SKREAM & BENGA / DUBSTEP PIONEERS
In Mumbai this weekend as part of their Asian Tour — spanning nine cities, including Tokyo, Jakarta and Seoul — Skream & Benga are considered pioneers of the EDM sub-genre dubstep. As solo artists and a duo, the two have released some of the most popular dubstep tracks of the decade — Midnight Request Line, the remix of In For The Killby La Roux, Night released with Coki, and 26 Basslines. They hosted a radio show, In New DJs We Trust, and have a weekly show named after them.
Dishing out records when they were barely 15 years old, the London-based duo have spent the last decade refining a unique bass-heavy sound that has risen out of its underground roots into the collective global consciousness of dance music. Born in London’s south in 1987, Skream aka Oliver Jones started making music with Fruityloops when he was 15 while he was working at a record shop. Says Skream, “When I first saw music being made on a gaming console, that was it. There was never going to be anything else.”
At the shop, Oliver and Beni Adejumo (Benga) met vinylhunting DJs and producers like DJ Hatcha, Digital Mystiks (Mala and Coki) and Arthur ‘Artwork’ Smith; they became a crew of like-minded people who mixed wobbly bass lines and syncopated rhythms to create music for themselves. DJ Hatcha played Skream’s first dubplates at a club, and just like that, dubstep was born. This weekend’s performance will be their first in India. “We’ll play loads of new stuff. It’s our first time in this country, so we’re bringing some of our classics, and music from each of our new albums,” says Benga who is currently focusing on his diverse new album, Chapter II, which releases this month.
Skream & Benga are now looking beyond dubstep. Says Benga, “For me right now, it’s all about showing people that I am still the future. It’s not that we brought dubstep to the table, but about what we’re going to bring to music, now and in the future.”
In Mumbai this weekend as part of their Asian Tour — spanning nine cities, including Tokyo, Jakarta and Seoul — Skream & Benga are considered pioneers of the EDM sub-genre dubstep. As solo artists and a duo, the two have released some of the most popular dubstep tracks of the decade — Midnight Request Line, the remix of In For The Killby La Roux, Night released with Coki, and 26 Basslines. They hosted a radio show, In New DJs We Trust, and have a weekly show named after them.
Dishing out records when they were barely 15 years old, the London-based duo have spent the last decade refining a unique bass-heavy sound that has risen out of its underground roots into the collective global consciousness of dance music. Born in London’s south in 1987, Skream aka Oliver Jones started making music with Fruityloops when he was 15 while he was working at a record shop. Says Skream, “When I first saw music being made on a gaming console, that was it. There was never going to be anything else.”
At the shop, Oliver and Beni Adejumo (Benga) met vinylhunting DJs and producers like DJ Hatcha, Digital Mystiks (Mala and Coki) and Arthur ‘Artwork’ Smith; they became a crew of like-minded people who mixed wobbly bass lines and syncopated rhythms to create music for themselves. DJ Hatcha played Skream’s first dubplates at a club, and just like that, dubstep was born. This weekend’s performance will be their first in India. “We’ll play loads of new stuff. It’s our first time in this country, so we’re bringing some of our classics, and music from each of our new albums,” says Benga who is currently focusing on his diverse new album, Chapter II, which releases this month.
Skream & Benga are now looking beyond dubstep. Says Benga, “For me right now, it’s all about showing people that I am still the future. It’s not that we brought dubstep to the table, but about what we’re going to bring to music, now and in the future.”
No comments:
Post a Comment