Best of all, I don't have to skip any pages. Check it out. His 'Hurricane City EP' is out next week. You can look out for updates from Hammer's blog and twitter. And lastly, Silencer is doing alright for himself at the minute. But just in case it all comes on top for him, at least he has a future as a comic actor.
The guy is genuinely hilarious. Labels: Hammer , Hurricane City , Silencer. Friday, 14 August Just an Observation.
What's going on grime fans. You get some fucking annoying people on trains nowadays. Unfortunately I had to get on one the other day and, while there were some nice trees lurking about, on the whole it was pretty terrible.
Kids ran around screaming with socks half-hanging off while being lured by fat parents with packs of Starburst, and one guy just kept strolling to the buffet car in bare feet. This isn't your front room fam. In addition, a ten-minute minute stop-off at Birmingham New Street has given me enough incentive never to go there again. Shit-hole Sitting still, about to spiral into a moment of reflection, an anonymous woman takes it upon herself to talk a bag of shit which is mostly indecipherable. When you can finally make her out, the babble is either just irrelevant or, instead: 'the bar is now open, serving a selection of hot drinks and alcoholic beverages.
But while time was unfortunately on my side, in that shitty seat I came to a couple conclusions: Best mixtape release in the last two years - 'Tinchy Stryder Vs Maniac' Best grime track to listen to with a criminal lack of sleep - E3 Shank Shank And E3 Shank Shank has one of the best hooks in grime.
E3 Shank Shank I don't want to sound curt, but that's all really. Labels: Tinchy Stryder Vs Maniac. Felicitations grime fans. The word on the road internet is that Tim Westwood's 1Xtra Rap Show, every Sunday night from , kicking off real legendary, bringing some of that UK heat and just, you know, holding it up real strong for the UK, is now floating with the fishes. The show has been drowned out by the BBC after a bit of in-house 'cleaning'. Valid claims have been made about the beeb not fulfilling their remit and, given the success in '09 of grime artists in the charts, the move isn't very representative at all.
But what's done is done. There's no question that grime will manage, cope - like a battered housewife it always has done. But what from here? First off, I think the main legacy of Westwood's show has been the accompanying visuals via his YouTube channel. The technology and dedicated individuals were already there and grime was going to embrace visuals widely eventually, but Westwood's show initially highlighted the gaping gap in the market and everyone universally clocked on.
But while the Rap Show gave impetus to the influx in grime's online visuals, there are things that I won't miss. Given his status and personality, Westwood seemed to impose on his show in a manner that differed from the more deferential and probing Sama, and the quality of artists on Westwood's show descended into the realm of hit-and-miss.
Yes, the show gave opportunities to upcomers, but when it came to the point that grime fans hadn't heard of the guests something was going wrong. Radio was in decline when Westwood started his 1Xtra stint, but five minutes spitting bars and a nice little video out of it with thousands of views - why pay to get on the pirates?
I can't really say I was an avid Westwood listener - Karnage is that guy. Picture by Lee Brasco - www. I think the main question that was asked before he started - whether he was hosting grime for the right reasons - has been categorically answered. Letting grime MCs into your house and making a beautifully-bassy racket, freshly-delivered for the neighbours, is a gesture and means of promotion that he didn't have to engage in.
The Crib Sessions has no reason not to go from strength-to-strength, and the big dawg also seems to have a genuine camaraderie with grime artists that can lend to help, guidance and contacts.
Westwood's dalliance with grime isn't over yet. But, as the Rap Show slips away, here's some personal highlights. Labels: DJ Karnage , Westwood. Revolver - Cruel Intentions Free Download. He seems to be flowing with his own sound and style currently, not too long after his mixtape 'Grime's Son'.
If you enjoyed that release then 'Cruel Intentions' is for you. Expect a bag of greaze, big production from the likes of Wiley and Scorcher and assured features from Devlin and Deeperman.
DJ Spyro Feat. I'm currently stifling the laughter and cringing embarrassment provided courtesy of England's moral pillar, the Daily Mail. So common ground between the two year-olds Prince Harry and Dizzee Rascal was always going to be hard to find.
Unfortunately, the prince's attempts to bridge the divide ended in toe-curling embarrassment - and the danger of being punched by the rap star. Steve Goodwin, the conscience of Leeds, seems to be flag-bearer in the readers' cyber-assault, chirping up with: So Dizzee's immediate response to something he didn't like would have been violence.
Well there's a surprise. Thanks for your input, Steve. Unfortunately I don't think any of these are tongue in cheek, but Dizzee's fourth album is. Due for release on September 21st , the good folks at Drowned in Sound have enjoyed a cursory listen already.
Read their thoughts here. Dirty Cash But still, for the first time in my life I'm a bit unsure about buying a Dizzee album. What are you lot doing? What's poppin' grime fans. I've got a ridiculous amount of work pending and, deciding on a tactical cat-nap, I'm now crawling out of an accidental three-hour slumber. I feel very lazy; fucked in fact. Tinchy has another number one record. I would say well done but, in a scene where chart success has been sporadic at best, he just seems to be taking the piss at the minute.
