before Skrillex was the american dubstep poster boy but after his time as lead singer for pop-punk/emo/screamo band From First to Last, there was a brief period where these two parts of his musical influence coalesced into vocal driven emo dubstep fusion and it was SICK. none of it was ever officially released and it only existed as low quality MP3s he put up on his myspace back in the day. these pre-skrillex tracks became somewhat legendary in the skrillex fan community and high quality remakes and edits circulated for years in lieu of studio quality versions of the real ones.
in this EP, underscores faithfully recreates songs from this era of the Skrillex fandom and pays homage to this little known but hugely influential part of Sonny Moore’s career. it’s actually insane how much these sound like the originals, down to the weird MP3 artifacts and synth growl sound design.
the songs are great in a vacuum but if you don’t know the originals here they are for a side by side
Lustbug
Turmoil
Oceans
Father Said
