Grindie

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Regional scenes
Grindie
Stylistic origins	Grime Indie rock
Cultural origins	mid/late-2000s, London
Typical instruments	Synthesizer, Drum machine, Sequencer, Keyboard, Sampler, Turntable, Personal computer, MCing, Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Drums
Mainstream popularity	Small
London

Grindie is a form of music that emerged in early 2006.

The first known grindie release was a song by Marvin the Martian aka Marv the Marsh and his group Why Lout? sampling Art Brut's "Emily Kane" to make a song called 'Stay Off The Kane' which was released as a free download through Artrocker and was downloaded over 30,000+ times within two months.^{[citation needed]}

Although now there are bands forming that fit into the grindie genre, rather than DJs using samples of indie tracks and getting MCs to spit over them. Bands like Hadouken! use the normal features of a rock based band (guitars, bass, etc.) but with MCing and occasionally make use of grime style beats. Some bands, following the fusion of grime and other, more rock-orientated sounds, have developed their own innovations outside of the genre. Some critics have accused it of being a press invention (comparable to New Rave).