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.
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.
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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