The Vangelis tip continues into the second track, and here it actually becomes the comp’s sole moment of cliché as Box Mouse becomes the official 6,000,000,000th producer to sample that scene from Blade Runner. The opener from Subreachers doesn’t even have that-it’s a beatless slice of piano minimalism that echoes Vangelis’s “Memories Of Green” in both title and in style. Dubstep is capable of being some of the most formulaic music imaginable, but now, more than ever before, Echodub Loves 2 blows the genre wide open, leaving only the barest essentials of 2-step influenced beats at 140bpm as a familiar trope. I wrote of Metafiction that “there are times where you question whether you’re still listening to dubstep, and, if so, what that even means in 2009,” and for this compilation you can roll over the year to 2010 and turn the sentiment up to eleven.
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Bringing together thirteen upcoming producers, some of whom are seeing their first ever release here, the second installment of the Echodub Loves series is a convincing manifesto of where this genre should be going. The man they call DFRNT offered an engaging spin on the style with his debut album Metafiction (2009), but the newest label compilation from his web imprint Echodub goes one further. If there was ever any doubt that Alex Cowles is sharpening the very cutting edge of dubstep, dispel it now.
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