After all the hard work the Butterz label have been putting in lately, including releases and club nights, as well as being announced as the DJ's featured for the Rinse:17 cd, they've still found time to release the Autumn Zip, a folder filled full of grime vocals and instrumentals. The folder contains around 27 tracks, featuring the likes of Royal-T, Terror Danjah, TRC, Trim (including the I Am acapella) and loads more.
You can catch the Butterz duo Elijah and Skilliam playing up and down the country in the next few months, including the Butterz Takeover raves as well, following on from the last dance they held at Cable Nightclub.
The massive track 'I Am' by Trim, produced by TRC, finally sees its official release on the Butterz label. One of the biggest tracks the grime scene has seen this year is now available to purchase both digitally and on vinyl.
This has to be one of the East London mc's finest tracks to date and really showcases Trim's cutting-edge lyrics, filled to the brim with metaphors, over the original 'Summer Vibe' jazz infused production by TRC. The digital release includes two more remixes of the hit, a harder variation from, producer of the moment, Preditah and a more off-beat style instrumental from producer Mr.Mitch, on top of all that there is also a remix from L.V that is included on the vinyl release.
The release also includes the monster track 'Notice Now' produced by legendary grime hit-maker D.O.K, who also released his ep earlier this year entitled 'West Coast' ep on Hyperdub Records. One of the tracks from the ep, entitled 'East Coast', was also vocalled by Trim this year for the track 'Dead In This Ting' which featured on mc's 'Chelsea Smile' mixtape.
After already seeing a bag of releases from the Butterz label, ran by Elijah & Skilliam, so far this year, we are really starting to see what started out as a blog, turn into a grime platform for artists and producers alike to not only get their material heard on radio and in the raves, but also be available to purchase either digitally or on vinyl.
Also after the massive flood of remixes that came in after the 'Notice Now' acapella was given away for free, you can now download the 'I Am' acapella for free as well.
Last Saturday Butterz & Hardrive tore apart Cable nightclub at London Bridge, with performances from DJ's Elijah & Skilliam, Royal-T, Champion, Terror Danjah, Swindle, D.O.K, Scratcha DVA and Kode 9 in room one and funky house in room two.
Grime legend D Double E also performed on the night with Terror Danjah, who was celebrating his birthday, which included live P.A's of 'Back To The Bone', 'Bluku Bluku' and 'Streetfighter Riddim' and also a live set with old skool grime mc Bruza. Other mc's in attendance were Family Tree members Merky Ace and Ego, who both blessed the mic at various times throughout the night, and a quick appearance from Blacks on Elijah's and Skilliam's set.
Highlights of the night for me was funky house DJ/Producer Champion's set who showed us the darker side to the genre and then lit up the place near the end with some old skool grime classics and D Double E's performance with Terror Danjah, although I have to say every DJ and mc had the crowd hype and not one set was a disappointment.
Here's some of the video's from the night to give you an insight to how it went down.
Lets hope this is the start of something new and we'll be seeing many more Butterz hosted nights soon.
Big up the Butterz label and everyone else involved.
You can download/stream the sets from the night in room one below.
Mixclique presents the second episode in their Mixclique Vision series, this time round from Elijah, one half of the Butterz label. With the grime scene now going off in a few different directions, Elijah and Skilliam plus a few others are certainly creating their own route, focusing more on the dance style side of grime than the more rap orientated side shall we say. In the interview Elijah talks about how the label went from starting as a blog to where they are now and what they've got in store for the future.
