Grime Roundup: Album edition September 27, 2012
Oh you know Son Raw wasn’t going to let these slip, right? Repeat after me: Grime is not an album genre. While the most dedicated fans might disagree, the general consensus about Grime is that it’s heyday was an era of pirate broadcasts and 12 inch singles, completely divorced from the album medium. Even mixtapes […]
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Son Raw lick shots pon ya bloodclot ‘ead. While The Bug wets our appetites for his forthcoming Angels & Demons album via promises of Acid Ragga, Terror Danjah is mining the same fertile territory in a less conceptual manner. Of course, Grime’s potent mixture of Jamaican vocalization and electronic aggression has been around since its […]
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Sach O is lobbying to host “Yo! MTV Grime!” For a man with a stage name befitting a Marvel Comics super villain, Terror Danjah’s a nice guy. I recently caught up with the Grime Don at Montreal’s Igloofest and asked him a couple questions about his career resurgence, the state of Grime in London, some […]
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Sach O killed the Radio Star. He also has a Tumblr. Reading Jeff’s post on the wonderful (and nostalgiatastic!) Stretch and Bobbito reunion, I couldn’t help but think of my current radio listening in starkly opposite terms to the scarcity he describes. As a Rinse listener, I’m flooded with hour after hour of raw, uncut […]
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Though he’s practically unknown on American shores, Terror Danjah is known overseas as one of the pioneering Grime producers. Understandably, grime never translated well to Yankee ears. Other than “Fix Up Look Sharp,” Wiley and Kano, to me, most of it sounds like 3 a.m. drunk yelling at a fast food drive-through, staffed by employees […]
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