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So this is out on the 16th .

This is the tracklisting:
1. Stagger 2. Blue Eyez 3. Tortured Soul 4. Kut-Off 5. Rutten 6. Colourful 7. Check-It (Instrumental) 8. Dubbers Anonymous 9. Midnight Request Line (Digital Mystikz Remix)

This is the cover:

I'm looking forward to this in the biggest way. Hence the completely premature thread.

P.S. Has anyone heard the ska number he persists on playing of all his rinse shows lately? It's completely wtflol.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

he persists on playing of all his rinse
Excuse the moment of dyslexia.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

he persistently plays?

― HUNTA-V (vahid), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think "he insists on playing on all of his rinse shows lately." Was the target.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 20:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

No original "Midnight Request Line"?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dubstep isn't making the big bank yet so all tracks are unreleased afaik.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

CD tracklist is different (different order IIRC).

I am UTTERLY anticipating this. Rilly.

― eh (fandango), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

CD?!

Jokes, I don't even have anything to play rekkids on at the mo' :*-(

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 and 9 were on his Dubstep Wars mix IIRC (both are good).

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=23915

two weeks is hardly that premature, even if it gets delayed.

― eh (fandango), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

So is "Rottan" or "Rutten" or whatever.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

CD tracklist is totally different:

Track Listing:
1. Tortured Soul
2. Midnight Request Line
3. Check-it (feat Warrior Queen)
4. Rutten
5. Kut-Off
6. Dutch Flowerz
7. Colourful
8. Tapped (feat JME)
9. Stagger 1
0. Summer Dreams
11. Auto-Dub

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

Rutten isn't Rottan. Different version of the same track I believe. What is this dubstep wars mix you speak of?

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:32 (6 years ago) Permalink

Christ that is a helluva different tracklisting!

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/maryannehobbs/tracklistingarchive.shtml?20060110

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 21:52 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh right, when I say unreleased I mean not available unmixed on a CD or vinyl. Lots of old favourites are on countless mixes for months at a time without being released.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

I didn't say they had been released. I just said I'd heard them.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

Thread subtitle: jim's adventures in learning difficulties.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

No original "Midnight Request Line"?

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), October 4th, 2006.

my copy's got the original as track two. a staggeringly good album from front to back.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

oh shit... missed that upthread. Alex's last track list is correct.

― that's so taylrr (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 22:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Why is it that I never get the leak love anymore? Oh yeah, banned from teh 01nk because no matter how long I left shit on I got no upload love :(

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 23:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

The current tune that can only fuck w/ this is only Kromestar's 'Kalawanji'. HUGE!

― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 5 October 2006 04:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dutch Flowerz is amazing but so are a bunch of other tracks on this. Are Digital Mystikz releasing a LP in 2006? Or ever?

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Thursday, 5 October 2006 04:40 (6 years ago) Permalink

6. Dutch Flowerz - Is probably one of the ska inflected tracks that skream plays often. This is out right now on a 12" with tapped.

To get his sets on rinse go here some of them have tracklistings
http://www.barefiles.com/files.php?o=&s=4&p=&q=skream

The Breezeblock dub warz show is here:

http://www.barefiles.com/download.php?id=110

I am looking forward to this release as well.

― Warren Cowley (dubble-u-c), Thursday, 5 October 2006 05:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Pushed back 'til 23rd.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Sunday, 8 October 2006 14:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Short interview and album minimix on BBC website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A16144904#talkabouthis

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Thursday, 12 October 2006 23:09 (6 years ago) Permalink

streaming at the usual place :)

― eh (fandango), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:01 (6 years ago) Permalink

wow, those fade out's are annoying! I hope that's just a promo thing :o

― eh (fandango), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

Oh, I'd expect so.

I love that there are real flutes on Rutten!

Someone told me it's been pushed back a week again, but I've not had confirmation, could just be rumour.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 13:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

Heard the vinyl version. One of the best album's I've heard this year. "Rutten" is so so so great.

― Harpal (harpal), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:17 (6 years ago) Permalink

Initial reactions to this are a touch too negative methinks, this thing is SOLID. What's not so good is maybe 3 tracks?

