Thursday, February 19, 2004

Sui Generis - The utterly new sounds of Dizzee Rascal, Britain's rising superstar. By Sasha Frere-Jones: "Dizzee's mentor, Wiley, a producer, MC, and architect of Dizzee's scene, calls his music 'Eskimo Dance,' abbreviated as 'Eski,' a term he explains as his idiosyncratic synonym for emotional coldness. There are few legato sounds and the reference points are the tools of digital life: cell phones, pagers, video games. Inorganic squawks fire around constipated, angry bass lines. Sounds enter and exit quickly, without explanation. Imagine a teenager slamming a door over and over. "