Jakwob was a progenitor of luvstep/lovestep before anyone even thought to call it that—what can we say, he was apparently just an emotional dude ages before all y'all decided you needed to get girlfriends and boyfriends and whatever else you want to love. His remix of Ellie Goulding's "Starry-Eyed" still sends us running for the bathroom stall with a tissue. "Here With Me" has a very tasteful bit of saxophone, a very zeitgeistical instrument in dance music right now, but the real power is in the way he jiggles the beat with such vehement emotion. Plus piano! This is going to be the first entry in another sub-sub-sub-genre offshoot of dubstep, trust. Actually, though, dudes—SAXSTEP? What do you think?!! SAXWAVE! SAX HOUSE! Sorry, it's just too much fun.
Download: Jakwob, "Here With Me" (via Neon Gold)
Jakwob, “Here With Me” MP3
Photographer Lucy Bridger
September 02, 2010