Auto-dub - rote, almost an interlude. why oh why isn't "Dubbers Anonymous" from the vinyl on the CD instead?? (or a million other choices from the vinyls shouts the blogosphere...)
Summer Dreams - have to admit I'm not feeling this one much either.
Tapped - if you can't get over the unbelievably rubbish JME verses.

Everything else is good, or really f-cking good-to-amazing. With probably a higher % of the latter! No, it's not perfect, but it's still quite a beast. Nothing fancy, overambitious or thematic, just one killer track after another. And can't wait to get a real copy so I can actually hear the bass properly!

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

DMZ were quoted in The Wire a few months back as saying they aren't doing an album. And don't plan to. This might change in the future though.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

I hate the JME vocal, the instrumental or even the mashup with anti-war dub wipes the floor with that version. I think the JME vocals on this track are sort of like dubstep's equivalent to "This world".

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

ahaha :D

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

I am more excited about the Plasticman album.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

They're really not that bad! Functional, I think.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

All about Distance and Pinch. Tho Platician and MRK1 ought to release very tasty albums too, they both seemed to have really stepped up in terms of the technical engineering side, recent tracks like "Japan" sounding delicious. Slightly bored of Skream's fruity-by-numbers schtick now (with the obvious exceptions)

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:25 (6 years ago) Permalink

Don't care about Distance and barely care about Pinch. Excited about MRK1 though as I quite like his previous record.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

Harsh on Pinch. MRK1's first album was pretty inconsistent, wasn't it? (and that pseudo Grime track with the vomiting?) Still, going by his production on the Virus Syndicate record his new one ought to be better than Skream's.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

Virus Syndicate is on three tracks, I think. I remember it being pretty listenable all the way through. MRK1 seems to have a better handle on hooks than most of his peers.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

I can't bring myself to care about grime. I tend to enjoy the big tunes, but that's kind of like saying "I like Johnny Cash" as attestation of country music fandom. I don't think the Skream album is amazing but I'm definitely buying it and getting my mate to rip the vinyl (no turntable and no cash to buy one). But I'm not particularly enamoured of the album format. With the Skream album I'll have nice spinky full quality versions of tracks I've only heard on nights-out or 98kbps mixes or whatever, which is all I require of it really.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:42 (6 years ago) Permalink

The only issue I have with that criticism is how that makes it sound like that's all there is here, a sonic signature, completely ignoring all the amazingly original dubstep (someone has to say it...) POP anthems! I mean "Check It" is completely & totally off the motherbanging chain, no? :o

Not that he's the only guy (DMZ in particular can hold their own here) around bringing them to the table, or that I'm saying that's what Dubstep for the club should be about (hell no) but come on.

I do want to hear the other records coming out too though, and maybe it's a good thing if this ends up not overshadowing them, or, setting an impossible benchmark at this stage.

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

xposts sorry.

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Friday, 20 October 2006 22:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

> CD tracklist is totally different:

both those are nothing like the lovely yellow cd i now have in front of me

01: Tortured Soul
02: Midnight Request Line
03: Blue Eyez
04: Auto-Dub
05: Check-It
06: Stagger
07: Dutch Flowerz
08: Rutten
09: Tapped
10: Kut-Off
11: Summer Dreams
12: Colourful
14: Emotionally Mute

(no track 13)

am currently on track 5 (which is better as an instrumental).

> POP anthems!

yep 8)

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:53 (6 years ago) Permalink

I bought the CD last Thursday but keep forgetting to get it off my friend.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:54 (6 years ago) Permalink

wahey extra tracks! and a slighty different (mad front-loaded) order!

and now I can skip "Summer Dreams" and have something left to look forward to. I figured there would be last minute changes tbh. My Boomkat package has hit that postal Bermuda Triangle somewhere in the Pennines again it would seem :-P

― fandango (fandango), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

i thought the album was well boring initially cos of all the digi dub sounding stuff, but thats not all the tracks. its a pretty good album overall. shame 0800 dub isnt on it though. there are other tracks i think that would have made it better. the prob here isnt that its digi dub, cos you can do digi dub well too (and i really like that ska type track even though i didnt want to - the melody is really nice), its just that some of it just sounds a bit rough around the edges. i dunno if thats cos my promo cd isnt mastered properly or what, or if the actual tracks just arent that strong, but it seems like skreams handed in a fair amount of his 2nd division tracks for this, which is weird cos its his debut album and it should have been better. i wouldnt mind if request line wasnt on it personally as its old now and ive heard it rinsed to death (brilliant as it is).

