Soundboy Punishments
What:
Soundboy Punishments
Who:
Skull Disco
On:
Skull Disco
Where:
Skull Disco Shop
Related Links:
Rinse FM Dubstep podcasts and Blackdown blog
Skull Disco live in nascent digs beyond the known perimeters of British dubstep. Over two years and seven split 12" singles, Sam Shackleton and Laurie ‘Appleblim' Osbourne have abstracted the genre's characteristic sub-bass, brooding mid-tempos and Soul inflections to create an advanced dance / not-dance sound unlike anything around.
Their absolutely killer Soundboy Punishments double-CD compilation collects all the imprint's vinyl-only releases to date, plus a couple of Shackleton tracks made for other labels for the completists. Anyone unfamiliar with the dubstep movement would do well to start here - at the future crossroads of micro techno and baddass Rastafari bass.
While Appleblim's tracks retain elements of recent dubstep - slinky two-step bass, sampled vocal toasting and prickly hi-hat patterns - Shackleton's contributions seem beamed from an unknown, hybridised dimension. ‘Hamas Rule', ‘Tin Foil Sky' and ‘Majestic Visions' have a bent Middle Eastern flavour, super-minimal, slow and spacey drum rhythms and a restrained use of sound effects more akin to early Photek or John Carpenter than to dubstep pioneers Skream and Kode9. This is the sound of remotely targeted weapons of the future - dubs delivered with exacting precision, deathly results and seen only by night vision radar.
Release: Album
To Cure: A predictable playlist
Keywords: Skull Disco
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