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ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:40 pm

Weird to see everyone talking about Slaughter Mob in this thread - considering their influence, they seem to be the group that haven't really delivered in this new phase of dubstep, release wise anyway. Don't see them on flyers much these days either. Wonder why that is...

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:47 pm

UFO over easy wrote:Weird to see everyone talking about Slaughter Mob in this thread - considering their influence, they seem to be the group that haven't really delivered in this new phase of dubstep, release wise anyway. Don't see them on flyers much these days either. Wonder why that is...

Wierd init. We had them down to Noir in Bristol last November, and they all came down cos, in Bandit's own words, "bookings have been a little thin in the ground for them".

On the nite, Paradox was doin a live PA in the Main Room, which meant the 2nd Room was pretty dead while SLT were playing. That was a shame, cos they played a 2 hr set of the most fucked up, broken techno-type dubstep I've ever heard. Seriously one of the maddest sets of any genre of music I've ever heard.

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 4:49 pm

ThinKing wrote:they played a 2 hr set of the most fucked up, broken techno-type dubstep I've ever heard. Seriously one of the maddest sets of any genre of music I've ever heard.

That's excellent to hear! I'm sure we'll be hearing more from 'em again soon enough..

Although, maybe that whole cross genre thing makes it difficult for them to appeal to a specific crowd..

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:00 pm

I think it's just becuase they haven't had any high-profile releases for a while, and they no longer seem to be residents @ Fwd>>.

They were doin really well a coupla years back, when they had the 12" out on Soulja, the 12" on Hot Flush, and the plate on the Grime LP, but since then their release schedule has been limited to a couple of first releases on new labels, which I think has kept them out of the spotlight for a while.

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:01 pm

They had the tune on Halo, which was OK... but I think its a shame more people didn't pick up on the tune they had on Boka - their best tune to date in my opinion..

easeup · Post by **easeup** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:13 pm

yeah man that is weird.. slt were playin almost every dance i went to this time last year - their set at the first dmz was pure dirt!

last time i saw em was at the destructive night.. they rinsed that one too..

fever is heavy!

conspira · Post by **conspira** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:55 pm

Blackdown wrote:are we talking about two different tunes:

Artwork: The Soul
and
'Mind, Body, Soul' by Steve Gurley (under an alias...)

The Artwork tune was the FWD anthem

I think I don't know about that Artwork tune...
Did it got a release?
BTW do you know the alias of Steve Gurley on that tune 'Mind, Body, Soul'?
Peace

blackdown · Post by **blackdown** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:09 pm

jeez conspira never heard of websearch?

Lee John - Your Mind, Body & Soul (Steve Gurley Mix)

Artwork 'The Soul' came out on a white label - probably because the acapella comes from a house/techno tune.

peripheral · Post by **peripheral** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:35 pm

EaseUp wrote:yeah man that is weird.. slt were playin almost every dance i went to this time last year - their set at the first dmz was pure dirt!

last time i saw em was at the destructive night.. they rinsed that one too..

fever is heavy!

dangerous rinsed it at fwd b4 last. proper hype mc, really good with the crowd (shamed wiley an skepta). don't really rate slt djs tho, and releases seem really disjointed, both in terms of tunes and labels. shame not 2 see them out more - poll 4 more dangerous at fwd init....

easeup · Post by **easeup** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:46 pm

peripheral wrote: dangerous rinsed it at fwd b4 last. proper hype mc, really good with the crowd

yeah slt mcs have some real dutty energy - gets dem gyals grindin!

chef · Post by **chef** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:41 pm

qwik peep, ill be back

messsingh · Post by **messsingh** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:08 pm

I have never been to a fwd but I remember the heavy swerve sessions down there!

I haven't been to many nights like that. I really liked the venue aswell!

Swerve just isn't the same at the end.

Jazz

amen-ra · Post by **amen-ra** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:09 pm

Blackdown wrote:are we talking about two different tunes:

Artwork: The Soul
and
'Mind, Body, Soul' by Steve Gurley (under an alias...)

The Artwork tune was the FWD anthem

Yea mans were talkin bout the Artwork tune "the proton, the neutron, the electron"
I got confused with the Steve Gurley cut with Lee John

Safe

amen-ra · Post by **amen-ra** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:15 pm

And SLT are my favourites- I idolised them as a yout.

I heard Q on the radio the other day and he had some fuckin deep riddims on him, im sure most of them were by the Mob.

They're still my favourites maan, no one's licked the place down like them.

DMZ are frontin on them, Forward are frontin on them. But still- they'll always be there- them man are deep on this music.

All the lack of appearances could be coz they got family to take care of but I dunno

conspira · Post by **conspira** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 12:29 am

Amen-Ra wrote:
Blackdown wrote:are we talking about two different tunes:

Artwork: The Soul
and
'Mind, Body, Soul' by Steve Gurley (under an alias...)

The Artwork tune was the FWD anthem
Yea mans were talkin bout the Artwork tune "the proton, the neutron, the electron"
I got confused with the Steve Gurley cut with Lee John

Safe

Ha!!!!!! I got mixed up also after Martin's post! I was also speaking about that Artwork 12" white beauty. Anyway thanks for the info, my white label collection is almost sorted

To many years getting white label releases and no info on the net at that time.
Peace

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:37 am

i wish

m2j · Post by **m2j** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:04 pm

WAS TALKING TO Q AT FWD ON THURSDAY. HIS BEEN BUSY WITH HIS FAMILY OVER THE LAST YEAR. SAID HIS GETTING BACK TO HIS PRODUCTIONS AND THERE GONNA START BUILDING THERE LABELS UP. BIG THINGS TO COME FROM THE MOB

Post by **dubway** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 7:58 pm

why is noone recording Slaughter MOB sets on RinseFM (Friday, 23h-01h)

easeup · Post by **easeup** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 8:28 pm

dubway wrote:why is noone recording Slaughter MOB sets on RinseFM (Friday, 23h-01h)

i used to, but it was hardly ever them, always someone else coverin..

kate · Post by **kate** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 10:09 pm

I really loved FWD when I first came across it, just the decent side of garage & more besides without all the embarrassingly bad stuff that seemed to be gettin worse an worse.

This has made me think of tracks Ive not heard in ages;

When I think of FWD in the Velvet Rooms (and very fondly too) I think of:

Wales/Wobble (not sure which its called) - (and am I right thinking it was by twisted individual?)

Ramp (of course)

Cover Me (ElB)

'snakecharmer' (or was that plastic people time already?)

jeez and all the Bingo stuff!! 'Hello' and all them - and all those trainer tracks (were they zinc aswell?)

Zed Bias was top quality always;
- and a big memory from down there is seeing SLT smash it the first of many times. When they're on top form their sets are way out from anyone else.

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