Riddims of the Week (30/06/08): Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me

This has officially grown on me...

Dizzee Rascal - Dance Wiv Me Ft. Calvin Harris & Chrome

Tinchy Stryder - Stryderman

Is this very good or very average?

Chipmunk - Muhammad Ali

Sting like a bee...

Double S - From Day

Big tune - big like rock not small like pebble - but not too sure about the video yet. It's like a poor man's Fix Up Look Sharp.

Riddims of the Week (23/06/08): Jay Sean - Stay (Boy Better Know Remix)

Lifted straight from My Own Way - which dropped in May – Jay Sean is readying his new single Stay. Set to follow on from where Ride It and Maybe left off the R&B star has added a grimey refix to b-side. Sitting alongside the Soundbwoy edit and the Dubai Shadow dub is the Boy Better Know remix which features Skepta, Frisco, Chipmunk and Jammer



“I’ve known Skepta, Wiley and others for ages,” Jay said of the remix. “Long before the Rolex song. We’d always wanted to hook up on a track and I love what we did with Stay, completely spinning the sentiment around. Originally, the track was about trying to prevent a break-up, begging a girl to stay, but it was 5 lads in the studio and we were all like, ‘Yeah, so what, leave if you want to’.”

Stay is out in July. Watch out for a cameo from Jay Sean in Skepta’s forthcoming Rolex Sweep video.

JME Gives Me "berr different" Jokes

Boy Better Know the marketing is on point.

Lethal Bizzle Braves Muller Rice Bombardment!!!

Download Festival goers don’t "chuck" about…

Members of the RWD team know all about the Download Festival and its crazy vibe. Now Lethal ‘Police on my Back’ Bizzle is well aware too. The grime ambassador was on the metal festival’s Tuborg Stage over the weekend and there was a large crowd waiting for his music – well at least that’s what he thought. NME.com reported that as soon as the tracks started playing (1.20pm), the artist was pelted with plastic bottles and tubs of Muller Rice.

Whilst dodging Download desserts the grimester bravely/ crazily/ defiantly continued his set, despite being visually out of his depth. “We got setup didn’t we? We got set-up, motherf**kers! But we’re still gonna play!”

According to the report it didn’t end there. After Bizzle became more bizzed off he pointed to his bottle of vodka – neatly stashed in his pocket – and joked; “my bottle's glass.”

Footage from NME.com…

Riddims of the Week (16/06/08): Wiley, DJ NG, DJ Q & Joker

There are a lot of big tunes at the moment. This is what I’m currently feeling…

DJ NG – Tell Me Ft. Katy (DJ Remix)


Joker – Snake Eater


DJ Q – You Wot Ft. MC Bonez


And of course, Wiley gets a mention. You got Grime Wave yet?
Wiley – Where You Gonna Run To?

New Arsenal Kit 2008-2010

New Arsenal Kit 2008-2010 , originally uploaded by Danny Walker 1.

Will I be making ANOTHER kit purchase?

Quick Review: No.Lay - No.Comparisons

After rightfully tearing apart No.Lay's last CD, The New Chapter, I thought I'd give this new CD a chance - after all she did bring us No Help, No Handouts and more recently Swagger.

Here's the review...
No.Lay
No.Comparisons
Mixtape
No.Lay - yes that's how its spelt now, shut.up - returns with a much meatier meal compared to her last measly morsal of a mixtape, The New Chapter. Big beats, chunky concepts and a destructive flow combine over 20 tracks. J2K, Badness, Bashy and Ghetto all add to the best material Lay's done in a while. Playing The Feild, The Latest, Here for Life Ft Bashy are killers, this is much much better from the south London spitter.
Track to check: The Latest
4/5

Sway – F UR EX

Big.com/it_truly_is_a_lot

Bashy - Kidulthood to Adulthood

This track is actually sick...

ADULTHOOD MUSIC VIDEO

Black The Ripper aka Samson Rips Up Westwood

Very big bars!!!

Quadbiking In Latvia Was A Lot...

Latvia - Rubbish Meal, originally uploaded by Danny Walker 1.

Last week I went to Latvia to play a computer game (PURE) and to go Quadbiking... it was a lot but the food was shit.

Rockstar Headquarters gets the fisheye lens treatment

Fisheye Camera - Rockstar Headquarters



Originally uploaded by Danny Walker 1.

I have access to a LOMO fish eye camera, it's mega grainy but I love the effect!!!

Quick Review: Wiley - Grime Wave

Wiley
Grime Wave
Eskibeat Recordings
So he may not turn up for a PA on the outskirts of Liverpool, Manchester or even London but who gives a fuck. Wiley is a grimey genius. Again he tries to bring through youngers (previously Dizzee Rascal, Tinchy, Syer B, Caramel Poo Poo, Little D and Chipmunk have all prospered under his Bow E3 shaped wing) and on this wave the likes of Messy and Desperado get their turn; The MCs semi shine on title track, Grime Wave. Across town collabs come from Flo Dan, Frisco, Brazen, Stryderman and co but Eskiboy excels. Highlights include If Your Going Out I’m coming Out Too = shut up, Fire Ain't Burning No More = your aunt knows, Where You Gonna Run To? = dirty like a Thai whore, and Grime Kid = beat-heavy grime firework (producer Manic can do no wrong in my eyes, I’d lend him £30 without even specifying a return date). Slap yourself before you doubt Richard Cowie again.
Track to Check: Where You Gonna Run To?
3.75 /5

[music]

Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris – Dance Wiv Me

What do you think?

No.Lay - Bars of Truth

Always ready to unleash “bars-upon-bars” No.Lay’s new video demonstrates just that.

