![]() ![]() I wanted to do a really small, limited run. What was the reason for this choice? Are you going for a second printing, if things go well? I could hear these tracks in the background of a 70’s cops’ story/crime flick.Ĭrime Themes is pressed in only 200 copies and the first 100 vinyls are translucent blue colour. To me, the tracks work as both hip hop beats and production music. I tried to really hone in on a particular vibe. In my eyes, the tracks on there aren’t just my everyday style of beats I make. Something that looked like and sounded like a library joint…but is hop hop enough to write and spit rhymes to. Something crate diggers and beat heads everywhere could appreciate. I wanted to put a record out that really had a library feel. What was the inspiration for Crime Themes? Put together gems here and there definitely, but I’ll chalk it up to 4/5 years. I’d say the first years were all learning. How long did it take you to produce something that you were proud of, at the beginning? ![]() That would have to be a track called Live or Die by Rock of Heltah Skeltah, featuring Top Dogg of Originoo Gunn Clappaz and True Sun Ali. What was the first commercial beat that you’ve sold or placed? I’d like to thank you for being with us, and I’d like to give a bit of a background about your work. ![]() Standard-bearer of an appropriately “Grimey” style and a great lover of horror memorabilia (in particular masks), Grimes, together with his companion Giallo Point, is the mastermind behind releases and compilations of instrumentals in both digital and physical formats, such as the recent Themes for Crime. A few days after the release of Themes for Crimes, an instrumental album by Vic himself, released exclusively on vinyl, we heard the Italian-born beatmaker (the grandparents are from Naples) to tell us something about his latest effort and his production style.įor those unfamiliar with Vic, let it be known that he’s the same producer who has recently made a name for himself with productions and collaborations with artists such as The UN, Spit Gemz, Starvin B, Goretex, Dro Pesci, Vado, Phyba, Rock (of Heltah Skeltah) and Nems, among many many others. The label harks back to the sick sound of hardcore New York City and has a no-nonsense horror-library aftertaste that often works very well. Vic Grimes takes no hostages: the cinematic grimey sound in hip hop.Ĭrate Divizion is the name of the independent label that is the “ home” of the English-speaking beatmakers Vic Grimes and Giallo Point, and emcees Phyba and Daniel Son. ![]()
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