grime in 2015

not this year, but i keep seeing the old shaw bros-style poster for it in south london and had to reinvestigate. not showstopping but its good imo. showtime-style flows. hes sounding good if you ask me. better than he has in a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2cyZt5IDE

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/2zgVdCQf9ngtAUBoYW1los

another great mix from my tiny window into this scene:
https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/iglew-mix-for-the-astral-plane

Yeah but Murlo...

He's got tracks for days.

https://soundcloud.com/mixpak/murlo-deep-breath-feat-gemma-dunleavy?in=djmurlo/sets/jasmine-ep-out-feb-10

That's one off the new EP.

You & Me
http://vimeo.com/92195007

Last Dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lseuUC0AxRE

Into Mist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_PJ03uYnx0

Vertigo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZuP9IOAHi0

Rhythm & Gash (Murlo Refix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9hMCeHCH8

Adder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxhM4uHYwXw

Roman Baths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyPG6nboqdY

Palace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB-4tlrzeQw

Murlo x Novelist - Flavour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMJSmfcHk4U

Hydra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeLqOIPyTRY

Murlo & JT The Goon - Plume
https://soundcloud.com/oil-gang/murlo-jt-the-goon-plume-oil

JT The Goon - Twin Warriors (Murlo Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/djmurlo/jt-the-goon-twin-warriors

Yeah.

This mix was last year but fuck it was a bit good.

https://soundcloud.com/swingting/brackles-x-swing-ting-live-on

Brackles x Murlo x Swing Ting w/ Fox on the Mic.

Best Grimy 2015 mix this year so far has been...

Moleskin w/ Jammz & MicTy - 22nd January 2015 Radar Radio
https://soundcloud.com/radarradioldn/moleskin-22nd-january-2015

Really no Murlo fans. Too much melody, fun for ILX?

https://soundcloud.com/djmurlo/nts-radio-003-040215

You're all so jaded on ILX you have a hang up on grime, a genre so new it only popped up in the early 00's or whatever? and can't take anyone calling anything but wonder years grime grime? Come on Murlo is fuck'd.

https://soundcloud.com/mixpak/murlo-deep-breath-feat-gemma-dunleavy?in=djmurlo/sets/jasmine-ep-out-feb-10

or is grime dead because we have a grime podcaste now with dudes talking about the state of grime?

https://soundcloud.com/rhythmandcash

whiney is a known anti-english racist due to traumatic overexposure to english breakfasts

the mere mention of grime is triggering because it reminds him of the blackened congealed blood pudding residue and charred bacon

Blood Pud is a mad one to be fair. it should have been subbed for Yorkshire Pud years back. i still have no idea what a whiney is btw. Its been years still no idea. Is a whiney a thing? Is ILX a whiney?

On another note...

Lady Leshurr - #QueensSpeech (EP.1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyZBLvLDFE

This was mad too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpgzNtL2Xk

Flava D & Miss Fire - Closer
https://soundcloud.com/flava_d/closer

Novelist x Mumdance - 1 Sec
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaG2RyDxQlk

Bar at the lol at white dude producer driving about in the background for XL trope it's a good track like.

So Large feat. Stammina, Dollar, Mercston - Man vs. Food
https://soundcloud.com/so-large/man-vs-food

Spyro has been playing this for a couple of weeks now. I've been trying to find some of the other dubs he's got but they are nowhere on the internet ;_;

The set with Novelist's crew The Square is also well worth a gander:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhv6vjxtw4M

Murlo did one of them mixes with Gemma on a load of specials the other day.

http://www.thefader.com/2015/02/17/fader-mix-murlo

DJ Q did a remix of Finn other day too

https://soundcloud.com/localactionrecords/finn-keep-calling-dj-q-remix

Grandmixxer & Novelist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ_id1rcrSo

Was pretty fun.

https://youtu.be/tpY-DPB2NYk

<3 <3 <3 <3

Why did no one tell me about this? Clearly the best thing he's put his name in six years at least. Perfect sweet spot between hard and ridiculously twee.

i saw/heard a really great new 4x4 grime track with a very slick video that i think was live at fabric, and i remember enjoying it a lot, but now i can't figure out what it was

anybody know what i'm talking about?

biggest grime anthem of 2015 so far

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxbzujA69DA

that track skepta did after the brits is brilliant too

yeah i love 'know me from'. cant stop listening to it.

know me from is so sick

lady leshurr becoming a megastar is now half a decade overdue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQxpXBG2fqs

just look at her
i can't stand the look of her
if i was a librarian
i would get lairy and
throw the book at her

That's great, and seems to be building a lot of momentum, which is great considering the British public have been firmly un-arsed about her up until now. If all else fails, go for the meme.

