8. Faze Miyake
I didn’t want to pick too many that were from the early days. That was maybe 2012, it was a time of doing big raves like Eskimo Dance, and Sir Spryo would pioneer Faze’s tunes. This was a big, big tune, I think of it as ‘that Wu-Tang one’ as it’s got that sample that they used. It was the time that trappy sort of grime was starting to come around. I loved all that. There was MC-based tunes so there was a real energy there that makes people hype: the crowd goes nuts when that stuff gets played. I met Faze on Rinse FM and he became an artist and MC in his own right a few years back, but now I think he’s dropped out of doing music entirely? I’m not sure to be honest. A really skilled producer who’s from round Chadwell Heath. I didn’t live too far from him and I picked him up once with Spyro and we went to Eskimo Dance. He was making bare trappy grime tunes for a minute and he was just smashing it out.
