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- mg330
I love this:
James Blake vents about dubstep's "pissing competition"
http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/…
Just last week, incoming Stereosonic star Datsik mused to inthemix about the new generation of US producers who are taking dubstep on a divergent path from its UK origins.“When you talk to people from the UK, they say Canada and the US are all about noisy dubstep,” he said. “But I think that the only reason it’s like that is because Canada and the US haven’t really experienced good, deep dubstep on a big system. It was never introduced like that. So it’s really hard to get some of these big UK producers who started the genre over to the US, because kids have never heard of them.”
One Englishman who espouses that opinion of Stateside dubstep is DJ and crooner James Blake, whose sets plumb a moodier kind of bass music. In a recent interview with The Boston Phoenix, the usually reserved Blake seemed disturbed by the appetite in the States for big, brash, brostepping sounds.
“I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers – who I can’t even be bothered naming – have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there’s this macho-ism being reflected in the sounds and the way the music makes you feel,” Blake said.
“And to me, that is a million miles away from where dubstep started. It’s a million miles away from the ethos of it. It’s been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that’s not really necessary.
In Blake’s opinion, if you’re making frat-step, you’re only going to attract frat-boys. “I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women. I find that whole side of things to be pretty frustrating, because that is a direct misrepresentation of the sound as far as I’m concerned.”
Is he taking the words out of your mouth, or are you siding with Skrillex and co. on this one? We just hope the guy isn’t including this masterful remix from Benny Benassi in his critique. You can read more about Benny’s finest hour in our ‘The worst dubstep remixes ever’ feature.
- +cmykprophetone
- Randomly listened to that song last night actually.mg33
- choonprophetone
- so perfect, he is right! just look at some of the dubstep we listen to from FMT and compare that to the commercial stuffHijoDMaite
- commercial stuff. it's way different!HijoDMaite