Monday, 21 November 2011

SOMETHING NEW: ‘First Of The Year (Equinox)’ – Skrillex

Before you listen to this track, you may want to tie down all precious items and move your Monday morning coffee away from the speakers because quite frankly the dub bass may well make you spontaneously combust. How about THAT for an intro to today's choice?
What starts off as a intriguing beat incorporating some superb vocal mixing and switching merely prepares you for when the beat drops. Building the anticipation, I personally absolutely love the mixing of electro with the sound of live drums – you know this is going somewhere very good indeed.
A dark sense of menacing filters through and then the dub sticks it to you, right between the eyes - best heard either obnoxiously loud over speakers or in your own personal euphoria of a decent seat of headphones.
Skrillex has become my jogging buddy, especially for hill runs, there’s not much more required for a blood pumping, adrenalin thrusting package of 4:22. The podcast set mix he did for Zane Lowe recently is a must.
From the EP ‘More Monsters and Sprites’ (2011) / @Skrillex

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