''Skream!'' is the self-titled, debut album by
dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken ...
producer
Skream
Oliver Dene Jones (born 1 June 1986), known professionally as Skream, is an English electronic music producer based in Croydon. Skream has released records on several British record labels, such as Tempa, Tectonic, and Big Apple Records, and ...
. It was released in 2006 on the
Tempa
Tempa is a garage and dubstep music label founded in 2000 by Neil Jolliffe, who also coined the term "dubstep" in 2002.
The label, along with Big Apple Records, and parent label Ammunition, was part of the formation of dubstep as a genre.
A k ...
label. The album is considered to be an important stepping stone for dubstep. BBC Music described it as having "accelerated dubstep’s transformation from hyped underground scene to
sort of influential
enre, as it fuzes more "old-school rave" sounds with more accessible "pop" sounds. The album predates the highly popular and influential dubstep works by producers such as Skrillex, sometimes disparagingly referred to as "
brostep
Brostep is a harder form of dubstep that emerged during the late 2000s and early 2010s and pioneered by artists like Skrillex and Rusko (musician), Rusko.
In 2011, dubstep gained significant traction in the US market, by way of a post-dubst ...
". It essentially serves as an accessible entry into "classic dubstep".
The album received positive reviews from critics. Ben Thompson of the Guardian described the track Summer Dreams as "a moving tribute to the last indigenous British dance upsurge...". Eddy Lawrence from Time Out commented that "Skream finds beauty in the least obvious places".
Track listing
# "Tortured Soul" 4:18
# "Midnight Request Line" 3:56
# "Blue Eyez" 4:39
# "Auto-Dub" 2:50
# "Check It" (featuring Warrior Queen) 4:12
# "Stagger" 4:41
# "Dutch Flowerz" 4:21
# "Rutten" 6:32
# "Tapped" (featuring
JME
Jamie Adenuga (born 4 May 1985), known professionally as Jme, is a British grime MC, songwriter, record producer and DJ. He is the co-founder of the crew and label Boy Better Know. He also serves as a sole owner and director of an associated c ...
) 3:38
# "Kut-Off" 4:33
# "Summer Dreams" 7:58
# "Colourful" 5:13
# "Emotionally Mute" 4:35
Expanded Edition
# "Check-It (Instrumental)" 4:13
# "Midnight Request Line (Mala Remix)" 5:22
The album was also released on
vinyl
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across three plates, with a different track listing.
Vinyl track listing
*A1 "Stagger"
*B1 "Blue Eyez"
*B2 "Tortured Soul"
*C1 "Kut-Off"
*D1 "Rutten"
*D2 "Colourful"
*E1 "Check-It" (Instrumental)
*F1 "Dubbers Anonymous"
*F2 "Midnight Request Line" (
Digital Mystikz
Digital Mystikz are a dubstep production duo consisting of Mala (born Mark Lawrence), and Coki (born Dean Harris, 26 August 1980) from the South London suburb of Norwood. Along with Loefah and SGT Pokes, who make up the group ASBO (All Soundbw ...
Remix)
References
2006 debut albums
Skream albums
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