grime: love/hate

27 August 2005

On the street, cell phones enable impromptu rapping, or "spitting," over music played through speaker phones.

Grime is hated and loved. Its basically a super media thing, attractive to people who write about stuff. All these "new" genres are like that (Favela funk, Reggaeton). Music is hard to talk about, and music writers ALWAYS bore me. They stick to the surface attributes. No way to know if something really is good or not based on these descriptions. If I listen I can know in a second all kinds of things about the people, the scene, the internal energies.

full mp3 of DJ cameo with lady fury & crazy titch at WMF in Berlin :
http://www.grimetime.de/index.php?id=13

via:
http://www.voco-me.de/blog/

Hey, check out the new Vice german edition:
http://www.viceland.com/germany/v1n0

An (as usual) egotistical (we knew first, we are so cool) grime article (but hey, grime is all about ego, innit ? ):
http://www.viceland.com/germany/v1n0/htdocs/out_there.php

And check out the nasty comments from US hip-hop peoples. I met some black dude from Detroit outside one of the grime parties here in Berlin (a really lame one at the Berlin Arena; but the WMF parties have all been amazing). This guy had never heard of UK rap, and wasn't having any of it. They didn't come in, they were looking for "real" hip-hop. Why do you come to germany and try to find some place to hear US hip-hop ? duh. insecurity I guess.

Anyway, I like grime, but the ego shit is starting to wear on me. I found it really funny for a while; that everybody gets so cartoony and for me I can laugh in an egoless kind of way. But the more you deal with it, its just small. The ego is always small, cause it ain't the infinite. By definition. Cartoons are funny though.

wired cell phone grime


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The unmixed ingredients from Rupture and Shadetek’s Solar Life Raft. Including two tracks by me: Coltan and Cassiterite and Space Cadet (which came out on last year’s 12” on Version)

I’ve been waiting/yearning for Coltan and Cassiterite to come out for much of last year. I was about to release it myself just to relieve my own tension waiting for it. Anyway, its on a good home: The Agriculture and the reviews have been great so far.

The title refers to two of the minerals that are mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo and are components in portable electronics like cel phones. Its one of the unfortunate driving forces behind continuing warfare among the militias in the Rwanda/DRC border area.

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