Bass Odyssey, Part 47
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Yep, like a cat that’s been locked out in the rain overnight for weeing on the new carpet, here I come, crawling back with my tail between my legs after another unnecessarily long hiatus.
I’ve come back just to tell you that Skepta and Wiley are currently “at war”/”beefing”/”desperately trying to muster up some hype around the time of their respective album releases”. (Side note: Skepta and Wiley were supposed to both release albums on the same day in a 50 Cent-Kanye-style face-off, and had posters all around London of them squaring up with boxing gloves on. But Wiley, being inextricably suffused in calamity, put his album back a week at the last minute, rendering the whole carefully organised campaign an utter waste of everyone’s time.)
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posted on Jun 18, 2009 in MUSIC NEWS tags grime, Joker, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, purple, Skepta, Wiley
Video: Boy Better Know, “Too Many Man”
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We thought we’d leave you with this brand new visual gem from grime all-stars Wiley, Skepta, JME, Frisco and Shorty. Okay those last two aren’t really all-stars but they do have stuff to say about sausage parties. Maybe we don’t know as much about women as we thought, but wearing clown make-up and wrestling with our bros has never made phone numbers magically appear in our pockets.
Video: Wiley f. Mark Ronson & Daniel Merriweather, “Cash In My Pocket” Trailer
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We never usually post trailers for music videos because the idea of a minute long preview of a three minute long video is too absurd to even think about, but this clip of the clip for the first single off Wiley’s new album See Clear Now (Semtex has the 3-D album cover) is too good to ignore. The song was co-produced by Wiley and Mark Ronson and the video features current British PM Gordon Brown… sort of.
Freeload: Wiley, “Summertime (Crookers Remix)”
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Worlds collide over at Discobelle this afternoon with this completamente banane Crookers remix of Wiley’s latest Daft Punk-sampling single “Summertime,” a song first brought to your attention via Prancehall’s imagined conversation between Wiley and a Stoned Friend. If that isn’t your fill of Wiley, head to Wiley’s MySpace to hear another new one called “It’s Too Late.”
Download: Wiley, “Summertime (Crookers Remix)”
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 27
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Wiley has retired from grime for the second time. Beat that, Jay-Z! What Wiley has failed to understand though is what the implications of retirement actually mean because he is still planning to make music. And that’s a very good thing because the latest song I’ve heard from him, “Where’s My Brother” (below), is truly brilliant. His singing voice is pretty decent too. News arrived this week that he has enlisted the, er, talents of Kate Nash and Lily Allen on his new album, I See Clear, but judging by this he will be showing them up in the singing stakes.
Wiley, “Where’s My Brother” (radio rip)
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 24
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Wiley: “Yeah, you know Kanye, yeah?”
Stoned friend: “Yeah …”
Wiley: “You know my man sampled Daft Punks, yeah?”
Stoned friend: “Yeah …”
Wiley: “What if I sampled Daft Punks?”
Stoned friend: “Er …”
Wiley: “What if Wiley sampled Daft Punks?”
Stoned friend: “Er …”
Wiley: “That would be a lot you know”
Stoned friend: “Yeah, that would be a lot. Pass the lighter.”
This is the conversation I imagined when I first heard Wiley’s new Daft Punk-sampling single, below.
Wiley, “Summertime” (radio rip)
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 15
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No one in grime bothers with pirate radio sets anymore, which is maybe the reason why the scene has been so boring and lacking life this year. So, just as the music press were penning another round of obituaries and preparing to make way for a new electro-influenced, chart friendly replacement, along come Boy Better Know and friends with a stupendously good studio set (the next best thing to a radio set) to bring back all the naysayers. It’s got classic old beats, amazing new beats by people like Rude Kid, excitement, brand new bars, energy, Jammer screaming and making retarded noises—everything that is good about grime. I don’t see why MCs continue to put out rushed mixtapes, when they could much more easily bang these sets out with all the best new beats and their best bars and sell them as downloads. They’d be a lot better quality and probably sell a lot more too.
Download: Boy Better Know, Microphone Champion
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posted on May 8, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY tags Boy Better Know, grime, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, Wiley
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 8
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Jesus Christ, is there anyone out there who doesn’t have an mp3 of Wiley’s “Wearing My Rolex”? Instead of just downloading an awful quality digital version like everyone else, I’d been planning on doing the right thing and calling up Bless Beats to ask for a copy. But then every time I’d go to a club, some pink New Era-wearing cretin would be playing it. I would be by the bar trying to down my Guinness and Red Bull without puking (how disgusting is that drink?) when on it would come. I actually don’t think I’ve been in a club in the last month where someone hasn’t played it. It was starting to really annoy me, especially when the pepperoni pizza-faced DJ and his mates would jump around waving and clapping like a gaggle of demented seal pups.
Well anyway, you’re never going to believe what arrived in the post today: another three copies of some shitty Taio Cruz record to add to the other 12 I’ve stapled to the ceiling to cover up the damp marks. Oh yeah, AND the CD promo of “Wearing My Rolex” via the Atlantic Records mailing list. Finally I can listen to it without giving every rat in a three mile radius tinnitus.
Prancehall’s Bass Odyssey, Part 6
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I like to moan about dubstep. It’s one of my favourite hobbies. I tell myself that, on the whole, I don’t like it. I also really enjoy telling other people how much I don’t like it. But dubstep producer Kode 9 is a pretty faultless figure. His productions are always interesting and his Hyperdub label is consistently groundbreaking. The newest release is no exception. It features a bassy percussion-led roller by Zomby called “Mu5h” and a Rustie remix of Zomby’s “Spliff Dub” that sounds like it’s been partly passed through a Super Nintendo. I’ve never been a pedantic record collector, but I feel compelled to buy everything on Hyperdub. It is one of the few labels that releases music solely on the merit of the material. The A-side of the forthcoming release—an understated shuffley vocoded 2-step masterpiece by Darkstar called “Need You”—is equally worthy of your attention. You may also be aware of the material released on Hyperdub by this other dude who one or two people seem to be quite into, called Burial.
Anyway, Kode 9 was playing at the FWD>> vs. Rinse event at The End last Friday so I decided to head along…
Zomby, “Mu5h”
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posted on Feb 28, 2008 in PRANCEHALL’S BASS ODYSSEY tags dubstep, grime, Kode 9, Prancehall's Bass Odyssey, Wiley
Video: Wiley vs Ghetto
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Another installment of Tim & Barry TV, another excuse to blog about grime, and another chance to reiterate how much we love Wiley. And how is grime over? Take it in doses and it’s still the awesomest shit ever. Like we don’t eat the same kind of cookie everyday and then say “cookies are over.”
