// Skream
( / )Croydon's musical wonderkid changed the course of UK urban music, having helped build the foundations of London's most exciting new musical style, dubstep.
Around 2000 Benga and Skream set about building on the early dark garage flavours that were to be found on the pirate airwaves around Croydon. Through Hatcha's sets at club Forward and releases on the seminal Big Apple label, they were about to create a new phase of dubstep. At first Skream specialised in one flavour of dubstep: dark. His clipped, techy minimal style became a trademark sound. Then Digital Mystikz burst onto the dubstep scene, expanding the sound with new flavours and vivid colours. Skream became even more inspired. Since the huge success of Midnight Request Line, UK & International DJ gigs have been coming thick and fast. He’s also been busy releasing classic after classic on the popular Skreamizm EPs, now into the third volume, rewound at every dubstep rave, having received glowing reviews and are appearing in sets by DJs as diverse as Mr Scruff, Freq Nasty & Ricardo Villalobos.
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