Grime r_port vol. 5

Kano's 12" "Nite Nite" on 679 has been around for a lil' while now but still is fresh enough to lose a few words on it. First of all it should be either entitled E.P. then 12" due to the fact that there's three different tracks on it instead of having a title track plus additional remixes, which is a good thing here as there's a bit for every lover of urban music. "Nite Nite" features Mike "The Streets" Skinner on vocals and ain't exactly Grime but a mixture of urban styles that might be called R'n'G / Rhythm'n'Grime - a term I picked up from a conversation with Phokus at Hamburg's Bernstein Bar last saturday. Another track included on this 12" is "Nobody Don't Dance No More RMX" which is a heavily piano driven 4x4/Speedgarage-tune getting a bit too cheesy here and there but defo being a women pleaser on tha dancefloor. Flipsidewise there's High Contrast providing Drum'n'Bass treatment for "Reload It" featuring Demon & D Double E as MC's. Drum'n'Bass for the masses, big time rave tune - a style I'm not that deep into, but this one I love for it's anthemic nature.

Suburban Warfare Recordings have put out their first whitelabel recently featuring one tune by Swiftee and another by DJ Greef. Whilst Swiftee serves deep, dark'n'heavy Halfstep business with a slowly pounding, paralyzing bassline and some more housy vocal snippets DJ Greef is tearing up the place with some breaky ElectroGrime that comes up with sick Metal guitar treatments plus scratch attacks. 'ardcore stuff.

Seems like guitar samples becoming more popular with Grime producers as the latest Ruff Sqwad Production "Together" is dealing with a guitar sample, too, this time taken out of Police's uberhit "Message In A Bottle". That track featuring Wiley on vox is to be found on a whitelabel with "DIRT" as matrix number so watch out for that, not only 'coze "Together" is gonna be huge but also coze there is two monstrous scifi-as-fuck riddims on the flipside which are redefining the term "darkness" for sure. Hell of scary stuff that's gonna shockfrost entire dancefloors in essential angst.