4hero talking about grime in echoes magazine:
"When we was making jungle, we was making it with older people’s music. We were sampling James Brown and the amen break which was some sixties church drumbeat, but we were open enough to see how we could merge the past and the future. I think that’s what’s missing from some of these kids. It’s not just about future. They need some past too. You tend to find a lot of riffs in grime are almost classical. So it’s like there’s a missing link somewhere. But then, if there was no pirate radio playing old jazz-funk when I was growing up, I’d probably have been in the same boat.”
um I dunno... check out Skepta's myspace page for his Mother's Day tune, with this great West african highlife sample - see also Rapid's homeage to Ghana in 'Motherland', which does the same thing.
Dizzee turning up to FWD was alot - espacially with JME, Skepta, D Double and Footsie all spitting too. I also managed to run into James from Hadouken to discuss those dissenting posts here...you'll be glad to hear he's been sleeping at night.
Meanwhile Wiley is getting slewed on the RWD forum after posting some strange messages (from his current NYC base).
Remember Roll Deep / Ruff Sqwad / Plastician and loads others this Friday at Dirty Canvas @ Rhythm Factory (I asked Raskit if he wanted to rejoin Roll Deep for the night, he didn't seem too interested)