I like the song - it's not a great artistic achievement but hell, someone from our scene is playing the game. It's a quite a happy tune really, which makes the occasion all the better and the novelty of a grime act at number one is far from waning.
Gwarn Tinch. I stumbled across the B-Side track It's a Problem only last night. Essentially a freestyle, the beat is banging, almost a 'Lost and Found' sound with a few '09 licks of paint and a bit of plastering for the time-withered foundations.
Check it. I've been there, right here on them Bow streets Late nights tryna write, mum's saying 'go sleep' Back in E3, Flow Dan seems to be edging towards a debut mixtape. Which is brilliant of course.
I'm feeling a bit better now. Posted by fullygrown at 28 comments. I haven't really been listening to grime recently. Well, not as much as usual. Leaving the house to earn money has been the main reason but, regardless of the motives for my recent lack of grime-listening, I actually feel better for it. Grime is like cigarettes. A quick fix to function, a top-up that, once taken, you can indulge in too often. It was my birthday yesterday so I didn't catch Logan Sama's show last night. I was getting free drinks and all but it still sounds like I missed out, Logan handing over a pack-of-Superkings-bag-of-hype-injection by playing the biggest grime vocals from '09 in this mix.
Listen to it. I believe it's Logan's birthday today. I'm a slightly bitter about this. I mean, not in a horrible way, but just that it's another day wait for mine. Then again it's good not to dwell on your age after a certain point in life, so Happy Birthday Logan.
I'm gonna check the mix now. Probably with a cigarette. Posted by fullygrown at 20 comments. Alright grime fans. Tinchy has just dropped his second Star in the Hood EP. Download it here. I'm sure track 6 will be of interest. How times have changed. With little room for error, and on top of my own expectations, he delivers. J2K limbers up for a quick statement of intent on the opening Wake Up , racing along with a slick flow that's pretty faultless throughout, swirling in and out of productions from the likes of Target, Bless Beats and Mega Mos Wanted.
On the whole the sound is quite up-beat, the jaunty brass of Big Brother , the perky droning of Talk of the Town and the chirpy Lights, Camera, Action giving the MC time and space to deliver his rhymes. But this is the main problem. The production does give 'Wake Up' a unity of sound, but J2K is so consistent in lacing the laid-back beats that things do become slightly samey.
I would love to see him vocal a few more hype beats, because he can murder them. Xtra is also one of the best here, as is Danger , the lead-single for the EP. J2K's flow, the vocals and, by grime standards, novel angle on the subject-matter makes the tune uniquely his own.
A sombre beat with mournful vocals, J2K's lyrics are sincere and evocative, with Tex contributing to a CD which generally has good features - the underrated Manga has his flourish on Landlords , Bless Beats on Kick off da Hinges and Flow Dan, well, on everything he manages to get on. Flow Dan's great. And so is 'Wake Up' really, a release in which the only real weakness - its own consistency, solidity, self-assurance - sometimes holds it back from a bit more hype and few more moments of high-flown inspiration.
A while ago I did a blog on instrumental CDs, just after the release of 'Nocstrumentals'. To be honest, I only decided to write this after listening to Maniac's Ouch , which is just brilliant. His CD starts off with the familiar in Ugly , for me one of his best ever beats, and also finishes familiarly with Thug and Headshot , which have been all over the airwaves for the last six months.
But in between are quite a few beats that have kept on a low in the run up to this release, like Boiler and Evil Dead. Silencer's was a little different, catering to the CD crowd after releasing the first eight beats from Run The CD on vinyl and digital download previously. His Wow Base series has been a highlight in a flailing grime vinyl market, but his emphatic style of production, with bangers such as Dirtbag , Regulation and Mr.
T , make this a collection of beats on CD copy. Swindle's Cirriculum Vitae exhibits the producer's trademark - a mellow, 'musical' sound, which seems to give the CD more of a flow in relation to the others. While Swindle's productions get played by the likes of Spyro and other radio DJs, his beats here are more recognisable from their vocals. With different moods on here, from the down-and-out feel of The Rat to the bubbly Swaggeristic , Curriculum Vitae is a well-rounded release that provides something different within the scene.
Dexplicit continues to clear the cupboards, his latest volume of 'Content' having tunes such as Fireboy , Steamtrain and its VIP version. With other editions having beats like Hench and the Bizzle-vocalled Blood Nine , 'Content' is a series of bangers that anticipates his album 'Digikenesis', which should be about soon. With Maniac set to release another CD, Dot Rotten's next batch of 'Rotten Riddims' forthcoming and Dexplicit planning to release five instalments with ten beats each in his 'Content' series , instrumental releases are a growing trend.
Yet as back-catalogues become more available and the archives are cleared, the resultant blanker canvas allows the instrumental CD to adopt a new position. Production duo Balistiq Beats, fresh off the back of their Power Cut Riddim with vocals from the likes of Shizzle, Badness, Riko, Doctor and Trim, as well as collaborations with Jammer on Make a Hit and Wiley with Headbanger , have an instrumental album waiting in the wings that could take the format into a direction that hasn't yet been fully realised.
