Skream, famously one of dubstep’s first and most prominent producers, has announced that he has a disco record in the pipeline. The record, due out later in the year, is written by Sam Frank and is closely aligned to the sort of upbeat funk Montreal rockers Chromeo produce.
Keeping his cards close to his chest, Skream told DJ Mag: “I’ve gotta be a little bit tight-lipped with the details — there’s gonna be seven or eight tracks, so it’ll be a mini-album of straight-up disco stuff. There’s gonna be some guests that I don’t wanna mention, ‘cos I haven’t got the demos back yet. But people are gonna be so surprised.”
The dubstep pioneer says the album, slated for later in the year, will be made on both old school and digital equipment.
“The main thing about it is that there are no samples. It’s so easy to try and make a record that sounds like Daft Punk, but you’ll never be as good as Daft Punk! The musical element is really important to me. I finally feel comfortable saying ‘I’m making disco’. Before, I was finding it so hard to get that vibe, to make it feel authentic, now I’ve played some of the tracks out between big disco records and they stand up with them, which is the thing I’ve been aiming to do for so long. It’s so hard!”
Skream goes on to cite his favourite disco record as Five Special’s ‘Leave Us Alone’.
Read the full interview here.
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