Nectar Lounge

412 N 36th St

Seattle

August 6, 2008, Wednesday 8:00 PM

Buy Tickets online: $10.00

SKREAM

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Skream (born Oliver Jones in West Wickham, Bromley) is a 21 year-old dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development.

As a teenager, Jones worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.

Jones began producing music at the age of 15 (using Fruity Loops) and claims to now have roughly 1,500 songs in varying stages of development. Skream's early productions were often with another alumnus of Big Apple, Benga, and are of a decidedly darker and less melodic nature than later releases.

As dubstep started to be noted by conventional media such as The Guardian and Pitchfork, Jones' music started to take on a more melodic sound; less overtly influenced by the darker, UK garage influenced sounds of early dubstep artists such as Horsepower Productions, with dub, house, and even jazz influences instead. The 2005 Skream track "Midnight Request Line" has been described as "dubstep's most recognizable crossover hit", and has been praised by producers as diverse as grime producer Wiley, and minimal techno producer Ricardo Villalobos. The key change in the chorus, which Wire has described as "an epic change of key and tempo that recall(s) the classicist mannerisms of Derrick May", has been credited as being a key factor in the evolution of a more melodic sound in the dubstep genre.

Skream has released records on a variety of UK record labels, such as Tempa, Tectonic, and Big Apple Records, including a self titled album on the Tempa label. He has performed in Europe, the US, Australia, and Japan, as well as the UK. He hosts a weekly show on Rinse FM, called Stella Sessions.

On June 17, 2007, Skream was featured on BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix. On the 17th of October 2007 skream announced that Skreamizm volume 4 will be in the shops in November 2007. More about Skream...