Of all British contributions to 21st Century culture, Grime must surely rank among one of it's biggest achievements. The style was initially born in the crucible of London's Garage rave scene, but as MC's demanded tougher, leaner and crazier riddims, producers like Wiley and Terror Danjah stepped in to mould the sound with functional rhythmic idiosyncracies made to ignite MCs and dancefloors alike. Fast forward to the end of the decade and new legislation has either pushed Grime upwards into new clubbier directions a la Dizzee Rascal or further underground onto pirate radio. Ironically, these restrictions have provided fertile ground for some of the most exciting producers in UK Bass music, enabling a kind of stylistic cross-pollination that's impossible to ignore. This is a selection of tracks, instrumental and vocal, by those producers skilled enough to have evolved and pushed outside of known boundaries, refracting the grime sound into blinding rhythmic mutations of Hardcore, Soca and avant-R'n'B to arrive at a white light moment in 2009 where the next generation of DJs and producers like Oneman, Zomby, Untold and Lil Silva, are toying with the formula and blazing new routes into the future...