The FaceSpace Face Off aka The Facebook Face Off aka MySpace Meltdown

A version of the following article appeared in the June Issue of RWD Magazine...

It takes a special breed of site-skimmer to confront the unconfrontable (ex-partner, over-familiar priest, etc.) If you’re ready to grab your mouse and rumble, Danny Walker is prepared to guide you through the highs and blows of ‘Facing’ online problem-people; come on, what else are these sites for if not to incite stalking, coax hatred and encourage virtual boasting (the likes of which the World has never seen)…

This document is for the dumped; those who regularly peer at an old flame’s profile (whilst desperately praying for their status to read ‘single… and desperate’). It’s for the downtrodden; the geek who’s always wanted to tell a bully to ‘suck out’ (without fear of dead legs, pulled hair or wedgie-based reprisals). It’s for those that were mocked for studying guitar after school while the rest of their year went home (sorry to get strung up on that, but why did you do it again?).
If any of the above has struck a chord, save the cold-sweat confrontations for another day as RWD take a serious-sized social networking gulp on your behalf.

Firstly, the RWD Institute of Social Networking will show you how to confront a few essential people and then we’ll test you to see what you’ve taken in.

How to handle…
The ex-boyfriend – He’s blatantly still having damp dreams over you so stay cool, you have all the power (unless he kicked you to the kerb). Change your profile to ‘Single’ and he’ll soon look elsewhere.

The ex-girlfriend – Even if you haven’t; show her that you moved on weeks before (even if you only broke up a few hours ago). Use your profile to display ‘subtle’ hidden messages like Current Mood: FINALLY FREE!!!

That work contact – So you chat to this person over work emails and all of a sudden they’ve tracked you down online. Damn, they’ve got the hots for you bad. Just play it cool and DON’T BEND OVER to their demands. If you do, your unprotected ‘outbox’ will be stuffed before you know it.

The dirkhead who went to your school (that you don’t really want to talk to) – Don’t blank them straight away, that would be deep. Just give them enough communication so that they feel special… and then blank them.

That fit girl from school/ the bits/ the block – A couple of years on and she may still be looking nice; but face it, she’s probably slept with a bag of man, popped out a couple of yout and gone all flabby… try and get her number still.

Someone who used to hate on you – Cut out a picture of your head and put it on the body of one of a recent lottery winner. Send it to them and pretend you’re gonna share out all the loot.

Please remember this is an EXAMPLE of how to do your confrontation. RWD take no responsibility if you’re tracked down and receive a bosh on the nose.

Now, using what you’ve learnt, now answer this simple questionnaire:
If you’re on a social networking website and...
…you come across an ex-girlfriend/ boyfriend – yes, the same one that discarded you like a ruby-faced sanitary towel – do you;
A – Drop them a little message wishing them, their family and their new bit of stuff the best of health and good luck in the future.
B – Pretend you didn’t see them or their messages and instantly change your profile to ‘In a relationship’.
C – Go on about your life like a normal human being.
D – Close your account, move to Papua New Guinea, change your name to ‘Sunshine’ and seriously consider Cannibalism as a lifestyle choice.

…someone – someone being that inhumanely tall 9 year-old tyrant from the year below who instead of playing football at lunch tormented you with a game called ‘Give Me YOUR Curly Whirly Money’ – messages you about a ‘reunion’, do you;
A – Reply from the office – obviously your work can wait as this is important – telling him how you’ll be there and can’t wait to ‘catch up’.
B – Send a polite message saying why you can’t make it (Your wife/ husband has to go to Iceland on a modelling job and there is no-one to stay in and watch the mansion).
C – Go on about your life like a normal human being.
D – Immediately contact the police and explain to them that you think your old ‘buddy’ is a drug’s mule and give them full contact details (suggesting they should check all orifices for evidence).

…a disgraced celeb and/ or family member tries to befriend you, do you;
A – Reply saying that you’re willing to forgive them for that incident but you’ll NEVER forget. Start a forgiveness group and tell the seven people in your contacts list about the powers of clemency.
B – Blank this invitation unless they’re offing some mind of cash compensation for you to talk to them.
C – Go on about your life like a normal human being.
D – Track them down, steal the computer from their house and/ or cell and destroy it so they can never hurt anyone ever again.

If you mainly answered A, you need to get off the Internet, stop living in the past and go get a life… preferably one which doesn’t involve logging in, signing up or sending out group emails about your pet Hamster.
If you mainly answered B, you need to stop faking your way through life.
If you mainly answered C, social networking just ain’t your thing.
If you mainly answered D, you need to get a job selling caldrons as YOU and your vindictive mentality are wasted on these Job Centre-bound losers.

Riddims of the Week (09/06/08): Fuda Guy Is Head Gone

Fuda Guy finally steps forward and it's a big step too. His first solo mixtape, Head Gone, is now Nationwide.

Here are a few tracks...
A take on Scorcher's track...


Something a little different...


My favourite...


See quick review here.

Interview - The Thirst

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Quick Review: The Thirst - On The Brink

The Thirst
On The Brink
Wooden Records
It takes a brave band to wean me off my hourly dose of grime, baseline and all things bumpy, and The Thirst are just that; welding indie, the odd ballad and a touch of ska with mechanical precision. Not only do their refreshingly vibrant tales of kids who'd "rather play on a Station", good ol' Acre Lane, and drinking Stella "on the back of the bus" make you wanna shake the person next to you but their catchy studio sounds are in sync with their live aura. These boys are definitely on the brink of something big... NME you're slipping.
Track to Check: Sail Away
4/5