Flava D, SKALAH & D Double E - Different

This is UK garage DNA crammed into a dubstep shell, which sounds like a terrible idea until you actually hear it work. Flava D’s been doing things with bass music for years that most producers don’t even know to attempt. D Double E is on here and that alone should be enough to get you to click play. The way his flow rides the beat is effortless — this is what MC culture over electronic music should sound like. SKALAH brings a harder edge to the bass work. Together the three of them make something that doesn’t fit neatly into any category, which is probably why I keep coming back to it. There’s a timestamp somewhere in the middle where the whole thing drops into something quieter for about four seconds and then just explodes back. That’s the moment. UK bass culture doesn’t do the collaboration thing half-heartedly and this is proof. Put headphones on.