"Skream (born Oliver Jones in West Wickham, Bromley) is a 21 year-old dubstep producer based in Croydon. One of dubstep's first and most prominent producers, he has played an important role in the genre's development.
As a teenager, Jones worked at Big Apple Records, a Croydon-based record store that was at the centre of the early dubstep scene; even prior to this, Jones had become acquainted with Hatcha, another dubstep pioneer, because Jones' brother worked on an adjacent floor in Big Apple Records. As a result of this encounter, Hatcha was the first DJ to play Skream dubplates.
Jones began producing music at the age of 15 (using Fruity Loops) and claims to now have roughly 1,500 songs in varying stages of development. Skream's early productions were often with another alumnus of Big Apple, Benga, and are of a decidedly darker and less melodic nature than later releases.
As dubstep started to be noted by conventional media such as The Guardian and Pitchfork, Jones' music started to take on a more melodic sound; less overtly influenced by the darker, UK garage influenced sounds of early dubstep artists such as Horsepower Productions, with dub, house, and even jazz influences instead. The 2005 Skream track "Midnight Request Line" has been described as "dubstep's most recognizable crossover hit", and has been praised by producers as diverse as grime producer Wiley, and minimal techno producer Ricardo Villalobos. The key change in the chorus, which Wire has described as "an epic change of key and tempo that recall the classicist mannerisms of Derrick May", has been credited as being a key factor in the evolution of a more melodic sound in the dubstep genre." [
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