Everybody’s hyped about dubstep nowadays. I like the genre for its fat rhythms. Though I’m afraid that dubstep will have a future similar to drum&bass where producers take ideas almost only from inside the genre making the whole thing very introverted. There are lot’s of good innovative producers breaking the boundaries. For example, much hyped young british producer Joker impresses me with his fusion of dubstep rhythms mixed with g-funk hip hop.

I was going through my old records for the Milky club night yesterday. The theme for the night was to play 90′s music. Wall Of Sound label released lots of good records in mid-nineties. The thing was all about breakbeats back then. Trip hop, big beat and other genres haven’t really found their own places and that was a good time for innovative music. Wall Of Sound artist, British Mekon does hard edged electro house in collaborations with Duke Dumont among others nowadays but he did something very similar to dubstep as early as 1995. Revenge Of The Mekon features vocal clips from a british gangster Mad Frankie Frasier and the mood is dark and trippy. Guitar sample is familiar from somewhere, can’t remember. (You tell me better…) Anyhow, it sounds very dubstep to me, but almost a decade before the big boom of the genre.

Mekon – Revenge of The Mekon (zshare)

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