questions you are dying to ask but are too scared to b/c of music nerd cred?

john eden

male pale and stale
Yep being "a weed" in UK slang is the same as a wimp. Always reminds me of Walter the Softie from the Beano.

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mos dan

fact music
"there were gunshots at sidewinder for my tune"

erm, can anyone expand on this please? i'd quite like to know the details.
 

benjybars

village elder.
"there were gunshots at sidewinder for my tune"

erm, can anyone expand on this please? i'd quite like to know the details.


shots were fired when skepta's 'pulse eskimo' was dropped at sidewinder... the tune later became known as 'gunshot riddim'... think that's it in a nutshell...
 

sodiumnightlife

Sweet Virginia
what's the name of the synth that is used on all those old electro records, and things like Tom Tom Club's "wordyrappinghood"? The one that sounds like its really wobbly. But not in the same way a dubstep synth would wobble.
 

noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
You hear a lot of those heavily vibrato'd chord stabs on Minneapolis sound records (The Time, Morris Day, Prince...) and those guys were all quite fond of Oberheims (OB-Xa perhaps) apparently. Could be any polysynth though really.

This is supposed to be very good by the way: http://www.sonicprojects.ch/obx/vstversion.html
 
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mos dan

fact music
shots were fired when skepta's 'pulse eskimo' was dropped at sidewinder... the tune later became known as 'gunshot riddim'... think that's it in a nutshell...

but this isn't pulse eskimo..? are there two gunshot riddims?

also i guess i was just wondering if anyone knew anymore about the actual incident... where was it? (london?) was it locked off? (presumably) any first hand accounts? etc..

cheers tho!
 
That gunshot rhythm (if it's the one with the gunshot sounds in it- youtube is blocked in work) is Big E-D's "Gunshot Rhythm".

There's audio of the Sidewinder in question flying about somewhere, I know it isn't on grimetapes but it was definitely on gf or vip2 recently because it's on my missus' computer. I'd up it but I'm currently in Liverpool as opposed to London so that's not happening right now.

You can probably get some first hand accounts from old message board by googling sidewinder gunshot or something, I know I've read them before.

The gunshots were at the ceiling.
 

mos dan

fact music
That gunshot rhythm (if it's the one with the gunshot sounds in it- youtube is blocked in work) is Big E-D's "Gunshot Rhythm".

There's audio of the Sidewinder in question flying about somewhere, I know it isn't on grimetapes but it was definitely on gf or vip2 recently because it's on my missus' computer. I'd up it but I'm currently in Liverpool as opposed to London so that's not happening right now.

cheers slackk, and yeah it's the big e-d one, now you mention it.

googling hasn't got me any first hand reports, though i found this weird nugget:
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:...pta&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
# Plasticman Says:
October 06th, 2005 at 04:55 am

Yo!

Croydon is in South London not West!

I'm looking forward to this a lot, it's going to be so big!

I don't produce dubstep however I do spin the odd dubstep record!

how times change!
 
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