SKREAM
MIDNIGHT REQUEST LINES
Releasedatum: 30-01-2026
Herkomst: EU
Item-nr: 4855956
EAN: 0199538161021
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Recensie
After lunch on Christmas Day, 2003, once the rest of his family had passed out, a 17-year-old Oliver Jones, AKA Skream, went to his bedroom to smoke weed and make tunes. He fired up FruityLoops and began piecing together a grime track, a style he'd recently been experimenting with. He found a built-in arpeggiator and clicked a button that set it off. He added a bassline and some gunshot noises. "Stupid as that sounds, most grime tunes at the time had gunshots," Jones told me over the phone from London.
This "grime" tune, originally titled "Minus C," would end becoming dubstep's first—and greatest—anthem. Later renamed "Midnight Request Line" after Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three's "Request Line," which Jones sampled for the intro, it helped catapult dubstep from the dance floors and record shops of South London onto the global stage. To this day, the Midnight Request Line / I EP remains the highest-selling 12-inch on Tempa Records, the influential UK garage and dubstep label that released it in 2005.
This "grime" tune, originally titled "Minus C," would end becoming dubstep's first—and greatest—anthem. Later renamed "Midnight Request Line" after Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three's "Request Line," which Jones sampled for the intro, it helped catapult dubstep from the dance floors and record shops of South London onto the global stage. To this day, the Midnight Request Line / I EP remains the highest-selling 12-inch on Tempa Records, the influential UK garage and dubstep label that released it in 2005.
