The story of how grime got from that initial explosion of chaotic, untutored brilliance and insular self-reliance to the point today where an outsider such as me could put together a compilation of beats from as far afield as Ireland and Japan, without losing that sonic strangeness, could fill books.
Today, however, sees the label's first album release, a compilation of its best bits so far; with a track from each of the artists on the roster, it's more varied than most.
The World According To Vice is a compilation of our most glorious moments so far.
First Mission, a cosmically inclined compilation of far-out house and stratospheric techno that features Dutch delights by Boris Werner, House of Jezebel (AKA Legowelt) and more, is dropping on a trio of vinyl releases before coming together on a nice, shiny CD at the end of this month.
The effort, a compilation of more than 135,000 song titles so far, is the recording industry's response to a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit against the online song-swapping service Napster.
Despite her longtime residence in various Japanese cities, she is nevertheless stunned by her first glimpse of a Kyoto maiko, or apprentice geisha: "She was not so much a woman as a walking work of art, a compilation of symbols and markers of eroticism, as far removed from a human being as a bonsai is from a natural tree".
A compilation of colloid-borne forms of tetravalent actinides described so far for laboratory experiments together with several examples of An(IV) colloids observed in field experiments and real-world scenarios are given.
"How can he know that Betts 'deliberately' suppressed this sentence, in what was a compilation of excerpts, not full letters?" she asked, noting that Betts's edition contains many far worse details about Jefferson's treatment of slaves.
Watch a compilation of the gay jokes and weigh in on whether or not it went too far!
A compilation of summer-reading lists.
A compilation of teeny tiny memoirs.
