Next To Nothing

Next To Nothing

Shackleton [Crosstown Rebels]

12 February, 2008 | 12.26PM

• Section: Music Recommendations
• Written by: Ben Raven

Shackleton, for those whose heads are buried a little too deeply into the world of techno, is one of electronic music’s brightest new sparks.

Dubstep, the still evolving splinter genre that formed in the primordial slime created by the marriage of grime and drum & bass, is the latest primarily UK led contribution to pushing dance music forward, so think of Shackleton as dubsteb’s own Ricardo Villalobos.

Both are witty, intelligent, maverick characters too intent on experimenting with dance music to push their own fame or profiles.

But by the strength of their releases, their presence at the forefront of all that is forward thinking in electronic music is guaranteed.

Another crafty electronic thinker, Damian Lazarus was quick off the mark to spot the strong connection between minimal and dubstep and sign up a Shackleton track, resulting in this EP that features two killer houses/techno remixes of the original epically deep dubstep track.

Now that more and more club nights are beginning to revolve around a main room playing techno and a second playing dubstep (or vice versa), expect this to blast from every sound system possible.

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