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01. Skream - Tortured Soul
02. Skream - Midnight Request Line
03. Skream - Blue Eyez
04. Skream - Auto-Dub
05. Skream - Check-It (Featuring Warrior Queen)
06. Skream - Stagger
07. Skream - Dutch Flowerz
08. Skream - Rutten
09. Skream - Tapped (Feat. JME)
10. Skream - Kut-Off
11. Skream - Summer Dreams
12. Skream - Colourful
13. Skream - Emotionally Mute (outro)
ARTIST
TITLE
Skream!
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
TEMPA 008CD TEMPA 008CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/30/2006

2011 repress, now in jewel case. This is the debut album from Skream, Croydon's musical wonderkid. At 15 he discovered making music, and 5 years after, he helped to change the course of UK urban music, building the foundations of dubstep, the UK's most talked-about musical genre. Skream's clipped, techy minimal style has quickly become his trademark. Long before grime existed, it reflected dark, murky streets and sinister nights, the sound of decaying London and its frustrated communities, stuck out in satellite towns and sink estates with nothing but a PC and freely-available software to channel their frustration into. His signature tune, the scene's anthem "Midnight Request Line" is an explosion of electro arpeggios and dub sub-bass. It's a tune you can sing along to. From the opening haunting strings of "Tortured Soul," which calls to mind the work of Philip Glass or Aphex Twin, to the more optimistic chords and guitar of "Dutch Flowerz," to the heavy vocal cuts featuring Warrior Queen and JME, and the heavy digi-sounds of "Auto-Dub," it's clear that this is a sonic visionary at work.