"My sister has 'Heartbroken' on her mobile, but then before she had 'Crazy Frog' on there, so in a way that kind of popularity doesn't mean that it'll be bigger in the clubs." interview with PALEFACE
7 Year Glitch's newest hotboi of bassline drops his banging new mixtape: DJ VENOM - Maximum Carnage Look out for special copies of Maximum Carnage on CD floating about in a club near you. DJ Venom's rave debut will be at Real Gold's A Large Party II. DJ Venom vs Bok Bok & Manara in February. 2008 is gonna be our year. tracklist: 1. dexplicit feat giglez – ready – [...]
We did a mix for London's FACT Magazine which is also our latest podcast episode. Faggatronix - FACT END OF YEAR MIX Loads of contemporary hotness, all (mostly) from 2007. tracklist: 01 * BOK BOK - whole world changing dub [Southside intro] 02 * RIVA STARR - wtf 03 * BURAKA SOM SISTEMA - wawaba [RADIOCLIT remix] 04 * ZOMBY - tender touch [tropical house mix] 05 [...]
It's been a bit of a quiet year for Ruff Sqwad, after Guns n Roses 2 last year and then 'I'm From A Place' - with very rare radio appearances, no show on Rinse anymore, only a few releases, and a few big live performances. So we thought we better check that E3's finest - and one of the few crews who've lasted since grime's first flush of youth - hadn't gone into permanent hibernation. Fuda Guy: "Everyone's been doing their own thing lately, but don't get it twisted, [...]
For a while rumours have circulated that Jammer - who is currently considering an album deal with Big Dada, as Prancehall reported - was in some way related to the legendary poet Benjamin Zephaniah . I finally got the truth when I interviewed Jammer in the back of a car in Leytonstone recently. Here's an excerpt from the interview: Are you Benjamin Zephaniah's nephew? No, but he's a good family friend, almost like a Godfather to me still. I've known him since I was little. He's doing his thing [...]
latest edition of the hyperdub fanzine: Kode 9 on Rinse for the first time in 18 months His first couple of tunes are ultra melodic squelchy monsters that bare next to no resemblance to the rest of the awful shit that gets played on that station nowadays. 9 Is Different, don't you get it??? Look out for producers like Rustie, Joker and Ikonika - the bright technicolor future that awaits dubstep when people finally get bored of dark and boring sounds. "That's one of my most eratic 15 minutes yet" says 9 [...]
I interviewed Durrty Goodz for FACT magazine, and Georgie C came along to take pictures. Full piece is here . I have it on good authority that Born Blessed is shaping up to be on a higher level, conceptually, musically, and lyrically, than Axiom, as good as that EP was. Big things to watch out for! Does anyone have the mp3 of Goodz spitting about Hounslow and curry over some classic Bollywood theme on the BBC Asian Network? I done losted it.
I was uploading these classic Essentials mixes for someone, so I'm sharing them with you as well. If you don't already have them then get on it: 40mins or so each of tunnel vision grime, south London's finest at their arrogant, coke-fuelled best. Anyway I'm not gonna bang on about those mixes, as they're old. This is archive material. Essentials - Heating Vol 1 Essentials - Heating Vol 2 So what's new? Fuck Radio 5 is new, it's definitely worth the download. And [...]
Favourite quotes: "bassline tends to attract people who like serious violence" "Yorkshire's MySpace generation" "Yorkshire has always been on the cutting edge of music" Jokes aside though, how depressing. Look at the way they bust into Niche nightclub! Target ANY night like that and you'll find some bad shit, garage or not
I should probably learn not to get too excited about nights, because every time I look forward to something it totally flops and I have a rubbish time. BUT!!!! BRIGHTON - be exxxxcited about THIS ONE. Hatcha doing an old skool 8bar and 2step set, us doing our ting and Modelektor doing theirs, all on the glorious Gramps 15k rig. If this don't murk nothing will murk ever again. Speaking of getting excited, what is wrong with you people? Where are all the club goers and music fans? What's going on in this country? Somewhere between the [...]
first: THIS SUNDAY!!!!! then... please come !
We present the latest episode of the L.E.S podcast - G U N I T 's new mix: GIRL U NO ITS TRUE - Love Me Right 'I run this podcast' ype ting aside, this is my personal favourite mixtape of the year so far. Somebody give this guy his own club night! Download it, bruk out and then hit http://www.myspace.com/GirlUNo ItsTrue for more. To subscribe to the podcast hit save the XML feed into your iTunes or the [...]
Kode 9 puts out a cover of 9 Samurai by the incredible game boy grime/dubstep tribute act Quarta 330 Hyperdub can do no wrong in our eyes, so this release is kind of like a cherry on an already very sweet cake. I remember playing the myspace download of this tune about a year ago and being totally blown away by it, so it's cool to see 9 put out the loving tribute for everyone to enjoy. Gameboys apparently have the surprising potential for chest rattling low tones on a par with the anthemic original of this tune. [...]
"I would sit around waiting for night to fall, wait for summer to end. Or I would go out, wait for it to get dark, and then I'd go back and work on it, sort of hypnotise myself. Dan interviews Burial for the Guardian
We are proud to present BLOGARIDDIMS EPISODE 29: "69 ALLSTARS" compiled by Lower End Spasm fam and mixed by DJ Bok Bok Subscribe to the Blogariddims podcast series here: http://www.weareie.com/audio/b logariddims/Blogariddims.xml "The classic iconic image of grime is probably Crazy Titch and Dizzee Rascal as callow young road MCs, squaring up to each other in a pirate radio box-room on top of a high-rise block of flats. But the story of grime runs deeper than that, and it's hidden from view. Before the ego [...]
While Faggatronix DJ in Brighton as I type (big up the hard-workers) I just want to say, if you didn't know, that this Friday (20 Oct) presents a double bill of: Skepta's Album Launch , courtesy of Dirty Canvas, at Cargo. Hopefully a few guests, as well as Prancehall and Coki on decks. Flyer here . Also, simultaneously, just down the road Riko is going to be at Heatwave doing a grime/bashment set, which is clearly, just obviously going to be big. He should be on around midnight. You [...]
I was on SUB this Saturday 5-7pm. We're trying to do a new Saturday evening club warm-up thing, but it's a little irregular at the moment (my fault) and its either going to work or it isn't, time will tell. For the minute though, here's the audio: BOK BOK - SUB FM 6.10.07 Featuring digital dubs from Drop The Lime, Starkey, Dexplicit, Kode9, Zomby, L-Viz 1990 and a french producer called Monstr as well as bangin niche and old-skool grime rarities to warm you up for our [...]
this night should be a barrel of laughs, catch a Spasm favourite DJ Bitch Ass Darius alongside Paul B Davis AKA Brains (7YG) upstairs at the Old Blue Last (the music might actually be worth putting up with this hellhole venue). Here's a funny picture of Darius with DJ Assault: I love that photo Anyway here's the flyer for Thurday:
"Sumtimes in my art i focus on beats and the sum of the mc's ryhmes" JP posts an interview with Will Kay on his great new blog . I love Will Kay's grime scene portraits BTW and I'm convinced that he is some sort of bizzare outsider genius.
lower end spasm.
The Rains of Castamere by The National
Sleigh Bells - Demons (Official Music Video)
A-Trak & Dillon Francis - "Money Makin'" (Official Video)
DIIV "How Long Have You Known?" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Nas - Daughters
the Weekender ::: New music from Catcall // the National // Summer Camp
KNIFE PARTY – RAGE VALLEY EP
Live: Among Bouquets & Florets. Girls, HMV Forum.
