The UK artist Martin Clark of Blackdown and Dusk + Blackdown, is a respected force in the dark grimey world of the bass enduced genre better known as, "Dubstep". When he's not throwin down heavy fiyah he writes the "Grime/Dubstep" column for Pitchfork. His latest article features the amazing West London's dubstepper Silkie's debut album City Limits Vol.1 and the fertile ground between grime MCs and funky tracks right now. City Limits Vol.1 due to be released on Mala DMZ's Deep Medi label.
"When I was younger I never went anywhere," explains Silkie. "I had one holiday-- when I was 13-- up until when I first played abroad, in 2007. That was eight years of not even leaving London. You can really be trapped in London if you don't get out. Because it's so big, you can really feel like London is the world. It makes you feel like that."
"Three years after dubstep blew up, you could argue many of the things that made it special have disappeared. Yet despite the gloom, dubstep has begun to find glimmers of hope, whether it's the unstable synth experimentalism of wonky, the swing of Sully, Skream's glass ceiling-busting La Roux remix, the innovation of the Hyperdub camp, the halfstep of Kryptic Minds, the mood of Perverelist, or LD and Cluekid's jungle-inspired rollage. Yet one light has provided more source of hope than pretty much anyone else: west London's Silkie and his Anti Social Entertainment camp."
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"When I was younger I never went anywhere," explains Silkie. "I had one holiday-- when I was 13-- up until when I first played abroad, in 2007. That was eight years of not even leaving London. You can really be trapped in London if you don't get out. Because it's so big, you can really feel like London is the world. It makes you feel like that."
"Three years after dubstep blew up, you could argue many of the things that made it special have disappeared. Yet despite the gloom, dubstep has begun to find glimmers of hope, whether it's the unstable synth experimentalism of wonky, the swing of Sully, Skream's glass ceiling-busting La Roux remix, the innovation of the Hyperdub camp, the halfstep of Kryptic Minds, the mood of Perverelist, or LD and Cluekid's jungle-inspired rollage. Yet one light has provided more source of hope than pretty much anyone else: west London's Silkie and his Anti Social Entertainment camp."
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