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Skream - Freeizm
Freeizm Vol.2 is pure fire:
http://www.dubstepforum.com/skream-presents-freeizm-vol-2-t150550.html
http://www.sendspace.com/file/v314w7
1.Dark Light
2.Arola
3.Disturbin Toyz
4.Sine-Us
5.Loefah-Indian Dub-Skream's 04 Rmx
Freeizm Vol.1 had its moments: http://youdunknow.co.uk/2010/06/skream-presents-freeizm-vol-1/ but this is something else. Dark bass heavy rollers plain and simple. Hear his take on Dead Weathers Cut Like A Buffalo on the first one, its alright.
Yeah I picked this up today
Good stuff - the remix of Indian Dub particularly. I'm down with all the free stuff at the moment, Wiley losing the plot and giving away about 200 tunes is pretty good as well :D
This reminds me of how much I preferred earlier Skream stuff...
I know...
At least Skream still drops loads of stuff for the heads still. He's gonna get kinda HUGE I would imagain with the Magnetic Man stuff and his solo album this year but if he's still drops the good stuff like he has been on Keysound, Swamp 81 and the free bits. Then its all good. I guess we're just gonna get a good Skream tune 1-10 instead of 1-4 cos he's making loads of pop hahah.
Haha yeah
It's the lazy bangers I don't like. He's got such a distinctive screechy sound with those, and they're dull (like lots of Skreamizm 5... kinda wish I hadn't bought that one, though 'One For The Heads Who Remember' is pretty good). Are those old Keysound beats any good? Still haven't checked em.
Skreamizm 2 is where it's at. I wasn't that much a fan of most of the first album, bar the obvious (Dutch Flowerz, Midnight Request Line), the the early Skreamizms are awesome.
yurp
The Keysound 12" is really good, its one of those deep dark spaced out fruity loop sounding workouts from teh early days. It kills it. This Southside Dub Stars 12" is soooooo good too: http://www.chemical-records.co.uk/sc/servlet/Info?Track=SSDUB007 Chemical Exclusive repress from the early days 'Afeks' is incredible. A really bumpy number, just beats popping off against deep bass tones and the odd film sample.
Those two...
sound like those early Zinc garage bits but less breakbeat driven and way more spaced out. Just dark, simple and effective with that bumpy funk, something his latter day bangers lack big time. They just subtitube noise and agression for fun time funk unfortunatly.
Wicked, I'll check em out
Man, just lying down listening to Freeizm 2, proper vibes. 'Arola' and 'Disturbin Toyz' are awesome, real old school eyesdown FWD business. There's so little proper dubstep like this being made these days, or at least very little that really hits the spot like these do.
Biggups to people like Skream, Mala, Pinch and Pev I guess, keeping it deep, haha
Just listening to Afeks on the Chemdeck, amazing stuff
Want :(
Wallet just got nicked, so no cash for me for a while... (not that I've got any to buy tunes with anyway to be fair)
Afeks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr2hnm_JDA0
This one? I dont think chemical has it on the player, doesn't do it for me anyway it just plays the first track. That ones good but no where near as bumpy and energetic.
The whole 12" is fire, but Afeks just always gets me. Was a Ben UFO suggestion on some forum somewhere after I'd just heard him kill it in a set with it some weeks before. Big Up the UooooooFo!
It sucks you got your stuff nicked man. Was it in that London? I heard they like to pick a pocket or two...
Yeah you can skip through the player, or at least I managed to
It's a fucked tune, love it, so warped and strange - that's the kinda stuff that led to horrible overdriven LFO shit, but back then it was so strange and deep. Lovely stuff.
Nah, it was Bristol, sad times. Had to cancel all my cards. Not that I had any money anyway, but a tenner was in it and given how skint I am I was gonna use that for Karizma/Deadboy/Guido etc tomorrow. Gonna go anyway, but just have to not drink now. Sadface.
Man, listening to these tunes on Freeizm 2 is making me go all dsf - 'it's not that good anymore, it was better in 05-07'. Wierd, I've never subscribed to that view, but I swear there are so few people making dubstep that has the same mindblowing effect on me as the first times I went to FWD. The aggy stuff's all LFOs, what happened to stuff like Afeks? Even as recent as 08 at FWD/Rinse at The End there was loads more dark swing stuff like that, I remember it blowing my tiny brain apart.
'Sine-Us' is VIBES
yeah
the 05-07 thing... its kinda true... but stuff in 08 was still on the edge of all that, it was just shifting a little and bringing in diffrent influences. But in the last few years its really stryung out, so many people have really gone for it and switched tempos and fucked about more. I think its just got people reeling a bit. I mean you don't get as much pure dubstep but you get something else that carries on that vibe somehow.
That early Skream stuff is still so exciting cos its got that raw grime switch up to it still. Its all qucik 8 bar switches or whatever. it just keeps flipping and looping like that. Funky does the same thing. All dance music kinda does before it starts switching into longer bar segments and loosing that qucik switch. It even rubs off on the mixing and DJs cos they dont feel the urg to mix so fast when everything is developing slower and in 16/32 bars instead of 8. Its the ballance tracks have to get right, cos you either go into super tracky boring mode like a lot of modern techno and just do loops or you do epic 91919919 bar loops that develop to much and loose energy...
or somat
Yeah it's about energy innit, swift mixes keeps that manic nuum feel that runs through all those musics
I've been finding myself doing longer mixes than before recently, cos so many tracks seem to demand it, especially the hybrid stuff. But yeah don't get me wrong, there's loads of really amazing stuff coming out now, it's just different I guess. The grimey energy in new stuff from people like SRC, Swindle and the new Terror Danjah on Hyperdub (you got that yet? It's amazing) has that same quick 8 bar shift feel to it. Ditto people like Untold and the Hessle lot. I feel like the music Mala makes these days almost demands to be played slowly and with long mixes, it's so meditative and gradual.
I guess the way to look at it is that it would have gotten really boring if it had stayed the way it was before, progression's alwasy crucial. You've still got Youngsta rocking out the vibey halfstep stuff as well, which is always nice - it's still there, just tucked in the shadows perhaps. The last one I can think of I got proper obsessed with was Skream's 'Trapped In A Dark Bubble', such an amazing track.
I first properly got into it at around the start of 08, so I guess I've got pretty wicked memories of that time, though living in Bristol beforehand I did come across stuff a little earlier on as well. Wish I had started buying earlier, might have got more DMZs :D
Just two of us in this thread at the moment, but I'm going to make it a Skream appreciation thread
Percression:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0BCV9bplYY
0800 Dub:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C_lGJGCyaM
haha
Minimalistix
on Non Plus+ is a wicked track. Really new too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIprWb2d0uc
Apparently Skream and Terror Danjah are workin together, I'm hoping they do more of a fucked up drum workout grime/dubstpe thing rather than a halfstep dead out thing...
Some of these are prob pretty good: http://www.dubstepforum.com/big-list-o-skream-unreleased-dubs-t15648.html