I'm just going to use this thread to post shit I like.
October 31st Halloween ting when I merk the verse:
Great bunch of lads pumping out amazing lyrics.
They could have invited the women to play a bit of percussion or emit a bit of funky harmony. But maybe it was a lads night out, in which case fooking go for it boys!
I've got a classic Grime comp on wax I don't need so I might as well offer it up here in case anyone is interested.
Various Artists - Grime 2.0 (Big Dada BD226 2013) 4LP set (mint, sealed)
4LP set is mint, sealed + download code & sticker
From Big Dada:
QuoteNot "nu grime", "post-grime", "grimestep", "funky grime" or "retro grime." Just grime. Somehow, where other sounds died or dissolved, this grassroots electronic music movement has grown organically for over ten years now. In an era when information acceleration was supposed to grind any new idea up in the hype machine before it had time to find its feet, grime resisted all appropriation, retaining the qualities that made it exciting, fresh and subversive in the first place.
It wasn't easy by any means, and it's survived a lot in that time. It has seen its own MCs become superstars, frequently eclipsing the genre that raised them, then watched as its suburban first cousin dubstep snuck out from the shadows to world domination. It's been through beefs, bans and brawls; been held back by internal and external politics; struggled for recognition while flimsier, flightier sounds have been hyped to oblivion.
Through all that, though, throbbed the warped beats, hollow-sounding bass and preset synth sounds of the scene's uniquely inventive producers, in many ways the keepers of the true flame, while its vocalists searched for as many ways to sell out as they could find. Sometimes as sparse, freaky and out-there as anything else in the electronic continuum, sometimes so far up in your face that you feel like you're going to be spitting teeth. Sucking up influences from garage, techno, jungle, dirty south hip hop, funky house, trance, and anything else that stumbles into its path, but bending it all into its own contorted shapes, grime production remains a brilliantly uncompromising and bloody-minded strand in British underground music – and further abroad too. Journalist and talent scout Joe Muggs, who compiled the CD with Big Dada's Will Ashon, has been working with a number of grime producers on their own digital labels, and began to realise there was a vast untapped reservoir of talent.
So here we are with grime still alive and very much kicking. And here is the most comprehensive survey of grime production the scene has ever had – thirty five exclusive tracks from across the world and across the spectrum of grime, demonstrating it to be some of the most powerful and brilliant electronic music in the world today. We've got new tracks from the originators (the godfather Wiley, Manchester's dubstep/grime originator MRK1, the elusive Youngstar whose 'Pulse X' was the first ever released grime record). We've got the new stars of the scene (Royal T, Preditah, Faze Miyake), and the up-and-comers snapping at their heels (Midlanders Swifta Beater and TC4, Brighton's Moony, Southeast Londoner Mr. Mitch). We've got tracks from Japan (Prettybwoy), Australia (Juzlo), the Netherlands (Gumnaam), Ireland (Major Grave), the US (Starkey and Matt Shadetek) and Canada (Tre Mission). We've got bangers and bubblers, haunting melodies and psychotic grooves, dead-eyed threat and cantankerous joy – and all the way through we've got evidence that this is a scene whose creativity can't be held back and shows no signs of stopping.
Tracklist
Position Artists Title/Credits Duration
A1 –Footsie Oh My Gosh 2:36
A2 –Tre Mission Dollar Bill
Mixed By – Sunny Diamonds
3:55
A3 –Teeza Rum & Coke 4:07
A4 –Visionist Dem Times 4:12
B1 –Faze Miyake 5000 5:00
B2 –TRC Cartwheel 3:26
B3 –Chaos & Order (2) Logan's Mind
Producer, Mixed By – P Jam, R35
5:29
B4 –Preditah Vinyls VIP 3:56
C1 –Youngstar Loop 29 4:08
C2 –Chimpo Codeine and Dragon Stout 5:05
C3 –Decibel (17) Bend
Mixed By – Mark Lowry (5)
3:37
C4 –Shy One (3) 927 3:58
D1 –Inkke L-O-K 3:15
D2 –J Beatz Shotta Krew
Producer [Additional] – Supreme Of The Arts
4:09
D3 –Matt Shadetek Battery Charge 3:13
D4 –Juzlo Nail Thrower 3:27
D5 –Major Grave Like A G 3:48
E1 –Darq E Freaker Trojan 2:39
E2 –Moony (2) Winner 4:23
E3 –Mr SnoWman* Frosty Lake 2:59
E4 –Mr. Mitch (2) Viking 4:37
E5 –Wiley (2) Logic Pro 2:52
F1 –MRK1* Smash It Up Hard 4:24
F2 –Prettybwoy Kissin U 4:33
F3 –Swifta Beater Numb VIP 3:01
F4 –SNK (2) Mongrel 3:51
G1 –Royal-T* Space Cowboy VIP 5:42
G2 –Stenchman Machine Molester 3:40
G3 –Sinden Arcane 3:27
G4 –Slackk Spray 3:44
G5 –Spooky (2) Moonlight 4:10
H1 –Starkey Tunnel 4:56
H2 –TC4 Laser Riddim 3:15
H3 –Gumnaam Desi Bullet 3:39
H4 –Threnody (3) Emergency 6:03
Mine is the only copy in the US so it would save you the $30+ in international shipping if you're stateside.
Asking $20 + $6 media mail to the US.
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Now back to the music.
Classic chune. I always go back to this one.
Probably listened to this close to 1,000 times.
Stick it on when you have an hour spare.
Skepta vs Ghetto on Logan's:
Terror Danjah has died. One of the all time great producers.
RIP to a legend.
Hypernova, led by Ayodeji Ijishakin (@xvngo) on sax are a UK group heavily into jazz drill. Would be great to see a grime artist tie up with a live band such as these guys:
One From Hypernova
Cheers for posting. For me the music is better on its own than with the vocals, the vocals just take away from it.
The mix of mellow instruments with aggressive vocals don't work, maybe it could if the music was more aggressive.
Defo agree that vocals can take away from the music. (Perhaps Kate Bush or Brian Blessed would disagree)
Grime is an interesting genre and I was just wishing to link it up with something I already know.
Jazz needs to work harder!
Quote from: Saulaac on May 08, 2025, 11:49 PMDefo agree that vocals can take away from the music. (Perhaps Kate Bush or Brian Blessed would disagree)
Grime is an interesting genre and I was just wishing to link it up with something I already know.
Jazz needs to work harder!
This is good:
I thought it was a good parody as it was, and then I was fucking stunned when I found out he's an American and this was filmed in New York. Then I thought it was incredible.
I just can't believe how well he's nailed it, the clothing and flow, the RnB female vocal for the hook. It's straight from 2001. Even has slang in it like 'nonce'.
@SGR @DJChameleon