Local Action Presents: White Magick
Like most successful genres before it, grime has seen a steady outward growth since cropping up in the early 2000s. From humble eskibeat beginnings, the sound has stretched its tendrils further and further out into fresh territory - at no point losing the fire-in-the-belly angst that made it such an important movement.
So now we're here in 2015. The original class of grime graduates - a la Skepta, Jammer and Wiley - have seen years of hard graft and toil slowly translate into a more global understanding. After what many considered a lull, the younger pupils have worked out that nothing speaks dedication like radio practice hours. When Novelist, Mez, Mic Ty and Jammz reach for the mic, there's an air of confidence in their voices and an assured grip on any of the riddims they choose to rodeo. Among other things, it's helped up the interest to new, exciting levels.
It's the aforementioned sub-categories that we're celebrating next though. Using the model recipe for grime, artists like Mr. Mitch and Mumdance have added their own ingredients - utilising influences from far and wide, making beats sans-drum pattern and other probing flips on the template.
Tom Lea and his label, Local Action, have quickly made themselves a dwelling for those outer-reaching experiments.
Sometimes an artist has one release where it all comes together, and for Deadboy it feels very much like his upcoming White Magick EP on the label is just that. Although, like Local Action labelmate Yamaneko, he's touched on grimy soundsets and ambient textures before, this is where he really cuts loose with all of these influences and a whole lot more.
Boiler Room are happy to be hosting Local Action in support of the Deadboy release. Alongside label head Tom Lea, Deadboy will be joined by Mokona and Yamaneko in our very own loft studio. They'll all be dressed in white from head to toe and drenched in the type of psychedelic lighting more at home on a Tame Impala stageshow than backed by 140BPM instrumentals. Like we say, grime is moving further afield - and we're excited to see how far it goes.
