After recently giving away two other instrumentals, 'Sparkplug' and 'History'. Teddy Music, formerly known as Silencer, gives away a third track, this time it's the well known instrumental 'Dog Stadium'.
There's been a lot of covers of American tracks lately, something that I'm sometimes skeptical of, but I have to admit, out of all the one's I've heard so far this has to be the best.
The Nationality mc RD has done his own cover to the Sean Garett feat. Rick Ross 'In Da Box' track, produced by Lex Luger, which he has titled 'Chasing'. RD has decided to give away the track for free, which you can download here http://t.co/DBuxemwm.
Look out for a video dropping soon for the track as well, but in the meantime check the video for his recent track 'Radio' below.
Just lately we've seen a lot from Manga, including the forthcoming mixtape 'Obzokey Wranglings' which is out next month. However before that drops, the single 'No Mc' feat. J2K and Scratchy is set for release on the 25th and to promote it the Roll Deep mc came down to the Kiss FM studio with Luton based mc's Young Kye and Nafe Smallz, for Logan Sama's afterhours set.
As well as Manga's forthcoming releases, Young Kye and Nafe Smallz have also got a joint mixtape, so make sure you look out for that.
Grime producer and DJ Teddy, formerly known as Silencer, has kindly decided to give away two instrumentals for free this week. One is the first draft of the Ghetts track 'My Sperm' entitled 'Sparkplug' and the second track 'History'.
After recently seeing the video for the hip hop freestyle entitled 'Currently Thinking', Nico Lindsay brings out yet another track. This time it's a grime track which is also up for free download, so make sure you go get that after listening below.
The track entitled 'Haunted' is produced by the hit-maker S-X and follows the same route as the 'Currently Thinking' freestyle filled full of deep lyrics, showing us that the North London mc is more than comfortable on both genres.
Look out for new material from Nico Lindsay, expected in the near future.
Random Impulse has to be one of the most talented artists within the UK. Starting off his musical career with North London based crew GFam, who he still continues to do plenty of tracks with, we were then introduced to Random Impulses's songwriting skills and musical instrument playing abilities.
After choosing certain mainstream songs the mc then puts his own spin on the track, with his guitar as one weapon and the mic as the other.
This time round he's chose to do a refix of the chart topping song 'Louder' by DJ Fresh. It's exciting to hear music like this as this is the first time we've heard someone take this sort of approach on mainstream music. The North London mc really does define the term of a 'one man band'.
Just lately we've seen a whole heap of tracks given away by Wiley and this week is no different as he releases the grime track 'No Love Lost'.
The Godfather Of Grime has had more beef within the scene than probably any other mc and had some form of relationship with nearly every mc there is. In this track he talks about exactly this, airing his many thoughts as usual.
The track has a very distinct old school Wiley feel to it, both in the production and his flow, listen below and download the track for free here.
Dot Rotten uploads a brand new freestyle on his YouTube page entitled 'Words Of Wisdom' freestyle. Without grime fans getting their hopes again, this one's over a hip-hop beat. This now seems to be the permanent genre the mc is edging towards nowadays. Nevertheless Dot Rotten still delivers that lyrical content that puts him in a league above many in the UK.
The 'Hardest Working' mc in grime is back with another track this week entitled 'Music Is My Life' and this time it's up for free download. The track, produced by Rude Kid, is a much deeper track than what we're used to hearing from the 'Gun Reload' mc and certainly shows how versatile Rival can be. This is now the second time we've heard Rival, team up with Rude Kid to express his views on the music scene, after the recent track entitled 'Why' which also features Roachee & Stutta.
Frisco drops the brand new EP 'Tear Drops' for free download. This release see's ten of the biggest tracks with features from J2K, Lay-Z, Lioness, Skepta, Tinchy Stryder, Example, Ghetts and more and productions by Rude Kid, Davinche, Skepta, Flava D and even the Boy Better Know member Frisco himself.
Highlights of this EP for me are Hustle, Fast Lane ft. J2K, Love Me ft. Lay-Z and Lioness and Frisco's P's & Q's EP, but every track is certainly worth checking out.
Download the 'Tear Drops' EP here and listen below via the Download A Mixtape website.
On this week's After Hours set from Logan Sama we saw guests Lil Nasty and Marger. Both mc's have just dropped their releases, with Lil Nasty's 'Rock N Rolla 2' with features from Badness, Raw Mems,Mr Rioss plus more and Marger's 'Shadows' EP which features vocals from singer Molly and original production by Sibling with remixes from Preditah,Lewi White and Rockerz.
Again we see the collaboration of UK grime veteran producer Dexplicit and GFam, this time including all of the GFam members Dimples,Sicx,Styler & Random Impulse and a feature on the hook from Luton based artist Igniter. The track entitled 'Never Stalling' is a certified banger, with every mc destroying the heavy Dexplicit production and Igniter delivering the head-nodding hook that really brings this track together.
Look out for the official video which is meant to be dropping soon.
Faze Miyake's riddim 'Take Off' is undoubtedly one of the biggest grime instrumentals of this year, being vocalled my an array of mc's, getting played on radio and duppying raves regularly and now even becoming the official soundtrack for Lord Of The Mics 3. Now the mc D Dark has released his own freestyle over this monster production, packed with punchlines and clever bars this is well worth the download people.
M.I.K decided to put up the war dub he did for Marger and Donatella, back in January now, up for free download and earlier tonight also released a freestyle video on YouTube entitled 'Missed The Train' freestyle.
You can listen and download the track 'Ultimate Warrior' on his Soundcloud here and you can catch the video for his freestyle below.
Logan Sama had Z Dot on the show this Monday promoting his two new releases, the 'Gangster' EP and his free download 'Route To Success Vol.3'. To keep within the theme on this week's after hours set, we saw some of mc's that feature on the 'Gangsters' EP in the studio including Dimples,Jammin,Durrty Skanx, Harry Shotta and even upcoming mc's like Romo & Bryon.Download the set here
You can catch the video below and also the video for Logan Sama's birthday set which featured P Money, Blacks, Kozzie and Merky Ace. Enjoy.
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.
The Brum DJ collective Filthy Vicars release the newest edition from their 'Mic Session' series with Family Tree member M.I.K. The FT mc goes in, on the twenty minute set, over grime and dubstep mixed by the Filthy Vicars.
Mishka, the NYC streetwear clothing brand, present to you the latest addition in their 'Keep Watch' mixes with grime DJ/producer Spooky. The long series has been going since 2008 but this is the first grime mix from Mishka and what a way to start, with the hypest hype set from Spooky.
This fifty minute set is definitely one to get you ready for the weekend.
Spooky remixes the bassline track 'Mario Bros' from producer Direct. The DJ/Producer puts his own signature touches on this track to completely transform this original bassline instrumental into an absolute grime banger. You can purchase the track now on Juno and on Amazon and iTunes as of tomorrow the 12th of August.
Remember watch out for AllStars Vol 1 and Darkside EP coming very soon.
