Vice Records / Unit One / Valence Presents:
RUNNIN' THE ROAD
Sunday, April 2, 2006 at The Green Elephant/HomeBar
The Run The Road Volume 2 Record Release Party
Grime is a seismic new chapter in UK music. Burning brightly from the grimey satellite communities of central London - Hackney, Tottenham, Bow, Peckham - a fresh scene is thriving, and the longer it continues to do so the deeper it continues to infiltrate popular culture and set root in the English culture. That scene is begrudgingly labelled grime, and the Run The Road albums are the first catalogue of its most gifted exponents and their already seminal recordings.
Championed as the new punk, grime continues to expand it's sonic perimeters in a short space of time. What the scene presents today is an even greater sound spectrum than a short while ago, indulging influences and skill from much further afield, making it more about a unifying culture.
Producers are no longer heavily associated with Playstation beats, nor sounds of a particularly aggressive nature or rigid structure. Similarly, gone are the days where MC's were simply laying down rave lyrics. With the new school of MCing, a far greater emphasis is put on flow, subject matter and intelligent word play - there's no room for chancers anymore. As a result an even deeper pool of talent has surfaced. Run The Road 2 presents this seismic new chapter with a collection of exclusive and never-heard before tracks that represent all sides of the expanding scene.
If you listen closely, there's a few elements of the past in this music - the way basic technology is pushed beyond its limits in ways its inventors never imagined echoes what early dub producers did with four track machines. Odd sounds are lifted from electro's space age excursions and the bleeps-and-orchestra clashes of old rave anthems.
As a true document of its time, the most insightful and comprehensive gathering of tracks making up a scene that is right under our noses but still barely acknowledged beyond its circle, Run The Road is a concise lesson in the UK underground sound. Defiantly British, aggressively new and impossible to ignore - this is the sound of now. Taken From http://www.vice-recordings.com
DJ SETS BY:
Jason Mundo - Garage/Dubstep/Reggae
Squirt - Drum and Bass/HipHop/Dancehall
Chrisko - Drum and Bass/Garage
Dane - Ragga/Garage
Keith P - Grime/Dubstep
Nature - Bmore Club/Grime/Hiphop/Baile Funk
HOSTED BY:
Lifted
TiNy
LOCATION:
Green Elephant/Homebar
5627 Dyer St.
Dallas, TX 75206
http://www.vice-recordings.com
http://www.runtheroad.com
http://www.unitoneonline.com
http://www.valenceradio.com
LOOK OUT FOR THE STREETS' NEW ALBUM APRIL 25th, 2006 Being Release on Vice Records!!
RUNNIN' THE ROAD
Sunday, April 2, 2006 at The Green Elephant/HomeBar
The Run The Road Volume 2 Record Release Party
Grime is a seismic new chapter in UK music. Burning brightly from the grimey satellite communities of central London - Hackney, Tottenham, Bow, Peckham - a fresh scene is thriving, and the longer it continues to do so the deeper it continues to infiltrate popular culture and set root in the English culture. That scene is begrudgingly labelled grime, and the Run The Road albums are the first catalogue of its most gifted exponents and their already seminal recordings.
Championed as the new punk, grime continues to expand it's sonic perimeters in a short space of time. What the scene presents today is an even greater sound spectrum than a short while ago, indulging influences and skill from much further afield, making it more about a unifying culture.
Producers are no longer heavily associated with Playstation beats, nor sounds of a particularly aggressive nature or rigid structure. Similarly, gone are the days where MC's were simply laying down rave lyrics. With the new school of MCing, a far greater emphasis is put on flow, subject matter and intelligent word play - there's no room for chancers anymore. As a result an even deeper pool of talent has surfaced. Run The Road 2 presents this seismic new chapter with a collection of exclusive and never-heard before tracks that represent all sides of the expanding scene.
If you listen closely, there's a few elements of the past in this music - the way basic technology is pushed beyond its limits in ways its inventors never imagined echoes what early dub producers did with four track machines. Odd sounds are lifted from electro's space age excursions and the bleeps-and-orchestra clashes of old rave anthems.
As a true document of its time, the most insightful and comprehensive gathering of tracks making up a scene that is right under our noses but still barely acknowledged beyond its circle, Run The Road is a concise lesson in the UK underground sound. Defiantly British, aggressively new and impossible to ignore - this is the sound of now. Taken From http://www.vice-recordings.com
DJ SETS BY:
Jason Mundo - Garage/Dubstep/Reggae
Squirt - Drum and Bass/HipHop/Dancehall
Chrisko - Drum and Bass/Garage
Dane - Ragga/Garage
Keith P - Grime/Dubstep
Nature - Bmore Club/Grime/Hiphop/Baile Funk
HOSTED BY:
Lifted
TiNy
LOCATION:
Green Elephant/Homebar
5627 Dyer St.
Dallas, TX 75206
http://www.vice-recordings.com
http://www.runtheroad.com
http://www.unitoneonline.com
http://www.valenceradio.com
LOOK OUT FOR THE STREETS' NEW ALBUM APRIL 25th, 2006 Being Release on Vice Records!!