O.T Grime Instrumentals Vol.1 (4 Track Preview)

4 full length instrumentals for you to download right now, used by O.T or one of their members at some point produced by long serving Outakers Points and Gunjaman. The full 14 track package will be available on digital download soon. For now, check out this preview http://www.mediafire.com/?tmdr3gzmt1q

Track Listing
1. Points - The War Goes On (From Dogzilla's Dogumentary Mix CD)
2. Points - We Keep It OT (From Dogzilla's Dogumentary Mix CD)
3. Gunja Man - FU (From Devlin's Art Of Rolling Mix CD)
4. Gunja Man - Military Strengths (From OT's Left 2 Rot Mix CD)


Big up HardUpRecords.

QUICK interview with J Beatz plus FREE instrumental.

With the release of two sick EP's just around the corner, it was only right I caught up with North London producer J Beatz on a quick vibe.

You can read the interview and stream/download a free instrumental entitled 'Petrol Bomb' from
Knowledge Magazine right now @ http://www.kmag.co.uk/editorial/blogs/grime/j-beatz-free-track

Hopefully I'll be catching up with him in more detail at a later stage, for now check out the free beat and hit his Grimepedia page to download various promos.

GRIME: 1/4 way through 2010...

Did you know that the actual size of Easter Eggs have shrunk alarmingly at a rate of 44% in the last 5 years. A food related catastrophe of that magnitude is causing trauma for my brain cells, so naturally I would need something else to take comfort in...of course. Grime.

 The year started off well with an abundance of free downloads from the likes of Dogzilla, Lee Brasco, Desperado and many more...like a lazy cunt I'll direct you over to http://www.blimeyworld.net/PromoSpot/ where pretty much any free download going can be found. If you're after the best ones from this year so far then look out for Deeperman's Get To Know Me Vol.1, Tinchy Stryder's Before The Storm, Jammz' What's The Latest and also Splurt's Vomit Vol.1. Logan Sama teamed up with the guys down at Palladium to bring you the Still Keepin It Grimy mixtape featuring new material from OG's, Ghetto, Little Nasty and more download that here. The free-ness just hasn't stopped flowing so keep your eyes peeled for much much more in the next few months.

 On the airwaves the early weeks were dominated by the OG's on Rinse FM, DJ Big Beatz from OT put on some good shows as did Smallz and Scope. As the ever-enlarging-grime-lens focused more on pirate radio than ever with Logan Sama's Monday night show on Kiss FM being cut down to a fucking ridiculous one hour, each and every set became more and more disappointing. It's not fault of Logan himself, in fact on one Friday night kiss were generous enough to air a 2 hour grime special featuring 4 pre-recorded sets from OG's, Bloodline, OT/360 and Newham Generals. Here are some fucking stellar sets to download:

• JJ Ft. Desperado, P Money, Blacks, Little Dee, Jendor, Ruger & Kozzie. 
• DJ Big Beatz Ft. OT Crew (Dogzilla, Devlin & Deeperman) 
• DJ Scope Ft. Big H, 9 Milli Major & Kwam 
• D-Power Show Ft. DJ Shox w/ Fumin, Royal, Diesel & Natty 

Elsewhere I'm sure the most talked about news was the on-going fisticuffs between P Money and Ghetts. After Ghetts ever so in-directly sent for P on Logan's last set of 2009, and the (now)infamous Shark Attack Remix the two have been firing shots at each other wonderfully. Firstly, these two GrimeDaily video's emerged:


 And then something inside of Ghetts' head must've clicked and we were treated to the best war report since 2006. http://www.mediafire.com/?czoykjmy0vt is YOU if you want all the dubs, CD quality.
Ghetts - All Black Winter
Ghetts Vs Ghetto - Suicide
P Money - The Dub
P Money - The Warning
Ghetts - The Destruction Of The Eiffel Tower

 Release wise, I feel the year has started promisingly with quite a few vocal and instrumental releases, Tinie Tempah went Number One for two weeks running with his club-raper Pass Out. A good look for grime, possibly, who knows ? All the purchaseable material is listed below, get your wallets out (or rather your Bank cards, with the closure of popular shop Rhythm Division it's not long before others follow suit).

