Tune of the Week: James Blake

James Blake is London based musician who creates electronic, r’n’b and hiphop music. Blake represents, along with friends Mountie Kimbie and Airhead, the best of the “post dubstep” school of music. While in college he attended seminal dubstep parties such as FWD>> and DMZ, as well as throwing his own dubstep parties. He has been quoted as saying that “everything dubstep comes from Mala and Coki”. While his later work shows a more delicate and traditional method to songwriting, his early instrumental works show his appreciation of those “eyes down” nights spent meditating on “bass weight”. While it’s nice that he’s garnered the success he has, would someone please remind Mr. Blake to make some weird beats again, please?