i'm a bit confused because i haven't been able to Luca's sample yet, and the track on the Outbreak Cru thing doesn't sound like Misty Cold at all, (never got into Misty Cold much despite being smitten with Ruff Sqwad) and I'm pretty sure that on Ruff Sqwad sets I heard them saying "this is a Rapid production, Rapid is the biggest producer on road" over it, and that seems like the most inappropriate title and the most over-obvious artist name but...
DAMN! That's probably my favourite track of the year. Thankyou for telling me what it was! And it struck me again listening to that dark video sample: Is grime the best music for listening to in bad quality sound EVER? It's the most delicate track, but distort it to fuck and chuck some incomprehensible (apart that great SHOW DEM! bit at the end) but infectiously enthusiastic shouting over it, and it bangs! Obviously it's because of pirate radio; who was it who was talking about the way the music has developed to fit the limited format? I wanted to quote that in my masturbation, woops sorry i mean dissertation, comparing it to how Miami Bass developed because of car stereos and Bomb Squad style beats because of headphones. Maybe the perverse secret of it is that the production is so clean? There seems to be a connection to blissed out late 80s rock (Ingram even compared my namesake to Steve Albini) and Fennesz and even Autechre's Pen Expers, the most achingly beatiful melodies struggling to survive under masses of feedback. Except here, the distortion is usually not part of the 'primary text'.