Promising new blog with a quite splendid name: Tufluv.

Particularly enjoyed this bit: “What did hi-fi ever do to Dillinja? The man must have some enormous sulphur-belching reservoir of acidic loathing for stereo sound, speaker boxes, studios and anything remotely involved with the amplification of noise because anytime he goes near them he seems intent on obliterating noise itself: amping it up to that event horizon where sound ceases to be sound and turns itself inside out, imploding in a deafening white silence where it just goes * and screams like a newborn baby Big-Bang into the dimension on the other side of the sonic boom. This isn’t music, it’s a murder.”

Course I'd much rather prefer to read this description than actually listen to a Dillinja record these days--that boy used to be a GOD to me but then circa “Acid Trak” he went all Dom & Rolandy and lost it major far as I’m concerned. I suppose this begs the question why I like the punitive aesthetic when it's Grime but not post-97 d&b.... I have no answer as yet... have to get back to you on that one...

Tufluv has nice wide range well beyond the usual bloghood suspects, for instance stuff on 'broken beats'. Must beg to differ though: that West London Soundbwoy favorite “Loose Lips” is a ghastly thing. If that tune broken beats’s best effort at an Anthem the scene’s got problems.

More reactionaries--Garage Nation promoters talking in RWD webzine about their intention to bring back UKG oriented to an upmarket crowd and pure niceness vybe:
“That crowd is still there, a lot of people still want to go out and hear garage but feel intimidated. It went too underground, bands like So Solid gave it a bad name, but I think it’s coming out of that a little bit. All the MCs rhyming about ‘I’m going to kill your mother’ and all that, we don’t wanna hear it. … We’re trying to take it back to the vibe it was, for the people who wanna hear UKG but don’t wanna hear an MC shouting all night. That is happening now and it’s the reason old skool is doing so well. “

“Kill-your-mother” is what they used to nickname that ultraviolent strain of hardest-core gabba back in the day. One of my few disappointments with the way Grime’s turned out is that the gabber-garridge vibe didn’t last very long--“I Luv U” and a few pirate tunes nicking the Human Resource ‘Dominator’ dronewarm sound, and that was about it.

Time of the Season. Silver Dollar Circle brings bad news for the EZ's and Timmi Magics of this world: "Grime seems to be getting colder, even more minimal and mechanical as the winter sets in; check out Youngster's DJ sets on Rinse on tuesday nights. last tuesday the MC was goading Youngster to 'take it colder, we're gonna get below minus degrees'. and the music got ever more inhuman hostile and grinding to point where it was just a stuttering electronic pulse with metallic flickers over the top. And they refused a request to play 'eskimo' cuz 'this is a forward show'. is 'eskimo' now old skool/played out?!"

And further to the Wiley "Eskimo"/Residents Eskimo thing, I forgot that Wiley of course also did a track called "Igloo"...