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 13:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

I like the rough edges personally but the "2nd division" tracks thing is OTM, moving "Stagger" earlier onto the album only excacerbates makes it more noticeable unfortunately. Even if 50/60% of this is A+++ the gap between the great tracks and the also-rans is oddly large. Still a good record tho'. Even if Kode 9 & Spaceape have made a better "album" album.

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'd actually rank them fairly equally, I think Skream's meets my expectations for a young chap like him, as far as a first album goes... ie- pretty good but patchy. Kode9/Spaceape seriously underperformed in my eyes, largely cos none of their newer tracks on the album (apart from the final one) are actually any good, the style of engineering used throughout annoys me (rough, without being stylishly rough, kind of shonky) and Spaceape's lists of signifiers, tho accurate in terms of the philosophy he's basing it on becomes slightly numbing across an album length. Also Fukkaz isn't on there, which is weird as its their best, most alien sounding track by far, and also much better produced.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:24 (6 years ago) Permalink

I have no idea what happened to all the grime threads, but the recent spate of grime mixtapes (Ruff Sqwad, both Tunnel Visions, heck even Neckle Camp) are better than any of these dubstep records.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

Ha and even harder to find. I only just managed to track down the first JME Boy Better Know mixtape, and the new one is apparently already out.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:39 (6 years ago) Permalink

You must have had some HIGH expectations gekoppel! Maybe it's because the majority % of it seems 'new' to me except the 3/4 already released tracks I've heard and it hangs together really well, just gets away with avoiding the 'numbing' effect by changing tack enough track by track (I agree it's there though). One of the few real 'grower' LP's of this year for me (unlike Burial!). Oh and it sound TONS better off CD than the shitty download I had. There _is_ bass after all. I'm not sure I really understand your misgivings about the production tbh, or maybe I just disagree.

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

Tim, you can get them from Independance (http://www.independance-records.co.uk/) and they lowered their non-UK shipping considerably!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:04 (6 years ago) Permalink

I fancy delving into grime. I've been hating on it for long enough, I should really get to grips with it in order to either: a) desist the hating or b) be an educated hater.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

My point being that I might use that link to do the delving thank you Mr. Alex in Santa Fe.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:16 (6 years ago) Permalink

What's the deal with 'Summer Dreams'? I'm so confused...

― Michael Dieter (Mika), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:41 (6 years ago) Permalink

What do you mean?

I finally got this off my friend today, a week after I bought it. Nice to get it home and give it a blasting through the speakers. Loving the Request Line (yeah, still), Check-it, Stagger, Rutten, Kut-Off, Dutch Flowerz and the Coffee-table stylings of Summer Dreams. Hating JME on Tapped. Also inside the sleave it mentions you can buy the official "Tapped" ring-tone by texting some load of gibberish to a number. I'm going to do it sadly enough. I am soon to be one of the annoying kids on your bus.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:07 (6 years ago) Permalink

I don't hate Grime, but it's not something I can be bothered wading through to find the good stuff. It doesn't seem like there's a lot of quality control going on, everyone rushing to merk the next guy as opposed to Dubstep's (so far... probably changing now) snail-paced release cycles & dubplate culture?

All that completely second-hand of course! Not 'observations'. I like the Plastician sets I've heard, and that "Now! That's What I Call Grime" (i.e. the Roll Deep Grimey Vol.1 which you can no doubt find even in Woolworths) tons (I appreciate it's kind of proto-grime & garage stuff too...) dislike some sets I've grabbed off barefiles... some Rinse FM shows have been good but feel weirdly beyond my understanding as far as where some of the music has come from.

I can say I enjoyed the Grime set I caught in Berlin (some time ago now :( ) a sh-tload more than the Dubstep one on the same night. Neither of the DJ's were anything to write home about but yeah, Dubstep needs more careful/adventurous handling not to bore for real.

/off topic

Skream album is deadly played at the correct volume :o It practically BEGS to be turned up LOUD. I appreciate peoples disappointment with some aspects of it (not Dubstep "Timeless" oh noes ;'( ) but I'm a bit peeved at how many weak ass 6/10 reviews it's had already.

