One of our favorite dubsteppers, Dub Police representative Subscape, recently lended his earth rattling bass delicacies over to the infamous Mishka Keep Watch Series, stringing together one of the best dubstep mixes we’ve heard in a minute. If you’re one of those “I use to like dubstep before Skrillex came around” type people, then this mix is for you, as it brings the genre back to its glory days–when you didn’t have to make a song full of chainsaw noises to be considered going hard.
TRACKLIST:
1. Sigma & TPhonic – Do You Love (Subscape Remix)
2. Skism & Flux Pavilion – Jump Back ft. Foreign Beggars
3. Delta Heavy – Hold Me
4. Buraka – Ba Ba Ba (Caspa Remix)
5. Eddie K & Statix – Blinded
6. Subscape – Screw Up VIP
7. Trolley Snatcha – Flying Missiles
8. Subscape – Turn Me On
9. Youngman – Who Knows (The Others Remix)
10. Ethic – Cherryade
11. D1 – No Tomorrow
12. Pyramid – Beat Of Your Heart
13. Farkus – Tribal Dance
14. Ethic – Look Around
15. Emalkay – Flesh and Bone
16. The Others – First Flight
17. 501 – Headrush
18. Trolley Snatcha – Circle K (Funtcase Remix)
19. Subzee D – One More
20. Subscape – Apple Candy
Joker took his signature purple sound to the airwaves of BBC Radio 1 this past weekend, becoming the latest artist to submit to the program’s esteemed Essential Mix series. Playing mostly his own songs throughout the mix, the piece comes as a clear-cut look into the deep and impressive catalogue thus far in the young producer’s career. Download Joker’s Essential Mix now below and peep the tracklist in full over at the BBC Radio 1 website.
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Joker was feeling kind today and let go the instrumental version of his debut album, FOR FREE. Yep, at zero cost, you can now download instrumental-only editions of the six or so cuts off The Vision that originally had lyrics/singing on them. All you have to do is like his page on Facebook. Thanks Joker! Now all we can do is sit and hope The Weeknd gets ahold of the “On My Mind” beat and feels compelled to sing over it. Seriously crossing our fingers.
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What irks you most about Skrillex? The music he makes? The fact that he looks like your best friends 15-year-old sister? Or how quickly he’s risen to international stardom? For us, it’s probably the latter. In under two years, the guy has literally become the face of dubstep, surpassing certified legends in the game in fame and popularity. Case in point last weekend: at a Halloween show here in Denver, Skream & Benga opened for Skrillex. OPENED. Two dudes who are considered founders of this dubstep thing were left to sub-headline for someone who hasn’t put in even half the work that they have. It felt so wrong.
Another thing that irritates us maybe even more regarding the fame Skrillex has attracted is that there are people doing what he is doing, but better. Take Atrasolis, an outstanding dubstep producer out of Miami who probably hasn’t hit your radar yet. Astrasolis’ music fuses the world of dub with fidget/electro sounds, much like Skrillex does, but in a way that’s much more–for lack of a better word–musical. As the front man of multiple hardcore bands before venturing into producing, Atrasolis brings in a working knowledge of complex musical arrangement that usually gets lost amongst today’s electronic producers. Sure, Skrillex too used to be in a band prior to djing, but those influences don’t translate into the music he makes now. Atrasolis’ creations still embody that high-energy, dancefloor crushing sound, but have just the right amount of rhythm and melody so that it still sounds tuneful. Even in ear-wrenching dubstep there needs to be tangible musical elements, and this is what Atrasolis brings to the table.
In collaboration with The Overthrow, we are presenting Atrasolis’ debut EP I Am The Black Sun: Alpha in hopes that we can not only propel the young producer to dubstep stardom, but also put integrity back into the genre itself. Below, stream the entire EP (which you can purchase now at Beatport) and grab an exclusive free download of Atrasolis’ newest track “Best Friends”.
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The b-side to the already sold out 12″ that we mentioned last week premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Xfm show last weekend. Listen to a radio rip of Burial‘s hauntingly beautiful remix of Massive Attack‘s “Paradise Circus” below.
Bristol dubstep don Joker and Jessie Ware are joined by Gary, Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs in an updated version of “The Vision.” Download it below. Joker’s debut album The Vision is due out November 8th on 4AD.
20 years after the release of their seminal trip-hop album Blue Lines, Massive Attack are still celebrated as one of the genre’s champions. Even as the popularity of the genre seemed to dwindle as the 90s came to a close, Massive Attack are still as popular as ever, especially in their home country of the UK, where their 2010 album Heligoland was certified gold. Burial needs no explanation really. His 2007 album Untrue vaulted him into the sphere of dubstep royalty.
Now a limited edition collaboration 12″ vinyl between the two artists is to be released via Inhale Gold and The Vinyl Factory on October 17th. This collaboration comes as no surprise, however. Rumors of the collaboration have been floating around the internet for years and Hyperdub label head Kode9 dropped the Burial remix of Massive Attack’s “Paradise Circus” in a DJ set in Barcelona this past June. Titled “Four Walls” / “Paradise Circus”, the A-side is an unheard tune, while the B-side is a remix of one of Heligoland‘s more popular cuts. Stream “Four Walls” below and pre-order the vinyl here now as it is limited to 1000 pressings and will never see a digital release.
