Moleskin, of the wacky gorgeous label Goon Club Allstars, samples this little 80s gem and combines it with grime veteran Wiley’s 2013 “Step 20”. Even though all this new instrumental grime sounds so cutesy and strange as compared to the very minimal, very direct sound of the first grime movement, it’s proved time and time again in the past couple of years that these two very different grime sounds match each other perfectly, and that the new grime producers have mad respect for their earlier counterparts. And breaking up the two parts does not yield two broken messes of tracks.
“Imagine” is still complete without Wiley’s vocal, and “Step 20” with Rude Boy’s minimal production bangs as hard (Listen here). But how does this make sense, that two wholes can make one whole? Because grime tracks are so dependent on other grime tracks to have life. The biggest difference in grime DJ sets over other genre sets is the sheer amount of time where one track is mixed over the other. The minimalism and repetition allows for the two tracks (which can, like “Imagine,” feel more like sketches than full ideas) to create something new. Not necessarily a new track, but an illustration of the intimate relationship between the two.
• Moleskin: https://soundcloud.com/moleskin
• Wiley: http://wileyofficial.com
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