Mvuent's Time To Shine In Grime

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mvuent

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more turn of the millennium “worldwide choppers” rapping. here i actually like dizzee slightly more. to me he sounds slightly more organic whereas wiley sounds like a robot set at 2x playback speed.

i was going to mention the line about aristotle after i heard it in a previous vid, but decided i had to be mishearing it and was going to be laughed at for thinking he was saying that.
 
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mvuent

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voices tumbling, gasping for breath over a beat that’s all smoothly constructed right angles.

the intro synth sounds very desolate and late night. how you’d imagine dungeon synth to sound from the name.

there’s also a point in the beat where the kick switches to one that’s heavier and has more punch. a feeling of motion solidifying, becoming more real. it’s very related to the discussion in the cartoon physics thread (and in kodwo eshun) about how there’s a huge amount of affective territory in how beat programming works that’s not covered simply by classical rhythm notation, but rather by looking at the sounds themselves. (though some djs like dj ratty seem to intuitively understand how effective these switch ups can be.)
 
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more pistons.

a synth that sounds at times like a bird chirping, or maybe some sort of ancient horn instrument—but more artificial. (i’m assuming it’s some basic waveform, and is maybe more ambiguous as a result.)

a flute that hints at a world outside the concrete and high-rises. rivers flowing through greenery.

there aren’t just direct contrasts, there’s an entire spectrum of brutalist -> pastoral sound contained in this one.
 
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luka

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The thing people sometimes convinently forget is that Dizzee was prodigal. Outrageously unprecedentedly good.
 
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mvuent

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i like this sonically and lyrically but i can’t really describe it. triumphant yet dark and murky.


finally figured out what a lot of these beats remind me of lol

 
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mvuent

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another cartoon physics thing is which frequency regions a beat occupies. here there’s a satisfying extreme, it feels mostly like highs and bass—which creates sense of pressure, that you being squeezed by the force being generated.
 
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mvuent

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always exciting to hear music you know really well twisted and intensified in a live environment. partly just because it suggests that you haven’t seen anything yet—they’ll always have more cards up their sleeve.
 
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mvuent

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the first 3 seconds of this clip sound like the Hungarian electroacoustic from 100 years ago that luka was talking about.

really weird to have visuals. the blindfold finally off.

delivery-wise they look tense/stiff, exactly how i imagined from hearing the vocals in all the previous vids.
 
luka

luka

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One of the reasons Dizzee made people so sad is they had waited 20 years for the UK to produce someone that extravagantly gifted and he decided to go an make bonkers with Armand Van Heldan. And it might be another 20 years till someone that good comes round again.
 
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sadmanbarty

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mvuent said:
i was going to mention the line about aristotle after i heard it in a previous vid, but decided i had to be mishearing it and was going to be laughed at for thinking he was saying that.
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there's an alkaline line that i always thought was "bomb like assad" and a friend informed me it was "born like ashad" (dj khaleds son). bit disappointing that is.
 
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