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So, I only stayed at the 'Flash Rave' for about half an hour. I wasn't in the mood, and found the whole thing made me think and wonder rather than dance and cheer...
Next up, was 5 tube stops down the Central Line. It was Stratford, about a mile as the crow flies from my new media prison ghetto here on Fish Island.
The gig was Bladerunner with a brand new ragga rinsing soundtrack...
Now, I wasn't sure what to expect from this...
I was hopeful, and I was definately looking forward to seeing the film again. But taking on such a big task as rescoring Bladerunner for one night only, especially when the Vangelis original version was so good, was always gonna to be a tough proporsition...
But I'm pleased to report a very good job was done. And this made me further realise just how much talent is floating out and about here in the less trendy areas of East London and how little there is in the more very fashionable ones...
Yes boss, looking at it as things stand now, the whole Grime thing reminds me a lot of Drum N Bass in the mid nineties.
I mean, I never felt Goldie got his fair dues. Timeless was one of the best LPs of the 1990s. Fuck What's the Story Morning Glory and all the rest of that fake ass copy Beatles shit. Timeless was a proper piece of new soul music, a proper innovation, not some deriviative four white moddy shits in a band rubbish that was easy to market and propped up by idiot insolence rather than any kind of substance...
Seriously, put the genius of Inner City Life next to Wonderwall (or Superfence as I prefer to know it) and tell me I'm wrong.....
Yet - in the short term at least - Timeless and other high quality Lps like Maxinquaye by Tricky have disappeared almost without trace (at least in terms of public profile), whilst crap like Quoasis is still feted as being important when it is in fact mindless crap.
Today the scene is the same, but swap Quoasis for the Arctic Monkeys and Dizzee Rascal for Goldie...
I mean seriously, put the supposed gritty real life lyrics and delivery of anything by 'the monkeys' next to I Luv U or Sittin Here by Dizzee Rascal....
NO FUCKING CONTEST!!!
Anyway, the set up in Stratford was like this. The venue was a theatre, the crowd was small and first on the bill was a showcase of tracks from various artists on Aftershock - the label owned and run by Terror Danjah...
Featured artists included Mz Bratt Bruza & Tripple Threat all of whom did a LIVE PA over a backing track...
Now, I don't really know how to evaluate LIVE PAs. All the tracks were fine enough, but none stood out and they seemed very out of place in the venue. All told, the set up kind of had the feel of a 2007 school concert, mums 'n all...
I felt sorry for the performers. The venue could have held 7 or 800, but there were 100 tops and the whole show deserved way more than that...
So, once the PAs were done, we were onto the main event.
In the middle was the screen on stage left Terror Danjah and on the right the visual mixer Ninja Tunes man Mox...
Visually speaking the changes to the original film were slight and mostly subtle blurs, shivers and colour plays. There were good dramas in the shootings and the chases and these were the most remarkablely different areas soundwise as well...
Yes boss, overall the feel of the sound was the same as the original. I's been expecting a little more in terms of rinsing grime beats and bangstabbing sounds but there were none to speak of until the outro titles..
I could definately hear some of the original soundtrack fading in and out with stuff on top and around and the general feel was kept the same.
It certainly sounded more modern and in some regards that modernity didn't fit with the special effects of 1982, but it didn't matter anything significant and like i say it was a cracking attempt...
 | Currently listening : Timeless By Goldie Release date: By 01 January, 1995  |
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