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Batman and Robin, Laurel and Hardy, Bodger and Badger, Ant and Dec, Elijah and Skilliam – it seems that double acts are definitely the way forward. And I like to think of the Butterz DJs, as Grime’s answer to all of these…kind of. And I also like to think of them as proof that some of ‘da man dem’ (and ting blud – get me – safe) involved in the Grime scene, really do have more than half a brain cell. If you cast your minds back to last August I had a menage-a-Butterz where we spoke about the finer things in life – chicken, women, music and their plans for world domination. I caught up with them last week as they prepare to smash it, headlining our Hotoneten room at The Bullet Train / Spam Fritter / Hotoneten Party this Saturday, to see what they’ve been up to…

So boys…it’s been a while. It’s been six months actually. What’s been going on?

S: What HAS been going on?! Everything init!
E: Well the football season started again.
S: Yeh man.
E: But seriously, everything changes so fast that we don’t even know what’s going on and what has happened. Init Skilliam – like I haven’t spoken to you in 2 hours and we’ve got another booking in that time.
S: It’s hard to say because things are changing so fast.
E: It’s nang. We’re having such a good time. It’s just nang.

And it’s probably down to the fact that what you guys do is completely different to what your Grime DJ peers do…How do you manage to stand out?

E: Well the fact that we do the instrumental thing for starters.
S: And also we work with producers and try to build them up instead of just playing the same things. There’s an element of quality control we will never play anything we don’t like just for the sake of it…

Read the full interview by Loukia Constantinou here.