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DC Head Ting / #upnorth #grime

Anyone else watching / listening to DcStudios sets (and related) religiously on YouTube / Soundcloud at the minute?

If not then you definitely should be. It's like grime all over again!

Big up the midlands mandem...hold tight the Wolves massive, Brum, Notts, Sheffield...out to Full Force ent, big up Sox, Jaykae, Depz, Dapz on the map, Syco, free Hecki, out to K1 on the decks, DJ Blizzard, SNY...INVASION ALERT etc etc.

#upnorth #grime
 
It's looooads of fun.

Trrrasssme.

Butterz & Hardrive @ Cable

So basically, Elijah was nice enough to sort us out with a free pair of tickets for Butterz & Hardrive at Cable the other week to do a review.

Sweet - Butterz is the label. You all already know.

Was very excited getting there as had been meaning to check out cable for a bit, and managed to get a bunch of mates together to go all of whom had not been out together for ages which was great! The line up was looking hype enough already, but then got there AND...

P left the room!

Not that I don't rate him, but - DIRRR TEE TEEE!!! Even more exciting? I think yes.

Set up worked very well inside. Funky in room 2 with a massive bar, and nuff grime in room 1. First time I heard this classic tune for a start. And this one appeared to be the antem for the funky guys atm, which I fully back.

Needless to say, the whole night was pretty sick. D Double was obviously fucking fun. Blacks jumped on the decks at some point (literally, not DJ wise), and I'm fairly sure Trim was about which was unannounced. Bruza smacked it too.

Shit starts getting a little hazy later on, but my mate from Hackney apparently went to Church with Elijah Butterz so they were chatting bare, desperados was pricey but v effective, and Kode9 was on suprisingly late @ like 5am.

He killed it doe.

1 unlicenced taxi ride back to Vauxhall, some SERIOUS CAR-AOKE with my man Sam the driver and a whole one of deeezzz as standard and it was all over.

Fanx all Butterz / Hardrive crew for having us down. Reet old knees up to the soundtrack of some seriously sick and very polished contemporary grime / house / urban London music.

Big up Elijah, Skilliam, Terror Danjah, Royal T, Hard House Banton, Champion, Swindle and all of the rest of the DJs that made this a night not to forget.

Srsly looking forward to the next one...

The London Borough Of Bass

On 26th February, six of London’s grubbiest will take over Corsica Studios for a rave that stands to take you lower than ever before. The London Borough of Bass is here and I can tell you now, it’s not a pretty sight. 

THE Z-SHED, RAG & BONE, COIN OPERATED, SPAM FRITTA, SENSELESS RECORDS AND CREEPS LAW PRESENT...  

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Stagga + Skamma & Joe Blow (album launch) 

Burgaboy

Dexplicit

Remarc 

Jerome Hill 

Rrritalin 

Warlock

The Squire Of Gothos

Pirate Soundsystem 

Mustard Gunn VS Spaceface 

DeVille & Sasquatch + MC’S 

Silky Boys 

Your Niece 

Bump n’ Grind VS Josh West 

Das Boot 

UK BASS// GLOBAL BASS// MUTANT BASS  

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Saturday 26th February, 10 til 6am

Corsica Studios, Units 4/5 Elephant Road, SE17 1LB

£4/£6/£8 

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£4 EARLY BIRD TICKETS SOLD OUT! £6 TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM: http://tinyurl.com/4ltv72z

Be there, or be a square.

Door Number 3

http://www.mixcloud.com/jambie/door-no3grime-4-life-not-just-4-xmas-p/

"This is a style called Hungry Tiger..."

Bass(mental) Culture

Ok - so maybe some of the keener jampie followers out there will remember my post on Arthur ' Artwork' Smith ('Energy Nush' Feb 2010) of [now uber-succesful] Magnetic Man fame alongside Skream and Benga, and how he was previously also in mashman dark / future garage outfit Menta alongside one of the guys from speed garage b-line bwoys 187 Lockdown and DnD Productions, who was also building tracks back as far as 1992 - right???

Yea well, turns out our boy Arthur's been on the scene from back in the day as well - releasing super dark n' menacing first wave MNML tekno back in the mid 90s as on half of AJ Sound [as featured alongside many other ARD 90s trax on this week's rrridiculous Retrospective Rag & Bone show on Sub FM].

Out to Warlock for the spot.

Man's certainly getting his P's due now.

NUUMS FLASH - Interesting point here on the role of 'accesibility' and its importance in an established dance music scene ----> people like Katy B's current ab(use) in pop / grime here at the beginning of the [teens?]10's (via Benga / Benga vox) and some of the biggest electronic chart hits at the start of the 00s (Fragma / Fragma vox).

What u call it?

Underground?

Raving?

All Of My Soldiers Four 2 tha Floor

Just to point your eyes towards this new one up on mixcloud by Voodoo fam franklysick.

http://www.mixcloud.com/franklysick/frankly-sick-grim-up-norf/

Lots of good stuff - manz got the niche ting nailed!

Respect where respect's due.

Bad Gyal

You heard this one??

Brilliant. A really REALLY good production from Redlight, and Mizzy B's best vocal yet, says I.

Boo UKG(rime) meets Bashment styleez - very nice!!!

Scoped on the always wicked JUST JAM up pon dibby dibby don't watch that! TV.

Get 2 kno.

Rerub A Dub Style

Think I'm a bit late on this one, but still, it's a wicked rerub of an already huge track.

Shame it too will never get a vinyl pressing.

Digital manz don't watch.

Bassline is...Killin It

Has anyone else noticed that's there's a sh*tload of good bassline coming out at the moment?!?!?

Not much getting pressed unfortunately, so I've been raiding back catalogues.

London, Leeds, Sheffield....

...it's grime up north.

Mµst See!!!

BTW - Mike Paradinas' mixcloud is a f*cking goldmine.

Have you seen this one???
I forgot, but '05 was genuinely my 1992.

Top dj fronting what must be one of the best record labels of ALL TIME.

Maximum respect.

Get Mad Again

And AGAIN from Rustie at Kode9's album launch in Brixton!!!

Lots of good grimey stuff in the mix, once again; old and new.


Big Bwoy DJ.

Caught Up In This Madness

Just remembered this one going off ARD during Rustie's set at the Affair.

Big.man.ting.