The Grime & Bass Round Up – Feburary 2021

Darkness – Archive 002 I’ve long been a fan of Darkness’ music. His “Emails EP” and the single ‘Question That‘ were released in 2017 and 2016 respectively, and they still bang today. February marks the release of “Archive 002”, the second edition of the compilation series he started back in 2020. While the last record…

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The Evolution of Novelist in Ten Tracks

It has been fun to follow Novelist’s music over the past few years. Even in his earlier days as a pure grime emcee, he followed his own path; preferring to look deeper into his personal influences rather than follow the crowd. This piece is the first in a new monthly series. I’ll be taking ten…

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The Grime & Bass Round Up – November

Darkness – Archive 001 Darkness has turned his hand to R&B production recently, but his latest release “Archive 001” compiles twenty-four tracks from 2015-2018. ‘Jog Wheel’, ‘Hot Wire’ and ‘One Order’ are as dark as they come; while ‘Falcon’ is an electronic joint led by shimmering synth lines. ‘Orion’ draws its power from subtle background…

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The Grime & Bass Round Up – October

Flowdan & Abstrakt Sonance – No Celebrations The latest record from Flowdan is a four-track EP made in collaboration with dubstep producer Abstrakt Sonance. The latter has worked with Killa P and Trigga in the past, so it’s a link-up that makes sense given Flowdan’s taste for instrumentals that find influence from various sound system…

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The Grime & Bass Round Up — September

KwolleM — c2c KwolleM’s latest record is an ode to Essex. There are a lot of moving parts here: soulful production, bars from two rappers and samples from grime’s yesteryear; the latter playing out halfway between an interlude and a guest verse. On the standout track ‘Barking (& Dagenham)’, Joe James pulls you in with…

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