The Mos Wanted Mixtape !!!!

I mentioned during my review of Little Dee’s “Once In A Blue” (Buy Here), that Mos Wanted was shaping up to be one of my favourite producers at the moment.

BEHOLD

Holy Shit

A mixture of old (E3 Link Up, Sting Mix) and new (Deep Blue Sea, Kick Off Da Hinges Remix ) there’s something there for every grime adoring fan. If you’re not a fan of any of those artists, then you are one very hard person to please !

Buy it right now exclusively from UK Record Shop.

The Major’s Back. (No, it’s not Sharky !)

His name’s been buzzing ever since he dropped his CD “Pray For Me” last year, but now North London’s Bloodline MC 9 Milli Major is back, and next month, you’ll able to get your hands on this promo, free of charge.

He described it himself as

A classic that your’e still gonna listen to in 10 years time trust me ! My promo’s better than most of the albums thats dropped this year !

9 Milli Major – You Aint My Brother (Produced By Bless Beats)

9 Milli Major – MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR (Produced By Silvano)

9 Milli Major & Big H – Out There (Produced By Silvano)

(Quick note, MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR is fucked, thanks )

He’s Only Gone And Done It Again !

Courtesy Of Loaded Magazine

The boy-from-bow has only gone and struck gold again. Tinchy Stryder has driven his Grime-mobile right back into the Number 1 Chart slot, with the hit “Never Leave You Featuring Ameele.

Tempa T Feeding Some Swans…In Scotland…

No, it wasn’t a cruel joke.

Tempa T’s next hype has been undoubtedly the best song of this year. It’s been available to buy along with the instrumental (credit to Darq E Freaker, he’s been overshadowed tremedously on that !) and there’s been various versions flying about, of all my favourite has to be the DJ Oneman Blend. But now the song’s official remixes are available for purchase, featuring remixes from Plastician, Scratcha/DVA and Brackles.

White Label 12″

7 Digital Download

Also out on iTunes.

You can also buy the popular ‘Pars R Us’ T Shirts now from No Hats No Hoods (as modelled below by the man himself).

Also

July Wrap Up

Rhythm Division

UKRecordshop

Uptown Records

Avalanche Music Hut

UKRecordshop

Rhythm Division

Blatently Blunt

UK Record Shop

UK Record Shop

Behave Yourself Cartel

UK Record Shop

Ruthless Recordz

UKRecordshop

Avalanche Music Hut

Rhythm Division

Overall with the release of Maniac’s instrumental CD and J2K’s EP the month in grime has been pretty good. Check my reviews for both at the Review Archive.

Styler and Untitled both done interviews for GrimeForum, and you can check out my M.I.K interview right here.

P Money – Money Over Everyone (Out Soon)

From the streets of South London barring as part of young collective Fatal Assassins, P Money has come a long way. Commonly mentioned as a part of peoples top 10 MC’s, the 21 year old MC has proved that hard work pays off, and that there is some power in the form of free download..

2008's 'Coins 2 Notes'

‘Coins 2 Notes’ was essentially the break P Money needed. Popular tunes included ‘My Soldiers 2′, ‘Switch’, ‘Money On My Mind’ and a version of G-Dubs popular production ‘Jezebel’. This certainly propelled P to higher places, appearing on radio sets everywhere including Tim Westwood’s BBC 1Xtra show, where he fired shots at East London MC Ghetts.

Later on that year, as a promo to his later coming mixtape P dropped ‘A Little Back Then With Now’, another free venture containing even more shots for Ghetts.

A Little Back Then With Now

‘The Grime Scene PT 1″ was a clever song using the names of various different MC’s and CD titles to rhyme and “Sounds and Gimmicks (only a preview then’ used various MC’s trademark bars and noises to create a quite stunning song ! ‘The Other One‘ was radio rip with Money for Ghetts containing the lyrics:

“NA it’s not Kano…..It’s the OTHER ONE”.

‘Who’s Next’ is rip from another westwood show, this time Money guns for Scorcher, and makes reference to Schorcher’s time in prison. Neither Ghetto or Scorcher have directly replied to or addressed the situation until this recent video with Wiley and Ghetts.