Stormzy track isn't exactly what I'd call tight but it's worth it for "I'll come to your team, fuck shit up, I'm David Moyes".

i'd never heard of the meme til now

This is a quick, quarterly reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a few album selections) are being posted as updated to a thread-specific Spotify playlist that I'm maintaining. I just did a quick sweep prior to posting this message and updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

That playlist is currently a bit more than an hour of music and is clickable below.
Give it a spin and subscribe if you want to listen along through the year.

Rolling Grime 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

these spotify playlist links just dont work for me, how do i open in the desktop player?

copy and paste the playlist url into the search box

i.e right click mouse, select copy link address

then paste into the top left search box on player, right click mouse select paste

didnt expect to be saying this, even just a few years back, but the new kano stuff seems to be really good.

Getting a general sense that everyone is revitalised right now. Even DJ Martian is back.

not that we all need him back, but it would be nice to have dizzee back on something properly grimey...

Well this came out six months ago but saw no mention of it on ILM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2cyZt5IDE

loved the poster for that, but IIRC the song itself was a lot like footsie's other stuff lately, ie more towards the trappy end of things. not bad, though the one with giggs was better. but i want to hear him on something more uptempo.

fam don't @ me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl1dc2cEJfs

iglew on the gobstopper label new ep released today.

ice cool frozen ambient grime - not igloo but iglew

Iglew - Urban Myth EP (OUT NOW)
https://soundcloud.com/gobstopper-records/sets/iglew-urban-myth-ep

plus

candidate for best grime mix of 2015

Classical Trax - Architecture II
https://soundcloud.com/classicaltrax/architecture-ii

Tracklist:
miggy-bamboo riddim
ice pope-red water
gronos-they don't understand
halp-whistling at the haters
eso-gorgon tears
alex compton-tower block dub
jeb1-palm island(devil mix)
scruloose-splinter
korma-silencer riddim
arma-power glove
smodi and utah?-lock gaze
sake-honshu skank
graves-dead rain
lington-3310 riddim(torai edit)
chaams-dead on time
dellity-amethyst shadow
zgjiim-counter attack
iglew-sleep lighter
riley lake-rizer
lthl-gone
tsunder-pathless
Morten_HD-Kheperu
dampe-112 riddim
nomis and maribor-vsop luv
tarquin-breath
celestial trax-shallow(ft chemist)
sexworker-tachyon
sharp veins-meltwater riddim
invader spade-oh boy
kamikaze-ghetto kyote(polonis remix)
wiley-eskimo(sheik remix)
mumdance and novelist-take time(monotrique edit)
randomer and m1k-duppyworkout(detroit edit)
big nartsie-gas leak(lars warn bootleg)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQOG5BkY2Bc

v much looking fwd to the jme album out this week

THE JME ALBUM IS AMAZING FYI

also if you're not keeping up with lady leshurr's queen's speech freestyles you should be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yyZBLvLDFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1f1kxKxWpYo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeT27F8CPY

why didn't this all happen years ago!

The JME album feels almost exactly like the sort of mid-tier record that could have come out on BBK pretty much any time in the last eight years or so, total absence of bar-raising there. Too many self-righteous vegan bars as well. I do like the bit when Big Narstie shouts 'BATISTUTA!' though.

I put on Shutdown straight afterwards and there was just so much more energy and urgency there.

Anyone listen to the No Lay mixtape? http://sbtv.co.uk/exclusives/no-lay-holy-sinners-mixtape-free-download/

Downloading now after reading about it in the Wire (of all places)

new Dark0 track is euphoric

Dark0 - Abrasion

https://soundcloud.com/dark0/fader-premier-dark0-abrasion/s-higi0

Released by:
Rinse
Release date:
15 June 2015

this is a monster of track, instrumental grime meets ravey future bass

Zgjim - hidden_forest_dance
https://soundcloud.com/zgjimi/hidden_forest_dance

another track in a similar style, instrumental synth grime from scotland

Bushido - Bashful
https://soundcloud.com/liminalsoundsmusic/bushido-bashful-1

sharp, fluid, incisive, euphoric

thank you for your contributions to this thread

some interesting grime developments happening in the US at to the mo

Korma from Seattle

Korma - Dismantle
https://soundcloud.com/xlr8r/korma-dismantle

Korma - Silencer Riddim
https://soundcloud.com/do-the-astral-plane/premiere-korma-silencer-riddim

one for the vocal fans, with korma's brilliant bass destroying beats added to the vocals from an old riko dan track

Riko Dan - Woo Freestyle (Korma Remix)
https://soundcloud.com/korma-seattle/riko-dan-woo-freestyle-korma-remix

a funky grime track, with lots of sharp chiming turns and oriental beats

SUDANIM — "Seydou"
https://soundcloud.com/soundpellegrino/seydou-by-sudanim

riyl Fatima Al-Qadiri

I for one do take "weightless" as a pejorative, unintended as it is is. Grime has gone from purpose-built MC tools to purposeless instrumentalizm: not what I'd call "advance". A form of music that once served as a vehicle for individual and social expression – explosive with individual hunger, freighted and feral with social demand - has been reborn as art-muzak. Superficially jagged and challengingly ugly; ultimately placid.

