For a round up of the first half of the year click here

Grime in 2010, how will it be remembered? For me it is most MCs starting the year wanting to be a pop star, and finishing the year saying 'Grime all day'. We literally went from Lethal B putting out electro house turkeys to saying 'Grime is back' in the space of 6 months, when he decided to embark on Pow 2011.

Wiley was part of 3 top 20s with dreadful pop music, but then has been constantly pumping out Grime tracks via his twitter. In the middle of this, we have a new generation of MCs that have come through in the time the established artists have been away who are going the total opposite direction. Intense flows, violent lyrics and choosing the rawest productions to a point it is nearly comical. They have been able to win over fans who want to put a middle finger to the indecision of the top boys whether they are Grime acts or not, and have quickly won over fans that want 'real grime' back.


I have been shocked this year at how very few real album projects have come out. Nothing from Skepta, Wiley, D Double E, Tempa T, P Money, Dot Rotten, Trim, Griminal, Mz Bratt, Durrty Goodz etc have had product, but nothing solid. In a way it is exciting because it leaves the door open for a flood of albums in 2011, but if you read my end of review of 2009, I expected that of 2010, so I would be naive to think that will happen. Hopefully when they land, they won't be plagued with the same tired concepts that have hurt Grime CDs for years. How great they are, Haters, Swagger, Money and Women.


Skepta has been the only artist this year that has made a genuine attempt to chart a Grime song. 'Cross My Heart' whether you like it or not, is a typical Skepta beat, and would get played on sets every week if it was just a instrumental track. The delivery is the same that he would use on Rinse FM or in a club, and I think he has come the closest to the happy medium, something that can fit into day time radio, without losing an edge on the production side.

I am still trying to work out why Grime acts find it so difficult to choose a song they want everyone to have, get it played by the top DJs, do a video and get it on iTunes within reasonable time. It is easier then ever, all you need is a Tunecore account, a video on youtube, a song and you are on your way. Gone are the days where people will tolerate waiting 4 months to get a track, those who do that with their best work will hurt as they will fail to capitalise on their hype time and time again until they learn how to effectively release.

JME had the formula right, you hear the tune, see the video and then you are able to buy four weeks later. Wiley experimented with an even tighter schedule. 'Radio Kid' was premiered on Logan Sama's radio show on Monday and released on Sunday. I think a lot more acts should think about that option first before they look at the 'easy way out' in a free download.

Onto my MC of 2010. P Money, who sums up for me, 'More with less'. He released no solo work this year, but featured on 'Ho Riddim' 'Slang Like This' and 'Sweet Shop' and saw his profile raise higher then ever. He can PA those tunes up and down the country alongside last years smashes 'Left The Room' and '1UP' and do full live sets with Grime & Dubstep DJs. He has shown he can do the big live shows, (him and Blacks at Rinse FMs 16th Birthday set with Plastician was massive), can do the lyrical war (does anyone disagree he ended Ghetts?) and he can do a track that isn't about how great his lyrics are or how cool he is (see Numb with Starkey).

The producers have had a good year, breaking out as individuals for the first time, and they have been using the exposure to great effect, working together more, doing DJ sets and I think making better Grime as a result. Without all the producer releases this year I would have had nothing to play, so next year I hope they are able to dictate to the MCs what the best tracks to vocal are, instead of it being the other way round as it has in years gone by. The dual project format that Maniac & Tinchy did a few years back is a system I could see working with Spooky & Kozzie or Swindle & Maxsta. Hopefully heads start to bump in the next few months to get some great vocals to some of the finest instrumental Grime made for a very long time.
The Grime remix this year has returned in a big way. Previously on Grime singles or vinyl it would have been packed with an 'outside the box' remix with someone who is making moves in another scene, to get the original track out there in different places. But now I think it is has been a stronger look for the unity of the scene to be remixing each others work. Terror Danjah's Air Bubble, D.O.Ks Chemical Planet, JME's CD Is Dead, SX's Woo Riddim have been given reworkings from top boys inside the scene, and that is something that wasn't happening at all last year. People were opting for a 'Funky' remix, a 'Dubstep' remix and a 'Bassline' remix.
The best example of a version excursion for the producers this year has been Spooky's Spartan which has been remixed by Teddy, D.O.K, Terror Danjah, Darq E Freaker, Darkos and others and it is all helping the notoriety of the original, bringing variety to DJs selection and giving new names exposure. I am all for it, and I hope that attitude continues in 2011.

