Sadmanbarty's guide to Post-Grime London

[sadmanbarty]

Let's talk About this

i don't pop molly i rock tom ford

 

[luka]

it's not him is it?



they look similar, but sound so different.

The intro to that beat is sublime

 

[sadmanbarty]

If you take that Steven hawking one above which is amazing can you even remember what us rap that was taking its cues from production wise?

lex luger midi-orchestral fanfare. the whole gully/gaza era was also loads of strings. all three countries in lockstep. a bit like the turn of the millennium.

 

[sadmanbarty]

Let's talk About this

that's a future genre with any luck

 

[luka]

What year is it from? It feels way earlier than lex Luger times. Hammier. Like this stupid shit do you know what I mean

 

[luka]

This really hammy tasteless stupid American stuff that sounds great sometimes

 

[sadmanbarty]

What year is it from? It feels way earlier than lex Luger times. Hammier. Like this stupid shit do you know what I mean

that's what the first wave of road rap was like.

 

[luka]

Yeah this is what I'm saying. That stuff you isolated that I was drawing attention to earlier this evening. Delirious.

 

[luka]

Unbelievably stupid. The stupidest thing that ever came out of London but you sort of have to admit it's brilliant

 

[sadmanbarty]

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drill has this real unfulfilled draw towards dance music. it constantly flirts with it on the periphery. very briefly. very coyly. those drill-afroswing fusion tracks. homerton b as carni drill.

these gestures to garage rap:




it's like the old, nuum london will briefly posses it for a while. tempt it to continue the lineage.

that showkey tune is the closest i've seen to that being realised.

 

[luka]

Yes exactly this is it. It's very very tantalising

 

[luka]

In the sinuous shoulder roll basslines

 

[luka]

Every time I hear the possibility I'm like gimme that but don't give me some stupid dance Rolex sweep thing to go with it just rap normal please don't make it a game

 

[sadmanbarty]

the road continuum

bleep and bass- grime

bleep belongs to house and techno, but does usher in an age.

grime belongs to the nuum, but likewise ushers in the road age.

hardcore- road rap

dumb, hysterical (in both senses of the word), pandemonium, amateurish, illicit

even cheesy:





jungle-drill

rhythmically sophisticated. the crystallisation of an aesthetic.

 

[sadmanbarty]

This beat again. Is it American? I feel I should know it. This is the bit of the list I'm really loving atm. This zone.

no. pinero beats. it's uk. 'rockstar' riddim. maybe 'rockstar madness'. something like that.

 

[luka]

That hometown beat they kept making people version is so emotional

 

[luka]

no. pinero beats. it's uk. 'rockstar' riddim. maybe 'rockstar madness'. something like that.

It's historic. Really extreme and powerful. Important contribution

 

[sadmanbarty]

here it is

 

[sadmanbarty]

i hope eveyone's hearing all the tresillo in these.

 

[luka]

i hope eveyone's hearing all the tresillo in these.

It's very pronounced. Have you specifically picked ones out to fit with your thesis?