"Skream--Essential Mix--Radio 1. 17.06.2007". GetDarker. June 15, 2016.
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"SKREAM Alter Ego UK GARAGE set". Mixmag. October 29, 2015.
This is still pretty mesmerizing, especially as he gets more into the mix and the distraction of the host playing around with switching equipment around and bumping into him for the first 5 minutes dissolves like candy into a delight but still nothing like his 2005 mix for the BBC (above) . But watch that guy mix and just watching that is like better than watching a very extremely boring movie or even a moderately good movie----he's truly inspirational and you can see he LIVES in the music and imbibes the flow and is a mixical genius.
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"SKREAM--Come With Me (Documentary)". THUMP. July 15, 2014.
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The "documentary" above cites DJ Skream performing for the Miami ULTRA electronic music festival---that festival was something I walked past on my beach walks when the tents were being put up around 1999--I heard only thump thump in staggered blasting speakers from tent-to-tent and lost interest in attending. I always hated House music (try to like it in the versions that Frankie Knuckles invented, not like the replications that all came afterwards succeeding the Detroit electronic music revolution in music). I am nothing short of a non-expert on this subject only have been on the fringe of that scene--(outcase and etc not able to afford until everything is now free on the internet to download) so I lost out---but now, I find that all my original approval of some SOME forms of Dubstep are still what appeals the most and in the version that Skream put out in the mid-early 2000's he was a phenomenal artist--the documentary confirms what I had written above about him first performing for small and not wealthy "patrons" and then you see him (de)evolving into mass party and $$ culture--the thumpy thump mixing began but still he's a genius even in that sphere. I still don't consider his progress from then to 2015 (above) to be complimentary towards his real capabilities. I think the $$ sort of grinded him down into a more conformist approach. This is why subculture should not be over-run by mainstream corporate entertainment---which happened en masse on South Beach until it's like one huge mafia-controlled musical machine grinding out the same marching orders beat at 4/4 with no exceptions but a few little mixed-in bitties as the men who rake in the money think about in the recesses of their money-grabbing minds in the recesses whatever rhymes with bitties---and the music becomes a major money enterprise and loses it's ingenious ingenuity that was so intense and sharp and focused and strong in those lessor affluent tiny dark spaces and clubs where you could pound out a vibration that was of a special beat and depth.
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