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Blackdown knows it. Very well written and spot on.

mmm good read, agree with all that was said.

last paragraph is on the money

post-metal wobble

a new genre for 08!

spot on martin. agree with the key points here.

Blackdown wrote: A few more years in this direction and dubstep will have led itself, eyes open, down the same cul de sac drum & bass did, rendering itself formulaic and irrelevant.

Ouch, bloody good article, but that is pretty damning. While there is definitely that element emerging in dubstep, the backlash against it (or more like originators just doing what they do and originating in the face of it) is producing some amazing music.

Hyperdub's releases this year have been pretty much faultless, the bigger, more experimental people have been coming on pretty strong this year, (milanese, boxcutter, burial, the bug and all associated monikers), not to mention yourself and dusk.

Then there are the forum people, like Dysfunktion, both Forensicses, Two Oh One, Metalbox, Misk etc churning out some seriously original and soulful music.

So while i agree that the move to the mainstream needs to be watched carefully, this year has also been one for serious orginality and freshness, and hopefully that will be something that will continue and expand next year.

Your chest Mr Blackdown

Ah I made a list

howcomes no mention of Scuba & Hotflush records???

Shonky wrote:Ah I made a list

Nice one

Nubian Minds wrote:howcomes no mention of Scuba

good point he's done bloody well this year in terms of breaking away and defining his own sounds even further

Nubian Minds wrote:howcomes no mention of Scuba & Hotflush records???

i like paul's beats but dont tend to feel the hotflush output in general. just not my thing.

this article (besides being a good read) has put me on to forsaken and dysfunktion, so

Blackdown wrote:

Nubian Minds wrote:howcomes no mention of Scuba & Hotflush records???

i like paul's beats but dont tend to feel the hotflush output in general. just not my thing.

Similar comment to what Ive heard said about other labels and artists, theres a slant on the scene.

on POINT and really well written - nice work

biggles!!! agree with everything you said basically. goodz, trim, bbk, ny.. it was their year.

though, ahem, the line about young dot being "entirely underrated" is true of *everyone* but, ahem, us. ahem.

http://dot-alt.blogspot.com/2007/08/too ... -care.html

oh yeah, and the dubstep. you were right about that too lol hyperdub or stfu heh

martin, as you know i also rate ghetto in a big way, and totally agree with you that he's not really making traditional grime beats. his beats are more on the 4/4 hip hop things, but his delivery is always on hyped up grime vibes which really set him apart from nearly everyone this year. controlled fury in the delivery, just like rakim had back in the day. spitfire lyrics. it'll be interesting to see if he continues to bridge the gap between hip hop and grime next year. i would've put "top three selected" way up there on the list.

eheh. you know he's fire. "Commandments" is just too cold tho.

"I've taken part in unspeakable crimes... "

Did you mention the Skepta Ghetto clash on Kiss?

Because you shoula

nice

Nice piece of writing - I like how his pieces are always quite accessible for joe public, but on point about music too, or so it seems to me anyway.

I agree with a lot of what's said there, top class writing as ever.

One quibble - One Blood rather than anything else off Underwater Dancehall? The vocal cut's probably the only tune on there I don't like! Tasty beat, but the vocal's like having a stoned student (albeit a stoned student with an unusually good voice) tell you at length about this like, totally deep idea he just had, maaan, like if we're all made of the same atoms aren't we all just, like, really, one consciousness.

Gah!