Blackdown's 2008

I forgot that the reason I really wanted to check in for the first time in 8 months was to link up on Martin Clark's year in grime & dubstep column from his excellent monthly gig at Pitchfork. 2008 had a lot of releases to entertain the ears, so in case you missed any of these do take the time to track them down. He delves into a lot of superb dubstep & grime, and also the new scenes emerging behind the the genre terms 'funky' and 'wonky' which don't mean a lot unless you've been following UK dance music this past year. A lot of stuff I missed out on and will be playing catch up with, but some have been favorites throughout the year. I will be posting a year end list of some sort next week, hopefully before before all the usual-year-end-madness and posturing begins...