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Recommend me some Grime please

 
 
iconoplast
10:23 / 06.08.04
So, I've heard of The Streets, Dizzee Rascal, and the female artists menationed in this thread - i.e., Lady Sovereign, Lady Fury, Shystie, Gemma Fox and KT.

I've been able to track down a song or two by most of them.

(i) Who else is good, and
(ii) Which are the good songs?
 
 
No star here laces
12:54 / 06.08.04
Acknowledged classics:

Sharkie Major - "ain't a game"
D.E.E. - "Birds in da sky"
Ruff Squad - "tings in boots"
NASTY - "Cock back"
Kano - "Boys vs girls"
Ruff Squad - "Serious thugs"

And you really should get the Wiley album and both the Dizzee albums cos they're great.

For comps, the classic ones are Lord of the Decks: Fellowship of the Mic and Lord of the Decks 2.
 
 
Not Here Still
18:15 / 07.08.04
I like Plasticman; try the grime comp on rephlex.

Boo Kroo have been making me laugh recently too; indeed, if you have sky, go to channel U
 
 
Char Aina
18:51 / 07.08.04
you should buy a copy of deuce magazine and listen to some pirate radio. if you live in london, that is.
 
 
I'm Rick Jones, bitch
12:16 / 08.08.04
Does all this need a new genre? I was mostly under the impression Diz and Mike Skinner were garage. It's kind of annoying.
 
 
illmatic
10:34 / 09.08.04
Why is it annoying?

Streets - not Grime. Would like to be, if he knew what it was, but is happier making bad chart sub dance music.
 
 
Char Aina
18:18 / 09.08.04
why isnt punk just called garage?
 
 
iconoplast
02:48 / 10.08.04
According to Nuggets, garage (Gah-rahge) = protopunk. But garage (rhymes with carriage) is something different.

Anyway - deal is: I heard Shystie and liked it. The Streets identify them (him?) selves as garage. Whatever. The hip hop over fast dub plate with funny british accent thing. That genre? I want more of it.
 
 
Char Aina
09:42 / 10.08.04
my point was that although the sounds are similar, and the mentality too, they are different genres.
the fact that both are called garage is just a happy coincidence that makes my head feel smooth inside.
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
11:11 / 10.08.04
One of the best resources for learning about the mysteries of Grime is possibly Kenneth Grant's typhonian trilogies: The Nightside of Eden, Cults of the Shadow, and Outside the Circles of Grime (mispelled in some later editions as 'Outside the Circles of Time'). Grant's infamous New Isis lodge of the OTO, that was operating in London during the 1950s, received strange broadcasts from the future on an old radio found in a Brixton charity shop that had allegedly been repaired by Austin Osman Spare.

Grant, of course, misinterpreted this material and thought that he was channeling transmissions broadcast from the nightside of Universe B when he was actually receiving transmissions broadcast from a tower block in Peckham in the early 21st century. Hence, you will find cryptic references to words of power such as "KANO" and "SHYSTI" scattered throughout Grant's books. He mistakenly attributes these names to the Tunnels of Set, but it's fairly obvious to the modern occultist that he was just picking up the pirate stations. Some of the sigils and drawings in Grant's early works, that have baffled occult scholars since the 50s, bear a remarkable resemblance to tags that have started to appear on walls and bus shelters throughout South East London over the last six months.
 
 
Char Aina
15:51 / 10.08.04
heh.
 
 
iconoplast
18:40 / 10.08.04
Gypsy Lantern is my hero.
 
  
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