Keep Watch vol. 18 features 36 tracks of the past, present and future of UK grime, funky, garage and dubstep curated by none other than DJ P.O.L. Style.
Amongst the plethora of tracks you can find many of Night Slugs’ recording artists like Girl Unit, Moska, Egyptrixx and of course L-Vis 1990. The mix continues with classic Dj Narrows track followed up with a handful of grime riddims that will blow your mind such as Rebound X’s “Rhythm ‘N’ Gash”. the grand finale is comprised of NMBRS records exclusives from SRC and Kavsrave followed by dubstep innovators Joker, Benga and a current favorite of ours Dubbel Dutch’s edit of Youngsta’s “Bongo”.
New vid. from Kano where he invites you on his journey from the UK to Jamaica and back to bring you his new club smash, “Get Wild, produced by Boys Noize with guest features by dancehall don Aidonia and Wiley.
FACT mix 147 was released today and it features non other than Redlight. Redlight is “best known for his drum’n’bass productions as DJ Clipz, as whom he released singles on labels like Full Cycle and Audio Zoo, Redlight is the latest alter-ego of Hugh Pescod, which he uses to refine an individual vision of bass music where grime, dubstep and squealing electro bleed into a sometimes overwhelmingly vibrant fusion, often soundtracked by ragga and grime vocalists”. Check out Redlight’s interview with FACT magazine here.
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The highly anticipated debut CD from Maxsta is right around the corner, dropping 10th may!
Maxsta may seem like just any other Grime musician, however, excellent is an understatement for this young and gifted 17 year old. Living in E6, East Ham, Maxsta started mcing at the age 14 and quickly became part of a Crew called the Mucky Wolfpack, which was founded by legendary grime MC Gods gift.
Inspired by the great success of artist such as Dizzee Rascal, Wiley, Kano and lethal B at the time, Maxsta stuck to his graft, regularly featuring on pirate radio shows partaking in lyrical battles with anyone and everyone. After creating a buzz for himself within the scene it was inevitable that was to be introduced to artists such as Bless Beats and Wiley who felt that they needed to start working with the kid. In tern this also forced other artists such as Jammer, Frisco, Toddla T, Wretch 32, Little Dee, Maveric, Sensor & Delusion to collaborate with him. Maxsta also spent time recording music in the infamous Always Recording studios In North London were he was further introduced with Double S, Chipmunk and Vertex. Maxsta has now become one off the UK’s most talked about Younger Grime Mcs and is destined for great things.
You can preview his debut CD “THE MAXTAPE” on Amazon
Track list:
1. Intro
2. East London Is Back
3. I Promise
4. Talent – Maxsta & Wiley
5. Second Chance
6. Bait Face – Maxsta & Dot Rotton
7. I Don’t Care
8. Baider
9. Don’t Wanna See – Maxsta & Voltage
10. Reason, The – Maxsta & Kerry Louise
11. Back To Grime
12. Can’t Escape [part 1]
13. Can’t Escape [part 2]
14. My Operation – Maxsta & Flowdan
15. Rollin’
16. Way Forward – Maxsta & Stelf/Shrimpoz
17. They Don’t Understand – Maxsta & Mercston
18. Next Ting
19. Skadoosh – Maxsta & Ghetts/Dollar The Dustman
20. BBC Radio Freestyle
To celebrate the release of S-X’s Woo EP, StayFresh Digital has released the Woo Mixtape. The mixtape features over 46 grime mc’s over the woo riddim, including D Double E (who is smashing it with the street fighter riddim at the moment), Maxsta (Maxtape coming soon), Footsie (Newham Generals), Trilla, P Money, Jammer, Slick Don, J1 and lots of other big mc’s. The Woo riddim has been branded ‘the biggest Grime Instrumental of 2010 & for a very long time’ having had continuous radio play since October 2009 until present, from the mainstream to the pirate stations.
You can download the massive mixtape from StayFresh here
and remember to buy the EP with additional remixes on iTunes or Amazon
Also, check out this video with StayFresh featuring Tempa T on the Woo Riddim:
After a great bashment with South Rakkas Crew and Serocee yesterday, we’re continuing the celebration of Easter with a visit from our homeboys in Tomb Crew (UK)! This is also one that you don’t want to miss. We predict a night of havoc and mayhem!
See y’all there!
Just found this amazing mix featuring 250+ beats from 1999 to 2009. The artwork is great too – track listings hand-written on cassette covers.
Download here: A Boom Bap Continuum
Here’s one for all the Grime-heads all over! Our good friends over at Bassmusicblog made Tomb Crew make the 10th installment in the Bass Music Mix-series. Tomb Crew (that has been making massive noise the last year) started out playing a lot of grime, so Bassmusicblog asked them to put together a great mix of classic grime tracks! Plastician, Jon E Cash, Ruff Sqwad, they’re all here – if you missed out the first time then get to know!
Listen to: “Bass Music Mix 10 – Tomb Crew’s Grime Mix” here:
Rinse FM is celebrating its 15th birthday at Matter in London at 31. july. The line up is sick with DJ’s like Skream v Benga / Ms Dynamite / Boy Better feat. Skepta + JME + Frisco + Maximum / Kode9 / Magnetic Man (Live Set) / Geeneus / Crazy Cousinz / Marcus Nasty / N–Type v Youngsta / Zinc / Slimzee / Newham Generals / Caspa / Spyro v Silencer v Vectra / Alexander Nut / Katy B / Circle / Chef v Plastician / Scratcha
and MC’s like Pokes / Stamina / Versatile / Tippa / SP:MC / Crazy D
if you are in London get your tickets in advance here (Sold Out!)
If that’s not enough for you, the good guys over at Rinse is also giving away a tune a day until the day of the rave. They are giving away brand new, highly exclusive, unreleased tracks from the likes of Skream, Benga, Zinc, Skepta, Crazy Cousinz, Silencer, Plastician, Scratcha DVA, Roska and MORE!
Starkey recently released a huge mix called Starkbass. Its tracklist features an awesome selection, and most of the tracks are previously unreleased.
A few days ago XLR8R Magazine did a review of Starkbass, and I am citing this:
The mix is packed with crazy blipped-out synths, over-the-top crashing wobble effects, maddeningly complex beats, and a nearly endless supply of relentless, manic energy. Listen closely and you can pick out the differences between Raffertie’s teeth-rattling tweak-outs, BD1982’s dubbier productions, and Wonder’s straight rawness, but the breakneck pace may leave you disoriented. As long as you can handle the ride, Starkbass is a superb mix.
If you want to buy Starkbass or maybe listen to some samples head over to Juno or boomkat
