les rythmes digitales - oberonne

i bought the wall of sound compilation "back 2 mono" about two years ago and again, it was a blind purchase. i had a clue on nearly all of the artists on the compilation and but i hadn't heard any of the tracks on it. the tracks i was most interested about was ceasefire's "trickshot", artery (jon carter)'s "viva revolucion" and stuart price aka les rhytmes digitales' "oberonne".

most of the album is rooted in slower side of bigbeat and that by default means producerdriven uk hiphop. it's not by any means a bad compilation but it wears it's date on it's sleeves. now for me, i don't care that it really sounds like the 1995 soundtrack of brighton's clubs & cafebars and commercials & films. i love to throw this type of music with modern music because there is still that raw edge to the music. producers were still getting sued for sampling but that just drove people to dig deeper in the crates for obscure versions and the likes.

"oberonne" is one of the few tracks on the album that goes over the 110 bpm mark and i really love this track. i have never heard this track before but after hearing it the first time it was something that was missing in my life. it was weird hearing a romping big beat track like "oberonne" from stuart price as i've never heard his first album "liberation". it also had to do that i associated this moniker with more eighties influenced material rather than this. for the record "oberonne" was also an oddity on "liberation" as most of the album was more downbeat.

what also attracted me to this track beyond the dub influences and the fierce driving rhythms was that it went into halftime at the end of the record. when i discovered this track i was trying to incorporate dubstep, grime and uk bass records of the likes into my sets but i always found it annoying how it sometimes dropped in energy as the rhythms changed.

this was excellent on how it kept the melodic aspects of the song but kicked off the regular breakbeats went into the aesthetics of halftime bass music. it is always handy to have tools like this in your crate if you want to be diverse.

listen here (youtube)