Terror Danjah was the first to get the opportunity to showcase the new instrumental Grime movement to the world via his album with Hyperdub which got acclaim across the board. Hopefully that will open the door for a few newer names to showcase this style to a wider audience then the Grime scene. His recent Resident Advisor podcast and appearance alongside Kode 9 on our show can silence any doubt about his versatility as a producer and DJ.

One of the best things to happen this year was Skepta remixing Diddy. To witness it build from seeing Diddy ask for a Grime act on twitter, to seeing him reach out to Skepta (who I believe was the right choice) and a real banger.

There hasn't been as many great sets as there were in the first half of the year, but here are a few of my favourites:

Vectra, JJ & Wiley - Rinse FM 7/11/2010
Logan Sama with OGz - Kiss FM 19/11/2010
Logan Sama with JME, D Double E & Footsie 5/10/2010
JJ & Wiley Rinse FM 4/9/2010
JJ & P Money Rinse FM 25/8/2010


Some of my favourite videos

I saw a classic tweet from Wiley which said something along the lines of 'I hope you have all got your Grime singles ready to drop after Pow 2011 is released'. I hope that is what happens, and that energy can be brought back sustainably this time, with quality singles from the older acts right down to the newer acts. It is important that you guys that have read this blog, listened to the music, come to the raves and have posted on the forum continue to support the scene with your wallets this time otherwise there won't be another chance for Grime to rise again like we all want it to.

This is my last ever blog on this site, I feel it's inappropriate for what Butterz has developed into. We started out as a interview based blog back in 2007, interviewing people that didn't normally get the shine elsewhere: producers and Djs. That ethic continued into 2008, and I got seriously into DJing and debuted on Rinse FM in November. Up until early 2010 I balanced showcasing Skilliam & Is show with blogs about the grime scene, frustrations, new ideas and interviews.

2010 came and we started a label, so time wasn't on my side to write about the scene that I love anymore outside of publications, and it just became a more label focused site as the days went by, so I have decided to build a new one, fit for purpose to launch in the new year, and leave the Grime blogging behind. If you visit the Butterz.co.uk domain now, you have a micro version of what I want our final site to look like, mobile blogging, profiles on the artists, uStream section and space for our releases.

Hopefully I will still be given the opportunity from time to time to write in other places about my thoughts on the scene, but going forward I want to focus on DJing and building up the label and the artists I am helping come through.

Thank you to anyone that has ever read this, recommended us, featured the site in a magazine or linked us via your site. There are too many names to mention.

So until our new site is built catch us on Tumblr, Twitter and Facebook for regular updates on our releases, Rinse FM shows and live sets..

Hope to see you in a club one day going mad to Grime

Peace

BR003 & BR004 are available now, which takes the release tally up to 5 for the year for Butterz, which im really happy with.

Air Bubble is a track Terror Danjah originally wrote for the first EP we released 'Bipolar' and I decided to let the parts out for everyone to remix. It ended up having well over 100 remixes which you can check out on soundcloud and youtube.

Starkey's remix is vinyl only, and Teezas is digital only, the digital will begin floating next month.

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D.O.K is an elusive character and it took us a while to decide what tracks of his to release. We wanted something totally different to his Hardrive release, and his forthcoming Hyperdub release, but still with his signature style. I hope you guys like it!

Watch out for our next event at East Village on 22nd December, London crew click attending, its free>>

I'm glad we got to release Royal T after two years of receiving music and watching him hone his skills. He sent me what ended up being his debut release '1UP' on the 13th November 08, when I was just getting into DJing seriously. I started on Rinse that same month, and two years later he is releasing on our label. No trendy remixes, no watered down approach, just 100% Grime from the man himself for the first time.

