White Label Classics

White Label Classics

One of grime’s thrills is the man versus machine contest of MCs shaping freestyles to challenging beats. However, this compilation proves the music should sometimes speak for itself. Spanning a decade, these instrumentals are unified by the London collective’s skill at knitting melody and emotion into grime’s strident framework–from the soulful “Together” to synth firecracker “Pied Piper”. “Functions On the Low” is the astonishing centrepiece, sounding more like a melancholic distress signal from another galaxy than a beat made in a Bow bedroom.

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