Grime and DnB: what's with all the rewinds?

[Moronik]

Grindie.

There was was period when police were clamping down on grime events, meaning prominent grime acts couldn't actually get any gigs. After the electroclash fallout, indie was getting big amongst the rich young trendies, and some enterprising promoters (Young Turks) started booking grime acts at their indie nights.

So you would get acts like Lethal Bizzle, Kano, Boy Better Know etc on the same bill as The Horrors, The Rakes etc. It was a very weird time. But quite an exciting one.

It spawned a short lived scene, where grime artists would spit rhymes over indie tracks and there were quite a few remixes and mash-ups going on. Even a few collaborative singles. Some enterprising journo came up with the imaginative name of 'grindie'.

It also spawned the grindie band Hadouken. An abomination that exists to this very day.

 

[Orang Utan]

Who do you mean infinity?
I love the grime that's been housed up a little bit.
DJ Champion rules!

 

[Ax^]

Mid life crisis anyone


My advice buy a sport car

 

[ska invita]

Orangutan is a Rinse FM evangelist - and quite right too

 

[Gerry1time]

I'm glad it's not just me who hates rewinds, never understood them myself either. In fact, they've become so obvious to spot coming up that I generally pause the first time they play the tune, light a fag, drink my pint for a bit and so forth, then start dancing the second time they drop it.

There was a live band at Outlook last year doing rewinds, that amused me.

Wasn't Gentleman's Dub Club was it? They've got a really bad habit of doing rewinds far, far, far too much.

 

[Orang Utan]

Mid life crisis anyone


My advice buy a sport car

Hardly! I'm listening to grime. I'm well down with the kids, daddio!

 

[ska invita]

Live rewinds are a standard of live reggae bands. Again, if its a big tune I like it, but the crowd have to want it otherwise its just a vanity rewind

 

[sim667]

DnB fans like familiarity...... tbh if you just played dark soldier over and over again for 2 hours theyd come out saying it was the best night ever.

 

[Metal Malcolm]

That said, I always take great pleasure when the MC starts screaming for a rewind and gets totally denied by the DJ.

tbf, I take great pleasure in MCs being denied anything

 

[ddraig]

DnB fans like familiarity...... tbh if you just played dark soldier over and over again for 2 hours theyd come out saying it was the best night ever.

wtf is 'dark soldier' young sim (i know, just want you to tell me)
and don't be disparaging us DnB/Jungle heads please
or get your cuss right

 

[Ax^]

Well at least it not dubstep is all I can say

 

[Orang Utan]

Dubstep got a bit dull, but many of the producers have moved on to make and play house - the Hessle Audio crew for example

 

[Orang Utan]

I stopped listening to d'n'b about 15 years ago. Has it got good again?

 

[ska invita]

That said, I always take great pleasure when the MC starts screaming for a rewind and gets totally denied by the DJ.

mcs are the biggest problem re rewinds for sure

 

[sim667]

wtf is 'dark soldier' young sim (i know, just want you to tell me)
and don't be disparaging us DnB/Jungle heads please
or get your cuss right

I did get it right, dark soldier is a tune by ray keith....... (tried to embed it but its been removed from youtube)...... Probably one of the best (mainstream) DNB tunes of all time.

Im a dnb head, otherwise I wouldn't put DNB mixes in the mix thread would I...... I can cuss my own

Not all DNB has stagnated to be fair...... but imho mainstream DNB they like familiarity...... There's DJ's I know that have been playing the same 30 odd tunes for the last 10 years...... but they've still got radio shows and they're still getting asked to do playouts.

I like the PRSPCT, Barcode recordings school of DNB myself, never any rewinds or MC's in that type of stuff. An MC would have a fucking heart attack at a therapy sessions night im sure.

 

[Ax^]

I stopped listening to d'n'b about 15 years ago. Has it got good again?

Depends what drugs do you have

 

[ddraig]

I did get it right, dark soldier is a tune by ray keith....... (tried to embed it but its been removed from youtube)...... Probably one of the best (mainstream) DNB tunes of all time.

Im a dnb head, otherwise I wouldn't put DNB mixes in the mix thread would I...... I can cuss my own

Not all DNB has stagnated to be fair...... but imho mainstream DNB they like familiarity...... There's DJ's I know that have been playing the same 30 odd tunes for the last 10 years...... but they've still got radio shows and they're still getting asked to do playouts.

I like the PRSPCT, Barcode recordings school of DNB myself, never any rewinds or MC's in that type of stuff. An MC would have a fucking heart attack at a therapy sessions night im sure.

i'm a junglist
i know of dark soldier ta, bin and bought tunes in the sutton shop they had the studio under
presumed you meant 'daaaaaaaaaaaaark stranger'

 

[sim667]

'daaaaaaaaaaaaark stranger'

I dont even know what that means

 

[ddraig]

well you were probably about 2, maybe 8!
learn youngun!

 

[Orang Utan]

Has there been a Valley Of The Shadows or a Renegade Snares or a Metropolis or a Lighter in the 21st century? That's what I want to know!

 

[ska invita]

 

[ringo]

I bought that in Massive Records in Oxford the week it came out

 

[sim667]

well you were probably about 2, maybe 8!
learn youngun!

1993 - 10

Pretty sure I was listening to a mix of led Zeppelin and dream fm cus I used to hang about with 'bigger boys' from up the road.

 

[ddraig]

Has there been a Valley Of The Shadows or a Renegade Snares or a Metropolis or a Lighter in the 21st century? That's what I want to know!

Vault?
twist em out?
shake your body? groan

 

[ska invita]

^^^^
D bridge - True romance gets that kind of response

nice that a 'deep' tune has gone down as such a classic in the face of all the jump up

 

[Metal Malcolm]

Hornet
Signal
Another Planet
Slam ( )
X-Ray
Timewarp
Machete

All tunes from the last 10 years that got so rinsed I got sick of hearing them out, before I stopped going to DnB nights regularly.

Actually, that's a lie - still go mental to Signal. Also half of the best mashup i've ever done. Signal + Scissor Sisters 'Laura' acapella.

 

[Metal Malcolm]

^^^^
D bridge - True romance gets that kind of response

HOW DID I FORGET TRUE ROMANCE??? SUCH a tune.

Still, i'm a total dBridge fanboy. You heard his recent Wraetlic rmx? IMMENSE.

 

[ska invita]

HOW DID I FORGET TRUE ROMANCE??? SUCH a tune.

Still, i'm a total dBridge fanboy. You heard his recent Wraetlic rmx? IMMENSE.

no, will check it

this has been the biggest anthem on kool fm this decade i reckon


puullllll uuuupp

 

[ddraig]

Bodyrock of course

 

[ddraig]

no, will check it

this has been the biggest anthem on kool fm this decade i reckon

can't see it what is it please? ta