man there's just

so many weird take-it-as-given about the functions of music both generally & specifically in this

Yes - for one thing could've been written 20 years ago about hip hop. And just as false a dichotomy now as then, given the wealth of strong vocal grime itt.

guys, instrumental hiphop is boring too

some people like it

if you'd read the original post its pretty clear SR was responding to a wire piece about yameneko/mr mitch etc. he clearly wasnt referring to stuff like skepta or stormzy.

surely its much more 'weird take-it-as-given' (rockist?) to propose that proper instrumental albums/structural abstraction/melodicism are somehow an 'advance' for the genre

it IS a bit ironic that reynolds wrote liner notes for planet mu's terror danjah comp, the release that probably lead to all this 'weightless' stuff. but even then, that was much more to do with planet mu removing TD from his true context as mc tools (i remember a woebot blog post at the time lamenting the choice to release only instrumental versions, unfortunately forgetting that 'cock back' and 'boogyman'aside, the vocal tunes on aftershock were generally pretty crap. still, the point stands)

i'm really enjoying the recent grime resurgence and ive been hearing some good 'proper' grime on mode fm recently, though im still yet to hear any new mcs that particularly stand out.

and sorry but i have to say it, that reynolds quote is a good description of the stuff dj martian has been posting. just look at all the horrible artist names!

instro was on his soundcloud a while back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0MRLVjXOGA

stormzy got to the top 20 with a couple of freestyles :)

have seen little simz lumped in with the ~grime rebirth which seems odd to me, she's p much straight up uk hip-hop. she hasn't really caught my ear yet tho i'm gonna give the album a few more chances :(

very impatiently waiting for lady leshurr to FINALLY become a gigantic megastar tho

THE LOGAN SAMA FABRIC MIX >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

... is kind of monotonous

I like it. Some really good MCing on there, both from the veterans and the youngsters. Not keen on the trap style beats though

don't get me wrong, i like it too but it's rather one-note

I was open-mouthed in awe for the first half of it, convinced that we finally had a commercial grime release that came close to capturing the intensity of the best radio sets - Kano sounds revitalised in this context, D Double still reassuringly useless in anything other than full eye-popping intensity, Scrufizzer bars amazing, clearly Black Butter aren't going to ruin him entirely. But the Jammer track seemed to be hinting at a shift up a level that never quite came, the final stretch wasn't the victory lap I'd been anticipating and it sort of ran out of steam towards the end, like he'd shunted a few of the ropiest beats and bars at the back end. Still excellent on balance though.

I mean, it did have me walking through London feeling like I was Megatron, which was surely the desired effect.

Shame it's such a non-stop bro-fest though.

Listening to this again and it really does tail off in the second half, but man that first half. I lost track but props to whoever was respondible for "I'm old-school like Djemba-Djemba".

ZXPH XLLXS - XCXD BXMB

This fucking tune! The Scru verse on it is probably the peak moment of the whole mix.

calling bullshit on the visionist album

the new maxsta ep is really great, i love how much of the title track's video was filmed in canary wharf, which has been a malevolently looming presence in east london for so long. there's a really effective balance between maniac and boothroyd productions, maxsta is so good at handling the more awkward latter. "mare street dickhead" lives up to its title!

"your girl came backstage, took a picture of my dick and put it on pinterest"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oHKhbomztQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLuNr70paw4

new stormzy is fire as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA49Iy_5IAk

As we move to the end of the year, I'd like to drop a quick note to encourage any readers / lurkers / ilxors to post their favorite grime tracks from this year to the thread so that I can hoover them into the ongoing spotify playlist. Last chance for any accessible stragglers that may not already be in the lexicon.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/11/17/elijah-skilliam-grime-2015-compilation/

If anyone's craving a Run The Road-style round-up then this comp is pretty great, loads of stuff I hadn't heard before (although virtually every verse will be familiar to people with the Logan Fabric mix).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5Srbw68axc

^^^ Also Kano over the XCXD BXMB beat is brilliant and rubbish in equal measure, right up until the point where he goes full Alan Partridge with "your girl's pum-pum stinks like the A13 Beckton exit", which is quite a location-specific diss.

#stormzyforxmasno1

Man try say he's better than me
Tell my man shut up
Mention my name in your tweets
Oi rudeboy, shut up
How can you be better than me?
Shut up
Best in the scene?
Tell my man shut up

Simple, yet effective

The Fadar - How Pirate Radio Made Grime Great, Again
http://www.thefader.com/2015/12/21/how-pirate-radio-made-grime-great-again

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (No Lay, Visionist, Preditah, Plastician) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Grime 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist