Dusk + Blackdown: Margins Music Video
16 Apr
Dusk and Blackdown’s Margins Music was released was released last year and gained a lot of praise including being named within the top 20 albums of the year by The Wire magazine. It mixed Dubstep and Grime with music inspired by London’s many multi ethnic communities, and played out like a journey across the city picking up different flavours and sounds along the way. See the video below (watch in full screen!).
“Alongside the album this video was created by director Jonathan Howells. It features MC Durrty Goodz and singer Farrah in glorous HD (hosted by Vimeo who are breaking the mold by supporting videos good enough to watch full screen).
Beyond the corporate finance of the City, the anodyne bars of the West End and the affluent riches out west, there is another London. Head out at sunset to the edges and just watch. Listen. As the sun drops, soon a different city emerges, a mesh of disparate groups and communities, visible but unseen, vocal – in countless vibrant accents, languages and dialects – but unheard, vital but unrecognised by the centre.
By night, the city comes alive with sound: raw slang, dialects, clanking trains, sub bass waves and rebel radio frequencies. This album is a reflection of these places, people, voices and cultures, a snapshot of the forgotten edges of a city at dusk: intense, in technicolour, in transition but forever an inspiration.”
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More info: Keysoundrecordings, Blackdown’s blog,
I still rate Burials album Untrue as perhaps the greatest minimalist dubstep album ever written