grime in 2015

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

I'm not sure if this should go in this thread, but it's one of my favourite songs of the year and I can't think of a more appropriate place.

J Hus - Lean & Bop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s00HrAFsMhY

Just getting on this Fabric mix... Woah... This is some pretty interesting music. Like Matt DC, I wonder what it's function is but at the same time I'd love to experience it on Fabric's dancefloor.

fabric mix is ridiculously good. kano is the weak link though, and just when i thought he was good again.... still not sure what happened to him exactly.

SafOne Ft. Trilla, PRessure0121 & Bomma B - She Wants A Man From Brum (prod. Preditah)

https://soundcloud.com/safonestayfresh/safone-ft-trilla-pressure0121-bomma-b-she-wants-a-man-from-brum-preditah

Not quite this year's 'German Whip' but a fun tune.

new melodic instrumental synth grime Plastician track, as previously featured in a few of his weekly shows back in the summer

Plastician - Sorcery
https://soundcloud.com/i-d-online-1/plastician-sorcery

via
https://i-d.vice.com/en_gb/article/premiere-plastician-sorcery

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=30891

!!!!!

Fabriclive 83 has been mixed by Logan Sama.

The KeepinItGrimy boss and long-time grime DJ has compiled a selection of 24 instrumentals featuring 66 MCs, including Novelist, D Double E, Ghetts and Flowdan. "To be invited to record a Fabriclive mix was a great honour," Sama says. "I wanted to make a real statement so I called up the producers I have been supporting over the last couple of years and asked them to create something special for me. I spent several months collecting acapella bars and went about building a sonic collage over my instrumental mix."

For the first time in Fabriclive history, the mix is being made available on vinyl. The quadruple-vinyl version of Fabriclive 83 contains all 24 instrumentals that feature on the CD and digital versions.

Sama adds: "Vinyl has always been an important part of grime history. It gave us the power to get our music out to the public without having to be tied in to the mainstream music industry. Being able to make our own music and then press it up directly onto vinyl was so pivotal to the growth of grime for many reasons. When I was a teenager growing up and getting into DJing something like this would have been exactly what I wanted, it’s great to be able to give people a package like this."

The launch party will take place at fabric on Friday, October 9th. Listen to Rapid's "3rd Eye," which features on the mix, below.

01. Wiley - Sweep The Floor + Vocals by Wiley, P Money, Jendor & Despa
02. Footsie - Brake Light + Vocals by D Double E, Footsie, Chronik & Diesle D Power
03. Rude Kid - fabric + Vocals by Rival, Ghetts, So Large & Rapid
04. Faze Miyake - Rifts + Vocals by Merky Ace, Shifman, MIK & TKO
05. ZXPH XLLXS - XCXD BXMB + Vocals by Ego, Cadell, Scrufizzer, Maxsta, Rocks, Grim Sickers & Nasty Jack
06. Jme - The Return + Vocals by Manga, Frisco, Novelist, Jammer & Diesle D Power
07. Swifta Beater - War Lord + Vocals by P Money, Jendor, D Double E, Ghetts & Kano
08. Sir Spyro - Farda + Vocals by Footsie, Meridian Dan, Bossman Birdie, Milli Major & President T
09. Dullahbeatz - Final Stage + Vocals by Kano, Saf One, Mayhem , Deadly, PRessure, Bomma B, Tornado, Flowdan, Killa P, GodsGift, Cadell, Shifman & MIK
10. Jammer - Waterden Road + Vocals by Jammer, Discarda, Manga & Killa P
11. Rapid - 3rd Eye + Vocals by Roachee, Stamina, So Large, Rival & Maxsta
12. Spooky - Cookie Monster + Vocals by Scrufizzer, Blacks, Kozzie, Mez, Snowy & J Dot
13. Terror Danjah & P Jam - Crud + Vocals by Hitman Hyper, Jamakabi, Capo Lee & Jammz
14. Kahn & Neek - Bucktown + Vocals by P Money, Jammer, Rocks, Saint, Nico Lindsay & AJ Tracey
15. Jammz - Contender + Vocals by Jammz, Row D, Capo Lee, Kwam, PK & Big Zuu
16. Mystry - Launchpad + Vocals by Saint, Hitman, Jaykae, Choppa, Grim Sickers, Merky Ace, Ego, Chronik & TKO
17. Trends - Ambush + Vocals by Jaykae, Bomma B, Tornado, Hitman, Trapz, Kwam & Spitz
18. Teeza - West London + Vocals by AJ Tracey, Mez, Kyeza, Snowy & J Dot
19. Preditah - Crash Bandicoot + Vocals by D Double E, Discarda, Footsie, PRessure, Deadly, Saf One & Mayhem
20. Maniac - Do One You Mug + Vocals by Scrufizzer, Maxsta, Rapid & GodsGift
21. Davinche - Kestra + Vocals by Jammz, Novelist, AJ Tracey, PK & Capo Lee
22. Teddy Music - Swear Down + Vocals by Bossman Birdie, Milli Major, Meridian Dan & President T
23. The Heavytrackerz - Santa's Last Christmas + Vocals by Discarda, Roachee, Stamina, MIK, Merky Ace, Shifman & Kozzie
24. Masro - Constructive Mayhem + Vocals by Diesle D Power, Novelist, PK, Kwam, Meridian Dan & President T

Everything about this project sounds completely insane. Stoked.

Ah I see Paolo got there a couple of weeks ago. Still, judging by the range and density of the personnel involved this looks like it could be brilliant.

!!

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/12027824_10153380840984667_6624674676916859342_n.jpg?oh=e933731d2be4183617f3fcbb3dde4f8a&oe=56645CDA

20. Maniac - Do One You Mug + Vocals by Scrufizzer, Maxsta, Rapid & GodsGift

Didn't know he was out of prison. Cool track title, terrible person. Can't believe he only did six years

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/this-girl-absolutely-nailed-stormzys-shut-up-outside-the-noisey-office

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

It's 45 tracks and over 2 hours.

Rolling Grime 2015 Thread Spotify Playlist

19. Preditah - Crash Bandicoot + Vocals by D Double E, Discarda, Footsie, PRessure, Deadly, Saf One & Mayhem

This will be the best track.

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