Mixtapes/Albums/Vocal EP's
Skepta - Been There Done That (Reviewed by me for Grimedaily here).
Styler - Off To Work EP (Catch my interview with Styler here).
Killa P - Credit Crunch Volume 2
Paper Pablo - Money Talks
Rowntree - Out Of Reach 
Trim - Trim City
Sharky Major - Shark Attack EP
Swindle - Who Said Funk EP

Singles
Wiley - Never Be Your Woman
JME - Sidetracked (Featuring Wiley)
Jammer - Better Than
Skepta - Bad Boy

Instrumental CD/Vinyl
Rude Kid - Jack Daniels EP
Terror Danjah - Acid/ProPlus (Reviewed that over here).
SNK - Midi Master EP (Interview with SNK here).
Teeza - The Secret Level EP
Wiley - Instrumentals 1: The Eskibeats
Terror Danjah - Bipolar EP

 In the next few months you can expect these sort of releases:
Swindle - Airmiles EP.
Badness - Nightmare (Featuring Skepta & Lil Narstie) plus remixes.
Rossi B & Luca - E10 Riddim (Featuring Killa P).
Various - Supa Dupa 2010 (Featuring tunes from Tempa T, Newham Generals and more).
Joker - Tron (More dubstep-like but many a DJ have been spinning it).
Maveric - The Storm (Mix CD)
Plus much more...
Send it out to all the other people doing big things - Elijah & Skilliam, Risky, Outakers, Logan Sama, SB, Blimey, Chantelle Fiddy, Spooky DJ and Geo. Also shouts K Mag who have now got a grime section up and running which you can read here. Further shouts (I'm babbling I know) to Matt B @ BNTL and Lakey from Back Of The Q.

I'll leave you with this.

House Of Grime - The Mixes 005: Progressive Intelligence

The four guest mixes we've put out have received some fucking great feedback so far, so sending big respect out to DJ's Total (mix), Fewie (mix), Shredexx (mix) and Chris T (mix). Oh, and MC Lakey too. We're almost a quarter-way through 2010 (summary and all that jazz coming soon) and the aim to put out a mix per month went better than ever expected, so I'm pleased to bring you another one, right now.

 Progressive Intelligence, which is a pukka name to start with, are as they claim, "a group of musicians". They're exactly that and to be fair, they are bloody good at it, if you haven't already then download their free E.P "Think About It" here (out to Butterz). The crew consists of SJS (producer/DJ), Sandman (Mc/Producer), B Chino (Mc) and the two original founding members - DJ Creative and MC Sun OC.

 Their musical spectrum is a bit like a stretch armstrong - it goes everywhere. They do Dubstep, Funky, Rap - but most importantly - they do Grime. The good stuff. Oh and by the way, for the narrow-minded crew out there who insist that Grime can't bulldoze down the barriers beyond the river Thames, this musical lot are from the sunny old Netherlands. Fucking brilliant. Embrace this new mix, look out for Swindle's 'Daredevil' which is forthcoming on the "Airmiles Ep" due April  times.

Tracklisting:

1.       Terror Danjah – Airbubble Moony Remix (Butterz/Dub)

2.       Shizzle & Commander B – Pum Pum Riddim Coochie (Vol. 3)

3.       Rudekid & Terror Danjah – Best Crawler (No Hats No Hoods)

4.       Sandman – Distance (P.I./Dub)

5.       Terror Danjah – Acid (Hyperdub)

6.       Charmzy – R Ha (Black Ops)

7.       Sandman – Giant Steps (P.I./Dub)

8.       Demos – Hibernate (L2S)

9.       Terror Danjah ft Double S, Bruza, Black The Ripper etc – Under the Spotlight Loudmouth Remix (FD)

10.    Anna Kistz – Retro (E Dubplates)

11.   Sandman  - Creative’s Riddim (P.I./Dub)

12.   Dread D – Gangster (Black Ops)

13.   Swindle – Dare Devil (Planet Mu)

14.   Sandman – Sandman’s Area (P.I./Dub)

15.   SCP – Bradford Ting (Dub)

16.   Geeneus – Last Nite (FD)

17.   Sketch E – Violent Ego (Dub)

18.   Sandman – Checkstation VIP 2step Mix (P.I./Dub)

19.   Unknown – Straight Thuggish (White)

20.   Progressive Intelligence – Hold You Down (Havenflows)

Check out the crew's activities on their blog here, follow Sun OC on Twitter and follow DJ Creative (the genius behind this) also. @Sun_OC @Creative_PI

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Risky Roadz Presents: Rival - Laugh Now..Hate Later EP

Oh I do love a bit of Sunday free-ness, so when Rival sent me the link to his brand new free promo, I felt it only right to share. The East Londoner has been busy in the studio recently in the run-up to mixtape Hate Mail, this package includes 8 CD Tunes, plus the added bonus of 4 videos. 

