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The History Boys.... great film and soundtrack. Typical Alan Bennet n if you've been to a boy's grammar school you'll piss yourself. Oh dear, that sounds like a review from The Sun.

I noticed a Burial track's gonna be featured on the lastest Sci.Fi Hi.Fi compilation off of Soma Records. Tracklisting here. Quite interesting to see Dubstep colliding with minimal techno. Loco Dice played a fair chunk of dubsteppy sounding tracks the other evening and of course the boys over...

Saw renaissance yesterday, a French anime in black and white - imagine Belle Ville Rendezvous mixed with Sin City. The animation's impressive, but the story and voice acting (I saw the English version) were absolutely terrible - genuinely laughable in places. It was visually very pleasing...

I actually like(d) Amy Winehouse. I remember hopping down to one of her very early shows (after a few spins on that old trend setter, Gilles Peterson's worldwide). It was pretty empty, but she played a good solo set, just her and a guitar, which endeared me to a few of her tracks and especially...

I'll add Alex Smoke to the list, last year it was a track called Chica Wapa and this year its Snider.

Well if we're just speaking from personal experience then I'd have to outright disagree with you on that one. Let me lay out for you what I know about the dance scene in the following 3 big UK cities. 1. Birmingham - Traditionally very trance and prog orientated (home of Godskitchen and...

I tried to make clear I have no problems with the "quality" of Grime's musical content (when I used the word "quality" I was actually refering to the encoding quality of what flies around the net, mostly ripped by fans who can't get their hands on a Murkle Man vinyl or whatever y'know)...

I believe this is exactly the kind of thing that petegunn's alluding too though. I pay money for my music, I don't care about the medium. Thats lucky, because the Scorcher mixtape, which cost me £7.99 the upper end of expense for a mixtape, has minimal artwork. "Simply The Best" written in Arial...

Been waiting for this film to come out for ages. Despite promising to read the book before seeing the film in this thread I never actually got round to it. Great flick though. I agree the rotoscoping technique added to the atmosphere of the film in a way that traditional CGI or whatever...

Hmm, looks interesting. Some nice little features there. Don't know if I can be bothered of the hassle of a change over, but for starting a new blog Squarespace seems like a good choice.

The "proper" grime forums are still buzzing though! (I mean the ones with the kidz on - RWD, UKGRIME etc). Lord of the Mics 2 should be dropping soon - thats what I'm looking forward to at the moment.

New Super Mario Bros is well worth picking up. Didn't really enjoy playing Mario 64 on the DS with the stylus, much better to stick to the N64 version. Apart from that, Metroid Prime: Hunters is well worth a look. Massive game, and works very well with the stylus. It's like playing a First...

Derrick May is amazing. He knows those records inside out and isn't afraid to experiment with chops n fades etc. Moodymann is another to look out for. Unlike May, its not his skills and knowledge of the tracks that impressed me, but the way he put the set together. He took it from disco, all...

As mentioned earlier in this thread, it would have been nice to see Alex Smoke from Scotland's Soma Records get to the final 12, given that his name was mentioned in the list of nominees. If artists could get a nomination for their mixes I'm sure Ewan Pearson, Justice and Erol Alkan would be...

I often think that people complaining about dance music dying are just growing out of it, or are further from the "scene" than they used to be, for whatever reason. There are plenty of parties every week, playing a whole range of dance music, some retro/old-skool and some on the cutting edge...

Aside from the obvious singles, I love the two 80s sounding tracks which come after the skit in the middle. "Consequences" is one HOT summer track. For an album coming from a "proper" dance act, its suprisingly consistant, with very little filler in my opinion. Nothing amazing, but I'm having...

Would definately be interesting to have had the Alex Smoke album on the nominations list. Some seeeerious dance music, just to mix things up a bit. Regardless of the quality of music I'm think Hot Chip might be worth putting a few quid on. The thing is that they have the credibility but not...

Someone told me that a few recent albums have missed the deadline cut off, but given that the Thom Yorke one only came out two weeks ago, that can't be many. Still, the Bugz album isn't out until next week and I think if it could have been, Lily Allen would have been in there too. For this list...

Picked up the new Mario Bros the other day, thats another must have! Ever play Elektroplankton ?

But is this really any suprise given the exposure the scene's been getting recently...? Just to add a bit of a different theory to this whole debate, how about the idea that Grime hasn't died, but successfully faked its death? Deep breath, this is gonna be a long one... However much one might...