Grindie is a form of music that emerged in early 2006. It is a fusion of both indie and grime music.
Arguably, the first release to fall into the grindie subgenre 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.
Grime producer Statik is one of the main proponents of the genre and also one of the first to release an album containing only grindie tracks, 'Grindie Vol 1'.[1][2] His second album (featuring Pete Doherty, Nicodemus Flower, Wretch 32, Coco Sumner, and Fyfe Dangerfield was, true to form another Grindie album but rather than stick any MC over a popular indie track, he developed the genre into its own unique sound by placing popular singers on truly grime influenced beats.[3]
The genre has proliferated, so that there are bands forming that truly 'fit' into the grindie genre, rather than DJs using samples of indie tracks and getting MCs to rap over them. Bands like Hadouken! use the normal features of a rock based band (guitars, bass, etc.) but with MCing, not unlike Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, and Gym Class Heroes. 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).
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