The promo did certainly generate hype for his mixtape,  ‘P Money Is Power’.

I rated the mixtape number 1 in my overall top 10 for 2008. Not everyone seemed to agree with me, many complained that the quality of productions let it down (those like DJ Moky, Mastermind etc) but many agreed the vocal qualities were good with great tunes like the OG’s remix of ‘What Did He Say’.

Now P Money is ready to drop his latest project before his album, this one entitled “Money Over Everyone”.

It’s a good cover, note the artists names on the walls.

Tracklisting

1. Intro
2. Left The Room
3. Fruits and Veg
4. 1 UP
5. Cool Safe ft Og’z , Drfiter & Lady Leesha
6. Nah Breddah
7. Never Had One
8. Danger ft Craiigg & Dean Whodini
9. Cash In My Pocket ft Wiley & Frisco
10. They Don’t Understand  ft Little Dee
11. Crazy ft Craiigg & Little Dee
12. Hot Ones (OG MADNESS)
13. Look How Many ft Germs & Blacks
14. Man Wanna Know
15. Or What   ft Kozzie
16. If Mans Talking
17. Nobody    ft Mischief
18. I’m Og’z    ft Little Dee & Blacks
19. Gamerover

The tracklisting looks good and strong with a variety of tunes on there. ‘Left The Room’ is a dubstep enticed banger produced by notorious dubstep producer Sukh Knight, and the bass continues on Dot Rotten (Yet slightly Rapid sounding) produced tune “Don’t Understand”.  P Money’s version of ‘1 Up’ is impressive, as well as concept tune ‘Fruit & Veg’ & DVA’s remix of Wiley’s “Cash In My Pocket”. Here’s what to expect (Radio rips)

Left The Room, Fruits & Veg, 1 UP and They Don’t Understand

And here’s why to BUY the mixtape:

Uptown Records

Avalanche Music Hut

PEACEEE

Moony – The Iron Lung EP

My blog is looking extremely rusty  these days, the situation with me not having a laptop is pain staking.

On a positive note:

Available Now

Up and coming producer Moony drops his latest EP onto Grime Digital (from the same guys who brought you GrimeForum and GrimePedia), with 4 tracks including hard-hitting bass filled ‘Iron Lung’, dubstep headbanger ‘City Of God’, dance/skank influenced ‘Format’ and the 1999 garage-slapped ‘Spanish Lady’.

All these tracks are available ever individually or as a whole package from this link

http://www.grimedigital.com/store/full-catalog/ep-s/instrumental/moony-the-iron-lung-ep.html

Little Dee – Once In A Blue (Out August)

Well where to start ?! If you don’t know about 20 year old MC Little Dee then where have you been for the past 5 years. Originally introduced to the grime scene via now vanished crew ‘Fatal Assasins’, with MC’s P Money, McKenzie, Firmer D, Blacks  & Supah Jay plus more, Little Dee has always been on the tip of people’s tongues, be it positive or negative.

Little Dee @ Chockablock

“I writ a bar showed N.E, n he said that I got the potentials, N that I should keep on writing and one day I should be in Essentials” – an excerpt taken from Little Dee’s song ‘Sometimes’.

Unfortunatly, Essentials never were to make it due to differences between various crew members and via that fall out crew members Jendor and N.E teamed up with Dot Rotten to bring us the crew ‘Organised Grime’ (or OG’s as they’re more commonly known). Dee is now apart of that crew and had input on there 1st mixtape ‘OG Season Vol.1′.

Little Dee is now also a member of veteran grime collective Roll Deep, appearing on the tune “Give Up” which appeared on there latest album “Return Of The Big Money Sound”.

He’s affiliation with there main man Wiley saw Dee at number 3 on the MTV Base charts along with Eski and Manga on the song My Mistakes. Wiley had stuck with “Littles” for some time and Dee has appeared on 4 of Will’s Tunnel Vision mixtapes, as well as being signed to his label ‘Eskibeat Recordings’.

