“That’s all I had. FL Studio and four plugins made Midnight Request Line”: Skream on how he made his biggest track, why he doesn’t mix his own music, and dropping his 13-year-old son’s tune in a Boiler Room set

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Not many artists can claim to have played a starring role in the birth of an entire genre - but Oliver Jones can. 

Back in the early ‘00s, the producer and DJ better known as Skream was a central figure in the South London crowd that assembled influences from UK garage, dub and jungle to create something entirely new, blissfully unaware that the murky, atmospheric and bass-heavy sound they were pioneering would soon become electronic music’s next big thing: dubstep.