Skream and Benga Live From Rinse 15 Party MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
It is far from a secret that certain FADER editors are desperately trying to transplant to the UK so that they may fully disappear into the dubstep scene. Whether or not said editors actually end up doing that no longer matters now that we have this hour long Skream and Benga live set from Rinse.fm’s 15th birthday party. This happened at the end of July, and we are still unfamiliar with a large portion of this mix, which either means we are really behind on dubstep or Skream and Benga are on another planet. Whatever the case may be there is a hypeman yelling at us to REACT, REACT a whole bunch, and that is awesome. In case this single hour of dubsteppery wasn’t enough, you can still get on a plane to the UK for this Friday’s FWD Rinse residency featuring, among a lot of others, a TWO hour Skream and Benga set. After the jump check out the massive flyer featuring everyone who has done something awesome in music with a lot of bass in the last year. Anyone want to fly us out?
Download: Skream and Benga’s Hour Long Set
Fabric Birthday Treats: Caspa & Baobinga’s Promo Mix MP3s
This weekend Londoners will not sleep for three days straight if they are lucky: legendary club Fabric is hosting its 10th birthday party and everyone who is awesome in the general vicinity of the UK will be DJing a citywide housequake whose reverberations are so big we may feel them on American shores. Does the phrase “10 pm to 6 am” mean anything to you people? Actually just looking at the lineup here kind of makes us want to cry with longing. In advance of Baobinga’s set (on Friday, room three, before Rusko), he made a hot autumn mix showcasing a lot of the nuevo bass musics gripping the London scene, by some of right now’s hottest producers (also, The-Dream). And dubstep captain Caspa, who plays there tomorrow with fellow bass warriors Skream and Benga (ahhh), and is still amazing despite the fact that he likes the worst American sitcom of the last decade, ponied up some subterranean tremors for his own mix promoing Fabric’s bday. Full Baobinga tracklist after the jump, download Caspa’s mix here. We are still crying, all stuck in New York like it ain’t no thing.
Download: Baobinga Promo Mix
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posted on Oct 14, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Baobinga, Benga, Bok Bok, Caspa, dubstep, electronic/dance, Fabric, L-Vis 1990, skream, The-Dream, uk funky
Bat for Lashes, “Pearl’s Dream (Skream’s Pour Another Glass of Champers RMX)” MP3
- story Julianne Escobedo Shepherd
- photo Leonie Purchas (F60)
Can you get more cathartic than Bat for Lashes? Last time we saw her perform in New York we stood alone by the staircase at Bowery, chugged whiskey and cried. Yeah that’s Drama Time 5000, but her music is more effective at purification than three days at a Korean megabath. We emerged like a goddamn phoenix. Skream’s sensibility though is to make everything darker, and on his remix he swoops in with a swift hand and bubbling snares, putting a very very light underscore of synth melody and man-vox like he’s David Bowie in Labyrinthe. The result is less doomsday and more “magic of the natural world.”
Download: Bat For Lashes, “Pearl’s Dream (Skream’s Pour Another Glass of Champers RMX)” (via Annie Mac)
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posted on Oct 5, 2009 in MP3 / STREAMS tags Bat for Lashes, dubstep, electronic/dance, Pearl, rock, skream
Skream, “Calous” MP3
- story Matthew Schnipper
To celebrate its 15th birthday, Rinse FM is giving away a gang of free music, including Skream’s heavy track, “Calous.” The young, prolific producer is most known for his recent remix of La Roux’s “In For the Kill,” which is a monumental improvement on the original, and brought him a decent amount of attention. “Calous,” though, is imposing where that remix was accommodating, and with its hefty boom and wobble is much less likely to get played on (American) radio. Maybe things are that different over there. Mary Anne Hobbs, move to Philadelphia or something.
Download: Skream, “Calous”
Freeload: La Roux, “In For The Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)
- story THE FADER
Out of all the new young UK pop singers, we have obviously hitched our wagon to the Little Boots train, but a lot of people seem to be getting excited about her orange-coiffed rival La Roux. We still need some convincing, but this new Skream remix is a good look—all wobbly and isolating in the beginning and then donkey town in the end. Maybe La Roux should just have him produce her next album. If you like the digital version, you can still grab the super limited vinyl 12″ to play at your next deejay party.
