VA - Fabric Presents Elevator Music: Vol. 1
Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 04:00PM 
An overview of the back-to-the-future sorts of sounds making waves these past few years in the dance/electronic bass scenes of London and elsewhere in the UK (spreading out in increasingly larger, instantly adapting/adopting pockets of activity worldwide, including right here in Toronto), Fabric's Elevator Music: Vol. 1 does an honourable job of bringing to light the degree to which 2-step/garage/house sounds are reinvigorating dubstep, grime and UK funky, with the latter's soca-derived snare emphases and tropical percussion touches likewise inf(l)ecting all of its neighbours in the club.
For a more in-depth nuts-and-bolts/by-the-BPM dissection of related microtrends in DJing and production, I'd suggest checking out this roundtable discussion with a number of those featured here, but if you're to sample just one track from this all-exclusives compilation that gets all the above-made points across in a particularly exciting way, let it be Mosca's "Gold Bricks, I See You", which combines Todd Edwards-style diva cut-ups with badman ruffage, halfway-mark synth-horn hurrah and a keen sense of builds, drops and extended song structure for the most exciting listen here—that he's one of the newest artists included (with only one EP to his name so far) says much about how fast things are being pushed forward in these circles.
Reader Comments (1)
Cool you guys did a writeup of this. I was looking for it about 2 months ago and nobody seemed to have it!