Roll Deep - Rollin' Deeper

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This is is actually quite good!

Not very exciting production for the most part, but it might have even more roguish charm than the Wiley record and the other MCs are very good. Some catchy choruses too!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 November 2004 05:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, all of the R&B tunes (including You Were Always) are great!

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

If anyone has a tracklist for this, I would be very grateful.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Friday, 26 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, tracklist?

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Friday, 26 November 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i can't find it, boo. i need more clues... (also i can't browse you at the moment, adam).

― toby (tsg20), Friday, 26 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

check user "BradJewitt" he has got it and its got track names. but is this the same one as the mysterious "eski unit" thing that was about a while back, with the "mu" sign in the file names?!

man, im confused.

― ambrose (ambrose), Friday, 26 November 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

that surely can't be it, though? all those songs are ancient!

― toby (tsg20), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The files DO come up as "eski unit", but they don't have "mu" in the filenames. There ARE a few old tracks/beats on there though, as well as some I've never heard before. Now I'm confused.

― adam... (nordicskilla), Sunday, 28 November 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

solakie is a mod on the eski unit dc++ hub so thats why its got those tages
i guess they are the person to ask about what the hell is going on.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 28 November 2004 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

So, street date for "the Roll Deep album" is May 2nd?

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

How deep are they rolling these days?

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:16 (twenty-one years ago)

There's about 50 of them.

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically...they're an entourage.

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Friday, 18 March 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

So, street date for "the Roll Deep album" is May 2nd?

In at the Deep End, May 30, same as Kano. Curious cover art, btw...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0009EM0GE.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh fuck that cover is great!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Album cover of the year. No question.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Would Scorcese be up for a video?

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 21 April 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

If only it sounded like that!

― Levinicus (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.comcast.net/~saellow/NewAlbumArtFor-RollDeep.jpg

― Levinicus (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Is it Pete Fowler?

― Levinicus (nordicskilla), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

OMM review:
Roll Deep Crew, In at the Deep End

Dizzee's ex-grime crew discover pop. Ben Thompson is pleased

Sunday April 24, 2005
The Observer

Forsaking the stripped-down rhythms and gruffly hollered raps of yore for unabashedly 'soulful' backing vocals and Ernie Isley-style rock guitar heroics (supplied by the studio engineer's assistant), the first two songs on -erstwhile Dizzee Rascal compadres Roll Deep's consistently startling debut album will have any self-respecting grime fan choking on their Ginsters pasty. But that's nothing to what 'The -Avenue' will do to them.

Based around a sample from the Maisonettes' clunky Eighties cod-soul landmark 'Heartache Avenue' (which producer Wiley heard on that celebrated hotbed of murky gutter beats, Radio Kent), this blatant would-be crossover anthem dances merrily on the grave of grime's underground credentials. While the more-urban-than-thou -brigade will no doubt bemoan such wilful commerciality (chirpy cockney salsa interlude 'Shake a Leg' won't be much to their liking either), it might be exactly what this music needs to stop it disappearing up its own arse like drum'n'bass did.

Having barged themselves a space in which they can do pretty much whatever they want, Roll Deep go on to make musical hay while the sun shines. And the delirious fusion of roughneck, bhangra/garage/lambada on 'When I'm Ere' is one particularly fine example of just how much fun you can have if you throw away the rulebook.

― ppp, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

the cover art is surely further proof that wearing hoodies or baseball hats makes you evil? this is a great album - agree with ben thompson's review, shame a few trax off the 'Rollin Deeper' "album" has gone, and one or two of the versions on the official release are weaker I reckon

― dj bone (djbone), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

that cover just screams out 'yooof'.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Sunday, 5 June 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Unsurprisingly this is not a very good record (but the four good tracks are quite good.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Kano emailed me!

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

(sort of)

― the D Double signal (nordicskilla), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

Haha I saw. MISSY emailed me though (sort of.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 June 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

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