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Which brilliant but strangely overlooked LPs have slipped through the net in recent years? (lets say from late 90s onwards)? An example that would resonate around these parts I’m sure are the 2 amazing Position Normal LPs – ‘Stop Your Nonsense’ and ‘Goodly Time’ ….they are two fine treasures...

I think so…it made me prematurely think it was home time

Get April’s Wire mag it carries (as promised here by the man himself) an excellent ‘primer’ piece on Grime by Simon Reynolds. It has to be the first primer where I happen own all the records (normally a couple is good going). The ‘primer’ list So Solid Crew – Dilemma Oxide & Neutrino – Bound...

There was a bit on the Culture Show last night about Tony Wilson’s new F4 label and their main crew Raw T, which was funny. It started off with Wilson doing his now familiar routine of claiming he has the most talented group in the world on his label…’they’re poets yada yada’. Then there’s a...

I heard this on Logan’s show – hosted by Target (hope you’re feeling better Logan!) on Friday. It’s Roll Deep’s first single and lifts an incredibly hooky northern soul track almost wholesale as the riddim – if you thought Kayne’s approach to ‘sampling’ was testing the very definition then see...

Now I thought this might be a Grime DVD too far for me.... and I did deliberate on paying the £17 that Rhythm Division were charging, but….having watched/heard it all now I would say this is best DVD on the road in terms of how revealing/occasionally bleak it is. The pitch is you get to roll...

tonight (Friday) Hat on the Wall, Hatton Wall, Clerkenwell (nr tube: Farringdon) 9.00pm-2.00am Free to get in Usual mixture of music (plenty of grimey garage from me / a big range of stuff from others) Quite a laid back non-pretentious place (though sound system suffers as the volume is...

Some free business advice please…. A friend of mine runs a record shop in an up-and-coming part of Hackney and is looking for a partner in order to expand the shop and its stock. I have expressed a slight interest in doing this – which would mean me sticking in some cash and becoming his silent...

.....and was brilliant. He was perhaps helped by the fact that all of the four acts who preceded him were atrocious, but the wait and the huge queue up the stairs for the few tickets left over from guest-list no-shows (due I'm sure to 'Guardian gig of the week' hype) was well worth it. The...

...or grime...?? This one is running on the rwd forum, so thought I'd push for some thoughs here. Crazy Titich (taken from rwd thread): "It seems like everyone is trying to find their own bit and do their own thing. You got Wiley doing his eski thing, some people are doing sublow and all that...

Has anyone been watching it? Excellent documentary… he perhaps overstates the power of (Leo Strauss')theory over money in US politics, and there are one or two other holes…but good on Curtis for making it (and use if Eno's 'another green world' to boot!)