Thing about Grime that you can't deny is that there is absolutely loads of gun and shankchat. So when my friends site that as an objection and I try and explain that if done well the aggression is amazing musically it sounds like a weird defence.
do these people object to the representation and glorification of violence in movies as well?
or what about classical paintings of war? what about the iliad or the odyssey or grendel? do they dismiss these things for having loads of "gun chat"?
2008.
-A big fire in Shoreditch. Plague of locusts, whatever.
Oh and did anybody else watch Point Break? I lasted ten minutes.
i have tried in vain to get anyone from uni to go to a grime night with me for some years now (even dubstep was a bit of a push a while back, probably would jump at it now), bar a few close friends who are up for anything.
Juke music is gonna get big!!! (ok maybe not big till 2009/2010) - file this under hopes as well as predictions - chk
I have to routinely, ahem, white lie about what the content of the evening will be to get ppl to come certain places with me. My ultimate triumph was with Eskimo Dance back in the day...
Yesss! and booty music in general becomes popular in the uk and kids have footwork battles on the street, i.e. London becomes southside Chicago! Dubstep also picks up some booty influence and spawns some sort of Booty-step, if you will. It'll be similar to current dubstep but with non-sensical, repetitive, misogynistic chants over the bass lines. CAN'T WAIT.
More plausibly, minimal becomes less popular making room for harder wachine-machine techno to be big again.
and no, my friends wont come to grime nights either! there should be a 'my mates dont like grime' meet-up lol.
Has actualized well- more bedroom producers emerging from uk funky house and increase of broken beat end of sounds. I Hope (or predict!) all this generic house sounds slowly slips away and this raw uk house sound takes the place.
Has actualized quite well too- more 4x4, housey and uptempo dubstep. More emphasizing to the drums
I haven't heard much of this stuff recently... I must search some producers Myspaces, people like Dj Klassics and Morph.- hard4 evolving and growing
Does anyone know is any experimental productions going on?- niche getting experimental production (okay maybe not in 08, but maybe further in the future?)
The vinyl-releases doesn't look good, but I have a feeling when listening to Spyro, that more actual grime is being made. Dunno then how much it's old stuff though...- grime evolving in its own way, none of this hiphop stuff. More grime-instrumental vinyls getting released.
Some of this has happened, like this and this. Though in this case I should talk generally about 'nu rave' (not the Klaxons thing!!!!).- hardcore breaks developing more unique sound, not just doing the same oldskool.
This is still very Subvert central-centric, but I'm very hopeful about this!- Naphta's Space2pace-project getting more interest from producers!!
Not happened- and one big hope: more people in Finland giving interest to these styles!!