Just been mining this thread for joy, after Benny's great speed garage mix from this morning and wanted to comment on this:
It's a strange sleeve in that it doesnt mention that RIP are the ones that mix it. The photos are interesting though. For those who havent seen it, it's the duo doing a pirate show, in what appears to be a tall house rather than a tower block. Being black, Omar is consigned to toasting duties, reading texts off a mobile.
Why it's an evocative sleeve is because of the location, the sash windows and room style I would locate to North West London, Tufnell Park or Chalk Farm area which was a speed and 2-step garage stronghold I think (at least, when I lived there 99-01), the cans of Stella and fags and spliffs lingering, the Rosie Gaines 12" perched up against the wall, the specific London street-light colouring (queesy halogen-orange), the stripped-down quality (2 blokes in a room with decks and 12"s and drugs and probably no carpet), and the cube-like mobile phone with the off-green screen taking early txts for rewinds...
It takes you back as much as the music...
I can't comment on the racial implications Owen mentions, because I can't say whether that's exactly accurate. I can't really imagine Locked On having that kind of "policy" or bias, to be honest...