A little mix from Donnie Propa that goes from UK hip hop to dubstep in one fell swoop.
1. Rodney P, Dynamite MC and Tali – Its On
2. Phi – Life Cypher – Cordless Mics At 20 Paces
3. Jehst – Lines Of Defence
4. Hoodz Underground – Pass The Mic
5. Cappo – Underground
6. Fallacy and Fusion – The Groundbreaker
7. TRG – Oi! Killa!
8. Distance – V
9. Rukus, TY, Klashnekoff and Yogi – Let It Go (Remix)
10. Benny Page – Swagger
11. Benga – 26 Basslines
12. High Rankin – No Money For Guns
13. Stenchman – The Taste Of Vomit
14. Joker – Snake Eater
15. Flying Lotus – $tunt$
The Tectonic Plates series really starts rolling with this second disc from O.G Dubstep dons Skream and Benga. As far as we can tell, aside from the Magnetic Man project, the pair haven’t appeared on the same 12″ together since 2003’s ‘The Judgement’ on Big Apple, so it’s very interesting to compare and contrast the developments in their style as both producers have flourished into fully fledged production heroes in their own right. Skream’s ‘Trapped In A Dark Bubble’ couldn’t be considered as anything less than cutting edge dubstep. The skulking halfstep rhythm is still typically Skream, but the sound design has moved on fathoms since their Big Apple tracks, and is now primed with an electrostatic coating of blinding brilliance that reaches from the shiny high end frequencies down to the controlled pressure of his rock solid subs with a superior precision rarely touched by anyone else. While Skream has been polishing his sound into a buff instrument of power, his Dubstep bruvva-from-a-different-mother Benga has been working further into his groove, perfecting the art of swing with similarly high productions levels applied with a devilishly innate feel for kinky syncopations. His ‘Technocal’ cut is essentially a swung techno track produced at 138bpm, made for the rave with subtly fluctuating synth licks balanced with the accuracy and tempered energy levels of an experienced techno producer. As long as the pair keep vibing off each other and maintain the level of friendly competition they have for the last 7-8 years, they’ll be churning out heavyweights like this for a time to come.
Here is a dubstep set from Skream playing on the Stella Session on Rinse FM. Skream says: with new dubstyep tracks from Skream, Distance, Benga, Kulture, Kito, ToddlaT, Grevious Angel and many more.
A great laid back Dubstep mix from Expansion Team featuring many of the Uk’s leading lights of the dubstep scene including Benga, Digital Mystikz, Kode9 and Skream. there’s been a lot of talk about who is going to be the winner from the dubstep scene people including me were saying Benga but now I’m not sure as Burial is kiling it, what’s your view?
the download comes with nothing other than the tracklisting and there’s some quality names on there so you may as well grab it and give it a listen it’s free.
1.GRAVIOUS – WORMSIGN 2.ORIEN – CHASING A NEVER ENDING DREAM 3.D1 – SORROW RMX 4.THE BUG FT FLOWDAN – JAH WAR (LOEFAH REMIX) 5.BLOC PARTY – WHERE IS HOME? (BURIAL REMIX) 6.JAMIE WOON – WAYFARING STRANGER (BURIAL REMIX) 7.BABYLON SYSTEM – EVERYDAY HUSTLE 8.DISTANCE – V 9.PROFESSOR J-S – SOVIET UNION 10.MRK1 – I GOT TOO (FEAT SIZZLA) 11.BENGA – ROLLER 12.DZ – JUST ROLLING 13.KOMONAZMUK – LOVE 14.MATHHEAD – DREAM TIGERS 15.MOVING NINJA – SHELLCODE 16.APPLEBLIM AND PEVERELIST – A CIRCLING 17.TESTRACK – TEST PILOT SEQUENCE
Is Dubstep really that big now that we see it in The Sun? Anyway they do manage to chat with Skream and plug a few names, names and radio stations so check out the complete article and check his picture he look 12, I need to stay up all night in clubs djing if that’s what it does for you.
Starting out life as reggae-influenced garage in the late nineties, it has
slowly morphed into its current state as a genre that draws on a variety of
different musical influences, from jazz and electro, to indie and hip hop.
One of the key players in the dubstep scene is SKREAM (AKA Ollie
Jones), a prolific DJ/producer hailing from Croydon.
“Apart from myself, key players in the scene would have to be KODE9,
BURIAL, DIGITALMYSTIKZ, BENGA, YOUNGSTA, HATCHA, PLASTICIAN…that’s just the ones I can think of off the top of my
head.
“Club-wise you’ve got Stealth in Nottingham, the Tuesday club in
Sheffield, the West Indian Centre in Leeds, Mass in Brixton, and Forward at
Plastic People in Shoreditch.”
Widely regarded as one of the founding forefathers of the scene known as
Dubstep, after early heads like El-B and Steve Gurley had laid the
foundations on swung garage beats and post jungle rhythms along came Benga and Big
Apple records. With ‘Newstep’ Benga delivers 15 rhythms previously only
available direct from the man himself, now fully released as an essential
document in the history of dubstep. Stylistically very close to the fruity
flutes and skankin’ bass sound of Skream (with whom he collaborated on ‘the
judgement’ and ‘hydro’ for Big Apple) Benga’s influence is indelibly marked
on the productions of everyone from Omen to Digital Mystikz. There’s no
point in covering the tracks one by one; each and every one is a killer,
definitive article of South London pressure, collated for your pleasure.
