http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/23/big-narstie-interview-dont-f-up-the-base-is-a-new-sound/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/23/big-narstie-interview-dont-f-up-the-base-is-a-new-sound/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 05:00:29 +0000 PaulGibbins http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=34378 “If I made a song in pink boxer shorts and green gloves called Sexy Girl and got a number 1 the whole fucking grime scene would be in pink boxer shorts making a f****** remix.”]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/04/23/big-narstie-interview-dont-f-up-the-base-is-a-new-sound/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/dexplicit-the-dex-files-and-thatbasslife-are-coming-and-pow-came-out-of-nowhere/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/dexplicit-the-dex-files-and-thatbasslife-are-coming-and-pow-came-out-of-nowhere/#comments Wed, 20 Feb 2013 05:30:43 +0000 PaulGibbins http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=32664 Dexplicit plans to release twelve instrumental EPs over the next 12 months, with the first coming out at the end of February.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2013/02/20/dexplicit-the-dex-files-and-thatbasslife-are-coming-and-pow-came-out-of-nowhere/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/02/launchpad-records-are-taking-off/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/02/launchpad-records-are-taking-off/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:16:59 +0000 PaulGibbins http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=29583 Back in 2004, following the release of Wiley’s debut album Treddin’ on Thin Ice and Dizzee Rascal’s semi-seminal Boy in Da Corner the previous year, a young grime fan named George Quann-Barnett (www.twitter.com/qu_nn) wrote a handwritten letter to XL Records asking if there was any way he could be involved in working for the label.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/11/02/launchpad-records-are-taking-off/feed/ 0 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/03/mr-shaodow-how-to-sell-10000-cds-completely-independently/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/03/mr-shaodow-how-to-sell-10000-cds-completely-independently/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:00:33 +0000 PaulGibbins http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=28853 It feels good to know that as an independent artist I've managed to achieve on my own; what some artists with a whole label and team of people aspire to do. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/10/03/mr-shaodow-how-to-sell-10000-cds-completely-independently/feed/ 2