{"id":3958,"date":"2016-01-10T16:23:27","date_gmt":"2016-01-10T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:13:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T13:13:33","slug":"pearsall-presents-a-wrong-turn-in-croydon-a-coki-tribute-the-780-project-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/pearsall-presents-a-wrong-turn-in-croydon-a-coki-tribute-the-780-project-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearsall presents A Wrong Turn In Croydon (A Coki Tribute) [The 780 Project Part 2]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/pearsall-presents-a-wrong-turn-in-croydon-a-coki-tribute-the-780-project-part-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute).jpg\" alt=\"Coki Mix\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute).mp3\">Pearsall presents A Wrong Turn In Croydon (A Coki Tribute)<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em>right-click, save as to download this free mp3 mix<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/241272976&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mixed in Berlin, January 2016<br \/>\n100% Vinyl<br \/>\n(33:07, 75.9 MB, 320 kbps MP3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute).cue\">Cue file<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute)BIG.jpg\">Big cover<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/folderview?id=0B-PaxTw3xOPZME9EMHRJUld3Znc&#038;usp=sharing\">Zip file<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Style: Face-ripping, bowel-troubling dubstep from Coki (Digital Mystikz \/ DMZ)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Direct link to the mix:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute).mp3\">https:\/\/mixes-upload.pearsall.workers.dev\/mixes\/croydon\/Pearsall-AWrongTurnInCroydon(ACokiTribute).mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>01. Busy Signal &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Busy-Signal-Featuring-Mavado-Badman-Place-Coki-Digital-Mystikz-Remix\/release\/2878588\">Badman Place ft Mavado (Coki Remix)<\/a> (Greensleeves Dubstep)<br \/>\n02. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Indian-Girl-Demonator\/release\/5556962\">Demonator<\/a> (AWD)<br \/>\n03. Blacks &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Blacks-Coki-Hold-On-Wait-Bedouins\/release\/4612166\">Hold On Wait<\/a> (Don&#8217;t Get It Twisted)<br \/>\n04. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Digital-Mystikz-Urban-Ethics\/release\/2585657\">It<\/a> (DMZ)<br \/>\n05. Vybz Kartel &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Vybz-Kartel-Mavado-Emergency-Weh-Dem-A-Do-Coki-Digital-Mystikz-Remix\/release\/3288630\">Emergency (Coki Remix)<\/a> (Greensleeves Dubstep)<br \/>\n06. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Spongebob-The-End\/release\/1092423\">The End<\/a> (DMZ)<br \/>\n07. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Tortured-Shattered\/release\/806850\">Tortured<\/a> (Tempa)<br \/>\n08. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Officer-Mood-Dub\/release\/489926\">Mood Dub<\/a> (DMZ)<br \/>\n09. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Dry-Cry\/release\/3926223\">Dry Cry<\/a> (AWD)<br \/>\n10. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Digital-Mystikz-Urban-Ethics\/release\/2585657\">Intergalactic<\/a> (DMZ)<br \/>\n11. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Richie-Spice-Burning-Remix\/release\/938008\">Burnin&#8217;<\/a> (White)<br \/>\n12. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Triple-Six-Road-Rage\/release\/1565577\">Triple Six<\/a> (DMZ)<br \/>\n13. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Voodoo-Dolls-Prototype-\/release\/5058615\">Voodoo Dolls<\/a> (Don&#8217;t Get It Twisted)<br \/>\n14. Coki &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Coki-Chefal-Bloodthirst-Electro-Bashment\/release\/1428316\">Bloodthirst<\/a> (Sub Freq)<br \/>\n15. Flowdan &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/Flowdan-Serious-Business-EP\/release\/5842237\">F About<\/a> (Hyperdub)<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1fVw1sSDjJG7Y-H2vcFrzacN8tA9WgJod1uJGfZLsRH4\/edit?usp=sharing\">Keep up to date with The 780 Project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/introducing-the-780-project\/\">Read about The 780 Project<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For my second mix as part of The 780 Project, I am super excited to present this tribute to the man like Coki, one-half of Digital Mystikz, one-third of DMZ, and all-around dubstep legend. Also, he&#8217;s from Croydon in South London, like so many other <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/pearsall-presents-inside-the-crate-a-skream-tribute-new\/\">early dubstep heroes<\/a>, hence the title.<\/p>\n<p>Last year you might have heard <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/pearsall-in-berlin-my-tribute-to-mala-dubstep-legend\/\">my tribute to Mala<\/a>, the other half of Digital Mystikz, so I thought it was only right to try to somewhat even things up by also busting out a little Coki tribute. <\/p>\n<p>I make no specific claims for this mix &#8211; this is far from a definitive Coki mix, it&#8217;s just 15 tunes jammed together. Lots of face-ripping mid-range action, as well as a whole bunch of dubwise sub-heavy stepping business. It&#8217;s quite a different sound from Mala&#8217;s &#8211; much more aggressive and intense, but what both producers share is a grounding in dub technique: echo, bass and space. Deployed to different ends, sure, but coming from a common foundation. Probably overall I prefer Mala&#8217;s sound, but I also love the wild, unhinged nature of a good Coki tear-out tune. For this mix I&#8217;ve tried to use a range of tunes to give you an indication of his sound, from face-ripping mid-range mania to spectral dubwise steppers, as well as a couple of his great dancehall\/reggae remixes.