'Orangeade' came about as a joke mocking Teddy aka Silencer who claimed Gucci Manes 'Lemonade' was the best Grime tune at the moment. So for my Birthday back in July I asked Royal T to make me an alternative fizzy drink Grime track for us to play and it was born. People liked it, but it wasn't until P Money & Blacks guested on our show back in August we took the track seriously. I played it as the last song, and they tore it apart.

'The Whistle Song' was written back in February and it was going in and out of our selection as Royal T kept changing bits to it along the way. It was originally intended for No Hats No Hoods and for whatever reason they didn't like it but we did. The other core Grime DJs started regularly playing (and reloading) it and that is the first time it has really happened for a Butterz record.

'Music Please' is another favourite in our sets, but we decided to release the 'Devil Mix' instead just to make things interesting. Nobody releases them in Grime anymore, and I don't want this to cause a 'devil mix on every release' trend, but once in a while for this style of tune, it's good fun. For the DJs in the mix it gives you space to go crazy with it.

He is the youngest producer that we have released so far at 20 years old, and resides in Southampton. So producers that are outside the spiritual home of the Grime scene please never give up, location these days is a minor barrier in music. You can easily send us (and other DJs) music, and we do listen to everything.

Watch out for the full release hitting stores soon

P.S

Check out Wiley from his latest Rinse FM show over some of the latest Butterz material

More info on these soon

Couple of bits in the shops as well: Redeye / Boomkat / Chemical

Can also grab the slipmats here, they are very limited

We have been on radio a lot lately, so I thought I'd do a show post with all the shows incase you miss them as they are all very different.

We will back on Thursday 1-3am GMT

P.S

Where are you from where did the TRC name came from and what would you say was the first tune that got you noticed?

Im 21, from West Midlands, been producing since I was 17 now. My name is actually my little brothers name backwards (CRT) he makes beats as well. The first tune I made that probably got me noticed was a bassline track called Break Up VIP.

At the time when there were bassline remixes and compilations everywhere your name used to pop up a lot, since those have slowed down whats your relationship been like with the genre? Are you still making it are people raving to it? People from outside the midlands dont really understand it.

I still produce bassline and I always will. Since things have slowed down I've had time to concentrate on a lot of stuff I made from earlier that never really got spotted (Oo Aa Ee..) as a lot of my tunes that are out now I made when I was 17/18. Bassline comes more from up North then anything and was massive in most cities further up the map such as Leeds, Sheffield, Leceister etc and it takes time to get your head round it. I think people need to go on an adventure to one of the raves to see what impact it really has.

So when you where making tracks like Oo Aa Ee where you giving them to both bassline & grime DJs? or did you keep both sides of your production separate? That tune to me is like a bassline & grime hybrid

I made a lot of my bassline songs off the back of my grime instrumentals, especially that tune. I kind of kept them seperate but when I was younger found it hard to try get into grime so I became half hearted and just made the tunes for fun.

Did the lack of motivation come from not being able to work with the MCs or lack of support from the bigger DJs?

Both really, it seemed people were really stubborn and didn't want to listen to what I had to offer, its only when I got a name in bassline did people want to hear my stuff, and all people wanted to hear was bassline, so I just sat on my grime for a while. The only person that played 'Oo Aa Ee' from when I exported it out of reason was DVA and that was in 2006/2007.

Now that has changed what are you making in the present day? And whose music would make up a TRC DJ set at the moment?

Still bassline, grime and dubstep, keeping the dubstep hush for a while though. I'd say my favourite producers at the moment are probably Virgo, Mr Figz, Burgaboy, Benga + Skream, Joker, Champion, Rusko, Paleface, DJ Q, EK9, Teddy and Terror, and Spyro when ever he makes something.

Your using quite a few singers on your music which nobody else seems to be doing at the moment! Do you want to talk about the tunes you have, and the plans for them?

