The 5th of March, 2023.
I believe the most of us have some things, wheter it being authors, restaurants, artists or anything, that we were very early adapters to, or first to touch the ball on. For me it’s music and musical artists, since that’s something i am very interested in.
And one of the musical phenomenons that i was a very early adapter to is Skrillex, and the rather cringy brostep-era of music that he’s very associate with. A friend of mine sent me a link to Skrillex’s MySpace-site when Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites had <60k plays – i was floored, it in a sort of way reminded me to the heavy metal/death metal i had been listening to in high school, but this was the electronic equivalent. I forwarded this new music to friends that also had an interest in music, and after some time, Skrillex was the hottest act and musician on the market.
I lost intereste in the brostep music, it came much music during that era from musicians that ventured into the brostep-genre since that was the music of the time, that i found an interest in and got more into – a great example would be deadmau5 and his album 4×4=12, that doesn’t sound anything like his other albums because of the musical stream at the time.
Skrillex faded out a bit from the common mind and the mainstream and he didn’t produce as much music as he had done before. Ever since he has dropped some music with collaborators and collaborations that has been interesting – the things he did with Justin Bieber and Diplo got massive publicity.
Out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago Skrillex showed up with a new look, and there was some publicity regarding his upcoming album release, something i looked forward to – old habits die hard, and all that. The first release was the album Quest for Fire, with music that has elements and inspiration from the earlier Skrillex-projects, and sounds a bit ”brosteppy” – there are a few really good tracks on this album, for example: Butterflies, RATATA & Tears. The collaborations on this album is off the charts, with massive acts and legendary musicians such as: Missy Elliott, Mr. Oizo, Fred again…, Four Tet and Porter Robinson – just to name a few of them. The artwork for the album is also very dope. I think Quest for Fire is worth a listen, it’s a solid album with interesting mixing, features and technical phenomenons.
With the release of Quest for Fire, Skrillex in an interview said that he had more music in the pipeline that he was to drop sometime under 2023, very interesting and generous, i thought to myself. Turns out that the new album release came faster than anyone could anticipate as it dropped the day after the first release. Two releases from Skrillex in two days, wild.
The second album, Don’t Get Too Close, is the better album, musically. It’s also full of massive, massive features and collaborations with artists such as: Trippie Redd, Yung Lean, Bladee, Chief Keef, Kid Cudi & Swae Lee – just to name a few. The music on this album feels more adapted to the current stream of electronic music, and somehow the wide gap and variety inbetween the tracks is enormous – no track sound the same. I have been bumping this album regularly since the release, and let me tell you, it’s magnificent. Worse artwork tho.
Until next time, take care.
SLQT.
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