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

I really like the new (last) track too.

What would be people's POX choice cuts off the vinyl LP tracks, Skreamism's etcetera btw?

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Saturday, 4 November 2006 01:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

Off first two Skreamizms and the album (CD and vinyl): Glamma, Smiley face, Lightning, Welcome to the Future, Deep concentration, Midnight Request line, Check-it, Stagger, Rutten, Dubbers anonymous.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:05 (6 years ago) Permalink

I think.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:06 (6 years ago) Permalink

Dub Period.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:13 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'd definitely add "The Bug" (w/Benga?) and that Warrior Queen 'Almighty Father' remix to my list I suppose, if not to any rejigging of the album...

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Saturday, 4 November 2006 02:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

Skream POX off the top of my head:

Midnight Request Line
Stagger
Monsoon (Loefah Remix)
Glamma
Rottan
Merky
Fearless (w/ Loefah)
Ancient Memories (Skream Remix)
Almighty Father (Skream Remix)
Deep Concentration

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Saturday, 4 November 2006 05:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

CHECK IT

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:35 (6 years ago) Permalink

'blue euez' and 'check it' are so astonishingly great that i got stuck repeating them when i first heard the album, and was all ready to declare it a masterpiece and so on. then i remembered to listen to the rest, most of which i like, but not to that level.

what are jme's mixtapes like? i've had really strong reactions to his vocals every time i've heard them: i love 'pence' (which is on the mary anne hobbs compilation), i think the playground flow works really well there, but 'tapped' is just...not good at all.

haha, 'summer dreams', dubstep coffee table jazz.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:38 (6 years ago) Permalink

I've liked JME on other tracks.. I've kind of got used to the "Tapped" crapness now, it's easily ignorable ("functional") after a while.

― new new wave of new wave new rave (fandango), Monday, 6 November 2006 10:51 (6 years ago) Permalink

tapped is one of the shittest marriages of grime MC+dubstep beat i thinnk anyone has ever made.

i dont quite understand the criticisms over dubstep being too much like digi dub - theres tons of tracks that are too much like dub fascimilies in dubstep. its all over the place. even great tracks like DMZ's haunted start off great then ruin themselves with crappy dub chords and effects. i dont get why dubstep producers are so intent on being SO faithful to dub. its cool to aim for a similar modernised industrial london version of the mood and dread of dub but they seem to be doing it too literally by actually sampling or emulating the very musical vocab of dub. personally i find it as pointless as grime that sounds too much like hip hop. its not what i like the music for. but then its a bit tricker with dubstep as so many of the tracks do bear this huge dub/reggae influence. like, where do you draw the line and say this is reggae influenced dubstep and THIS is dubstep as digi dub. i mean, i listened to skreamizm 1 and 2 yesterday and actually found a lot of what was on there quite boring. this might be cos i had a hangover but it seemed theres very few of his tracks taht actually match the ambition of request line (apart from maybe 0800 dub, tapped, etc). maybe this just means i dont really like 'real' dubstep though as i thought his mr keyz and southside EP were amazing.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Monday, 6 November 2006 12:12 (6 years ago) Permalink

imo Skreamizm 1 is probably Skream's strongest release.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:49 (6 years ago) Permalink

@Titchy: Couldn't agree more with you. Taking some elements of dub methodology is all well and good, but overt copying of sonic signifiers has got a little tiresome, and ends up sounding cheesy, rather than "authentic" (which I presume is what they're aiming for). The more alien/electronic stuff which hints at dub space and bass-mass without piling on the plastic rasta-nonsense and skanking cheapo synth guitars is where its at.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:10 (6 years ago) Permalink

Will Titchy, gekoppel and I all agree on something for the first time ever?

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

don't wanna cause any trouble but auto-dub gets me noddin'

― yours fondly, harshaw. (mrgn), Monday, 6 November 2006 23:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

went to DMZ on the weekend and realized crazy d is actually the worst MC ever and will probably keep me away from most dubstep events in the future.

