Melancholy At 140: Introduction to NEO-GRIME

"I don't think I've told many people this, but mid-pandemic I almost quit music. The silence outside matched the silence I'd been avoiding inside. I'd stopped expecting music to do anything for me. Then I fell into a rabbit hole of producers making something I didn't have a name for. Grime tempo, trance pads, the emotional weight of wave music, club elements rebuilt around feeling rather than function. This music saved me. Made me fall back in love with DJing. This is that sound. Melancholy drenched grime, future garage adjacencies, witch house residue, emotional bass music with the floor still intact. Not quite club, not quite home listening, sitting in the in-between where the best niche genres live. this is NEO-GRIME, curated by ARNII."