Kye Gibbon is a fresh-faced 21 year old producer and DJ from High Wycombe, going by the name of Foamo. Here’s another up-and-comer banging out tasty wobbly basslines and fidgety beats and has rightly received alot of attention from the likes of MSTRKRFT, Drop The Lime, Crookers and Kissy Sell Out.
Since the age of 13 Foamo has immersed himself in the garage, dubstep, jungle/d’n'b, hip hop and grime scenes. With all these influences combined, Foamo has crafted his own category of electro that often revolves around a filthy bassline and kinetic beats.
Foamo blasts out huge pulses of wonky, loud bass, making a noise not too dissimilar to the bass-heavy sound of Jack Beats, but with some added retro cool. Foamo’s combines strange vocals and bouncing, squelching basslines for an animated and
energetic amalgam of dancefloor fun.
‘Moving It Over Here’ is Foamo’s debut single (buy it here), and has a warping round-and-round bass hook, and an infectious, lively bounce to it. The reverberating bass and glitched vocals snippets sound distinctly similar to some of the more buzzy ‘fidget’ produced by the likes of Switch, Sinden and Herve:
Foamo – Moving It Over Here [pelski highly recommends]
Crookers recently dropped this huge bass tune into their Radio 1 Essential Mix. Rockerman is filled with rasping, all womping and warping bass, acompanied by light drum patterns. You can really hear the dubstep and garage influences in this heavy tune:
Another ‘fidget’ tune. Looped and chopped-up vocals stand alongside a steady drum beat and a strident, fizzing bassline:
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This superior remix of Primary 1′s popular retro crooner recently featured in Pelski’s Playlist Pt.III. Additionally, his remix of Pulp Fiction is a downbeat boomer filled with atmosphere and deep echoing bass:
Primary 1 – Hold Me Down (Foamo Remix)
Alex Reece – Pulp Fiction (Foamo Remix)
Foamo’s Summer Mix has been causing a real stir (and prompted my two previous posts: The Yank’s ‘We Can’t Be Stop’d‘ and Crookers’ remix of ‘Secousse’). It’s an hour long mix filled with some of the biggest wonk/fidget tunes doing the rounds right now. Highlights include: the transition between The Yank and Radioclit, Jak-Z, the drop into Rico Tubbs’s ‘Gangsters’, a tasty Machines Don’t Care track, a couple of bass-heavy Fake Blood and Jack Beats tunes, that now classic remix of Kid Cudi and a nice finish on Jokers Of The Scene’s Pharoah Munch re-edit nicely mixed into the warping and wobbly ‘Rockerman’. This is the best mix to hit the blogs for some time. A definite must:
Foamo – Summer Mixtape [pelski highly recommends]
Radioclit – Secousse (Crookers remix)
The Yank – We Can’t Be Stop’d
Bodysnatchers – Call Me (Lee Mortimer remix)
Jakz – Son Of Loop Da Loop
Estaw – Break It Down (Herve remix)
Rico Tubbs – Gangsters
Foamo – 930 530
Rye Rye – Wussup (Crookers remix)
Jakz & Scott Cooper – Move ur boot
Fake Blood – Mars
Underworld – Ring Road (Fake Blood remix)
Leon Jean Marie – Bring It On (Jack Beats remix)
Primary 1 – Hold Me Down (Foamo remix)
Stuffa – Pretty Girls (Sinden remix)
Detboi – Y’all Want Mo
Machines Don’t Care – Soundboy Massive
Foamo – Everything Cool
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – Epic Last Song (Jack Beats remix)
Kid Cudi – Day and Night (Crookers remix)
Ryan Riback – Boom (Lee Mortimer remix)
Foamo – Moving it over Here (JFK edit)
Jokers Of The Scene – Y’all Know The Name
Foamo – Rockerman
Catch Foamo playing all over the UK this summer. Be sure not to miss his DJ set on 19 Sep at Intothefray‘s Trouble Vision, Unit 4/5, Elephant Road, Elephant and Castle, in London. Or alongside Hijack and Andy George at Intothefray’s other night – Smack & Tickle – on 31st October. Be there. Pelski will.