<\/p>\n<p>As before, it&#8217;s one take, all vinyl &#8230; not perfect, but fun!<\/p>\n<p>Next week &#8211; drum n&#8217; bass &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3966\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3966\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coki-Photo1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coki-Photo1.jpg\" alt=\"Coki\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coki-Photo1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coki-Photo1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Coki-Photo1-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coki<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartsdesk.com\/new-music\/theartsdesk-qa-producerdj-coki-digital-mystikz\">interview<\/a> with the man himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>For all of the aggression of his sound, though, Coki is one of the nicest people you could hope to meet. There&#8217;s something Zen about him, in fact. He is not a particularly verbal person, which is not uncommon for musicians \u2013 indeed for many the reason they get into music is to find expression for what they can&#8217;t get out in words \u2013 but even so he&#8217;s an extreme case, frequently lost for words or stumbling over common phrases. Yet conversation with him is paradoxically enjoyable and informative &#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to explain the bass, but it&#8217;s basically got LFO on it [low frequency oscillator \u2013 which places an undulating filter on a sound], with a midrange sound on top with another LFO which would start milliseconds before \u2013 so the two sounds follow each other in a cycle, but then there&#8217;s other modulated sounds going through it that fill in the gaps, so I know exactly what she means by \u201cscrambled eggs\u201d. There is actually a lot going on in there, in the bass area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It sounds like you&#8217;re making sculpture from these tones. Do you ever visualise tones like that in your head as you&#8217;re making them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah I do. But it&#8217;s got to make musical sense too. I could make anything from one certain sound, but it only lasts for a bar before it becomes uninteresting to the air. If you&#8217;ve got something that&#8217;s the same continuous thing, the same continuous sound or tone for longer than eight bars, it doesn&#8217;t really create a hook to the person that they&#8217;ll catch on to and say \u201cI like this, I feel this.\u201d Maybe if it was a really great sound and it&#8217;s then panning left and right and there&#8217;s filters working on it, the volume&#8217;s moving in and out and all of that, then maybe you can get away with it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Well any natural instrument \u2013 a piano, cello, trumpet, whatever \u2013 never repeats itself tonally. So you&#8217;re trying to get away from the predictability of electronic tones straight from the box?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah definitely. Exactly!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Now of course the irony is that people try and replicate sounds that you&#8217;ve created and think they can create a \u201cCoki bass\u201d and loop it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To me it&#8217;s an honour that people might listen to something I&#8217;ve done and think \u201cI want to do that too.\u201d But then when I speak to some other people in the scene they&#8217;re like \u201cno, it shouldn&#8217;t be like that! You should be the only person with that kind of sound and people shouldn&#8217;t be trying to emulate you in any shape or form!\u201d I think for music to grow you&#8217;re always going to take influences of other people, but you will always add something of yourself too at some point. It&#8217;s like a starting point, you learn how to make a particular beat, you&#8217;ve got to take an influence from someone simply to have structure and learn. OK, some people started from young and it comes naturally \u2013 they&#8217;re a musician \u2013 they can know what they&#8217;re doing and how it&#8217;s going to sound and that it&#8217;ll be what they want to hear. But for most new producers, who are 18 upwards, when they go out to a rave and hear a tune and go \u201cAhhh, I like this kind of tune, I want to do something like this!\u201d they&#8217;re naturally going to take the influence that they&#8217;ve heard.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/85881827&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GmmefMWouUg?list=PLjmkQB7gFFKILYwyeUAkd0yXgqDEGUSmE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tribute to South London dubstep hero Coki, one half of Digital Mystikz and part of the famous DMZ crew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,215],"tags":[32,138],"class_list":["post-3958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mixes","category-the-780-project","tag-dubstep","tag-dubstep-tributes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6034,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/6034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicrampage.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}