john peel - 'grime' night - live comment and analysis

I wonder why Peel's producers have gone for the slightly lower-key West London stuff, as opposed to the Roll Deep/Ruff Sqwad/NASTY stuff or the Rephlex comp that's been getting all the press recently. Maybe it's just because they're Maida Vale locals?

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this is sort of the best way to listen i reckon. like, you cant (can you?) concentrate all the way thru so just listen to bursts, tune in and out, or do something else, like drive or do the ironing. i love the idea of missing out on loads of things, but hearing snatches of tune, or weird lyrics every so often. this is why music is better in a club, because you hear things you hear just that once, and you know will will probably never hear again. frustrating, but so sweet!!!

gilles peterson, on the other hand, is best to fall asleep the entire way through. and waker up for those weird programmes on bbc world.

proto sound influences/ inspirations...

A Homboy a Hippie A Funkydread: Total confusion
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Unique 3
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Ruthless Rap Assassins
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Dub
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Techstep Jungle
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Dubstep from a few years back
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MCs on Pirate Radio

well yes indeed.

"blue jam" i always contrived to listen to when i was sort of dozing off (i assume that was kind of the point of broadcasting it that time at night); it sounded about ten trillion times as frightening and dislocating as when you listen to it fully awake.

a few saturdays ago i dozed off to radio 4. when i awoke they were broadcasting what sounded like an audio-only version of the previous night's TOTP (it was the World Service). it was eerie. it reminded me of being in intensive care after my accident. i didn't have the energy even to switch on a TV, never mind watch one, but i had headphones in which I was able to listen to TV channels in sound only as well as radio channels. that was really weird. that oddly blissful vegetative state of being a totally incapacitated inpatient. i suppose it's the relief of not having to do anything for yourself anymore...even with the pain (which you always blot out in retrospect).

also, re wth world service when radio 4 ends. hearing emma someone doing the charts is pretty weird when 30 mins later you have been listening to today in parliament or something. john peels show gets put on there too on some days. its like listening to all of bbc radio refracted through some broken glass.

You mean, like, there are different genres of grime for different parts of London, and there are people who can tell the difference?

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Hmm, when I said low-key I guess I more meant under-exposed... but I'm sure there's people out there who can argue genre sounds by post-codes.

J.Me, Big-H, Dan - 'Meridian'

Dimples, Frisco, Cell 22 - 'T.M.T'

General L.O.K - 'Total Package'

Orange - 'Venom Empire'

Dimples, Random Impulse, Method, Ruxspin 'Gunja Fam / Rattle Pack'

I fear there are many more I'm not aware of, but there seems to be a lot going on - Skepta, P Jam, Marsta and Hindzy D are all big producers/djs also from north london.

Flirta D and Ribz from Slaughter Kids (SLK)

NJ Fever and Marciephonix from Dynasty.

Plenty more besides.

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