Not a best of 2003 but constituting a "warts'n'all" list of EVERY new release I bought (in the sense of paid money for and smuggled home in a plastic bag) in the year 2003:
Grime Innit:
J2K feat Wiley: They Will Not Like You
Durrty Doogz; Hold Me Down
Wizzbit feat MC Riko: Popadomz
Ity: Wait a Minute (Sticky Remix)
Wiley: Ground Zero
Mad Sabre: Kung
DJ Marsta: Gridlock
Simon Sez: Shut Your Mouth
Ice Rink: MCs Vol 1 EP
Ice Rink: MCs Vol 2 EP
Special Delivery: Countdown
Boo Kroo: BK Theme
Donaeo: My Philosophy (Bounce) Miami Bass Mix
K2/Dem Lott: What!
All Out: Live Caller
Aylesbury Allstars: Buss Red Light
Shystie: I Love U
Jon E Cash/Black Ops: Westside
Wiley: Lockdown
Roll Deep: We're Still the same
DJ Target feat Wiley: Pick Yourself Up
Crazy Titch: I can C U, U can C Me
NASTY feat Crazy Titch and Rico Dan: Cock Back
Jammer+: Destruction
Big-E D Feat D Double E: Frontline
Dizzy Rascal: Vexed
Nasty Crew: Good You Know
Ruff Squad: Tingz in Bootz
Musical Mob Feat Lorraine Kato: Bring Back the Ladies
Wizzbit: Jamhot
Simon Sez: Golly Gosh
D Double E: Birds in the Sky
MC Dilemma: What's my Name?
Sticky: Triplets
The Surgery Feat Mr. Bigg Shott: Shott The Weed
Dizzy Rascal: Go
Menta: Rubba
Studio Gangsters: Step Off
The Ends: The Ends
Demon Bass Two
Girls
Vice Versa
Wire
Sticky Feat Tubby T: Ganjaman
Youngster and 166: Baby Pulse
Donaeo: My Philosophy (Bounce)
Outlaw Breaks Feat Gemma Fox and Sweetie Irie: Dutty (Wiley Remix)
DJ Marsta: Clap
Wizzbit: Aquarius
Dizzy Rascal: Hoe
Wiley: Igloo
2nd II None: Signal/Bulldozer/Fuse
Wiley: Gunshot
Strike Da Match
MC Dappa and Hyperactive: Killem wid Da Riddim
Dynamite MC: Rush Da DJ
Roll Deep: Regular
Slimzos 2
Roll Deep: DW
Big $hot: Glitch
Roll Deep: Bounce
Stone Cold CX: Alize
JB: Seen U B4
Dizzy Rascal: Boy In Da Corner LP
Dancehall 7"s:
Assasin: Roll In
Sizzla: Oh Yes Baby
Sizzla: Mama Africa
Vibes Kartel: Nobody No Dead
Vybz Cartel: Money Over War
Bounty Killer & Angel Douglas: Gal Turn Me On
Jiggsy King: Modelling
Ward 21/Bounty Killer: Badda Than That
Wayne Marshall: I Will Love The Girls
Mr Lex: Face It
Ward 21/Vybz Kartel: Nah Climb
Ward 21: Hey Gal
Spragga Benz: Wow
Harry Toddler: Kaos
Tanya Stephens: Toe to Toe
Vybz Cartel: Please
Elephant Man: Secret Admirer
Elephant Man: Mexican Girl
Chico: Exchange
Lantan: Nah Bow Down Low
Capt. Barkey: Right Hands
Vybz Kartel: All Out
Ragga Ragga Ragga 2003 LP
Urban Innit:
Ludacris: Stand Up
Punjabi Hit Squad Feat Ms Scandalous: Hai Hai
Fatman Scoop: Be Faithful
Obie Trice: Got Some Teeth
Kelis: Milkshake
Lil Jon & East Side Boyz: Get Low
Punjabi MC: Mundian To Bach Ke
50 Cent: In Da Club
Fallacy: Big'n'Bashy
Nuffwish Vol 3: Blu Cantrell-vs-L. Jones
Techno Innit:
Richard X: Presents His X-Factor Vol 1
Junior Boys: Birthday...Last Exit
David Sylvian: Blemish
Dinky: Black Cabaret
The Soft Pink Truth: Can You Party
The Bug: Pressure
Ghostly International: Idol Tryouts Vol 1
The Mover: Frontal Frustration
Angola: Carl Craig/Pepe Bradock
Quarks: I Walk
Colleen: Everyone Alive Wants Answers
Fabric 13: Michael Mayer
AI Records: Newtown Compilation
"Stop this Reissue Madness!":
Music From The BBC Radiophonic Workshop
New Religion Present: A Secret History
New Deutsch
Teutonik Disaster 2
6 x Glen Brown 10" EPs
Cool As Ice: The Be Music Productions
Messthetics x 10
America We Love You:
The Books: The Lemon of Pink
Kevin Blechdom: Bitches Without Britches
Chk Chk Chk: Me and Giuiani
Animal Collective: Here Comes the Indian
The Rapture: House of Jealous Lovers 7"
Metal Innit:
Noxagt
Sightings
Old Man Gloom
Lightning Bolt: Wonderful Rainbow
The respective scale of each section dramatically highlights the level of interest each of these "genres" held for me as a punter. This was an atrocious year for the beatniks. Art music seems to be dying on the vine. Grime pays.
