La Roux-In for the Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey remix)

Y’know how they say that marijuana is a gateway drug? Well, I see remixes as a gateway to different forms of music that one might not be usually accustomed to. Kind of like a peak into a different world that the listener might not be exactly used to. In this case, I’m going to use the Skream produced dubstep influenced remix of LaRoux’s “In for the Kill” as an example.

Honestly, I wasn’t really familiar with the original song, let alone the remix; I mean looking back I probably heard the song in passing when watching Entourage or just channel flipping and heard the song in the commercial for the video game “Bayonetta” but I just didn’t all around pay attention to it because it didn’t grab my interest. But, I’ve been on this dubstep bender recently and one song they recommended was “In for the Kill by La Roux ( Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey mix).”

Also, I wasn’t that familiar with La Roux; first thing I thought of was the wrestler from WCW.

So, I click on the song and the first thing I hear this melodic synth line with this vinyl crackle, then this deep bass tone and this echo-y vocal just had almost hypnotized. The arrangement is quite minimal; seriously, first verse and chorus…nothing but slightly wobbly sub-bass, echo-y vocal and high pitch synth. It’s so simple, but it just kept my attention throughout the song. Then when you think it’s over at 4:05, it picks back up with this hardcore break beat vibe at 4:10 and rides it out to the end. I had this thing on repeat for a little bit, in fact I even tried learning the song by ear. With me, that’s a big honor for any song.

In closing, for the anal retentive dubstep purist, this might not satisfy them. But, it’s hard to satisfy types like that. But, for the ones who are getting into dubstep, I definitely recommend this song to start them off.