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So my nationality is British (born and bred) and I love music so why not mash those together to create a tribute to British music? ey? One of the things I LOVE about London in particular is that anything is acceptable and welcomed. Britain is not only diverse in people (in the main cities it sure is) but in type of music, art, theatre etc. There are just as many 'underground scenes' that are going on as well as the mainstream. For a lowdown check out the reliable ;) wiki: Music from UK
Garage
What: you could say the mother of UK underground genres
Quite underground but known widespread. Loved form BNP skinheads to ghetto black boys from South London. If your British you SHOULD remember this song it was MASSIVE.
When: Probably been around before I was born :S (which is 1994) but was big in the early 2000s.
Where: England I think :/
best example:
my uncle was in this pack :D
Bassline:
What: Big box, Little box, cardboard box. Hehe I'm messing but baseline does what it says on the tin. A heavy Heavy bass line bouncing all over the gaff. Happy and fun but with a mix of garage glitches to keep it darker.Not to get it mixed with Garage mind you, big mistake I made. Sounding like an intro to a CBBC program set on an estate.
When: Midlands, apparently Sheffeild? Oi Oi Sheffield! Citizens must of been happs when this music got big.
Where: Well up in the oh so happy ends of England as everyone not form the South LOVES to remind everyone in the South. In the town centre, after getting a pill of the mandy and heading off to the one of five clubs in the city (okay this is me being an uppidity Londoner now, you lot might have a couple more.)
pow pow pow B) this song reminds me of year 8 or 9 (aged 13). Those were the days man shit was less complicated.
GRIME (DONE KNOWWWWWWWW)
What:Pow yeah you don't know about me :D. Grime WAS/IS the rudeboy/ghetto boy/girl music. The godfather of Grime? still disputed but in my opinion Wiley fam. Dunknow.
When: Don't knwo when it started but to ghetto kids I remember it been played in the back of the buses in year 8 ( aged 13) times so blew up around 4 years ago? I know to many songs because they were played round me all the time.
Where: London, South and East
Grime is not so grimey now but this was the song
stereotype people who listen: ANY age. Little urban ghetto youths who is in a gang who like weed and girls and money who talk slang, got kicked out of school. Prob stabbed someone. Or two. Peckham, Brixton etc. Majority Black people listen.
DUN KNOW UK REPRESENT AAAW I'M GETTIN A LIL BIT GASSED STILL(<---london :s="" a="" am="" big="" br="" getting="" headed="" i="" little="" m="" now="" oh="" representing="" slang="" speak="" the="" translate:="" uk="" yeah="">
Dubstep
What: One of the undergrounds that is now going into mainstream over here (thanks to the omg talented and beautiful Katy B from the BRITS) is Dubstep..
When: Started in a South London Bedroom somewhere, Dubstep developed from garage music at the end of the 1990s and in the early 2000s, using elements of drum'n'bass, techno, and dub (<---i be="" bothered="" br="" can="" explain="" t="" those.="" to="">Where: South London.
stereotype people who listen:
think 16-35 maybe more, in a little dingy room at a house party in South London (where the music originated from)with LOADS of weed smoke EVERYWHEREand alot more drugs and even more alcohol. Everyone just going crazy basically. Bass mind blowing. Floors vibrating. Neighbors getting pissed. Yeaaaah.
BEST EXAMPLE:
UK funky house (TIME TO GET FUNKY!)
What: yeaaaah. Its all about Funky.
Where: It wasn't orginally from the UK I think from NY by a artist called Dennis Ferrer but UK adopted with a smile and made it a bit into their own but not straying to far. Soulful house with the main ingredient: AFRICAN BEATS! AYYYE JAAYHOO.
When:Around the late 2000 so I remember hearing it around 2007?
stereotypes of people who listen: was pretty much black people at the beginning but spread to all. If you loved raves/ parties you listened to it. ANY AGE. AT ALL.
There are two distinctive types I think theres the mellow like this song which made it come on the radar. If your British you should remember this. If your from London and don't remember this then you should be ashamed of yourself. THIS WAS HUUUUGE.
and what it more or less evolved to:
If you were at a party/rave and you didn't know the dances or words...you were a fail.
with a large population of Africans in urban cities like London were it the popularity SKY ROCKETED. It was/is loved off.
Bashment/Dancehall
What: is the more recent loved music although it has always been loved.
Where:Music that originates from Jamaica mostly also other Carribean places too. When:Since I was in primary school so aaahhh.... like before I was born.
stereotypes of people who listen:
Jamaican people, African people. If you know Jamaican or african people. You'll heard it. ANY AGE. Let me give you a example my mum who is 35 bangs it out of her car and that's normal.
Again if you don't know the dances or the words...you are a fail.
ATTITUDE GYAL!
more or less changed into this..
Gazza me seh!
Now vybz is coming with all his love songs
now this song has just come and taken EVERYONE. I remember when a quarter of the London youth population decided to go to Hyde Park one rare HOT summer's day and my friend decided to bring her radio play all these bashment songs VERY LOUDLY from her bag. We went into McDonalds on Oxford Street this song came on every black person no matter where they were from was singing this :D. It was such a good day even if there was fights and police vans and everything else there. But that's London for ya, never a dull (boring) day.
then Nicki Minaj decided to slip herself in :D.
In part two I will do the Nu, Indie and Rock types.
By god I love London
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