In 2011 Skrillex was recording tracks for his new album, when the laptop containing most of the recordings was stolen from his hotel room, leaving a whole album's worth of music lost. None of the tracks have ever surfaced online, so it's likely that the thieves just wiped the hard drive to sell the laptop on, not realising that they probably had something in their hands worth much more than they eventually got for it. Some tracks that were to be featured on the album were later released on other projects, such as the 'Bangarang EP', which came out in 2012, and featured some songs that Skrillex still had in his possession, such as 'Right In', 'Kyoto' & 'Summit', which were alternative names & mixes of the original recordings of 'Right Here', 'Dimbow' & 'Breathe'. 'Make it Bum Dem' was released as a single in 2012 and 'Try It Out' had three alternative mixes with Alvin Risk in 2013. A few other reworked tracks have leaked over the years, including 'Amplifire', 'True Gangsters' and the proposed title track 'Voltage', and although there is no official track listing, as Skrillex never got as far as putting one together, by taking all the tracks that we know were probably on the stolen laptop we can approximate what the album might have sounded like, and here it is, along with the title track to the 'Bangarang' EP as a bonus, as that was linked to the release of three of these lost tracks in 2012, and it makes the album a concise 34 minutes. I know Skrillex can polarise opinion, with some music fans hating his work, but I quite like some of it, so I think this is worth posting.
Track listing
01 Voltage
02 True Gangsters
03 Dimbow
04 Turmoil
05 Breathe (ft. Krewella)
06 Amplifire
07 Right Here
08 Try It Out (Original Mix)
09 Make It Bum Dem (ft. Damian Marley)
10 Bangarang
