― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 18:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:27 (eighteen years ago) link
"Vice Versa" is actually the instrumental Jammer track (the 8-bar with the sparkling pipes and evil bass) which was the flipside on the original "Boys Luv Girls" 12 inch. A lot of people refer to this as "Vice Versa (Remix)" to unnecessarily distinguish it from "Boys Luv Girls".
Unfortunately I suspect I actually started this trend two years ago!
I have this feeling that I will like the Roll Deep album when I hear it.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link
(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:
kanovice versan.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.
― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 14 July 2005 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― ppp, Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 14 July 2005 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 July 2005 22:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 15 July 2005 02:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― T. Weiss (Timmy), Thursday, 11 August 2005 22:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I even like the bits where he goes all emo.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Sunday, 28 August 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
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
― heywood jablomi (heywood), Monday, 29 August 2005 02:46 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2007 13:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2007 13:30 (sixteen years ago) link
WAAAAACK.
Ick.
― Alex in SF, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:11 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Remember when he did a song with Klashnekoff? That was OK.
― Dom Passantino, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i dont remember.
id like to see him doing a song with both beddingfield siblings though. or someone else thats really shit.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
nononononononono
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:48 (sixteen years ago) link
not to titchy, natasha bedingfield >>>>> most of those collabs
but ***THREE*** songs with fraser to smith?! you are too kind 679 A&R dept!
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link
i meant fraser t smith.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:50 (sixteen years ago) link
"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.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 14:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.nme.com/images/thums/84_lethalbizzlemagebits_01.jpg
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:04 (sixteen years ago) link
back in the day i said grindie will never die.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm confident that this Kano album will be worse than the Bizzle one, which is not very good to begin with
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:41 (sixteen years ago) link
everyone but me seems to have heard the bizzle one
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
i haven't heard the bizzle album. this is deliberate
― lex pretend, Monday, 9 July 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
i have a special place in my heart for the bizzle.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 9 July 2007 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
this new album is so so shit.
tragically shit.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Saturday, 28 July 2007 13:40 (sixteen years ago) link
so it leaked?
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 28 July 2007 13:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― DJ Mencap, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:25 (sixteen years ago) link
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)
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Is Kano going for the Radio 2 friendly version of grindie then?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Kano feat. Tom Chaplin - Broadway Market
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Kano feat. Paul Potts - Who's The Real Winna?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Kano feat. Pinefox - Am I Ready To Be Heartbroken?
― Matt DC, Monday, 6 August 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 September 2008 11:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Perhaps it is because Kano is an insufferable douchebag?
― tpp, Monday, 29 September 2008 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
*haven't heard the album
― tpp, Monday, 29 September 2008 11:40 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Carrie Bradshaw Layfield (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Monday, 29 September 2008 11:43 (fifteen years ago) link
too monochromatic? it's a million light years better than what i was expecting though and the wiley track kills, so thumbs up.
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 September 2008 11:44 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 September 2008 11:48 (fifteen years ago) link
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 grimierkanos 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 albumthe flow isnt what it used to be
only collabo i thought was good on there was the one with ghetto.
― titchyschneiderMk2, Monday, 29 September 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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).
― the next grozart, Monday, 29 September 2008 13:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Monday, 29 September 2008 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"hustler" is so dope
does the rest of the album sound like this
― a passion for posting (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 21:21 (fifteen years ago) link