jam mix of Shystie's "Women's World".

bongos are also a trademark of dubstep. see Skreamz, Kode 9, Loefah and Digital Mystikz. this way you can have momentum with the snares slow - without resorting to full on noizy breakbeats...

Skwish Skwadz use bongos on some of their stuff