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"Somehow, where other sounds died or dissolved, this grassroots electronic music movement has grown organically for over ten years now. In an era when information acceleration was supposed to grind any new idea up in the hype machine before it had time to find its feet, grime resisted all appropriation, retaining the qualities that made it exciting, fresh and subversive in the first place. And here is the most comprehensive survey of grime production the scene has ever had -- thirty five exclusive tracks from across the world and across the spectrum of grime, demonstrating it to be some of the most powerful and brilliant electronic music in the world today." Artists include: Starkey, Youngstar, Royal-T, Wiley, TRC, Chimpo, MRK1, Juzlo and more.
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"We Will Not Harm You sees UK bass legend (Mixmag) Dobie release his first album since 1997's classic, The Sound Of One Hand Clapping (Pussyfoot). Thirteen tracks of deep, beautifully worked instrumental music, based in hip hop but touching on techno, house, dubstep, latin, twostep, jazz, soul, funk and everything in between, We Will Not Harm You is a work of art from one of the pillars of the Black British music scene."
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"We're very pleased to let you hear Nothing To Fear, Dobie's first EP for big Dada. Four tracks deep, all instrumental, it's a record that draws on house, techno, post-dubstep, African rhythms, funk and, of course, hip hop, to make this one of the strongest, hardest hitting and most varied releases we've heard in years."
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"Aberdonian-in-London Ewan Robertson aka Offshore returns with the third of his EP Series, his second for Big Dada, and it's another massive stride forward for this multi-talented producer."
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"Everyone witters on about the latest female singer-songwriter to plop off the major label production line but the truth is this: most of them sound the same. Weak retreads of classic soul or classic folk or classic this or that. As a whole, people are more interested in how they look than whether they have anything to say, or any way to say it. Please welcome, then, Elan Tamara, who genuinely sounds like no one else. Fascinated by Balinese Gamelan and Steve Reich, she makes music as uncategorisable, as heartfelt and beautifully otherworldly as anything you're likely to hear. Over two EPs she has carved out a space so unique and unclassifiable that people have fallen back on namechecking other female artists with a distinctive aesthetic and outlook -- Kate Bush, Bjork, Joanna Newsom and their ilk. Needless to say, she doesn't sound like them, either."
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"Wiley is the Lord Byron of rap. It's so obvious I'm not even going to explain it. Arguably one of the most important British musicians of the last ten years or more, this mass of every contradiction the human race can muster is also a stone-cold genius, albeit one who occasionally seems a trifle unhinged. Now the latest switchback move in a career defined by switchback moves is his return to Big Dada with his latest and arguably finest album. 100% Publishing, one hundred per cent written, produced, vocalled and recorded by Richard Cowie, the shadowy figure behind the Wiley persona." Enhanced CD includes instrumental and acappella versions in mp3 format.
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"Appropriately, the lead remix for the project comes from David Andrew Sitek himself. 'Super passionate' about the song, the producer spent over two weeks in and out of the studio perfecting his mix, a combination of classic era boom-bap drums, melodic catchiness and trademark audio atmospherics. Untold, on the other hand, tools his remix much more for the dancefloor, cutting into DELS' vocals to produce a slowburner very much in the mould of his recent Stereo Freeze EP for R&S. The third and final mix comes from a newer name, Ry9n, whose brittle 'Hot Breath' dancehall rhythm has already been getting early plays on Rinse FM."
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"Kieren Dickins aka DELS is a new type of rapper (which is another way of saying that he's more than just a rapper). Dickins recorded GOB with just three producers, all of whom he has collaborated with for a significant amount of time and all of whom are more interested in creating something with him than in giving him a beat to rhyme on. Micachu is perhaps best known for her 'indie' work with her band The Shapes but her interest in grime and hip hop is as well documented in a series of mixtapes and videos on YouTube. Together she and DELS create the bad-trip anthem 'Melting Patterns' and 'Violina,' which catches all the disorientation and anger of a relationship break-up. Longtime mentor and friend Joe Goddard of Hot Chip is represented by both 'Trumpalump' (featuring his own beautifully melancholy/hopeful chorus) and Shapeshift, plus a brand new track, 'Capsize,' which dissects something of the current political situation in the company of Roots Manuva (the only guest MC on the record) -- a kind of 'Ghost Town' for a new generation."
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"Aneurysm itself is the bass tune of the package. Put it on any big speaker system and feel your breastplate buzz. But despite its links back to his earlier work, it also shows a reliance on melody and detailing which sets it apart from the work of some of his contemporaries. This isn't just music to play in a club. Offshore develops this aesthetic throughout the rest of the EP. 'Hiccup' is the melancholic soundtrack to an East European thriller. 'UTG' builds from a series of slipping, sliding interludes to epic electrowob-orchestral climax. And last track 'Round And Round' demonstrates that his work perhaps owes as much to the moors, mountains and even folk tunes of his home country as it does to hip-hop and inner city London, where he now lives."
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"Jahmek Power aka Jammer is one of the true pioneeers of the grime scene. Having worked with the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Wiley and Basement Jaxx to name but a few, 2010 sees the release of his explosive debut album Jahmanji."
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"The third and final part of Mike Ladd's epic Infesticons trilogy, Bedford Park sees the remnants of the Infesticons' marching band emerge from a bunker to find out that not only is the war with the Majesticons over, but no one can even remember who either side are. With various guests including Saul Williams, Ladd fashions a ragged punk-blues sound for this strange, beautiful and funny coda, a sound which he describes as 'Dinosaur Jr. by Black people.'" Limited vinyl edition of 1000 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.
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Double LP version. "Imagine ODB and Kool Keith jamming with Prince Paul while doing cockney accents and, well, you're only just beginning to get a feel for the unique flow and ideas of Infinite Livez, the craziest MC to come out of the UK, bar none."
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