# Skream — Midnight Request Line Skream’s Midnight Request Line (2005) appears on 4 of our lists — Dubstep, Bass Weight, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National, highest at No. 1 in Dubstep. Every verdict, in full. - **Released:** 2005 - **Label:** Tempa - **On:** Dubstep, Bass Weight, The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred, and The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National - **Updated:** 2026-08-29 - **Artist:** [Skream](https://waxonia.com/artist/skream/) - **Canonical page:** https://waxonia.com/track/skream--midnight-request-line/ ## What 4 lists say ### No. 1 in [Dubstep](https://waxonia.com/genre/dubstep/) The crossover record, made by a teenager in his bedroom. A synth riff simple enough to hum and a bassline that only fully exists on a large rig, which is exactly why it converted so many people at once. ### Picked by [Bass Weight](https://waxonia.com/theme/the-desk-bass-weight/) The same 140 BPM grid with the kicks taken out and the low end left to do the work alone. The record that made dubstep legible to people who had never stood in front of a proper rig. ### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Hundred](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-the-hundred/) A riff simple enough to hum over a bassline that only fully exists on a large rig. That combination is why an entire scene got out of South London. ### Picked by [The Waxonia Desk — The Night It Went National](https://waxonia.com/selection/the-desk-dubstep-goes-national/) The tune that converted people who had no idea what they were listening to. A scene needs one record everybody can hum before anything else it does is allowed to travel. ## Analysis 6 sections, the first drop of 3 at 1:09, 29% of the way in, 23% of it spent climbing. - **Key:** C major - **Dynamic range:** 11.5 dB — wide open — the quiet parts are genuinely quiet - **Length:** 3:57 - `0:00` A · **intro**, instrumental — opens the record below its own average energy — playing: vocals - `0:15` A · **build** (bar 6), instrumental — energy and brightness climbing without a break — playing: bass - `1:09` B · **peak** (bar 27), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: bass - `2:15` B · **peak** (bar 52), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: bass - `2:44` C · **breakdown** (bar 63), instrumental — energy falling away mid-record, percussion thinning - `2:57` B · **peak** (bar 68), instrumental — sits at the top of this record's range — playing: bass **Drops** at 1:09 (bar 27), 2:17 (bar 53), 3:02 (bar 70). A drop is a moment, not a stretch. **What is playing.** Separated into parts by a source-separation model, so each lane is the instrument it names. - **drums:** the drum kit, separated from the mix - **bass:** the bass part, separated from the mix - **vocals:** the voice, separated from the mix - **other:** everything else — synths, guitars, keys, strings Measured from the YouTube master on 2026-08-29. Section labels describe how the energy moves, not musical form. Anything we were not confident enough to state is omitted rather than hedged. ## Listen [Search Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/search/Skream%20Midnight%20Request%20Line) · [YouTube Music](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMAbnZy8l8) --- Hand-curated by Waxonia. We host no audio; all links point to streaming platforms.