It was Dee’s 1st solo mixtape however, that got everyone talking.

Filled with a consistent and varied 24 tracks, 2007’s Don’t Let The Name Trick You propelled Dee to new heights, with songs such as “F Off Offcier”,  “Real Talk”, “Jezebel” & “I’m Watching” making the release a thought in many people’s top 10 lists.

But 2 years later, Dee is ready to drop his latest CD “Once In A Blue”.

Tracklsiting

1. Once In A Blue Intro

2. Eletric Love (Feat. Wiley)

3. Deep Blue Sea

4. Funny World

5. Should Of Known

6. Don’t Understand (With P Money)

7. Skit

8. Numbers (With Futureboy)

9. There For You (Feat. Ruby)

10. Missed Calls

11. Talking (Feat. P Money)

12. Passing Threw (Feat. OG’s)

13. Hummer Freestyle

14. Where I’m Comin From

15. Millionaire (Feat. P Money)

16. Say Something I Don’t Like

17. Rider Freestyle

A considerable amount we have heard already I ’spose, but boy, I’m expecting a lot !!! Out on August 17th !

Pre-Order Links

Rhythm Division

Avalanche Music Hut

Au Revoir

Behave Yourself….

So with there collective-mixtape dropping this week, up and coming crew Behave Yourself have just launched a brand spanking new range of T Shirts.

Pink..Green..Red

My Favourite Blue

The Tee’s were an idea from group members Untitled, Evolver & Messy.

“To promote the brand and get people wearing a slogan we believe in”

That’s what Untitled told me the reasons for the T Shirts were.

“There are alot more things in the pipeline. I don’t really want to speak until it happens but expect things like pens etc”

The colors seen above are not the whole range, you have

Men – Red, Blue, Grey & White

Ladies – Red, Blue & Pink

Also, buy your copy of Entity from there now, jam packed with tunes from each BY member and 3 productions from each of the producers as well.

This describes it better

Visit there shopping site now @ Behave Yourself’s Cartel

Laters

Revolver – Cruel Intentions (Cover & Details)

The name says it all....

Earlier on this year Edmonton (North London) based MC Revolver dropped his mixtape “Grimes Son”, and marked a return to what many would call “real grime”, during a time where artists were making the transition over into mainstream success.

Now just a few months later and the Cold Blooded MC is finalizing the details for his latest project, a free download entitled “Cruel Intentions”. Production comes from the likes of Scorcher, War Dot, J Beatz, Taz Buckfaster and many more great productions including Revolver going in over La Roux’s chart sucess ‘In For The Kill’. Keep your eyes peeled for this to drop in the next 2 – 3 weeks, “the name is what it is, there’s nothing friendly about this, there’s nothing nice.” Revolver told me.

Don’t forget you can still buy Grimes Son, if you wanna know what it’s about check my review.

Buy From These Links

http://www.rhythmdivision.co.uk/index.php?_a=viewProd&productId=383

http://www.uptownrecords.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=3889

And you can also join the official Revolver Music Group if you are a Facebook user
just follow this link http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59737637067&ref=ts

Or simply search for “Official Revolver Music Group”.

Revolver’s Myspace

Revolver’s Twitter

*Tracklisting*
1. Intro (Prod. By Taz Buckfaster)
2. Madness (Feat. O.T)(Prod. By Trackers)
3. Blood Money (Prod. By Noamz)
4. Not Gangster (Feat. Devlin)(Prod. By Scorcher)
5. Wanna Pull The Strap (Prod. By War Dot)
6. In For The Kill (Prod. By Kraze)
7. Freestyle (Prod. By Wiley)
8. The Game Remix (Prod. By J Beats)
9. Exposure
10. The conclusion

Peace

J2K – Wake Up EP – Review

Are you sleeping ?

