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Grime? Stripped Garage?

I don’t know quite what to call it, but the post-Garage sound of Skream has had my head nodding since I caught his January mix off Grievous Angel the other day. It does, as per a comment in that link, sound like early Autechre, just with the rhythmic influence coming from Garage rather than Hip-Hop and Acid House. I went looking for more, and came across an interview with a cat called Plasticman (not Richie “Plastikman with a goddamn K” Hawtin) who’s deep in the scene of UK kids making this stripped-down, dark Garage. Check it.