grime in 2015

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.
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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!

tarquin

smodi & utah?

SEXWORKER!!!

...mumdance & novelist!

;)

I listened to the Mumdance Fabric mix a few times a couple of months back and came to the conclusion that these guys are amazing sound designers/producers but not particularly interesting as writers/composers. Still, the part of me that listened to it like was an Autechre record found a lot to enjoy, these big isolated citadels of bass and shards of synth noise, but I couldn't work out the functional point of the music at all. Like, what actually happens when this stuff is played on a dancefloor? What are you actually supposed to DO to it?

As a mix in its own right it only really got into gear when the MCs appeared (and really Novelist comes across as a very pedestrian and witless MC, Riko absolutely destroyed him). And the final (stupendously enjoyable) stretch of 90s hardcore felt like a tacit admission that this scene lacks proper bangers/anthems/rollers of its own.

Cosign on the names, Dark0 really does sound like the kind of name designed to appeal to hirsute Quietus bores and no one else.

OTOH if it hadn't been for the latest revive I'd have been completely ignorant of that No Lay mixtape which I will be downloading immediately.

"Korma" is the single worst producer name I have ever seen. Might as well call yourself DJ Tepid.

Rapid EP on Butterz sounds very good.

https://soundcloud.com/butterz/rapidhearthis
https://soundcloud.com/butterz/rebore

Better than the Royal-T thing earlier this year.

"Korma" is the single worst producer name I have ever seen.

he's pretty great though

This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

36 tracks, 2+ hours

ILX's Rolling Grime in 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

chilled synth grime with rnb / pop vocals

Oscar Key Sung - Premonition
https://soundcloud.com/key-sung/p-r-e-m-o-n-i-t-i-o-n

new article,

Why Today's Underground Club Music Sounds Cybernetic
http://www.thefader.com/2015/07/09/system-focus-cybernetic-club-music

Flavour of the year: Korma gets checked

Just up the coast in Seattle is Korma, who with YNGN runs the new label Team Aerogel, which to date has just one, high-intensity release by the two of them, Ascension. Korma also has an EP out on Montréal's Infinite Machine label: titled ZGMF-X19A, it's full of gleaming metallophones and named after a mobile battling suit from the Gundam anime series: a union of body and technology.

why did none of you fucks tell me the new tinie single is dope?

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

Classical Trax has recently released a various artists compilation: Architecture

bandcamp
https://classicaltrax.bandcamp.com/album/architecture

Classical Trax Presents: Architecture

Welcome to our grime inspired compilation featuring some of the best producers from around the world.

also on soundcloud

Classical Trax Presents: Architecture...The Compilation
https://soundcloud.com/classicaltrax/sets/classical-trax-presents-7

I feel very happy about grime in 2015

Riko jumps on Prince Rapid's Pepper Riddim with predictably explosive results:

https://soundcloud.com/rikodan/ghost-chilli

Couple instrumental things I'm liking atm:

Rude Kid's remix of Spyro's Tekkerz:
https://soundcloud.com/rudekidmusic/tekkerz-remix

New thing from Spooky called Peach Melba:
https://soundcloud.com/pigeonsandplanes/spooky-peach-melba

An old thing from Shriekin called Red Beach:
https://soundcloud.com/blacklinksound/shriekin-red-beach-preview

http://blog.soton.ac.uk/rcs/files/2014/12/RUDE-KID.jpg

the long awaited debut album from Visionist

PAN announce Visionist album
http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2015/08/11/pan-announce-visionist-album/

The UK producer will “take a defining step forward” with the release of Safe in October.

first track

Visionist - Victim
https://soundcloud.com/pan_recs/02-victim

atmospheric synth grime - heavy bass fast trigger percussion with smudgy ambient synth tones

Utah? - Oxygen ep on Kastle's Symbols label

https://smbls.bandcamp.com/album/oxygen

Spotify ep link: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1hUbSQRHMZdXNWVDOUu2Cz

tracks for the playlist:
oxygen
vox

the track Vox is like the bushido track track i mentioned earlier this year: sharp, fluid, incisive, euphoric

Utah? are from Sheffield, so the reputation for Sheffield electronic music is carried fwd in a new generation

http://www.fabriclondon.com/blog/view/newsflash-logan-sama-has-mixed-fabriclive-83

kablammo

While I'm here, I'd just like to say that the Acre and Filter Dread EP on Codes is dead good