16bit - Dinosaurs - MTA008

16bit - Dinosaurs

  Someone actually read my last blog post, in fact I got enough views to take me to about 30 from having 1000 views in all thanks to Skream and Echo Park for tweeting and sharing the post. So I felt like carrying on my posts by showcasing another artist that is releasing music on an Indie label ran by one of the undergrounds biggest commercial crossovers.

  The artist this time is 16bit, a production duo - DRT and Kidnappa - who are signed to MTA Records, a record label run by Chase & Status. Their latest release on the label is a destructive dubstep tune by the name of Dinosaurs and it comes complete with a killer b-side and an unbelievably good video, both can be seen below;

16bit - Dinosaurs

16bit - Boston Cream

   The video for the single is produced and animated by Kristofer Strom, a part of the collection of designers and artists by the name of Blinkart. More examples of his work can be seen on the link attached to his name above. The video itself is visually stunning playing out like a simple storyboard of various dinosaurs with the important addition of some sort of vicious hallucinogen. It is simply a brilliant video. And the song lives up to the anger and aggression of it's namesakes with some fantastic sound design and a distorted bassline that has become synonymous with the duo as well as the uniquely positioned drum's.

  The talent of the producer's in question has caught the eye of some of the biggest acts, recently lending their production skills to artists like Professor Green and Bjork providing singles for both and supplying remixes for acts such as Chase & Status and Plan B. This along with their highly acclaimed skills as DJ's for both their live set's and their mixes for radio shows and released online (The Milky Pie Mix won the award for best mix from the Dubstep Forum in 2010). The future looks promising for any act on this label with Nero debuting both a single and album at the top of the UK Charts in recent weeks and although a much more underground and raw act their is no reason, with their diversity, why they can't emulate this success.

'Dinosaurs/Boston Cream' is out on the 29th August on MTA Records.

Echo Park - Disfigured Dubz

 Echo Park

    After starting and never finishing a few blog posts I've not really done much for this blog in a while, so when I heard of a new producer on Dubstep pioneer Skream's label I decided to check him out. A funky vibe combined with the smooth and slick productions make Brian Gibbs aka Echo Park an exciting modern twist on the Disco era. Sounding a bit Hall and Oates and James Ingram with the addition of a Vocoder, Echo Park caught the attention of Skream when he was played, by music journalist Joe Muggs, some samples of the "little songs" Echo Park had made - following a stint in hospital with a digestive condition, an 8.8 earthquake - about lost love amongst other things, songs he declared he "would like to listen to himself". Being a big fan of disco and funky stylings - even dedicating specialist sets just to disco tunes - Skream had no qualms in signing Echo Park to his record label - Disfigured Dubz - describing Gibbs's music as "Fucking amazing".

  Echo Parks first business as part of the record label is providing the release for DIS016, a dazzling summery anthem in "Fibre Optic" coupled on the flip by both 12th Planet & Flinch and Jon Convex providing electronic reworks varying massively in the genre they represent in the musical spectrum. A preview of all three versions of the track can be heard in the following video;

  Following this monstrous release Echo Park will proceed to be the artist deemed worthy of the first LP release on Disfigured Dubz by Skream. Taking the aforementioned "little songs" that caught Skream's ear and transforming them into a full album continuing the new disco-funk vibe of his debut single with tracks like "Go" his album looks to be a very promising and exciting release which will be an eagerly awaited one. Gibbs transformed his musical style to what he felt more comfortable creating in the face of adversity, moving away from the dark and deep dubby flavours, which would lay the foundations for his record label boss to form a now thriving genre - Dubstep, the music that he now graces sounds naturally brilliant and flawlessly produced. This album is definitely going to be one for the summer - watch out for Echo Park.