The day before yesterday, Electronic Music News mentioned that the electronic music industry's big group The Chainsmokers has reappeared on social media after two years and announced the return of their fourth studio album and new songs; today, the author Taylor shares another piece of good news about the return of another "duo".
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The two artists who returned this time are Skream and Benga, in terms of age, they and The Chainsmokers members - Drew Taggart, Alex Pall are in an age group, the age difference is almost the same (post-85s); but the difference is that the former two embarked on the road of electronic music creation and performance early in their teenage years, and even opened up the electronic music scene on the front line.
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Yes, if you're a true Dubstep fan, you may already know that Skream and Benga are leaders in the Dubstep community, and their glorious footprints can be traced back to the birthplace of Dubstep in the early century , London, England. If you don't know the two people, it doesn't hurt, and the author will briefly introduce them below.
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Look first at Skream, formerly known as Oliver Dene Jones, a native London entertainer who benefited from his brother, DJ Hijak, who works on Jungle Music production and performance, working on an adjacent floor of the veteran label Big Apple Records, who also joined the Croydon-based record label as a minor. And met another Dubstep pioneer, Hatcha. It is worth mentioning that Hatcha was also the first DJ to play Skream's Dubplates.
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Let's meet Benga, who is not only from Croydon like Skream, but the same age as the two. More fortunately, Benga also "worked as a child laborer" at Big Apple Records, and was later assigned to work with Skream, thus becoming a pioneering "duo" in the early British Tradeditional Dubstep development.
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Looking back at their masterpieces, Midnight Request Line, which came out in 2005 by Skream and Night, which Benga produced in early 2008, are considered to be one of the most well-known Tradeitional Dubstep tracks, opening up new production ideas for other Dubstep producers and influencing the future of Bass Music and even Pop Music (one is an early masterpiece rather than the earliest Dubstep work of life, nor is it a work that is defined, "invented" with the label, and named the origin of Dubstep).
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In 2007, Skream and Benga teamed up with another DJ and producer, Artwork (Aka Menta), to form a Dubstep trio under the name "Magnetic Man", and their 2010 release of "I Need Air" topped the UK Singles Chart, thus pushing Dubstep into the mainstream in the UK.
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But "the good times are not long", and shortly after the Croydon pair in London recorded a show for BBC Radio 1 together in 2011, the two parted ways for their own reasons, in other words, they did not have an unpleasant experience of cooperation. Benga made it clear that he did not want to be bound by the "Dubstep" style, and wanted to constantly push the boundaries of himself and try to make other styles, such as his "new love" style Future Funk.
As for Skream, he also started making House Music and Disco Music around 2015, and the music career was as successful as ever, accumulating a large number of fans and fans; however, Benga failed to handle his music work because of XD and over-touring experience, and even fell into mental health problems such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.
A few years have passed, and it is difficult for one article to tell all the stories of the two Tradeditional Dubstep pioneers (and if you are interested in them, you can search for our historical news, after all, the full introduction of Skream and Benga, Electronic Music News has been written more than once in the historical news, and many of the above artist introductions have actually been mentioned in previous articles), but the "next chapter" that is coming in 2022 is about to usher in. It's very exciting. At the end of last month, Skream told people on Twitter that he would be in "Skream X Benga 2.0" mode with Benga in the new year.
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Xin Wen, which sounds like explosive to pure Dubstep fans, is no joke, and when fellow and old partner Hatcha says "I pray this will happen", Skream responds with "Almost two pieces (we) finished this morning". Although the two did not formally set up a duo or name a special duo project, since the beginning of 2000, the cooperation between the two in musical composition and performance has long made many traditional Dubstep fans "firmly" the partnership between the two. However, will these songs still be in the genre of Traditional Dubstep? Let's wait and see!
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