Updates have been pretty sparse over the last couple of weeks due to the fact that me, Oldsy and a select few other badmen have been traversing the globe and spreading our bullshit everywhere. Generally Coca Cola representatives have already been and gone, but at least when we’re about we don’t cause litter problems. Normal — sporadic and unpredictable perhaps — service will resume in a week or so and we shall continue to crack our heads against the impenetrable nut that is music. In the meantime, I’m going to slather myself in sun cream. I’m already a bit of a twat, I don’t want skin cancer too.
SBTV never fails to bring the goods and yesterday they characteristically delivered, uploading a video of Crazy Titch discussing the forthcoming Crazy Times Vol. 2 mixtape and the current grime scene in general. It’s a phone interview — because, you know, he’s in prison — so the quality isn’t exactly amazing, but if you hold your earlobes like an incompetent talent show contestant, most of it’s audible. It runs just over 20 minutes and is definitely worth getting your ears around, especially for the nuggets of respect afforded to Dizzee ya get me? I’m hyped for this mixtape…
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We here at Box Musique have long been advocates of Donald Glover, both as producer mcDJ and rapper Childish Gambino. It is under the latter persona that he has released his latest — and once again completely free — album. Entitled Culdesac, the 15 track release is musically superior to anything else he has ever put out and is packed with tongue-in-cheek wit, mad little rhymes and some damn good tunes. Highlights include ‘Put it in My Video’, ‘Let Me Dope You’, ‘Fuck It All’ and ‘The Last’, but to be honest, the whole album is pretty sick. The only song I’m not keen on is ‘I’m Alright’ which doesn’t quite flow as well as some of the other tracks, but at just under two minutes long it seems to act as more of an interlude than a major player anyway.
Basically, I’m loving it and I still can’t believe it’s free…the world needs more artists like this. The world needs less Bono too, but I guess that’s kind of unrelated. Fucking Bono.
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Every now and again Coki pokes his head above the parapet and drops a mad tune from a great height; ‘Goblin’, ‘Red Eye’ and ‘Burnin’ all spring to mind. Following this trend, his latest blast of sporadic genius is ‘Emergency’, a step back to the days when dubstep was frightening and the bass kicked harder than a ’90s rave mule. Wheeled up about a million times by Chef on Rinse FM the other day, it’s as heavy as a hefty dose of swine flu and will make you want to swing your grandma by her legs until you take off like a fucking helicopter. Madness.
Not only does he bombard the world with mediocre tunes and clog up music channels with his pudgy bulldog face, Timbaland has now claimed to have created dubstep. Recently talking to Danny Walker from RWD, Timbaland discusses the UK scene as if he somehow conceived it in his super-womb, possibly around the time he incubated Kanye West’s foetus in a nest made of Missy Elliot’s liposuction run-off.
“The UK scene”, he muses, “they’re always telling me that I started it. You have Dub-bass…”. George Lamb — yes, George Lamb was there — interjects at this point asking if he’s talking about dubstep and Timbaland exasperatingly continues “Yeah, dubstep but I call it dub-bass [as the room laugh]. It’s the bass that drives the music. It’s funny cos they went back to some of my old music that really created that sound and just, instead of going fast, they went slow with more bass. To me, I like it but they call it dubstep. I like how they dance to it now, it’s cool.”
So basically, Timbaland reckons he initially created and further inspired dubstep. What. The. Fuck? He thinks that Horsepower, El-B and Oris Jay were sitting about listening to Bubba Sparxxx and Destiny’s Child thinking “How do I make thiiiis?!”. My neighbour’s sausage dog makes better bass than Timbaland when it farts. He’s a lunatic.
Just a quick heads up on this filthy badger of a release. Although that makes it sound repulsive, which it is far from. And if you take filthy to mean like what all the kids say about Dubstep then it’s not that either. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. It’s taken just short of a year for these remixes to rear their funky heads and for good reason. Nicolas Jaar’s reworking of ‘Gorilla Hug’ below is a lovely slow burner with the sexiest bassline you’re likely to hear for a long long time. Looks like it’s a Beatport exclusive for the time being. Bit expensive though right? When will these companies realise that people are willing to sell their bodies for a fresh and juicy new tune.
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