Woebot
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/reviews/story/0,13875,1347746,00.html
Dunno if you missed the above, Simon's cool review of "Run The Road" for The Observer. I reviewed the compilation for FACT, should be coming out sometime soonish. We (at FACT) have also done a 4-part study of some of the names of the scene, we've done likkle spots with Wiley, Terrah Danjah, Danny Weed, Target and Plasticman. I didnt do the interviews I just said who I thought theyd be good talking to, though i've penned the intro for the piece. Look out for it.
Its an exciting time believe. Rather frustratingly (Logan Sama you bastard!) there are great tunes out there which dont look like they'll see a release this year:
• Bruza's "Can You Feel The Rush" (Aftershock?)
• Trim's "Bad Boy Trim" (Aim High?)
• Dogzilla's "I Want Out" (Shot City Records?)
• Dogzilla's "Neverending Story" (Aim High?)
• Riko {the discoey one off Creeper Volume 2}
• Roll Deep's "Shake A Leg"
ALL THESE TRACKS are the measure of anything that's come out of the scene to date. Seriously that good. However there are some hot tracks that have hit the shops, most interesting of which is on a new label called "Unknown Genius" its a Dizzy Rasklat tune, but the beat he's riding is some hypercellerated shattered maracas Todd Edwards bizniss, he's chopped his voice up like crazy, "Dizzy, Dirt Skank, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirtee" I guess it's a post-Babycyakes thing, like TD's rabbit-out-of-its-skin nu-RnB an attempt to figure a way out of the looming Grime impasse.
Yeah an impasse. The thing is if this was American Hip-Hop you could expect Grime to fall into a decade-long holding pattern, a purple-patch of creative abundance (kind of like the stretch between De La Soul is Dead and Mobb Deep's The Infamous) but with Grime I wonder whether that will happen. Part of me hopes that we get such a stability, but you know the Pirate-Radio-Party feedback-loop is so nervous, so restless that I just dont see it happening. I guess it's possible Grime gets sealed in a bubble, much like Jungle has done, though much more profitably, while the grassroots scene wanders off. If artists like Dizzy and TD can keep ringing the changes then hey there'll be no trouble, but if theyre outmuscled by those who attempt to consolidate their power base, try and freeze up the evolution, lock out the youngsters, then Grime'll be in trouble.
Also good this week P's and Q's is out (again, blink and you would have missed it on white label), Wiley's "Colder" with it's gun-cock hook and Slew Dem Production 16-Bar.
Dunno if you missed the above, Simon's cool review of "Run The Road" for The Observer. I reviewed the compilation for FACT, should be coming out sometime soonish. We (at FACT) have also done a 4-part study of some of the names of the scene, we've done likkle spots with Wiley, Terrah Danjah, Danny Weed, Target and Plasticman. I didnt do the interviews I just said who I thought theyd be good talking to, though i've penned the intro for the piece. Look out for it.
Its an exciting time believe. Rather frustratingly (Logan Sama you bastard!) there are great tunes out there which dont look like they'll see a release this year:
• Bruza's "Can You Feel The Rush" (Aftershock?)
• Trim's "Bad Boy Trim" (Aim High?)
• Dogzilla's "I Want Out" (Shot City Records?)
• Dogzilla's "Neverending Story" (Aim High?)
• Riko {the discoey one off Creeper Volume 2}
• Roll Deep's "Shake A Leg"
ALL THESE TRACKS are the measure of anything that's come out of the scene to date. Seriously that good. However there are some hot tracks that have hit the shops, most interesting of which is on a new label called "Unknown Genius" its a Dizzy Rasklat tune, but the beat he's riding is some hypercellerated shattered maracas Todd Edwards bizniss, he's chopped his voice up like crazy, "Dizzy, Dirt Skank, Dirt, Dirt, Dirt, Dirtee" I guess it's a post-Babycyakes thing, like TD's rabbit-out-of-its-skin nu-RnB an attempt to figure a way out of the looming Grime impasse.
Yeah an impasse. The thing is if this was American Hip-Hop you could expect Grime to fall into a decade-long holding pattern, a purple-patch of creative abundance (kind of like the stretch between De La Soul is Dead and Mobb Deep's The Infamous) but with Grime I wonder whether that will happen. Part of me hopes that we get such a stability, but you know the Pirate-Radio-Party feedback-loop is so nervous, so restless that I just dont see it happening. I guess it's possible Grime gets sealed in a bubble, much like Jungle has done, though much more profitably, while the grassroots scene wanders off. If artists like Dizzy and TD can keep ringing the changes then hey there'll be no trouble, but if theyre outmuscled by those who attempt to consolidate their power base, try and freeze up the evolution, lock out the youngsters, then Grime'll be in trouble.
Also good this week P's and Q's is out (again, blink and you would have missed it on white label), Wiley's "Colder" with it's gun-cock hook and Slew Dem Production 16-Bar.