Kano album sampler leaked

(this is the tune that begins "let me now turn to our program for the future" yeah?)

that explanation is semi-bunk tho, it ws one of the few 12s then of that ilk that had a label aaaaaand it said the following:

kano
vice versa
n.a.s.t.y

(erm also the label is on the boys luv girls side. i can always blame jungle for swapping intended label-sides tho)

make of it all what u will.

i'm not sure that the kano album is that much better, although maybe that's just because none of the songs which are new to me are that great.

I even like the bits where he goes all emo.

Grime City goes off again this week. Weds night we'll be out at Nickie's BBQ (fillmore/haight)
playing all the grime, ukg, 2-step, broken, and crunk sounds you can't hear nowhere else. If you haven't come through yet, swing by and see what all the hype is about (hella grime press these days...check the new york times!)

Special Guest...Kid Kameleon (mashit sound lab)

Residents....Dj Megatron, The One, Dj Munk, Jamin Creed alongside MC Child......

$3 after 10.........come early

and the first single will be...

'this is the girl' FEAT CRAIG DAVID!

and lo, it is absolutely fucking dreadful. just listen to that cockrock guitar!

this will be the worst album of the year.

Confirmed Tracks

* London Town. Written by Kano/Mikey J. Produced by Mikey J.

* Buss It Up (Featuring Vybes Kartel) Written by Kano/Vybes Karte/Don Corleone. Produced by Don Corleone

* Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash) Written by Kano/Fraser T.Smith. Produced by Fraser T.Smith/Kano

* This Is The Girl (Featuring Craig David) Written by Kano/Fraser T.Smith/Craig David.Produced by Fraser T.Smith/Kano/Craig David

* Feel Free (Featuring Damon Albarn) Written by Kano/Damon Albarn/Fraser T.Smith. Produced by Kano / Fraser T.Smith

* You're The One (Featuring Lemar)

WAAAAACK.

Ick.

layer cake mix cd was crap.

hes lost his drive, far as i can tell. very uninspired lately. cnt imagine all those features are going to help him much.

Remember when he did a song with Klashnekoff? That was OK.

i dont remember.

id like to see him doing a song with both beddingfield siblings though. or someone else thats really shit.

nononononononono

not to titchy, natasha bedingfield >>>>> most of those collabs

but ***THREE*** songs with fraser to smith?! you are too kind 679 A&R dept!

i meant fraser t smith.

"Dear Grime people, please stop making artist albums, its not worth it cos you wont sell any anyway and itll prob be a bit of a cock up etc
thanx"

this is still OTM.

i dont know what else we expect them to do though.

http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_lethalbizzlemagebits_01.jpg

back in the day i said grindie will never die.

I'm confident that this Kano album will be worse than the Bizzle one, which is not very good to begin with

everyone but me seems to have heard the bizzle one

i haven't heard the bizzle album. this is deliberate

i have a special place in my heart for the bizzle.

this new album is so so shit.

tragically shit.

so it leaked?

i thnk the prob with kano doing more hip hop beats is that he doesnt really have dominant enough voice. he sort of gets lost. he needs more faster, syncopated beats to really fit right. thats just me though. ive been saying the same thing for about 50 years...

It didn't sound as bad as I thought (predicted on another thread in fact, I think) it might, given a cursory listen, but certainly not jumping out, and that Craig David teamup is just the pits

Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)
Me And My Microphone (Featuring Kate Nash)

Is Kano going for the Radio 2 friendly version of grindie then?

Kano feat. Tom Chaplin - Broadway Market

Kano feat. Paul Potts - Who's The Real Winna?

Kano feat. Pinefox - Am I Ready To Be Heartbroken?

Can someone else who's heard it help me pinpoint what exactly it is about 140 Grime Street that doesn't quite work? I'm sure it must be something more than 'trying too hard' but I can't work out what.

Perhaps it is because Kano is an insufferable douchebag?

*haven't heard the album

It could be that the only decent Kano track ever was a nu-metal joint and he's steadfastly stayed away from that genre since? Maybe he should see what Disturbed are up to these days, collab w/them.

too monochromatic? it's a million light years better than what i was expecting though and the wiley track kills, so thumbs up.

No it's not that it's monochromatic, it's more that the beats sort of drag in a weird way and he's rubbish whenever he tries to slow down. Most of the production doesn't really feel propulsive enough so even the good verses have this running through quicksand feel.

reasons its a bit dull to me -
bit late in the day - this should have been what his debut was like (ie a grime-focused album)
kano sounds like hes doing it cos he has to, not cos he wants to, so some of it sounds a bit like an exercise hes really exerting himself to be interested in (and also really trying hard to sound hard)
the beats arent all that good, though they are grimier
kanos hooks are pretty rubbish and that slow flow of his that he uses on them has never sounded good, not even on mic check
he hasnt got much to say, not for a full album
the flow isnt what it used to be

only collabo i thought was good on there was the one with ghetto.

I'm no afficionado but I thought it was brilliant! Love the production (big spacey and bass-y like some UK halfway house between Deltron 3030 and the first Pendulum album, although that's probably gonna put everyone off).

Also big minus points for Mikey J for fumbling the Omar whistle, could have been so sinister and menacing but no, they cocked it up.

"hustler" is so dope

does the rest of the album sound like this

intrigued by lex's review in the guardian but everything that lex reviews in the guardian is 4 stars unless it's klaxons so im still holding out

Think it was Tim who dismissed the Tinchy album as merely competent and then went back to it a month or so later and go "wow!" Exactly the same thing happened to me with this album - think I just needed to get over it not being 14 versions of Ps and Qs.

And yes, the album does sound a lot like Hustler. The best track is the Davinche banger, I Like It, towards the end though. That and the Wiley one.

intrigued by lex's review in the guardian but everything that lex reviews in the guardian is 4 stars unless it's klaxons so im still holding out

read more of my reviews!! uhh i won't deny i was wavering between 3 and 4 stars for this though. it's 7/10 basically, as are so many others. like matt i went back to it recently and was pleased that it held up, esp 'hunting we will go'.

having spent a regrettable 6 minutes with the wiley album today (finally the album stevem's been threatening to make all these years) i was quite up for giving this a fair crack of the whip. unfortunately however my patriotism is not such that i will stand for a bunch of embarrassing americanisms unconvincingly delivered over fake runners beats. (i am a longtime respecter of mikey j's very competent orchestral gangsta but this is overkill. the wiley tune's kool.)

(and) i like it when kane says he finds ironing therapeutic though. me 2!! i even do my socks.