Andrew, one half of the duo, explains: To be honest, both of us just decided that would be the direction we'll take for our own release. There are a lot of good CDs out there but we just feel like the majority of them are just a mish-mash of tunes with no real thought behind them. And from Ryan: It has to be a musical journey, otherwise, why is it an album in the first place? Albums, to me, should be concept-based and because this will be instrumental, the music will have to speak for itself. Therefore it will have to be more expressive on its own.
So perhaps this could herald a new chapter for the instrumental CD in grime? Now is the time to show what we're all about, from every angle. Granted they do have some vocals which is just an instrument anyway , but they let their music be the forefront, which is how it should be if you decide to do an album. What we're doing is bringing that same angle to the Balistiq brand.
Compositions, arrangements, sections, key changes.. It takes you to another place - let the music move you! Andrew: When proper albums are made you can listen to them from top to bottom and feel the continuity as you go along.
Obviously within the grime scene it's more of a mixtape thing and the target audience just wanna hear bangers so that's probably why CDs come out the way they do. Big up everyone who's doing this ting though, because they're all good in their own way. Everyone is different, they got different ideas so with our one this is the direction we wanna take. As the instrumental CD becomes a more permanent fixtre in grime, perhaps producers may feel more obliged to release these products now and in the future?
Andrew: It's not even a feeling of obligation that's making us do this. We've done stuff in the past with a number of MCs and a lot of other work outside of the grime scene, but now this is gonna be about us. We're known mostly for our grime productions and we'll always be a part of that scene, but this CD will reach out to people outside of that - people who know of us for different reasons, who've heard the other side of our work.
Ryan: We've worked with so many people in many different genres so it'll be good to showcase our diversity. We have actually built our music so we have no obligations, making it so we have free will to do whatever we want, when we want - it's not a job, it's a passion. That's something we will make sure gets through.
Right now, it's the producer's time. There's not the token wanker that usually slips into the average Come Dine With Me here but, like the original, the highlight is the narration. Provided by no less than Jammer, there's some absolute gems from him in this little video so have a watch. Come Grime With Me video Boxfresh presents This is the third part of a little tour around E3 with Lee Brasco.
You can catch the first instalment here and the second here. But for now the talk of radio filters out, and we go through Lanfranc estate. Over one of the walls, looking towards Roman Road, we can just see the top of the sign. The sun shines, and the tees in the window look so much better than on the internet thumbnails or Myspace albums where I usually see the designs.
There's no customers, so we just have a look around. It's the sort of place that you step into and wish you were a DJ. It's not the biggest shop, but funky vinyl is stacked all along the back wall, behind the steel-topped counter with decks sitting on top. But it's on the oppposite wall where all of the grime CDs are, complemented by a smaller stack of road rap CDs on the right.
If you could only get five CDs from here right now, which ones would you get? Brasco takes time to think. The guy out the back is sitting in the office. LB: What's going on boss? The man comes up to the front and stands behind the counter, giving us the low-down on the shop. How's Rhythm doing at the moment, given the recession and stuff? MrRD: We haven't been doing too badly to tell you the truth, because- Because Rhythm's a specialist shop?
MrRD: Yeah exactly. We're a specialist shop, so people will still spend their money here. Obviously we get in a lot of DJs and collectors as well as fans so, even if they're bruck-up, they'll still spend money on music because it's a hobby.
And also, in these times, music is something that's fun and which gives entertainment. I still think about his seven years. He must have remembered a few notable customers from back in the day. His face lights up. He would make a tune at home on his computer, press it up round the corner and come straight down here, boxes and boxes of vinyl he would bring in to us.
Around I Luv U times we would buy boxes and boxes off him, knowing that we would easily sell them all. Dizzee was on the main stage at Glastonbury last week. His new song Holiday looks like another chart-topper. MrRD: See some people might say that Dizzee has sold out, but there's a part of his music that's still E3.
Like in his delivery? Brasco almost says it as an aside, but it still shows that this isn't just a place to buy records. It's a shop with a history, and one of the cornerstones of a culture. I didn't quite realise Rhythm's significance only half an hour before. MrRD: Yeah, I remember that. Rhythm was already more established, and they had nothing that we didn't already. So are you - well maybe it's the wrong word - but like kinda 'proud' of Tinchy, Dizzee and Wiley, coming from here and now seeing them having such success?
MrRD: Yeah of course, definitely. I remember Tinchy coming in here. He puts his forearm across his body, just above his waist. MrRD: He must have come up to about here, you couldn't see him on the other side of the counter. I saw him and I was like 'what!? This guy can MC? But he was merking raves, 'tingz in boots' and all that, you know like the Eskimo Dance Top reloads or whatever. Everyone in the crowd would just be going nuts. Mr Rhythm Division fully explains by bussing gunfingers behind the counter.
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