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09 Feb 2010

 

 



A few years back, garage and dubstep spokesman and journalist Martin Clark and production partner Dusk created an entirely unique album. Margins Music presented a journey through the current urban music tryptic and cultural development of the pair's home city, covering the sounds and diasporas of East London and the boroughs of the south.

 

Weaving the different zones and feelings into a geographical journey, the narrative feel of this album takes us through some heavyweight sounds, featuring vocal duties from Trim and Durrty Goodz, melding around lush soundscapes of African, Bangladeshi and even Oriental sounds, anchored down by crisp snares and penetrating bass that are recognised as essential parts of garage's offshoots.

If you missed the original, it's definitely worth reaching into your moth bitten pocket and shelling out for this intelligent, compelling and vibrant album. Then check out the redux version above by Grievous Angel, which is part remix LP, part DJ set and part dub rework. His skill of blurring the lines between DJing and live remixing were noticed by the Keysound recordings boss (the best of these are his Devotional Dubz mix  and Dubstep Sufferah 3), and was subsequently asked to mutate and re-form this epic album.

Grievous Angel is a respected producer in his own right, making ethereal 2step on his Devotional Dubz imprint (Lady Dub), rolling garage on Keysound (Soundclash 1 (Grievous Angel VIP)), and dancehall-infused funky on Soul Jazz (Move Down Low). His Belief is the Enemy album mixed dancehall with offkilter techno.

 


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