Seeing this post today reminded me that while I love, love, love big group remixes (some of my fondest childhood memories involve the word REEEEEMIX) when it comes to massive group efforts, no one does it quite as well as the British.

There are two main grime groups over the pond right now--So Solid Crew and Roll Deep. Roll Deep, counting ex-member Dizzee Rascal, have 22 people involved, which seems like a lot until you hear that So Solid has (at my count) a whooping 46 members, including a sub-branch called The So Solid Kids. I don't care how many people DJ Khaled stuffs on a remix, he isn't ever going to top that.

Of course, a large amount of people rarely translates into quality, which is why it seems to work best so Roll Deep, who have tracks I like, and not at all for So Solid, whose claim to fame is largely built on a track called "21 Seconds":

While thinking of a subject for their debut single, one member suggested "Right, we've got 21 seconds to think of something" -from this, it was decided this was to be the theme. Additionally, each MC/Performer on the track has exactly 21 seconds to sing their verse.

Even though that's the kind of the story that usually makes me love a song instantly, it's a bad enough track to overcome even that. That said, it's a worse video--incredibly early 90s for something from 2001:

As I said, I find Roll Deep to be superior, largely because a group that created Dizzee Rascal can't be all bad, but largely because in face of the shiny shirt-wearing, cage-match, crazy contacts of So Solid, that have a better sense of how to have fun, which is sorely needed when pulling off any large group projects, remix or otherwise: