Alexis Petridis's noughties mixtape

The Guardian's music critic picks his soundtrack for the decadeDizzee Rascal: I Luv U Dizzee Rascal's debut single was a blackly comic tale of teenage pregnancy set to grinding electronics and related in an edge-of-panic scream. You can hear why, for a brief moment, grime seemed like the future.Aaliyah: We Need a ResolutionProof of how weird R&B got in the early noughties – a strange, sinister, disembodied soundscape conjured up for the late singer by producer Timbaland, yet still a massi...

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