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Eddy Says
Eddy Says: Step into the darkness and you will see the light
By Eddy Temple-Morris | Published on Monday 23 March 2009
The last fortune cookie I had from a Chinese restaurant said, “Step into the darkness and you will see the light”. How deep and wise. I thought of this recently while reflecting on the new show format and the advent of The Darkside.
I’m getting lots of positive feedback about representing these darker tunes and producers, and it’s a sign of the times that Skeam, Caspa and even King Cannibal have broken out of that particular corral into the mainstream portion of the show. I still don’t play dubstep out in the main bit of the show, as a rule (though I have dropped Caspa as last tune once or twice) but it’s still really good to hear these sounds on the radio.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the genre now that it’s pretty much at its height. Skream’s mix of la Roux is the flag at the summit, just like Goldie’s ‘Inner City Life’ was for drum & bass all those years ago. That mix is a benchmark, a point in time that we’ll all remember as the time dubstep crossed over onto the lives of normal people. So from here, it’ll probably be downhill, in a way, although I’m expecting some real treats along the way.
There will be the unavoidable backlash, then a renaissance, and we’ll probably see ‘dubstep’ hooded sweatshirts in Top Shop, just as we saw ‘nu rave’ ones a few years back. We felt sick then, and we’ll feel the same again, but just remember the joys of that Skream mix, or of ‘Marmite’ by Caspa, and look forward to it going underground again – just like drum and bass did – and then, ultimately, spawning a huge, boundary-crossing live band, and DJs that charge 10 grand for a DJ set. Hell, stranger things have happened…
Eddy x
Eddy Says from this edition of the CMU Remix Update.
