X & Hell - Jump the Gun [Jakwob Remix]

To those of you who are stuck dealing with me on a daily basis, you're probably well aware that in the last week or two, I've been on an unstoppable (possibly life-threatening) dubstep binge. The genre is propelling itself upwards out of the musical underground and tearing to shreds everyone's vestibular systems with grimey, syncopated basslines encompassing earth-shaking wobbles. As it's shoved into the limelight, I'm assuming somewhat against the will of many cause now it's just fucking "trendy," we can also see producers sprouting out of the ground like flowers in spring... and I assume we'll see that these very flowers wilt. Hell, I wouldn't lie to you, I've tried my hand at dubstep - it's a fun, new, and very expansive genre, with much room for creativity and experimentation. At the same time, I'm one of the aforementioned flowers. Granted, you won't see me grow, but... well, enough with the fucking plant metaphors already. Whether you're a dubstep musician or a dubstep fan, you see producers come and go like nothing; some have their 15 minutes of fame with a successful track, and some wreak havoc upon everything they lay their dirty little synths on.

Jakwob is very much the latter.

I would never be able to tell you whether the man is having a very well-coordinated and fantastically-timed streak of luck with his production or he holds the philosophers' stone of dubstep. It's not up for me to speculate about such supernatural issues. My job is to listen, and I would love to think that I do my job well, although people may tell me otherwise. But I do listen, and I hear naught but golden waves of sound from this track. "Jump the Gun" isn't as intense as some of his other remixes, but the staccato of his melody remains persistent and memorable throughout. Simple melodies like these tend to bore me, but he manages to pull it off perfectly, fusing his homogeneous principal against a bouncy and well-timed auxiliary harmonic line. In layman's terms, he kills it all too simplistically. If you're a fan of dubstep, a fan of electronic, or just a fan of good music in general, I can guarantee you won't be disappointed by this track.

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