Gems from Grime's 'mixtape' years

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

Haven't listened to this one in years. Giving me chills

 

[shiels]

He's good when energised by spite, regret, feeling betrayed

 

[shiels]

Too late for this thread but I liked this one a lot

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

He's good when energised by spite, regret, feeling betrayed

Yep this is where his albums fall down I think. They lose that sense of immediate connection with his id. The best mixtape tunes sound like he got pissed off about something and immediate went into the studio to record it

 

[shiels]

Yeah its why albums dont always work (coming from someone drawn to grime by dizzees second album) same reason people cant grasp on first exposure. Because its local beef music, reactive and contextual, timely and urgent and propelled in a different way to how most music is distributed

 

[RWY]

 

[Benny Bunter]

He don't wanna

Face your fears

Sky is falling

 

[Benny Bunter]

Sky is falling

I don't want an easy life
I want a good one
A star in the hood one
A steak and kidney pud one

 

[RWY]

 

[Simon silverdollarcircle]

Yeah its why albums dont always work (coming from someone drawn to grime by dizzees second album) same reason people cant grasp on first exposure. Because its local beef music, reactive and contextual, timely and urgent and propelled in a different way to how most music is distributed

Yep and linked to that immediacy, what I really love about Wiley's mcing in this era is that it sounds pretty much like he's talking to himself, or at most to people who know him really really well.

Like that line in the Friday Night tune i posted "I'm not one of them boys from the past who don't have the answers" (a line which he used loads around this time ). It's a fucking great lyric and it's so oblique. Like who's he talking about ? What don't they have the answer to? You know he's being super specific but he's not spelling it out.

So the whole thing kinda scans like the short hand and allusions you get in an internal monologue or rants at a mate.

trim was very good at this sort of thing too.

 

[slackk]

this whole cd-
*

there are so many

 

[Benny Bunter]

OMG swarvo forearm

 

[Benny Bunter]

And that bad guys one!

Some very nutty and odd tunes on a lot of these mixtapes.

 

[Benny Bunter]

So Amazing

 

[slackk]

Need to do one of these for SN1 tapes

 

[john eden]

That Domino freestyle is absolutely daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

 

[Pandiculate]

did he ever do anything else?

 

[cossrooper]

this is so good and sent me down a rabbit hole of where to find it! It's on LinkUpTV's bandcamp:

On Tha Double, by D Double E

16 track album

linkuptvofficial.bandcamp.com

 

[version]

this is so good and sent me down a rabbit hole of where to find it! It's on LinkUpTV's bandcamp:

On Tha Double, by D Double E

16 track album

linkuptvofficial.bandcamp.com

95p for a 16 track album/mixtape!? Mad.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Never even heard of domino before, that freestyle is