This isn’t going to be one of my longer reviews. Detailed yeah, but not long. Let me start by letting you know, that the version I bought is from iTunes. So I will have this tracklisting:

1. Wake up
2. Landlords ft. Flowdan and Manga
3. Danger
4. Lights, Camera, Action
5. Talk Of The Town Ft. Frisco and Jammer
6. Big Brother
7. Vacation Things
8. We Do Ft. Tex and Alex Mills
9. Xtra (Bonus – iTunes)
10. Kick Off Da Hinges (Bonus – iTunes)

So if you want the extra tracks head to iTunes or Amazon Mp3.

I’m gonna kick things off by complementing the artwork. It’s simple yet stylishly effective.

“Wake Up” opens the EP with a bang. An alarm clock leads up to J2K’s frankly superb flow. The production is also quality, complements J2K’s flow nicely. Much the same for “Landlords”.

J2K is rather unfortunatly overshadowed on his own track here. Manga completely destroyed it. Flow Dan’s verse was OK but the tune was ruined by the strange 2-part like chorus. “Danger” is a fantastic track. I played it several times, in a non-corny type of way, it’s almost a “James Bond” sounding type of track. (E-Mail me if you can’t get to grips with that description). The chorus is nice and smooth with the “Danger, Dangerrr” samples.

“Lights, Camera, Action” starts with a rather disturbing “Ooo-Ooo” noise but once J2K’s flowing again that’s all forgotten. In the 2nd and 3rd verses the flow is banana’s !! The beat could’ve been better but it still blends well. “Talk Of The Town” has been battered by Logan Sama so I knew what to expect. Frisc’s feature is good, but I’m yet to be convinced by Jammer’s input. But it’s the man himself who shines. The cool, smooth flow is a lot !

“Big Brother” is another banger ! I like the chorus a lot on this one actually, very catchy. I keep banging on about the flow but holy shit, wow. The bars are actually good on this EP as well.

“It’s a par though / more cameras up in here than a pornstar’s asshole”.

“Vacation Things” has the potential to be a great song but the production just really doesn’t catch the vibe. Maybe I caught the wrong vibe altogether. Just not feeling it anyways, the hook’s a bit of a jar as well. Shame as I was struggling to find many flaws so far. “We Do” darkens the mood even more. There’s something cruely sinister abut it, but it’s good, mind. A welcomed return for Tex (Formelly Vortex) he does well and Alex Mills’ vocals add that extra dark touch, J2K done well here.

*Bonus Tracks*

“Xtra” is a good song with a simple starting beat butit deepens later on and allows both J2K and Managa to bury it. “Kick Of Da Hinges” was good, it could’ve worked on the EP itself rather than the just digital option.

I didn’t detail on the bonuses too much ‘cos not everyone has them. Overall, I liked this EP alot. Earlier in the day I was insisting a 5/5 rating, but after a few listens back, It’s fair to say that the production let’s it down at points .

FINAL RATING

Originality: 8/10

Lyris: 8/10

Productions 6/10

Total 22/30

4 OUT OF 5 MIC RATING !! STILL IMPRESSIVE.

BUY HERE

http://www.play.com/Music/CD/4-/9593…p/Product.html

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wake-Up-J2K/…7480389&sr=8-2

http://www.ukrecordshop.com/item/j2k-wake-up.html

Giggs Feat. Mike Skinner – Slow Songs (Official Video, Behind The Scenes, Relese Date)

So I got the chance to get down to Riverside Studios the other day, where the Officical “Slow Songs” video premier was being held. A host of UK  stars were there including Bashy, Sadie & Shola Ama, Buck, Mykal Million plus many more. Out to Chantelle Fiddy for letting me pass through.

Gunna Dee SN1

Adam Deacon, star of Kidulthood, Adulthood and more.

Jazzie, star of his own show on Channel AKA

Myself and the man himself, GIGGS !

Also a massive, massive soutout to SB on the behind the scenes footage:

sbtv@gmx.com

http://www.twitter.com/its_sb

Here’s the official video

http://www.myspace.com/trapstargiggs

The song is alot, watch out for Mike’s next album “Computers & Blues” coming next year, you can still grab a copy of SN1’s “Another Quick One”, it’s packed with bangers.

MAKE SURE YOU BUY THIS ON AUGUST 17TH !!