It is just occurred to me that some of my favourite dubstep both past and present comes straight out of Scandinavia. Here’s a brief journey around the Viking lands at 140bpm:
Sweden- L-Wiz
L-wiz, a guy named Claes Rosen, is responsible for the most beautiful piece of dubstep ever made; Girl From Codeine City, which featured on the Caspa & Rusko fabriclive. Despite this track reaching great heights he never really took off elsewhere, which is a shame because his back catalogue features some of the most promising dubstep direction out there; it sits kind of in the middle ground between Jazz, Dubstep and Abba. He even brings in live performance elements. Also check out his label All Out Dubstep.
Norway – Tes La Rok
Also reaching prominence in the UK with releases on Dub Police. Tes La Rok, had a profilic output of 12”s over the last 4 years. One track I want to draw attention to is entitled ‘Lickashot.’ It featured on N-Type’s Dubstep Allstars 5, but was never given an unmixed release but it is absolutely relentless.
Finland – Shawty
Finally a guy who has been making huge movements in the ‘nu-school’ of dubstep, with his banger ‘Shawty.’ Very interesting the effectiveness of a tune essentially built around a stretched vocal sample. I shouldn’t have to introduce this one.
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