Yeah I have got a lot of vocals I did earlier this year, I've got a tune about to come out now called 'Drive Me' with Miss Fire. We did some stuff earlier on this year just to try and get people back used to the vocals and stuff. Its all about making tunes for girls, where ever girls go men follow so you hit both crowds. I also had a track come out called into you with one of my old friends Teresa. I've got some more vocals to come out with my singer Ruth as well and hope to work with more singers over the next few months.

Is that what your overall working towards kinda juss getting out a few singles to get your name popping or is there an overall project like a ep or mixtape coming?

I haven't really got a masterplan, the plan is just to make good music right now that people enjoy and love. I love making grime and bassline, and as long as people are jumping around or the tunes are getting wheels on sets I'm happy. I'm just trying to get as much out there as I can, but spread it out over time rather then flood peoples ears so they don't know what to listen to. Its kind of hard to juggle bassline and grime as well, as both listeners are stubborn to each others taste.

I'll eventually start working on a mixtape, the time isn't right yet, people get one gleam of hype and think 'Yes, do a mixtape with about 50 tunes so everyone knows me', where as I'd rather just keep coming out bits and bobs one by one until my names on everyones lips and they actually want to hear a mixtape.

Can you give us an early tip on some producers from the Midlands we should be looking out for in the near future?

My little brother CRT! He's too sick for his age better then most out there! Only just turned 17 he's on his grime. EK9, dubstep is ridiculous, already done some bits and bobs with Sukh Knight when he was round these sides. Mr Figz, RnG is absolutely nuts. Avirex & Hectic! Bassline producers, few I've been working with, Lil Stepz and Jack Swagger, they put out two new tunes last week which got massive feedback and theres youtube vids for those (TRCMusicTV).. I dont even need to say watch out but you all know my homie S-X, theres too many to list to be honest so much talent round here stretching from Birms to Wolves to Notts to lesta its madness. Flush UK Media and Stay Fresh, 2 big labels from the midlands you need to keep your eyes on. Flush have got so much going on right now, too many flush raw videos, Bassboy has a release coming out in a few weeks so look him up too.

Watch out for more TRC on Butterz in the future hopefully...

Oo Aa Ee VIP is out now on iTunes or on vinyl with 'Skipping Rope' and 'My Empire'

Terror Danjah - Time To Let Go

Terror Danjah - Cock Back (D.O.K Remix)

Terror Danjah Feat Mz Bratt & Sadie - I Like You

Roll Deep - Poltergeist (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah - Sonar

Terror Danjah - Radar (Statik Remix)

D.O.K - Crazy Beat (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah - ??

Admiral Bailey - Jump Up (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah fear D Double E - Undeniable

Terror Danjah - Creepy Crawler

D.O.K & Terror Danjah - West Coast

Spooky - Spartan (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah - ??

Terror Danjah - ??

Terror Danjah - Jelly Bean

Terror Danjah & Shola Ama - With You

Terror Danjah feat Wiley & Sadie - The One

Terror Danjah feat Meleka & Tinie Tempah - ??

Terror Danjah Feat Shystie, Bruza & Kano - One Wish Remix

Terror Danjah - Nightcrawler 2

Terror Danjah feat Kano & KT - Here To Stay (Skepta Remix)

Kyla - Do You Mind (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah feat D Double E & Shola Ama - So Contagious

Terror Danjah - Green Street

Terror Danjah - Stiff

Terror Danjah feat Hyper etc - We Are The Worst

Terror Danjah - Story Ending

Rox - My Baby Left Me (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah feat Bruza - Leave Me Alone

Maxsta & Terror Danjah - I Promise

Terror Danjah - Zumpi Hunter RIP

Terror Danjah - Air Bubble (Starkey Remix)

Rude Kid & Terror Danjah - The Best Crawler

Joker & Terror Danjah - Gully Goon Estate

Swindle - Airmiles (Terror Danjah Remix)

Terror Danjah feat Sadie & Kano - So Sure

You can catch all of us DJing together at East Village for free on Wednesday 10th November more information to follow...

This is coming out soon on Butterz. Like we did with Air Bubble we are giving producers the stems to do their own remixes. Re up your versions via Youtube or Soundcloud so I can hear all of them.

