After a little lie down and a trippy trip around Asda it's time to become absorbed in the 'new revolution' of UK hip-hop. Ty is knocking about and Mr Complex is warming up alongside El Fudge in the Beat Ranks main room.
It's taken a while for people to appear from their chalets this evening but the place is starting to feel fairly urban again. People are breakdancing with and on skateboards. Dr Dre is on the intro disc as Roots Manuva and his colleague manouvre on stage. They start freestyling and it's all good. Roots looks like he wrote his name on his pass himself, or certainly one of the graffiti crew did.
Signed to Ninja's Big Dada recordings these boys have been around since 1995. they wear matching Adidas black and white track tops on entrance and feel properly block party old skool (in a South London stylee).
Like a lot of the security here, they possess that rave classic 'Nice And Safe Attitude'. During Clockwork I realise it's becoming increasingly more complicated to concentrate on da lyrics as the weekend trucks on.
By 'Inna' and 'Juggle Tings Propper' (sic) grooves are becoming a little more Carnival dancehall and I think my inner rap temples are starting to open up. Roots is admirably in control of his words and hes still appearing to be fairly chilled (despite the fact he's wearing long johns). They do 'Article', a new track with a new dub plate, and the last track, also a dub, called Witness. A classic.
Unlike many of the other bands who have played here they don't big up the UK hip hop scene to extremities because they're a bit more dope.
