Published
Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 12:50
- Dusk + Blackdown's debut album has been chopped, edited and mixed by the Devotional Dubs boss.
Grievous Angel has been selected to compile and mix a new version of Dusk + Blackdown's Margins Music album.
Martin "Blackdown" Clark is a jack-of-all-trades in the dubstep scene, running his own Keysound Recordings label while writing a monthly column for Pitchfork, along with DJing on London's Rinse FM alongside his production partner, Dusk. From this vantage point, he's been able to pick and choose the best from the scene, and that's exactly what's happened with this collaboration. After being fascinated with Grievous Angel's Ableton-aided mixes around two years ago, Blackdown and Dusk decided to offer up all of the multitracks to their debut album and see what he could make from them.
The result is Margins Music: Redux, a compilation that blurs the line between a remix album and the traditional mix CD, jumping continuously between dubstep, funky and grime throughout. "I love rough, fast, live DJ mixing, but I wanted to do something different, with a lot of depth and replay value," says Grievous. "I see Margins Music as a travelogue through London’s postcodes and timezones and I wanted to bring out the mythical, narrative element of the songs. Blackdown and Dusk captured London’s genius loci almost perfectly; my job was to amplify and concentrate it."
Tracklist
01. Keysoundz
02. Iqbal's Groove (Dub)
03. Confusion ft. Farrah
04. Darker Than East ft. Target (Cyclical Mix)
05. This Is London (Orbit)
06. Kuri Pataka ft. Farrah (Her Mix)
07. Akkaboo
08. The Bits ft. Trim (Ogun Mix)
09. DisEast
10. Lata VIP (Dub)
11. Northside Cheng (Southside Dub)
12. Rolling Raj Deep (Drum Ritual)
13. Drumz of Nagano (London Ting Mix ft. Trim)
14. Kuri Pataka ft. Teji & Farrah (His Mix)
15. Focus (1984 Mix ft. Trim)
16. Concrete Streets ft. Durrty Goodz
17. Keysound Rain (Big in the Scene Mix)
Keysound Recordings will release Margins Music: Redux in late November.