― captain easychord (captain easychord), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 10:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

crazy d is great! theres some show i got from barefiles that i think was the birthday party one and its fantastic. plus, his song on warrior rubz was hot too. hes one of my favourite mcs thats around right now. i dont get why there has been a dubstep allstars featuring (the quite often corny - esp when hes doing covers - someone stop him from remaking any more vaguely dubby old songs like ghosttown PLEASE!) spaceape but not him yet.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

I like digi-dub.

― struttin' with some barbecue (jimnaseum), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

i don't know why people rate the kode 9 album above this, it's ok but very one-note, and spaceape over a whole album is wearying.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

Spaceape over one track of the Burial album was wearying!

I like this album a lot. "Summer Dreams" gets me quite tearful...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 11:58 (6 years ago) Permalink

i think skream is a good album in the sense that unlike many dance producers debuts, it doesnt try to do a proper album-album, so a lot of the tracks, well all of them, are basically the type of thing skream has been releasing on 12. which is cool, but cos of that, theyre pretty repetitive (but then thats the nature of dance music). obv now no one can say he did the normal compromised album thing, but still, its not as reflective of his range as it could be, it feels like a set of odds and ends (and most tracks not his most adventurous side but the more plodding digi dub stuff). most of the reviews ive read of it in mags have made sure theyre positive but theyve read as though the writer doesnt really see what the fuss is about. if this was the first thing i heard of skreams, i probably wouldnt get the fuss either which is a bit of a shame as this is prob going to be most peoples entry point.

― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:57 (6 years ago) Permalink

I'm kind of dissapointed neither Pitchfork or Stylus have bothered to review this or the Kode 9 lp (yet?) given the numerous high profile reviews and disproportionate hype Burial had.

― brr (fandango), Friday, 17 November 2006 00:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

pitchfork was at least month or so late on the burial review (disregarding the 'this month' column), so they're just keeping it consistent

and who cares about stylus anyways

― lucas pine (Ignatius), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:21 (6 years ago) Permalink

i did 'em both last month... http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/39228/The_Month_In_The_Month_In_Grime_Dubstep

― martin (martin), Friday, 17 November 2006 08:31 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

So, for anyone who has the Skream Essential Mix on hand, does anyone know the name of the track of very first clip playing, over "the esential mix, on radio 1"?

― mehlt, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 00:57 (5 years ago) Permalink

that's 'hedd banger' according to this

skreamizm 4 is great - dubplate has the non-white now and i like just about every track on first couple listens

― lucas pine, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 01:26 (5 years ago) Permalink

Maybe I should have made this a bit more clear: it's not the first track he plays, but it's the first thing you hear, in the intro of the mix (as the essential mix starts with like 8 bar clips of notable songs by the producer). That tracklist doesn't include those clips (as midnight request line would have been in it).

Thanks though.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 02:53 (5 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

http://www.nectarlounge.com/detail_080806.html

Skream!, Roommate, Zacharia, and Noisemaker. $10. Walking distance from my place. Tomorrow night.

Good live?

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 19:03 (4 years ago) Permalink

I've seen some great sets and some lacklustre sets from him.

He's not a great "storytelling" dj and often the set doesn't flow or go on any sort of journey. Can be over-reliant on big tunes. But can also be pretty great and will usually have a bunch of his own dubs and dubs from other producers, especially Benga. If the sound system is going to be good I would definitely go.

― jim, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 21:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

Cool, thanks! (It's a small venue with a good sound system, adjacent patio on a warm summer night.)

― Mackro Mackro, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 22:02 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

The new one's largely quite dull.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:23 (2 years ago) Permalink

I like it!

― zorn_bond.mp3, Tuesday, 17 August 2010 01:39 (2 years ago) Permalink

I quite like Where You Should Be and Listening to the Records on My Wall.

This is the best tune he's put out in the last couple of years:

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, 17 August 2010 09:12 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

Ok it's grown on me. Too cheesy in parts, but generally enjoyable.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Outside the Box, that is.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:02 (2 years ago) Permalink

Reading this thread back is depressing :(

― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Monday, 6 September 2010 15:59 (2 years ago) Permalink

2 years pass...

Quite like these actually (someone's been watching Breaking Bad):
http://soundcloud.com/skreamizm/problem-dog-the-blue-crystal

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 01:00 (7 months ago) Permalink

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