M.I.A. what is the big deal?

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Keith P

draw for the drumstick
I have to admit this girl does nothing for me...nothing. I haven't heard one song on the album w/ focused production or content.

All the while I've got idiots telling me this girl is hot but they can't stand grime. Is it b/c its like a "tame" form of UK music with some songs blatant attempts at grime but diluted enough for a mainstream audience?

I'm just lost.
 
Woebot

Woebot

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ha ha ha. here we go again! bodies lie strewn across the battlefield.

a little side note, and this i think is fuel to my original conjecture. TWICE now in Record Shops (the M&V Soul and Dance store in Notting Hill and at the Reckless Dance Store in Soho, both staffed by complete experts on Dance music) I have found Maya records filed in the UK Garage bin.

suffice to say on both occasions I moved the offending articles and refiled them myself in a sort of random haphazard fashion.
 
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mpc

wasteman
has anyone decided what we're all gonna listen to when grime's no longer cool?

if someone decides, let me know cos i wanna be there from the start.
 
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ryan17

Well-known member
mpc said:
has anyone decided what we're all gonna listen to when grime's no longer cool?

if someone decides, let me know cos i wanna be there from the start.
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something will come along, and very soon i imagine. if grime gets any more popular people will start turning away. its been what 3-4 years now? that is a long time to be so focused on something.

as long as i get there before VICE and FADER i don't really care what it is!!!
 
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martin

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mpc said:
has anyone decided what we're all gonna listen to when grime's no longer cool?

if someone decides, let me know cos i wanna be there from the start.
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Tripwire baby, it's already happening! Were any of you cats actually listening to DJ Cuntfinger's set on Flesh FM last night? What can only be described as NWA played at 77 rpm, with second-long stutter samples of 'Ace of Spades' and what sounds like a rape alarm being fed through a Marshall Shredmaster effects box. The "Space Pig Vs Moon Cow" mixtape's sold out now, but that MC Omagh Bomb track, where she's fast-ragga-chattin' THROUGH AN EDP WASP, is the most essential musical moment of 2005 so far.

Mark my words - Grime is for grandads and Jamie Oliver. Tripwire is where it's at
 
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bassnation

the abyss
martin said:
Tripwire baby, it's already happening! Were any of you cats actually listening to DJ Cuntfinger's set on Flesh FM last night? What can only be described as NWA played at 77 rpm, with second-long stutter samples of 'Ace of Spades' and what sounds like a rape alarm being fed through a Marshall Shredmaster effects box. The "Space Pig Vs Moon Cow" mixtape's sold out now, but that MC Omagh Bomb track, where she's fast-ragga-chattin' THROUGH AN EDP WASP, is the most essential musical moment of 2005 so far.

Mark my words - Grime is for grandads and Jamie Oliver. Tripwire is where it's at
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if i can find a scene thats universally reviled by hipsters everywhere, thats gonna be the one. i'll have to watch what people are dissing on here and then get straight in there.
 
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ryan17

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martin, thats amazing. you should start hailing the arrival of TRIPWIRE across the internet see if it actually catches on. i believe at this point if you got it on a few blogs someone would write an article about it somewhere.

people are liable to believe anything.
 
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mpc

wasteman
martin said:
Tripwire baby, it's already happening! Were any of you cats actually listening to DJ Cuntfinger's set on Flesh FM last night? What can only be described as NWA played at 77 rpm, with second-long stutter samples of 'Ace of Spades' and what sounds like a rape alarm being fed through a Marshall Shredmaster effects box. The "Space Pig Vs Moon Cow" mixtape's sold out now, but that MC Omagh Bomb track, where she's fast-ragga-chattin' THROUGH AN EDP WASP, is the most essential musical moment of 2005 so far.

Mark my words - Grime is for grandads and Jamie Oliver. Tripwire is where it's at
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yeah i've been into tripwire for time (blud).

i've heard only autistic people can truly understand it.

