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We’ll be the first to admit we used to love dubstep, but a lot of the stuff coming out there now is just plain questionable.  Some of it is just complete and utter shit, but there are always bright spots to every genre, and one of those is Skream.  Midnight Request Line is hands down the best dubstep track we’ve ever heard (and probably ever will).  Skream is still very active and still releasing on the regular as well as keeping up with his fans on his Facebook and Twitter pages.  The Quetus sat down with Skream to talk to him about Skrillex, and why people who sit online bitching about how dubstep is dead need to find something better to do with themselves.

So with ‘Midnight Request Line’, and each successive step of it getting bigger, was there any concern about suddenly having all this pressure, all this attention?

OJ: Nah. In that circle, everyone was having success in totally different ways. And through that everything that fell under the dubstep umbrella was getting recognition. There’s more pressure on it now, because it’s so big and so open. Like the fact fucking Cher Lloyd’s just got a record out that’s a dubstep… Well, I’m not even gonna say it’s dubstep. It’s fucking ridiculous, the track is fucking awful. They asked me to do it originally, they offered me so much money and I was like, ‘Fuck that, I’m not doing it… You’d have to pay me a lot more because I’d have to give up my career, that’d be it!’ [laughs] I wouldn’t have done it anyway, but that’s the sort of pressures. It’s only people losing faith because it’s so popular, there’s so much shit being put out now, some people are even scared to say they’re making dubstep.

You can read the full article by heading over to The Quietus.

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