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about|the Dubstep producer|his self-titled album|Skream& #33; (album)|the boy band|Skream!Use dmy dates|date=February 2012Use British English|date=February 2012Infobox musical artist | | name = Skream| birth_date = birth date and age|1986|6|1|df=y| image = Skream at Metropolis Leeds.jpg| image_size = | caption = Skream at Metropolis in Leeds | background = non_performing_personnel| birth_name = Oliver Dene Jones| instrument = music sequencer , Sampler (musical instrument)|samplers , drum machine , personal computer | genre = Dubstep , UK garage , Dub Music|dub | occupation = Record producer|producer , musician | associated_acts = Benga (musician)|Benga Artwork Magnetic Man Example (rapper)|Example | years_active = 2003–present | label = Tempa , Tectonic, Disfigured Dubz, Deep Medi Musik | website = http://www.facebook.com/Skream Skream (born Oliver Dene Jones in West Wickham , London Borough of Bromley|Bromley , London cite web| last = Clark | first = Martyn | title = Interview with Skream | date = 27 August 2005 | url = http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_archive.html | accessdate = 30 June 2007 on 1 June 1986) is a Dubstep producer based in Croydon .cite web | author= O'Connell, Sharon | title= Dubstep | work= Time Out London | url= http://www.timeout.com/london/music/features/2083.html | date= 4 October 2006 |accessdate=13 June 2007 One of Dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development.cite web | author= Clark, Martin | title= Column: The Month in Grime / Dubstep | work= Pitchfork Media | url= http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/10331-column-the-month-in-grime-Dubstep | date= 20 July 2005 | accessdate=13 June 2007 His debut album Skream& #33; (album)|Skream! was released in 2006, and was followed up by Outside the Box (Skream album)|Outside the Box in 2010. Skream is also a member of the Dubstep supergroup Magnetic Man ,IMO Records http://www.imorecords.co.uk/Dubstep/skream-biography/ "Skream Biography", IMO Records , London, 20 October 2011. Retrieved on 22 November 2011. along with fellow producers Benga (musician)|Benga and Artwork (musician)|Artwork . The group released their Magnetic Man (album)|self-titled debut album on 8 October 2010.
In an interview with The Independent (UK) in September 2011, Skream was quoted: "The word Dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the Dubstep brush. They don’t want to be tagged with it and shouldn’t be tagged with it – that’s not what they’re pushing ... When I say ‘UK bass’, it’s what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that."cite news | url= http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/09/13/skream-‘i-want-to-make-sure-once-this-fad-dies-out-i’m-still-standing’/ | title=Skream: ‘I want to make sure once this fad dies out, I’m still standing,’ | first=Sam | last=Moir | newspaper=The Independent | date=13 September 2011
Origins
As a teenager, Jones worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon -based record store that was at the centre of the early Dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha , another Dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.
Skream began producing music at the age of 15 (using FruityLoops ) and claims to now have roughly 800 songs in varying stages of development, including a number of early disco and funk inspired records.cite web | author= Heller, Josh | title= Benga and Skream Interview | work= The Comment Tree | url= http://www.thecommenttree.com/2008/12/benga-and-skream-interview.html | date= 27 December 2008 | accessdate=10 April 2009 Jones would regularly 'bunk' school and spend the day at Big Apple Records through his teenage years. On various occasions he would also go to FWD a club night which was originally held in the Velvet Rooms but later moved to Plastic people in shoreditch that would play underground sounds. DJ's such as Hatcha would do live shows here. Skream's early productions were often with another alumnus of Big Apple, Benga (artist)|Benga , and are of a decidedly darker and less melodic nature than later releases.cite journal|url= http://www.thewire.co.uk/current/index.php |journal= The Wire (magazine)|The Wire |issue=279 |title=The Primer: Dubstep
Rise to prominence
As Dubstep gained notice from conventional media such as The Guardian cite web | author= Warren, Emma | title= Various, Dubstep Allstars 5 - Mixed By DJ N-Type | work= The Guardian | url= http://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329781715-111639,00.html | date= 22 April 2007 | accessdate=13 June 2007 and Pitchfork Media , Jones' music started to take on a more melodic sound; less overtly influenced by the darker, UK garage influenced sounds of early Dubstep artists such as Horsepower Productions , with dub reggae|Dub , House music|House , and even Jazz influences instead. The 2005 Skream track "Midnight Request Line" has been described as "Dubstep's most recognizable crossover hit,"cite web | author= Hampton, Justin B | title= Dubstep: music dark enough to tug the guts | work= LA Times | url= http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-wk-Dubstep12apr12,1,6618326.story? coll=la-entnews-music | date= 12 April 2007 |accessdate=13 June 2007Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot and has been praised by producers as diverse as Grime (music)|Grime producer Wiley (rapper)|Wiley , and Minimal Techno producer Ricardo Villalobos .cite web | author= Cowdery, James | title=Bass in the place. | work= Collective (BBC)|Collective | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A10695684 | date= 6 April 2006|accessdate=15 June 2007 The key change in the refrain|chorus , which The Wire (magazine)|The Wire has described as "an epic change of key and tempo that recall(s) the classicist mannerisms of Derrick May (musician)|Derrick May ,"cite journal|title=Review of Dubstep Allstars vol. 4, on Tempa records.|journal=The Wire|date=1 August 2006|first=Derek|last=Walmsley|coauthors=|volume=|issue=270|pages=1 has been credited as being a key factor in the evolution of a more melodic sound in the Dubstep genre.