THE DEAL

 DOWNLOAD FROM THIS LINK, read my interview with Rival from last year here, and my recent interview with Rsky here.

Twitter Fam @jusrival @rsky_riskyroadz

House Of Grime - The Mixes 003: DJ Shredexx w/ MC Lakey

WOYYYYYYYY. Hello grime adoring people, it's now febrauary (pinch punch and all that) and what better way to kick it off then this FRESH new shiny guest mix edition.In a slight change to the previous two, not only will the DJ's mixing talents be showcased but also an MC by the name of Lakey will be spitting over the Dubstep/Grime mash-up. There have been over 800 downloads of the previous two editions so please help in continuing that, by downlaoding or streaming the mix from the right hand sidebar !! Catch the Download and Tracklisting after this short Q & A with Lakey.

So Lakey, for those not quite sure as to who you are, introduce yourself..

I'm Lakey, I produce music - mostly grime, I hold the best Grime raves in London- BACK OF THE Q!, and as an MC I've got tunes coming with Mighty Moe, P-money and Desperado.

How long have you been an MC, and how far do you plan to go with it ?

Since around 14\15, I only really got good last year though. I don't really want to do anything else apart from make money from music. Whether it be from the raves, tunes, shows whatever. I'm determined to make a wage some how though, and I wont stop until I've figured out how!

On this set there is a mixture of Grime and Dubstep, which do you prefer to spit on and why ?

Well thats a tough question. I think old grime wins hands down, but present day grime vs dubstep I'd pick dubstep. Thats just to do bars on though, not necessarily what I prefer to listen to.

You're also a sucessful club events organiser behind nights such as Back Of The Q, what/when/where is the next big event ?

The next night is our VALENTINES MASSACRE on the 12th FEB @ Corsica Studios. We have Artful Dodger vs Heartless Crew and Oxide and Neutrino in the Garage room and Silencer, Pmoney, Blacks and Elijah and Skilliam in the Grime room. Its going to be sold out soon so I cant recomend it enough to buy a ticket! Heres the link:

http://www.wegottickets.com/event/67785

We'll be doing a much larger scale interview soon, what can fans expect to hear in the meantime ?

Well I'm just working on as many tunes as possible at the moment, the ones I think are on a next level are being put away for an album, all other stuff that I make is still banging though and can be found here..

http://soundcloud.com/lakey-music

I'm uploading at least a tune a week these days, and I'm going to Brighton to record for two weeks next week... SO BARE TUNES ARE COMING!!!!!

Tracklisting:
ClueKid - Chicken Foot (Earwax)
Trolley Snatcha - The Future (Dub Police)
Skream - What Did He Say? (?)
J@kaes - Code Zebra (DUB)
Excision & Datsik - Swagga (EX7)
Flux Pavilion - Fucking Noise (XS Dubz)
Chase & Status - Bits (DUB)
Funtcase - Mattress Punch (DUB)
Shredexx - Blood Splattered Satisfaction (DUB)
Doctor P & Flux Pavilion - StinkFinger (DUB)
Excision - Obvious (EX7)
Funtcase - So Vexed (DUB)
Brown & Gammon - Painkillers (Circus)
Flux Pavilion - Meathead (DUB)
Emalkay - Solid State (DUB)
Flux Pavilion - r00r (CIRCUS)
Untold - Stop What You're Doing (Hemlock)
Smasher - Energy Riddim (DUB)
Tempa T - Next Hype (Instrumental) (No Hats No Hoods)
Mondie - Straight
Zinc -138 Trek (Bingo)
Wonder - What (Wonderland)
Wiley - North London (Tunnel Visions)
::LAKEY:: - Cough Syrup (DUBBBBBBBBB)

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Lawless - Yardie Beats Volume 1 (Exclusive Free Download)

I'll be interviewing Lawless this week, for now here is his instrumental promo, containing 11 crazy beats for you to use at your own leisure. Dj's and Mc's, YOUR TIME. Download via this link.

Manga Presents....The Adventures Of..

For those who don't know about Manga by now, let me tell you. He's from North West London. He's based in South London at the moment. He entered Eskimo Dance in Ealing during 2004 and left a member of grime pioneers Roll Deep. Despite his numerous contributions to various artists products (J2K - Wake Up Ep,Wiley- Playtime Is Over plus loads more) the kid with the skippiest flow hasn't had something to call his own. Until Now.

You can download this promo, right now, FOR FREE courtesy of Manga.

Tracklisting ?? Follow him on his Twitter.