Stepping outside of the usual style here, I'm sharing a ska vs dnb today after I accepted the challenge of remixing a cool ska track called Skallegro from SPAWN.
SPAWN is a ska punk band from the Netherlands with many high energy tracks on their Soundcloud page and they approached me to see if I wanted to remix one of their tunes from their EP released last year. One that got me in the groove was their Skallegro track, the original of which you can listen in to here:
https://soundcloud.com/spawnband/skallegro
I enjoyed the first half of the tune with its chilled out vibes, smooth bassline and melodies before it really kicks off in the second half with tons of energy!
Back in the day, I used to listen to a lot of Shy FX, Visionary and Dubwiser tunes which combined ska and drum & bass so I drew on that to find how I could remix this, whilst putting my own style in to it.
Taking elements from various parts of the original, I merged some parts, rearranged other sections to keep the SPAWN sounds before giving myself some creative freedom to merge a bit of trance in there with the atmospheric pads.
The whole tune was an amalgamation of different genres that got the thumbs up from team SPAWN and hopefully you enjoy this one too!
Nicky
https://soundcloud.com/nickyhavey/spawn-skallegro-nicky-havey-dnb-remix