ABOUT THIS ITEM

"Dubstep Allstars", the original and essential dubstep series returns for its seventh installment. Discovery, not familiarity, has been key. This code remains integral to the series as Chef and Ramadanman take the reigns of "Dubstep Allstars 7", for a double disc expedition which unearths newfound pleasures aplenty. Chef, much lauded for his main room DJ sets, employs a more show and tell technique for this mix. Released from the obligations of moving a peak-time crowd, Chef affords each riddim good time to be absorbed. Rapid fire mixes are replaced with subtle mixer effects and 1 bar loops. In some cases tracks are simply cut out to make way for the next. On paper this style could be almost nonchalant, but upon listening you realise nothing has been left to chance. The peak and trough workout continues in earnest with Ramadanman on the second disc. Showing an acute sense of rhythm in both production and mixing. Testing a rookie ravers balance, he throws elastic rhythms into the mix and collides sonics to create multi textured soundscapes. Consistently demonstrating impeccable taste, Ramadanman draws on a school of artists who, like him, favour a clean, considered sound. He throws in dashes of grime with a handful of assured and abrupt riddims as well as the technoid, ethereal and rave-era influenced production which has allowed him to carve his niche as a DJ.

Tracklisting

CD 1 - Chef
1. Dub Mechanics - Main Goal
2. Chefal & Coki Feat. Doctor - Stages
3. G Double E - The Highest
4. Von D Feat. Lady Phe Phe - Show Me
5. Von D Feat. Lady Phe Phe - Show Me (Skrea Mix)
6. Kito - LFO
7. DJ 200F and J Kamata - They Don't Know What Love Is (Chef VIP Special)
8. Dub Mechanics - Spotted
9. Cyrus - Sleeper (Chef VIP Special)
10. Mala - Level 9
11. Mr Lager Feat. Alys Be - Tell Me (Distance Remix)
12. Mr Lager Feat. Alys Be - Tell Me (Von D Remix)
13. Conquest - The Unknown
14. Benga - Man On A Mission (Chef VIP Special)
15. Silkie - 51 Times Stronger
16. Noah D - Serious (Chef VIP Special) / Cotti - Real Hustler (Chef Special)
17. Benga - iTunes
18. Ghost - Think They're Greezy
19. Silkie - Untitled
20. Christine - Vaccine Fever (Kito Remix)
21. Distance - No Warning
22. LD - Fibre Optics
23. Silkie - Float
24. LD - Day Dreamin'
25. Mr Lager - Four Leaf Clover
26. LD - Hard Skank
27. Chef - Sub Soca
28. Trolley Snatcher - The Future
29. Kutz - Itch (Chef VIP Special)
30. Skream - WTF
31. Silkie - Full Moon
32. Clue Kid - 09 Lick (Chef VIP Special)
33. Benga - Who Remembers
34. D1 - Just Business

CD 2 - Ramadanman
1. Ramadanman - Tread
2. Untold & D. Franklin - Beacon
3. Peverelist - Bluez
4. Blawan - Fram
5. Mickey Pearce - Innami
6. Footsie
7. Untold - I Can't Stop This Feeling (Pangaea Remix)
8. Scuba - Tense
9. Ramadanman - I Beg You
10. Shortstuff & Mickey Pearce - Tripped Up
11. Pangaea - Router
12. Ramadanman - Old Thumbs
13. Peverelist - Jarvik Mindstate
14. Martyn - Vancouver
15. Headhunter - OSS
16. Ramadanman - Revenue (Untold Remix)
17. RSD - Over It
18. D1 - Subzero
19. James Blake - Sparing The Horses
20. Quest - Arawak
21. Joe - Untitled
22. Ramadanman - Humber
23. Skream Feat. Earl 16 - Tune In (A Dub Tribute)
24. Compound One - Space Odyssey
25. Pangaea - Why
26. Untold - Stop What You're Doing
27. Mount Kimbie - Fifty Mile View