The News Man
Big Up's to Blackdown (aka Clarky) who after a little breather and a trip around Cali, is back to blogging with a vengeance. Not only has he pointed out that next month, Jammer (who's recently been seen brucking out at Plastic People) alongside Landslide and Slt Mob will be playing at Forward>>, but he's also posted up the tracklisting for the second Run The Road compilation which I'm particularly excited about hearing. To those unfamiliar with Run the Road, the first release came at a time when Grime was still a little mysterious and so, by featuring many of the different styles and sounds that the genre covers, gave people a little education. As a result, the compilation is now considered by both music fans and journalists alike as one of the definitive Grime releases and the follow up will undoubtedly receive similar recognition.
As with the first release, Run the Road 2 features many familiar and up and coming names including Kano, No Lay and Trim and is due out on September 5th.
For more Grime and Dubstep news read Martin Clark's latest pitchforkmedia article which in the spirit of open mindedness talks about a little bit of everything and this time features a rather mean looking photo of the Cubstep King Skream. Particuarly interesting is Martin's observations of the softer side of the Grime MC's as manifested in tunes like Roll Deep's "Heartbreak Avenue," which surely help to break down the
misconception that Grime is purely blood, fire and brimstone. "Perhaps it's overstretching the point, but you can't help notice the correlation between the MCs' sentimental sides and samples from music released when they were kids." I, like many eternal optimists get annoyed with over-emphasis on the negative aspects of city living that are often heard in Grime and Hip-Hop lyrics, but it's obvious that if you're willing to look deep enough, many of these MC's, like all of us, have the natural, in-built postivity to counteract London's darkness. I'm hopeful that soon enough, MC's will build up the confidence to focus on these concious sides of their personalities, something which is unfortunately perceived as weakness amongst many man dem. Who know's, maybe Jammer and Wiley's contributions to Forward's notoriously deep vibe will reveal to those haters that Grime MC's aren't simply a bunch of aggy teenagers from East London and that on the flipside, Dubstep despite it's lack of vocals and abundance of delicate sounds is anything but music for southern softies, but I guess, only time will tell.
Whilst I'm on the subject of journalists, shouts to Chantelle Fiddy who as ever has had me hooked on her very intimate words about life in Hackney- the lady narrowly escaped some trouble with a man on a bike after Forward>>, something which I'm lucky enough to have never experienced. Thankfully, in what is a bit of a World of Grime fairy tale Fid's was rescued by Skepta and co who happened to be driving past...whoever said chivalry was dead?
As with the first release, Run the Road 2 features many familiar and up and coming names including Kano, No Lay and Trim and is due out on September 5th.
For more Grime and Dubstep news read Martin Clark's latest pitchforkmedia article which in the spirit of open mindedness talks about a little bit of everything and this time features a rather mean looking photo of the Cubstep King Skream. Particuarly interesting is Martin's observations of the softer side of the Grime MC's as manifested in tunes like Roll Deep's "Heartbreak Avenue," which surely help to break down the
misconception that Grime is purely blood, fire and brimstone. "Perhaps it's overstretching the point, but you can't help notice the correlation between the MCs' sentimental sides and samples from music released when they were kids." I, like many eternal optimists get annoyed with over-emphasis on the negative aspects of city living that are often heard in Grime and Hip-Hop lyrics, but it's obvious that if you're willing to look deep enough, many of these MC's, like all of us, have the natural, in-built postivity to counteract London's darkness. I'm hopeful that soon enough, MC's will build up the confidence to focus on these concious sides of their personalities, something which is unfortunately perceived as weakness amongst many man dem. Who know's, maybe Jammer and Wiley's contributions to Forward's notoriously deep vibe will reveal to those haters that Grime MC's aren't simply a bunch of aggy teenagers from East London and that on the flipside, Dubstep despite it's lack of vocals and abundance of delicate sounds is anything but music for southern softies, but I guess, only time will tell.
Whilst I'm on the subject of journalists, shouts to Chantelle Fiddy who as ever has had me hooked on her very intimate words about life in Hackney- the lady narrowly escaped some trouble with a man on a bike after Forward>>, something which I'm lucky enough to have never experienced. Thankfully, in what is a bit of a World of Grime fairy tale Fid's was rescued by Skepta and co who happened to be driving past...whoever said chivalry was dead?
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real singles post above made me chuckle. bots attacking blogspot now ? rah, whatever next
anyway i came to comment on run road 2. Its a very good comp this time round. The last one was more of an interoductory thing but this one delves a little deeper and there's a lot of exclusives there for the scene as well as outsiders. It deserves to be a big one
-Alex
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