Comments on: POPULAR GOODZ

By: mosca

mosca — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 10:53:09 +0000

carlos: dunno where this argument has come from really, it wouldn’t “suck if they were making money and getting to use more of that to put out a better package”, i was talking about “street edge” (admitedly cheap…). the fact that they yell about “trying to make money” is interesting, but many MCs, even ‘famous’ ones, buy designer brands and whatnot but still live in tiny flats and have next to nothing in savings. many people from road live like this. trying to get money does not necessarily equal the ’shininess’ i was going on about. (shiny has a place of course, but grime’s place is (and should remain) separate- i’m talking productionwise here).

as for mp3s n that: grime is harder to find than rock. it’s a much smaller genre.

phones: i have heard dubstep ringtones but the bass is not quite DMZ standard; grime just works better cos the vocals are reproduced quite well.

whites: many grime tunes don’t ever get a release on wax (due to money shortage) and therefore never make it into the physical world (we can debate the physicality of CDs elsewhere…). the fact that whites have no artwork and all look alike was what i was chatting about when i said “delete from memory”- i dunno if you DJ or not but i generally find myself going for the coloured sleeves and even forgetting what’s on half the whites i own if i don’t write on them immediately.

apologies for the long ting post

bless

By: The FADER Magazine - Audio: Durrty Goodz, "Switching Songs Pt. 2"

The FADER Magazine - Audio: Durrty Goodz, "Switching Songs Pt. 2" — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:17:12 +0000

[...] Rupture alerted us (and everyone else) to Durrty Goodz’s new Axiom EP about a month ago, we got it, and it rested comfortably on our hard drive until yesterday. We’d now like to apologize to our ears for withholding good things from them. Sorry, ears. How could we have known? Durrty does his thing over a handful of heavy productions and even addresses the Crazy Titch trial in a hidden song at the end. The whole thing is highly listenable and refreshingly brief at just nine tracks. We’re putting up “Switching Songs Pt.2″ because it’s the most fun we’ve had listening to grime since “Merkle Man” and has Durrty changing up his style to fit ten or so pivotal grime instrumentals (identify all of them and we’ll send you and exclusive thank you email direct from the laptop of a FADER editor). Check Durrty Goodz’ MySpace for some other good stuff and links to buy the EP. [...]

By: carlos

carlos — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:32:16 +0000

damn. doi. oops. and yeah.

By: jace

jace — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:34:33 +0000

whites = white label vinyl records. i.e. 12″s in paper sleeves with plain white paper center label, with minimal or no packaging/info.
whites also = the MAN.

By: carlos

carlos — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:15:38 +0000

“if grime loses that cheap street edge it might start to follow in the footsteps of shiny hiphop, a direction it’s already veering dangerously close to.”

why would it suck if they were making money and getting to use more of that to put out a better package? they already talk (or yell, whatever) mostly about making (or trying to make) money anyway, just like their shiny and not-so-shiny counterparts on the other side of the pond.

“but grime exists mainly on mp3/ phone/ whites and is accordingly easy to delete from memory”

most commercial music nowadays exists mainly on mp3/phone/whites (remember that famous stat? three quarters of hip-hop CD BUYERS in the states are white). actually, i’d go so far as to say that grime’s harder to find in mp3 form than, oh i dunno, rock music! plus, the fact that grime is inextricably linked to dj culture puts more emphasis on the physical form (single) of a producer’s archive.

By: mosca

mosca — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 16:18:08 +0000

true most people have farted better covers than that but if grime loses that cheap street edge it might start to follow in the footsteps of shiny hiphop, a direction it’s already veering dangerously close to. dubstep is still so studiously documented and recorded in the annals of bass history that it needs decent artwork to accompany it like monarchs’ portraits in history books, but grime exists mainly on mp3/ phone/ whites and is accordingly easy to delete from memory. most grime producers are more concerned with bringing out new beats than accumulating a ‘respectable’ archive to be remembered by.

By: Grime Fan

Grime Fan — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:47:03 +0000

Best thing to come out off the Grime scene since Dizzee.
This is much better that Wiley.

By: DJ soundwave

DJ soundwave — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:45:32 +0000

The Axiom EP is incredible the music and lyrics are banging and the artwork is on point.
This is a must have for anybody that is feeling real UK street music.

Phat Beats, Sick Flows and Big Concepts

By: Jon Weinel

Jon Weinel — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 17:58:12 +0000

axiom ep has good vocals AND nice grimey/dubstep productions as opposed to TINA TURNER beats.

By: Dj canalh

Dj canalh — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 21:53:54 +0000

damn right, he needs to attend to a good photoshop workshop !!