Posted by Woebot at December 11, 2003 12:22 AMthat is frightening, i'm glad somones buying the records, you now i would do matt, but, like burra banton, i have a ganja baby to feed, ahem...
suprised you found good you know, thats well old.
has pick yourself up got the remix on the bside?
apparently skepta made gunshot and it somehow got attrubuted to wiley, dunno how, more fire say it on their thing about wiley
'uhhhhhhh, duuur, you didn't even make the gunshot riddim blud, dj skepta made the gunshot riddim uuuuuhhh, uuuurrrrhhhh'
we're still the same, thats more fire and dizzee innit? we're still the same as before, still not trying to break the law?
a mate of a mate is in da surgery, he's a nobhead and he thinks he's hard even though they come on stage in white coats like a dentists convention
anyway, thats a mighty impressive tally maff, good choices too plus you probably supported abouyt three families this year, single handed
Posted by: luke at December 11, 2003 11:44 AMwasn't 'still the same' the b-side to fairly lame more fire single 'back then'?
came out early feb. i think, i got a copy for 'still the same'.
that's a CHOON, dizzee just rips it from about 2:50 IIRC
Posted by: scott at December 11, 2003 02:02 PM'ark the 'erald angels sing!
really glad you rated the selektion big man. a thoroughly untutored one i might add (got picked up by chantelle fiddy who writes for deuce as a consequence over some of my wholly innacurate micro-review factoids, TNT _DOES_ produce the Wiley/J2K track chantelle). anyway just stuff I heard and loved.
yeah and the cost (struggling to justify disgusting expenditure) works out at about $840, which is about 101 packs of fags. amounting (over twelve months) to about 5 fags a day. and its all (not) for charidee too. makes me feel _a little_ better about being an horrific vinyl junkie.
Posted by: Matt at December 11, 2003 02:23 PMscott, no, its a different mix that one...
Posted by: Matt at December 11, 2003 02:24 PMwhat's the blechdom rekkd like matt, worth shelling out fr?
Posted by: david at December 11, 2003 02:53 PMI think it's totally brilliant Dave. Really great.
Posted by: Matt at December 11, 2003 10:09 PMis Gunshot the same as 'Pulse Eskimo'?
if so, surely it got attributed to Wiley because it sounds like Eskimo, right?
Skepta is the ultimate grime anti-artist. Almost all he does is really really basic ripoffs of Wiley & Jammer but they sound totally fantastic
keith, it just says "gunshot" on my white. the guy at the store told me it was a wiley riddim at the time. hot track that.
Posted by: matt at December 15, 2003 10:03 AMdizze a badman
look on tha real im from tha ends i see skepta and meridien on tha regs and his brother jme told me dat skepta made da gunshot beat,gave it to wiley to let him promote it for him a bit and then next ting u kno wiley puts a lil roll deep sample at tha start and says it his!!!!u kno these boys r on road they aint got copyright and all dat so skepta jus had to sit and take it
Posted by: ross g at February 16, 2004 07:45 PMSKEPTA DIDNT Make DA GUNSHOT RIDDIM BLUD, WILEY MADE DA GUNSHOT RIDDIM. UR STUPID BLUD
Posted by: The Gunbutt Kid at March 4, 2004 03:35 PMBLUD...all u man r stupid....skepta didnt make it neither did wiley....Ma manz right here made dat shit...let wiley hav a look...next ting u kno its his...he took a rest in north west chilld up wid ma manz out here nd took ma gunshot riddim....so ur both STUPID blud...bless Young Bludz out
Posted by: Y.B at March 7, 2004 01:16 AM