I was going to write something about Jeff Bezos latest scandal which was basically “Wow the National Enquirer succeeded in more or less doing the impossible and making one of the richest most cutthroat and exploitative people on earth sympathetic.” But that’s basically the whole thing, so I’m going to just share some great music by Mall Grab.
This one has the lovely and simple plinky monophonic melodies of grime in it’s DNA but instead is hazy but propulsive house. I love it. Mall Grab is part of the complicated and hyper local stream of UK underground music. Mostly it’s a history of making weird stuff and then retreating and rediscovering house music again and again. Right now the pendulum is on a swing through house territory and there is some really great stuff being made. I guess if we need to give this a genre people are calling it Low-Fi House? Google that if you’re interested.
Making the historical context explicit is another utterly wonderful understated banger from Mall Grab called “I’ve Always Like Grime”. It’s fucking great, particularly for it’s prominent placement of one of Wiley’s trademark eski video game plonk sounds for the lead melody. This is an instant recipe to win my affection. The video is also silly and great.