Big ups

P.S Some early copies of TRC's new release on Butterz are floating here

The original got rejected from a magazine, and I am currently transcribing for a fanzine so I thought I might as well share the audio of the interview with my favourite MC of all time.

Been a while since I have posted any Rinse FM shows, and we have had two good ones in a row this week.

First is a cover show from Sunday 9-11 in the legendary Roll Deep slot, and if you havent heard us for a while it is a good catch up show.

We are also back in Glasgow at the end of the month alongside Ben Ufo & Oneman which will be sick, so get down there.

TRC's - Oo Aa Ee vinyls should start floating around within the next couple of weeks so keep your eyes and hears open. You can grab all the previous releases here.

Got to big up SRC for putting this animation together for us, if there are any animators that read this blog that want to get involved, please give me a shout!

There is a lot more to come...

This is hurting the scene in so many ways, I just want to make a series of points I want artists, producers and DJs to think about.

Grime already has a weak purchasing culture, most people do not pay for the music and haven't done from the start. This doesn't encourage people to support the artists with their wallets.

People are putting money into music videos and then putting the tracks up for free, so artists are making losses to compete with each other it seems? This is unsustainable, and only the top artists can afford to do this from their P.A money.

The record shops have no grime to sell, so when someone does have a quality product to take to the stores, shops wont even bother taking it on anymore. So there will be fewer outlets to sell the music. Grime is very close to being an iTunes only music.

I have regularly been speaking about this with DJs Logan Sama and Vectra and their comments they wanted to add to the blog are:

Logan - "Free downloads can devalue great music and make it instantly forgettable, lost in an ocean of zip files"

Vectra - "I think a complete waste of time! These same artists will turn around and complain 3 months later that they didn't even sell 500 units.. Everyone likes a freebie so why would pay for CD when you know this same artist is going to give a free download.. you never see Dizzee Rascal put out a free ep.. and he has had 4 number one singles off one album.. do the maths"

If you are not investing in your music who else will?

P.S You can download our latest Rinse FM show (for free ☺) here.

Look out for the first release from his new label by D.O.K. Which includes that 'Missing' bootleg we have been battering lately.

Don't forget we are at the Bongo Club on Saturday in Edinburgh, all info is here.

And we are on Rinse FM tonight, and every Thursday night 1-3am!

One of the top tracks of the year for me. On iTunes now

I interviewed him recently for a magazine and my favourite quote was this:

Hopefully we can get him on the show soon!

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We have been on Rinse FM for around 18 months and done on average 5 shows a month since we started. None with MC guests, until Thursday when I said this on Twitter, then Trim popped up saying he wanted to go on radio, I invited him, having never met him or spoken to him.

Thinking that in typical MC fashion they won't show up, especially for my 1-3am slot, I just continued to promote a normal Butterz show. Not only did he show up early, he brought Scratchy as well... I gave Trim an instrumental CD so will be interesting to see if he vocals anything that we have been supporting over the last few months. Watch this space...

He sounds particularly sick over that Swindle tune in the video, watch for Trim & Swindle soon according to twitter!

Enjoy!

Back with another mix of recent stuff that we are feeling. If you missed the older ones check out the Mixcloud.

Swindle - Daredevil

Spooky - Night Time

JME & Tempa T - CD Is Dead (Royal T Remix)

Teddy - Speed

Wiley & Shifty V Ghetts & Devlin - 123 Lets Go

Terror Danjah - Bruzin VIP

B Live Feat Newham Generals & Skepta - Modern Warfare 2

Royal T - Freeze

Dizzee Rascal - Heavy

Mr Mitch - Fright Night (Deset Remix)

Teddy - Dirtbag VIP

Wiley - MC Pon 141

Rude Kid - Always Ready

Jammer feat Newham Generals - Badmind People

Numan - Secrets (Mr Mitch Remix)

