Track: Smut
Producer: MPI
Genre: Electro / Crackhouse / UK Garage
Label: Yucatech Recordings
His most recent release ‘Smut’ which features Australian based rapper 3 am in The Valley leans more towards Techno Dub than Dubstep. The incorporation in the track of a vocalist makes you want to listen a little closer to the song. 3am in the Valley may not be in the speed dial on the phones of major party promoters, but who doesn’t want to “take a girl home and make her shout…f*ck me”? Because sometimes at a party you might just might want to sing along.
Artist: MPI
Track: Closure
Producer: MPI
Genre: Electro / Crackhouse / UK Garage
Label: Yucatech Recordings
‘Closure’ sounds like Darude and Bennie Bennassi are locked in a galactic light sabre battle trying to one-up each with a crazy synth beats, definitely a track to bust in the car on the way to the warehouse.
Artist: MPI
Producer: MPI
Track: Who Run Tings?
Genre: Dubstep
Label: Yucatech Recordings
The track ‘Who Run Tings’ is homage to traditional South London Dubstep. Not because of the reggae delivery, but because the mixing of Dub beats with Techno leaves you longing for the days when vinyl’s weren’t vintage. It’s a right proper trance inducer of a track. Listening to it over and over again, I couldn’t help but want to raise my lighter in the air and salute such a polished track, and it didn’t matter that I was lighting my smoke.
If there was a bridge that you could cross to ease the tensions between a ‘diehard’ Deep House fan and an all-out Electro-Tech head, a little MPI attached to the cables of the bridge will definitely help them move a little closer.
Artist: MPI
Track: Empire X
Genre: Dubstep
Producer: MPI
My first introduction to Dubstep and MPI was through the epic track Empire X. It’s a Dubstep mangling of Darth Vader’s iconic ‘Imperial March’ theme from the Star Wars saga.
The tune was definitely as epic as the saga. The remix has probably done for MPI what the Imperial March did for Darth Vader. It would announce the arrival of a serious beat legend. Although one could argue that the music that MPI isn’t dubstep, in the strictest definition of the genre – but he undeniably creates music that affirms the principles established by South London DJ’s in the infancy of this millennium.
His new beats reflect a fresher sound, making music that will pack dance floors and have little Tristan’s and Bella’s dancing and banging against the walls at the nearest warehouse space of convenience. It is however at the same time music that is easy on the ear, and doesn’t require said warehouse to be boarded from wall to wall with 1000 decibel speakers to have you moving and bumping your head to.
If you had to nitpick and try to find something wrong it would the lack of any accompanying vocals with the songs. Random thoughts scribbled onto paper, to tell a story that will mesh with immaculately woven random beats, which have no business working that well together in a song, in the first place.
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