To commemorate the launch of their new website, Nottingham based label Blunted Robots is giving away a free EP under Shortstuff’s alias Mickey Pearce dubbed Mickey’s Car Boot. Over the last couple of years they’ve put out some great tunes by the likes of Martin Kemp and label-heads Shortstuff and Brackles and yesterday they informed me that there’s more inspiring stuff on the way from DJ Dom and Dark Sky. It seems that these blunted robots aren’t as lazy as they sound! Anyway, it’s good to see the Midlands being represented by more than just legally made Stilton and Robin Hood, now go forth and skank.
It’s 2011, the year you’re finally going to get a job, move out of your parents’ house and just generally get your act together. Of course, you’ll start doing all that in a few weeks, first it’s time to listen to a bit of muzak and get down to the local for a few swifties. Lucky for you, influential duo Elijah and Skilliam are here to help and have assembled a new year mix brimming with a tasty selection of grime tunes from the freshest producers the scene has to offer. Admittedly, a mix comprised solely of grime isn’t something I’d usually tackle but this is surprisingly sick and I listened to the entire thing, twice. It’s not all multiple claps and overused strings and I bet you a whole bag of quavers that Royal T’s remix of ‘It’s Wiley’ will have you bobbing up and down like a rubber duck in a fat man’s bath. Happy new year!
Download/listen below, tracklist after the jump. You know the deal.
Initially due for release at the end of August, stock restrictions and various other limitations meant that we had to wait a few extra days to hear Crazy Titch’s new material. Crazy Times Vol. 2 — recorded in prison — is a 23 track mixtape which is now available to buy from all good retailers (well…UK Record Shop). In it Titch retreads the ever more obscure path of grime and also strays into hip-hop territory, spitting venom and heartfelt emotion almost in equal part.
Admittedly I’ve not had a chance to really get to know it yet, but judging by a couple of hours listening today, it [almost] lives up to the hype. As lyrically powerful as he ever was, perhaps even more so now that his claims are backed by reality, Titch has undoubtedly assembled some weighty tracks brimming with genius one-liners… I suppose it all begs the question as to how good the release would have been were he a free man…I guess we’ll never know. Crazy, eh?
I’ll post again once I’ve had time to thoroughly listen to it, but for now, here’s a tune to warm you up.
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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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Word on Road has been turning out a barrage of sick promo videos recently and Romo’s ‘I Live This’ is the latest to catch my blurry little eyes. One of Birmingham’s finest, Romo dropped the Jam Your Hype mixtape last week and anyone who has a working set of ears should shut up and snag that shit because it’s completely free. Put those benefit pennies back in the swear jar, because you can buy some Super Tennants and listen to music too, honestly! Comprising elements of grime, dubstep, UK funky and hip-hop, it’s a pretty varied release and Romo seems to have a bottomless supply of sick bars. I’d write some here, but it wouldn’t really have the same effect and my butler is setting out supper anyway. Just download it.
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I watched this last week but for some reason it didn’t occur to me to post it. Oh well, it’s here now and all I can really say about it is that it’s an exhibition of pure talent. Ed beatboxes the percussion, plays guitar, sings, raps and well, it sounds a little bit shit if I try and write it down, but it’s fucking amazing when you watch it. So good that Smokey Barz of YouTube grime fame posted it in amongst the street freestyles he gathers. That’s got to be good for a ginger kid with a guitar, right? Anyway, I’m tired, I’ve been as confused as an elephant in a black hole all week and it’s a miracle that you got anything out of me today. Just watch the video and behold the glory. The glory!
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