D.O.K feat Terror Danjah - West Coast

SRC - Birmingham Palace

Maxsta - Back To Grime

SRC - Ryokou

Enjoy

My favourite MC of the last six months hands down is P Money. Continuing on from last year P Money has retained his hype by consistently appearing all over the Rinse FM schedule alongside DJs JJ, Plastician, Vectra and Spyro. His war dubs for Ghetts are brilliant and it is a shame it never materialised into a live clash on the radio or in a rave. He has been working closely with the Dubstep producers and voicing their popular beats that have gone down well in Grime & Dubstep Raves. Slang Like This, Come Follow Me and Skream's remix of Left The Room are going to keep P Money and the OGz in the clubs for a very long time. Check out Numb produced by Starkey if you still aren't convinced.

Quality releases have been slow but it is just reflective of the climate. Mixtapes aren't selling, everyone downloads them for free, record shops are shutting (Rhythm Division has gone online only now) and as a result people are either making their music available for free with 'Promos' and 'Free EPs' flooding the scene, especially among the newer artists. This is going to do the scene serious damage, and it doesn't encourage support for young talent with peoples wallets.


New talent like J Beatz, M.I.K, Teeza and SX will find it difficult to do good sales even if they have the most popular tune in the scene. Unless their tunes get picked up by DJs and labels from outisde as has happened to SRC and Swindle they will struggle to sell.

I'm worried about the new generation of MCs coming through, still no real music from much hyped Griminal and Ice Kid, no solo work from Double S, no stand out tunes from Scrufizzer, Maveric and a few other Grime kids that have been expected to deliver since as far back as late 2006. It is such a shame that outlets to promote music are so few and far between, but I hope they pull their socks up in the second half as they are extremely talented and the future of the scene is in their hands.


One of the Grime kids that has managed to put out a 20 track mixtape, a video and cause a bunch of hype is Maxsta.
The Maxtape has an allstar production cast in Danny Weed, Target, Bless Beats, Swindle, Terror Danjah and Nocturnal and hearing a fresh voice over quality beats is really refreshing. Maxsta is very honest about the politics of the scene, in a humorous way openly saying who he has been 'parred' by and outing his own personal set backs. Unlike the names I mentioned previously he continuously reiterates his love and dedication to Grime music, when in this day and age people won't even call themselves a Grime MC is something I rate. This is on album level for me, and for an independent 17 year old it is a tremendous achievement. Tracks to check : Second Chance, Bait Face and Talent featuring Wiley.

Rossi B & Lucas 'E10 Riddim' had to get a mention, a track that we have been playing out all year, getting a stellar reaction all round. It is out now Vinyl & Digital on Planet Mu.


Trim continued his regular mixtape releases with 'Trim City'. I just wish he would make one great tune and push it as a single, he is such a good MC, and picks good beats, so please make it happen! Check out James Blake reworking Trim here.
Skepta's first mixtape, featuring new and classic material including 'Stupid' and 'UFO' which I have wanted for years.


JME continued pushing quality singles in 'Sidetracked' and 'CD Is Dead' and released the vocal parts for producers to remix resulting in thousands of versions up on youtube now. I'm looking forward to his new album 'Blam!' which will hopefully see a release this year.

Jammer's debut album 'Jahmanji' is out now on Big Dada, aside from 10 Man Roll check out 'Bad Mind People' alongside Newham Generals. Hopefully they knock out a video for that as well.


Over the past 6 months the Newham Generals have been previewing their forthcoming material and it is sounding great. 'Im A General' is taken from the 'Bag Of Greeze' EP, 'Street Fighter' is out on July 26th and we have been promised a D Double E EP. I look forward to hearing more.

The big producers have had a much better start to 2010 then they did 2009, with multiple releases, DJ gigs up and down the UK & Europe and a lot more collaboration. Rude Kid's Jack Daniels and Electric have been two of the top tunes this year (and last) and it is beginning to get him the attention he deserves.
Are You Ready? The album is out now, as well as the Jack Daniels and Electric Vinyls, which include bonus tracks 'Best Crawler' & 'Screwdriver' between them.
Watch out for his 'Hypnotize' EP which should be dropping next month on iTunes.