Skream has released records on a variety of UK record labels, such as Tempa , Tectonic (record label)|Tectonic , and Big Apple Records, including a self-titled album on the Tempa label. He has done few tracks with Niall Henshaw otherwise known as Spectrum.cite web | author=Whalley, Matt | title= Skream& #33; | work= Allmusic | url=Allmusic|class=album|id=r934830|pure_url=yes | date= |accessdate=13 June 2007 He has performed in Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan,cite web | author= Smart, Richard | title= Viral sounds from South London. | work= The Japan Times Online | url= http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fq20070518a3.html | date= 18 May 2007|accessdate=13 June 2007 as well as the UK.cite web | author= Madden, Joe | title= Skream if you wanna go deeper. | work= Collective (BBC)|Collective | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A16144904 | date= 12 October 2006|accessdate=13 June 2007 Skream used to host a weekly show on Rinse FM, called Stella Sessions. He now co-hosts the Skream and Benga (artist)|Benga Sessions. http://www.dummymag.com/blog/2007_02_01_archive.html DUMMY MAGAZINE: February 2007cite web | author= Clark, Martin | title= Column: The Month in Grime / Dubstep | work= Pitchfork Media | url= http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/40981-the-month-in-grime-Dubstep | date= 14 February 2007 |accessdate=14 July 2007
On 17 June 2007, Skream was featured on BBC Radio 1 's Essential Mix .cite web | url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/essentialmix/tracklistingarchive.shtml? 20070617 | title=BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix Tracklisting | date=17 June 2007 | accessdate=19 June 2007
On 15 September 2008 Harmless released 'Watch The Ride' CD mixed by Skream, following on from artists like Scratch Perverts , DJ Zinc|Zinc and Goldie . On 2 October 2008 Skream featured in a fly on the wall German TV show 'Durch die Nacht mit...' alongside Drum and bass artist Goldie. In this he said he currently had writer's block , but he was working on music in other genres, also they talked about a Skream & Goldie collaboration that may be on the cards. Skreamizm Volume 5 was released in December 2008
In 2009, he rose to further prominence when his remix of " In for the Kill (La Roux song)|In for the Kill " by La Roux became firstly an underground hit in the early part of the year before bursting onto the mainstream, being used in promotional material for the 2010 video game Bayonetta .cite web| author= Jonze, Tim | title=La Roux: Killer Queen | work= The Guardian | url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/23/la-roux-interview | date=23 May 2009 | accessdate=8 December 2009 Also in 2009, Skream has completed further remixes for Bat For Lashes and Toddla T .
In 2010, Skream's popular remix of " In for the Kill (La Roux song)|In for the Kill " by La Roux was featured in an episode titled "Hair" on the hit HBO series Entourage (TV series)|Entourage cite web | url= http://www.hbo.com/entourage/index.html#/entourage/episodes/7/84-hair/index.html | title=Entourage | date=8 July 2010 and "In the club" on the hit E4 (channel)|E4 series Misfits (TV series)|Misfits .
In the summer of 2010, Skream released his second full-length album ' Outside the Box (Skream album)|Outside the Box '. The record earned a score of 7 out of 10 from SPIN magazine.cite web | url= http://www.spin.com/reviews/skream-outside-box-tempa | title=Skream, 'Outside the Box'
Also making records as a part of Magnetic Man . Magnetic Man is a live electronic music project consisting of Dubstep producers and DJs Skream, Benga (musician)|Benga and Artwork.
From January 2011, Skream, along with Benga (musician)|Benga , replaced Alex Metric in his 'In New DJ's We Trust' slot on BBC Radio 1 . The duo impressed so much that they were given a weekly slot on Radio 1, starting in April 2012.
Skream and Benga performed together at Field Day (Sydney festival)|Field Day music festival in Sydney , Australia on New Years Day 2012. http://fuzzy.com.au/coming-up/252/info
Personal life
Skream is the brother of Oldschool jungle|jungle DJ Hijak.cite journal |url= http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/skream |title=Skream: The Dubstep scene's hottest property |last= Churchill |first=Tom |work= Clash (magazine)|Clash |date= 1 November 2006 |archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/63fFWniOu |archivedate=3 December 2011 |deadurl=no In July 2011 Skream's first child, a son named Jesse, was born.cite news |url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/dec/03/skream-magnetic-man-Dubstep-global |title=Skream and the perils of going pop |last=Wolfson |first=Sam |work= The Guardian |date=3 December 2011 |accessdate=3 December 2011
Discography
Main|Skream discography
Solo
Albums
Skream& #33; (album)|Skream! (2006)
Outside the Box (Skream album)|Outside the Box (2010)
With Magnetic Man
Albums
Magnetic Man (album)|Magnetic Man (2010)
References
Reflist|2
External links
Myspace|skreamuk
Facebook|skream
Twitter|I_Skream
YouTube|u=SkreamVEVO
BBC programme|b01d76l8|Skream and Benga
Magnetic ManBBC Radio 1 Persondata| NAME =Skream | ALTERNATIVE NAMES =Oliver Dene Jones | SHORT DESCRIPTION =Dubstep musician | DATE OF BIRTH = 1 June 1986 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = Category:People from Croydon Category:People from West Wickham Category:English electronic musicians Category:Dubstep musicians Category:English DJs
