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Single Review: Sub Focus – Could This Be Real (RAM Records)

By | Published on Wednesday 27 January 2010

Sub Focus

Taken from Sub Focus’ eponymous debut album, which was released late last year, ‘Could This Be Real’ has a real early piano house, hands-in-the-air sound to it, before going for some wobbly bass business. The radio edit feels like it’s been purposefully overproduced for the Pendulum-loving masses, but the intro stands it apart from other similar artists.

Sub Focus’ own drum n bass remix of the track, which tightens a few nuts and bolts, is definitely the best version of the track, and I’m not really sure why this didn’t make it onto the album, instead of being relegated to a b-side of the single version. Maybe he found some time to tidy it up after the album’s release. The Joker’s remix takes it down to dubstep tempo, with a few experimental bleeps in there but nothing groundbreaking, and the supposed ‘extended mix’ is all of four and a half minutes with no sonic changes.

Along with Pendulum and Chase & Status, Sub Focus is definitely aiming for the ‘stadium drum n bass’ style, but on the basis of his LP I think he’s actually capable of much more than this single. PV

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