MC Omagh Bomb is blowing it.

grime is over. people just need to accept that.
 
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simon silverdollar

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ryan17 said:
martin, thats amazing. you should start hailing the arrival of TRIPWIRE across the internet see if it actually catches on. i believe at this point if you got it on a few blogs someone would write an article about it somewhere.

people are liable to believe anything.
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seriously, we should do this. if blissblog mentioned it a few times, it'd be in the guardian within weeks.
 
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bassnation

the abyss
simon silverdollar said:
seriously, we should do this. if blissblog mentioned it a few times, it'd be in the guardian within weeks.
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this is what we need - some media pranks a la malcolm mcclaren.
 
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3underscore

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martin said:
Tripwire baby, it's already happening! Were any of you cats actually listening to DJ Cuntfinger's set on Flesh FM last night? What can only be described as NWA played at 77 rpm, with second-long stutter samples of 'Ace of Spades' and what sounds like a rape alarm being fed through a Marshall Shredmaster effects box. The "Space Pig Vs Moon Cow" mixtape's sold out now, but that MC Omagh Bomb track, where she's fast-ragga-chattin' THROUGH AN EDP WASP, is the most essential musical moment of 2005 so far.
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Martin - DJ Cuntfinger so isn't Tripwire. Can't you hear the difference in the sonic foundations of his work? He's working a lot less with breaks and playing more emphasis on sheer terror than the Tripwire crews. Besides, Tripwire is just something used to label the scene - it doesn't reflect the sound. It's just
come from the onslaught style attack of Roe & Hipnol's first flexi-dub disc.
 
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ryan17

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This Just In

word is dizzee just bought a DJ Cuntfingers mixtape. that shit is so hot right now.



TRIPWIRE, the sound of East East London.
 
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Tactics

BBP!
martin said:
Tripwire baby, it's already happening! Were any of you cats actually listening to DJ Cuntfinger's set on Flesh FM last night? What can only be described as NWA played at 77 rpm, with second-long stutter samples of 'Ace of Spades' and what sounds like a rape alarm being fed through a Marshall Shredmaster effects box. The "Space Pig Vs Moon Cow" mixtape's sold out now, but that MC Omagh Bomb track, where she's fast-ragga-chattin' THROUGH AN EDP WASP, is the most essential musical moment of 2005 so far.

Mark my words - Grime is for grandads and Jamie Oliver. Tripwire is where it's at
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LOL - for a second I thought you were guys were serious....do it! You'll see it in Vice and Pitchfork soon....

also M.I.A is quite jarring....
 
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ryan17

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i am actually fairly serious about this. i would love to see how far the hype machine can actually go.

as long as we can agree on a few realistic names and perhaps produce photoshopped images of mixtapes and cdrs.

maybe a few random people in poses too, we could have our very own scene going. this could be so much fun. and i am a student so its not like i do anything anyway.


-We need a place

-a sound (beat/urban music is good cause that is especially hot right now and hard for the average punter to follow)

-believeable names (ie. DJ so&so said this.... mikey no teeth said this .....)



oh this could be so much fun.
 
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martin

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Never mind primers - which blogger will be first to write "Gender solidarity or class betrayal? : Psychopornographic representations of socio-sexual identity and control within Tripwire, considered as an unconscious inversion of Zizek's Metastases on Women and Pleasure" ? I must warn you all, there's a lot of straw men out there, so tread carefully
 
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Pearsall

Prodigal Son
Where's somewhere obscure?

We could say that tripwire was the result of a shipment of overwrought theory books, old Ninjaman records, 1960's X-Men comics, cheap Casio synths, and sheets of LSD crashlanding into an obscure Uzbek village and blowing the minds of 'the kids' so that they had to create an entirely fresh and new sound.

Then someone can bitterly complain that M.I.A. is exploiting this fresh and authentic new sound, then someone can point out that the man really at fault is 'Whitey McWhite" Diplo. Then battle can be joined in the pages of the Village Voice and the NME and on the blogs.
 
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