The 'Caught A Moesh' series is back again, this time with a freestyle from the most exciting crew in grime right now, Family Tree. The crew consists of mc's Merky Ace,MIK, TKO,Ego and Shifman and this week DJ Scope caught up with three of the members Ego, TKO and Merky Ace as each of them go in over three different instrumentals, from producers Splurt and Faze Miyake.
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.
West London producer ZDot releases the third edition from his instrumentals series 'Work Rate Pro'. The EP contains four tracks which have all been vocalled by some of the UK scene's finest. With three other releases already under his belt this year, including 'Route To Success Part 3', the 'New Light' album and 'Gangsters' EP, the title of these instrumental EP's are certainly fitting.
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.
Shortly after hearing Stutta feature on two different tracks lately, including 'Why' featuring Roachee and Rival and his and Roachee's 'Gangster' freestyle over the Z Dot production, the East London mc releases the second edition of his 'Girls & Music' EP series.
After the success of the first edition the Konk mc is back with another one, which is just as hard-hitting as the first one. The ten track ep features a massive lineup including vocals from Fudaguy, Mercston, Ghetts, Roachee, Lioness, A.L, Wiley, Rapid and loads more. We also see a very nice selection of instrumentals from the scenes most talented producers including, Rapid, Flava D, Dirty Danger, Teddy, SwiftJay and Marc Patrick.
Mixclique Vision have been putting in the work yet again, with more video's from the grime scene's finest artists and producers. This time round we're treated to an interview with the man behind the 'Tarzan' track, producer J Beatz.
He talks about his own music style and what to expect when you hear a 'J Beatz' production being suited more towards the clubs, although he has a wide style and even caters for the more melodic type tracks. He also chats about the time when he felt like he started to become established in the scene, upcoming projects and releases and even shows us a few snippets of some new material.
Sincere drops the video for his single 'Ain't Nobody Like You', produced by Justice Falsworth, taken from his forthcoming EP 'Now Or Never'. If this track is anything to go by, then we should expect a big release when the EP finally does drop.
Sincere has been working hard lately with his upcoming release and his clothing line 'XYE Clothing' that was also recently just launched, which you can see the rapper wearing in the video. You can pre-order this single along with the rest of the EP on September 16th with the release set to drop on October 30th.
The Actress turned Singer who first featured on Skepta's track 'Cross My Heart' now brings out a track of her own featuring Scorcher. When Mixclique interviewed Dexplicit he talked about a track he's working on with the Eastenders star which featured Scorcher, well we now get to see the official video for that very track.
Look out for the track which will be available for pre-order from iTunes soon.
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.
