As grime continues to get weirder by the day, there's a crop of new artists taking cues from the now-classic sound and melting it down into an altogether different mold. One such name is Filter Dread. More child of bedroom Nintendo marathons than Eskimo Dance, the Birmingham-based producer feels like a stylistic companion to Glasgow's Inkke; a kid who grew up loving grime, but at a remove from the grassroots scene. Duly, the effect is of am aesthetic trickle-down, through mixtapes, grainy videos and second-hand tales from friends and forums alike.
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