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 to access audio and video on collective you need real player.Baltimore style. With the rump-quaking rhythms of America’s Dirty South helping to draw hip-hop fans’ attention away from the twin meccas of NY and LA, bringing some much-needed fun to the gangsta-fatigued world of rap in the process, it’s the perfect time for the booty-crazed likes of Spank Rock to grab their moment of glory. OK, so the trio hail from chilly Baltimore rather than sunny Austin or N’Awlins, but as their ribald new Rick Rubin (Big Dada) proves, they’re far closer in spirit to Miami Bass than they are Marley Marl. Gloriously, life-affirmingly stoopid stuff. Equally fonky – although far less hyperactive – is Skream’s Skreamizm Vol 1 EP (Tempa). One of the leading lights of the wilfully obscure underground dance scene known to its slowly-expanding band of devotees as dubstep, 19-year-old production prodigy Skream has spent the last couple of years effortlessly combining the slo-mo grind of dub with the angular dread of drum’n’bass. And if this weird new sound is ever to make its way overground, this is the man to take it there. Britain continues to churn out top-flight skinny-boy rawk bands at a rate of knots. Next in line for the NME big time are Brighton ne’er do wells The Mutts, with the stripped Stooges stomp of their latest missive, C’mon, Come Up, Come In (Fat Cat), easily electrifying enough to lift them head and shoulders above the Camden hordes. Also but a spider’s whisper away from widespread adulation are cerebral rock chaps – and they do look very much like “chaps” – The Young Knives. Their latest twisty-turny, deceptively-angsty ditty is called Here Comes The Rumour Mill (Warners), and it’s either going to plaster a big daft grin across your face or drive you up the wall and back again. Right, we’ve all got things we could be doing, so let’s rattle through the remaining items of note this week. We have: Youngblood Brass Band melding – we kid ye not – hip-hop, hardcore American punk and marching band music on the against-the-odds fantastic Nuclear Summer (Pias/All City); saucy Scottish miserablists Arab Strap maintain their current run of form with the blackly comic rock’n’roll of Speed Date (Chemikal Underground); and 80s indie legends The Fire Engines – oft cited as a major influence on Franz Ferdinand – return from the ether with the surprisingly sprightly Discord (Domino). Down to download business, then. Firstly, head to the website of Bravecaptain – the much lauded post-Boo Radleys electronica project of Martin Carr – and you can blag yourself not free MP3, not two, not three… but a whole goddamn album’s worth. All he asks in exchange is your email address, which is easily a fair swap. Secondly: head to the website of alt rap label Big Dada and you can grab, amongst other goodies, a free track from the aforementioned Spank Rock. Be warned, however: the lyrical content on offer is a little “ripe”. Ahem.
Joe Madden
All singles released 20 February 06
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comment by Dj_Skills
Mar 22, 2006
If you're into Spank Rock, check out: www.aircockthrust.com - it's a site dedicated to their, er, pelvic stage performances.
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