Quote Originally Posted by Willy_Wonka
Grime is actually a term coined by Rephlex records as an all encompassing, genre-busting, journo-mashing 'user' friendly (ie dancers - not producers / djs / up their own arse Hoxtonites) term for the many styles that go to make their family of music.

As it goes a bit of Hawkins mixed with some garage beats would fit neatly into their definition, but the fact that you say my mate introduced me to this UK Grime thing, goes someway to indicated that the sharks (ahem I mean Journos) have already got their teeth into and are breaking it down into handy gulp size chunks, ready for force feeding to the zombies...

http://www.rephlex.com/main_index.html

Also an advert to their Grime party this April 23rd with The Bug headlining - gonna be wikked, if ya can pull yer heads outta the techno kickdrum for a few hours...
I'm with you. There is a distinct London Garage flava too these tunes - and how I was introduced to it was as Eskibeat I guess I was using 'Grime' cos I didn't want to sound hip or unaccessable.