Terror Danjah has been just as prolific getting four releases in the last 6 months out via Hyperdub, Planet Mu and Butterz. There is more to come with releases on his own label alongside D.O.K, Reinforced EP via Rwina, Air Bubble Remixes via Butterz and ending the year on an album with Hyperdub.




Joker has continued DJing all over the world, making some crazy music and working with Terror Danjah, & Swindle.. Tron one of the biggest tunes in both the Dubstep & Grime scenes came out on limited etched vinyl.




One of the producers I predicted greatness for this year was SRC, he now is living up to it with two EPs out at the moment and appreciation a lot further then the Grime scene. He has come through will pretty much no support from any big Grime DJs, but is continuing to make the music, I wish more artists and producers had that kind of spirit.
Teddy continued his style that has worked for the past couple of years with G.Tank on a full 15 track instrumental CD. Wiley & JME also put out their classic beats as part of the Avalanche Music Series.
Spooky took care of the first release on new label 'Oil Gang' with the Murderer EP, and 'Spartan' is shaping up to be one of the tunes of the year.



Swindle is another person I tipped to watch out for this year. He had one of the tunes of the year so far in 'Airmiles' and is currently working the DJ, hosting a monthly show on 1xtra and finishing his debut album.
Guido is more associated with the Dubstep scene like his Bristol partner Joker, but most of the tracks on this album I'd consider Grime, just his own angle on it. If you haven't check out 'Mad Sax' and 'You Do It Right'

Grime Forum Awards Party

Grime Forum is now approaching its third year online and this year we were lucky enough to have a party for it, and some actual awards for the winners of our yearly online polls. If you missed it, it went down like this..



The results:

Positive Contribution - SBTV
Best Instrumental - Rude Kid - Electric
Best Producer - Teddy
Best Tune - Tempz - Next hype
Best DJ Show - Logan Sama
Best Set - Logan Sama featuring BBK, OG'z, Roll Deep
Best Break Through Artist - Blacks
Best MC - P Money
Best CD - P Money - P Money Is Power
Best DJ - Logan
Best Instrumental Release - Maniac - New Age Grime

Wiley decided to release 190 tracks online this week to start a fresh. I don't think anyone else in the music world would do something like this, but that is what legends are made of. Here is a quick comment from The Guardian and a radio interview explaining his motives behind it. There are some real gems in there in '123 Lets Go' and 'MC Pon 141'.

No Hats No Trainers



BBC2 on Saturday afternoons brought us No Hats No Trainers the first program on terrestrial TV dedicated to 'Urban' culture. It featured a healthy amount of Grime talent, so hopefully it gets a second series so these acts can take advantage of this exposure.

Check out JME & Tempz / Skitz Beatz and the Series Montage on Youtube.

Just Jam



Just Jam takes place every Wednesday night at The Alibi and is halfway between a radio show and a tv show featuring artists and DJs that people can watch on Ustream or live at the club. A great concept, and it is in its early stages, but hopefully continues throughout the winter. You can watch it live on Dontwatchthat.tv
Other notable Ustreamers: Ghetts /JME /Swindle /Skepta /Butterz /Mz Bratt


Essential Downloads
Woo Riddim Mixtape
Logan Sama - Still Keepin It Grimy
Logan Sama - Chosen Ones
BBK & OGz Live @ FWD v Rinse
Butterz Mixes: '01012010' / 'Fact Mag:135' / 'Something Very Epic'
Grime Forum Archives are here, if you are new to this music!

You can now find most of the scenes finest DJs on Mixcloud : Butterz, Terror Danjah, Spyro, Vectra, Teddy, JJ, Oil Gang, Logan Sama, Spooky and Grime Forum

Second Half Prediction & Hopes In Brief

• The younger MCs really get their act together and get making some good quality Grime music
• More producers get their music up for digital download quicker, on iTunes and Bandcamp
• Logan Sama gets back two hours
• No Hats No Trainers gets a second series
• Some kind of Ruff Squad release perhaps
• An attempt at charting a Grime single from one of the top acts?

I'll be back with another in December..