WHAT?! whats the night?! are the mcs any good? cosmic ballroom is a sick venue i reckon
Edit: seen i just clocked its in the 2nd room
sound system isnt so hot in there. got over excited for a moment
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WHAT?! whats the night?! are the mcs any good? cosmic ballroom is a sick venue i reckon
Edit: seen i just clocked its in the 2nd room
sound system isnt so hot in there. got over excited for a momentsorry for the ot but where on god's earth is the cosmic ballroom in the town?
now i'm with you. there's clearly been a lot of changes in 6 years.
Well it opens at half ten i think, and im going to be on around 11pm. hopefully there will be some people in by then
sorry about hi jacking the thread by the way
looks like geeneus has beeen seduced by funky house as well if the audio on his myspace (www.myspace.com/geeneus) is anything to go by (wiley too seing as he has a guest verse on the first song). when people started writing/saying that funky house was 'urban house' or 'ghetto house' i somehow thought that maybe people were making it more london-centric or doing something a little bit fresh/new with it but this is awful, twee, fake-funky, fake-latin weedy stuff. between this and that DMZ song left leg out and target talking about how funky house reminds him of the old garage days, it seems everyone is really getting into it big time.
half step could only last so long...
yeh not convinced by Closer to be honest, sounds like Congo but super-cheesy (cheesy in a bad way!). but its a long long way from the shit that generally i think of when i hear the words funky house
emotions is ok though, i really like the lead synth. but you do have got to question where things are going though when they get so overtly referential to days gone by :/
its certainly an interesting shift though, im sure some wonderful music will come of it once it matures a bit
Missing by plastician is exciting (http://www.myspace.com/plastician), loving the contrast of the filth and the soul
emotions is ok though, i really like the lead synth. but you do have got to question where things are going though when they get so overtly referential to days gone by :/
its certainly an interesting shift though, im sure some wonderful music will come of it once it matures a bit
Missing by plastician is exciting (http://www.myspace.com/plastician), loving the contrast of the filth and the soul
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that's a great track. vocal science returns.
i don't have a great number of grime tunes. way into dump valve beats like shangooli, what. i don't see many more great tunes like these available.
is it or isn't it already publicly expressed that vex'd has feet in both grime & dubstep? they make tunes that would be great with mcs. i love vex'd singles bombardment of saturn, killing floor, pop pop, lion, canyon, smart bomb.
is it or isn't it already publicly expressed that vex'd has feet in both grime & dubstep? they make tunes that would be great with mcs. i love vex'd singles bombardment of saturn, killing floor, pop pop, lion, canyon, smart bomb.
That Skepta/JME record is big. Good choice.
I doubt many 'grime heads' share the same sentiment to be honest
As a self-professed grime head, I think that a more open attitude towards the similarities between grime and dubstep would be very exciting, both as a music listener and a DJ. Even though the dubstep scene occasionally get purist and snobby about grime's role in dubstep, it seems like there is still some interest in it, with JME's vocal of Tapped, Wiley's appearances on Kode 9 and Darkside sets, Wonder, MRK1, and the Plastician's albums, Tubby and the Newham Generals' dubstep leanings, and MCs like the Gens and Skepta's appearances and increasing interest in FWD nights.
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when they work together it's magic. just like back when it was harder to tell them apart.
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http://dot-alt.blogspot.com/2006/07/never-backwards-ptii_115429463769367383.html
cross-pollination at FWD>> was at its height this time last year (skepta was actually listed on the flyers as a host mc last november), but then mary anne hobbes dubstep warz show aired in january, skepta got banned, and this year - with the exception of generals, and one brilliant slimzee&riko set - has been one long dubstep boreathon.
the good news is skepta came down last week for the first time in all of 06, and apparently will be down with plastician again in the future.
can't help feeling that autumn 05 - when you'd see riko over youngsta, bossman and essentials, and target with roll deep, all in one night, and you were nobody unless you'd vocalled 'request line' - was a bit of a golden era tho, nostalgic beeatch that i am (check the flyer in that link!).
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all i have to go on is the one experience because i'm on another continent. but when i was over in summer '05, the bill was n-type, geeneus, slimzee, riko, skepta, dogzilla, youngsta and crazy d. and it seemed absolutely perfect.
I've heard Skepta over dubstep, and there was that Rinse show with Wiley over Kode9, but I haven't heard sets with Riko. Is there audio of him out there?
For me, Dubstep at its most "pure" is also the most boring. Still, there seems to be enough variety out there at the moment to ensure that most of the dubstep taste spectrum remains satisfied.