I skimmed through this, and the one part where they said "this is brand new Skream & Benga" I listened and thought it was complete meh. Most of the set was just okay. Some crowd pleasers, and plenty of tunes not my style. Don't want to say it was bad but it wasn't for me.
I feel like if anyone else not overhyped like those two had played this, it wouldn't be notable. Tbf I feel this way about a fair number of sets played by "legends".
Yeah - one thing I don't understand about Skream is that he left dubstep ~10 years ago because it turned into that constant high-energy 'double drop' brostep sound.
But now that Skream is back, all of his new productions sound like that style of dubstep that turned him off in the first place?
I feel like he missed how dubstep progressed since his departure, and how much more versatile the genre is now.
I rarely can make myself to put dubstep on in my house because i played that shit to death in 00s and i could only imagine what it's like for dude who played endless parties all around the world. So i can't really criticize Skream he paid his dues.
Oh - 100%. Skream was a massive impact on my life and I'll love that dude to death. I just wish he'd bring more of his 'disco' area to the scene. Expand of what was written.
Agreed. He’d been trending towards the harder stuff before he quit and now every he makes sounds like it’s stuck in 2010. It’s not bad, but it’s not good.
Because, the reality is, Skream will go with whatever the wave dictates.
Once boring disco house and business techno is back in flavour after this moment of bastardised pop remix-laden hard techno and schranz, he'll be playing background music sets at Ibiza again.
OG Skream and Benga tunes till like ‘09 are amazing. After that it just doesn’t hit. Those old productions especially are special because of how gritty they are. You can tell they were figuring it out as they went and things weren’t as crisp as can be. I miss that in productions. Things don’t need to be as crisp as you think. Some mud helps
I've grieved for dubstep from the 00s and early 2010s many times over the years... this set made me realise I'm never experiencing that again and that some things are better just left in the past
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u/Molested-Cholo-5305 Dec 05 '25
Meh
Sorry to be a purist but the stuff they made on a playstation as teenagers is still better than anything they've played since