May 17, 2003
Fallacy.
Too Shabby,
Too London Bashy,
Pushed around Cars with a scratch on the chassis,
Left-hand drive with the German plates,
With the Lock broke down it just ice the cake.
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Fallacy’s Big N Bashy is something like a revolution. Or at least a new chapter. The man’s interviewed in the excellent free mag FWD. He says hey that’s a lot to place on one fella’s shoulders. Those lines above send shivers down my spine. Bringing back looping drives through the metropolis spliffed up in beat-up motors, (always) soon-to-be-nicked bassbins locked on hard-left.
I LOVE this track since I saw it on MTV Base, with its thrifty anamorphic-stretch DV video. Busting with hookers in shiny black leather pulling obscene dancehall moves. Our man Tubby T (gave us a coupla plum Sticky tunes on the UK Bounce tip) with his eyebrows shaved in stripes coming on all young/old with the denatured Gregory Isaacs melody line. Fallacy SO confident with Eastern Hospitality.
We KNOW bashment is a shady promotional gimmick. We KNOW Dizzy* is on a different tip- but admire the promotional crew’s chutzpah. Fake UK Platinum Rap. Too right its bloody dodgy mate. It’s a dutty street crime.
Last Eastern Connection show I caught they played not one UK Garage track. Just a fashionable pile-up of Ragga and Gangsta Soul with a likkle MC-ing on top. Why do I riff on this slowing-down of UK Rap tip? I heard a tune last November on Mystic FM (in the car) :“Slow, sounds almost like ghosts-era Japan/Yazoo with really moving inner city rap ("believe what they tell you in school, you only get one chance")” with a mnemonic “I love…” spoken riff. It was one of those alternative-futures white labels that disappears between the cracks. A garage dubplate, but that slower pace decompressed both the music and the rap. Inner-space opening out. All that’s here with the Fallacy tune (OK more Scorpio-scratch in the sample, but close, close!)
All this for £2.99 at HMV.
*Ditch the stylist mate.
Posted by Woebot at May 17, 2003 08:29 PM