GRANDMIXXER – ‘SOUTH LONDON INTERGALACTIC THE MIXTAPE’
I was recently made aware of this killer mixtape by The Bug on his twitter feed, and it’s a straight banger – a clutch of old school atmospheric Grime productions slathered in hard hitting, aggressive and incorrigible bars spat hitman style by a brace of talented and verbose MCs, an hour of devotional Grime full of archaic sampling, confrontational and forward thinking productions, a purism of Grime form not often seen these days. A throwback to a sound that I remember frightened and excited the mainstream hard, and influenced popular music on a global scale. Perhaps the youth focus has moved on to the sounds of Drill (I’m sure that’s a bit of an overstatement, really), but with the work of the South London Space Agency and Grandmixxer, this strain of Grime is sonically alive and kickin shit hard. Absolutely fucking imperative.
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