"When your spirit is floating down that tunnel towards the light, you know what's behind the light? It's not God, it's me. And I'm gonna kick your poncy soul all the way back down the tunnel till you choke on your own fucked up ribs. NOW, WAKE THE FUCK UP!" - Caspa & Rusko - Cockney ThugFirst of all, I know very little about dubstep. I have heard it around, and downloaded the dubstep essential mix the BBC broadcasted a few years back, which I enjoyed, but never really went out of my way to seek out the sound. However, when Fabric had Caspa & Rusko do Fabriclive.37, I booed. Not because I hate Caspa & Rusko, I had no idea who the hell they were. But it was supposed to be Justice, in what might have been the most anticipated Fabric release of all time. On top of that, Justice had never released a proper mix cd. But there was a problem with Justice's mix, and blah blah blah it was never released (although you can find the unreleased mix here). Anyways, Fabric had to find a replacement fast and came up with Caspa & Rusko. After all this, I never had any intentions of listening to their mix ever, and was just going to wait until they released the Justice mix as say Fabriclive.42. But I read a review of the mix in Mixmag, and they described it as a dark mix with gangsta movie samples dropped in. Well, I can go for a bit of that. So I listened to the mix, and that is a pretty accurate description. I also realized that I had heard Caspa & Rusko before, despite never actually knowing it was them. They produced a track called "Cockney Thug" which I downloaded after reading a review of. The actual song doesn't do it for me so much, but that is an excellent sample from what sounds like a Guy Ritchie movie, and me like Guy Richie movies (it's actually from an Armando Iannucci show, apparently). The mix itself is a pleasant surprise, especially for someone who doesn't really listen to any dupstep. It's really loud and rude and dark and the bass just reverberates for an hour. My favorite part of the mix are tracks 19-21, when the mix peaks in intensity and goes absolutely bananas with samples like "Look in my fucking eyes" and "Blow you into kingdom come." I would say that I would have not enjoyed this mix half as much if it didn't have the gangsta-movie samples. Towards the end, where I started giving out 1 star tracks, it is because the mix totally changes up from dubstep to like inspiration dub, and after an hour of retarded bass, I was just not ready for that. But I would say that this is a very enjoyable mix for myself, although I don't really have any other dubstep experiences to compare it to. Its not so great that I consider myself some dubstep-devote now, but I have been going back to it over the last week. And I break it down song by song:
01 Caspa - Born To Do It - Sub Soldiers 2 stars
02 L-Wiz - Girl From Codeine City - Dub Police 2 stars
03 Caspa - Cockney Violin - Dub Police 2 2 stars
04 Uncle Sam - Round The Way Girls [Tes La Rok RMX] – Argon 2 stars
05 Rusko - Jahova - Sub Soldiers 2 stars
06 Caspa - The Terminator - Sub Soldiers 3 stars
07 Cotti & ClueKid– The Legacy – 30 2 stars
08 Matty G - 50K VIP – Argon 2 stars
09 The Others - Africa VIP - Dub Police 2 stars
10 Distance – V - Chest Plate 3 3 stars
11 Caspa - Big Headed Slags - Sub Soldiers 2 stars
12 Rusko - Too Far - Sub Soldiers 2 stars
13 Coki - Sponge Bob – DMZ 2 stars
14 Caspa - Louder - Pitch Black 2 stars
15 Caspa & The Others - Well 'Ard - Sub Soldiers 3 stars
16 Rusko - Hammer Time – Dub Plate 2 stars
17 Unitz - The Drop - Dub Police 2 stars
18 Rusko - Mr Chips - Dub Plate 2 stars
19 Orien - Look At My Eyes - Dub Police 3 stars
20 The Others - Fun House - Dub Police 3 stars
21 Rusko - 2 N A Q - Sub Soldier 3 stars
22 Rusko - Cockney Thug - Sub Soldiers 3 stars
23 Rusko - Cockney Thug [Buraka Som Sistema RMX] - Sub Soldier 2 stars
24 Skreamz – Guru (Power Hour) - Tempa 2 stars
25 Rusko - Beta Max - Dub Plate 2 stars
26 D1 - I'm Loving - Tempa 1 star
27 Caspa & Rusko - Rock Bottom – Destructive Recordings 2 stars
28 Orien - Rainbow Tear Drops - Dub Police 1 star
29 ConQuest - Forever - Dub Police 1 star
1 star=terrible, 2=tolerable, 3=good, 4=great, 5=excellent
Fabric press release
3 comments:
This mix is absolutely amazing. I like it because it steadily gets heavier and the end just tapers of smoothly. I listen to this a lot for my workout sessions.
oy mate... you must be nuts if you think a justice mix is worth shit compared to these mad track slingers here... i'd love to see justice try and mix in half the tracks caspa and rusko did there, in one take, all dubplate madness
Justice and Caspa & Rusko? Not even in the same league. Caspa & Rusko are some of the best DJs at the moment, I was so happy when they were chosen for Fabriclive, this is a proper sick mix.
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