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Soundboy Punishments

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Skull Disco

 
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Exploding the nexus between dubstep and techno

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    Someone was going to broker the détente between dubstep and straight-up techno eventually, so props to the Skull Disco crew — Appleblim, Gatekeeper and Shackleton — for getting to it first, or at least for being the dubsteppers that techno folk could hang with above all others. This double-CD collection of their early singles is all the evidence you need that everyone benefited, nowhere more than on the gargantuan (18 minutes and 35 seconds) "Apocolypso Now Mix" of Shackleton's "Blood on My Hands" by Ricardo Villalobos. Focusing obsessively on a slowed-down spoken voice describing the horrific aftermath of September 11, it's one of the most trenchant pieces of political music of the decade, injecting fear and dread onto the dance floor with zero loss of groove power.

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