More big releases, tonnes of free stuff and lots of great interviews in October. The month began with a bang with the launch of Big H’s Street Crime UK, prompting more chat on the Forum than anything for a while, as well as possibly the scene’s most dangerous driving video. Check JME bending all traffic rules here… Meanwhile, H turned to Grime Forum for an exclusive interview on why he is grime, his reasons for picking the producers on his CD, and what he has coming up next.

There were also in-depth interviews with DJ Jawzy, a regular contributor to our podcast, Edmonton’s Black the Ripper AKA Samson, and O.T. Crew veteran Dogzilla on his return to music after a short break, how Left to Rot is doing on i-Tunes, and who he rates now after a decade in the game. And we updated our Top 3 selected poll… find out the new number one here.

Huge month for free downloads too. Cold Blooded’s Revolver brought us The Lost Tape of tracks found by DJ Tootsi, Cel22 dropped Slang with Grammar, and Warlock released Friend of Mine, Foe of the Music. There were also must-haves from Voltage, Nutcase and Maxsta, Manga, General Tank and hard-working MCs Merky Ace and M.I.K. Oh, and Dot Rotten gave us 50 beats … for nothing.

With so much free stuff, it only seems fair to get your wallet out for Blacks’ Sick Individual and the Roll Deep compilation Street Anthems.

Meanwhile, the godfather of grime Wiley finally gave the rest of us a reason to sign up to Twitter … @vneckjumper. Add @grimeforum while you’re there. Safe. Elsewhere, there was plenty of Wesley Berry-related madness, exposures and arguments on the Forum to keep you entertained while you’re listening, and our enigmatic ilovegrime also kept the work rate high with interviews, mixes and more here. Who is he, and what does he want?

Big releases from Flowdan, Scorcher and Dot Rotten coming too in November. Hold tight.

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Logan Sama – Dexplicit, Black The Ripper and Stush (26/10/09)

Logan Sama – Cold Blooded (Terminator, Scorcher, Jonson, Revolver and Dollar Da Dustman) (19/10/09)

Elijah & Skilliam – Rinse FM (15/10/09)

DJ Vectra – Rinse FM (06/10/09)

Logan Sama – Big H, Bossman, Skepta and Jme (05/10/09)

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General Tank – Progressions Instinct ( The Features / The Beats )

Merky ACE – Best Of Merky ACE

M.I.K – I Declare War

Merky ACE & Splurt – Shinobi E.P

WereWolf – ESKI WOLF EP

Nu Klea - Unique EP