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.