DubStep
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- HijoDMaite0
If you are in LA, Bassnectar will be at The Wiltern Oct 9th:
- Leigh0
STENCHMAN – STINK MIXES PART 1 – 3
- acescence0
my super-talented friend Elysha. dubstep, drum & bass, glitch hop, etc..
http://www.facebook.com/ill.esha…
http://soundcloud.com/ill-esha
- HijoDMaite0
Some hip-hop influenced dubstep:
Full length video here:
- Jimbo820
Really really love this track
- ukit0
Sorry, didn't mean to sound snobbish, usually I hate when people try to break down genres and get all serious about music.
What I'm getting at is if you listen to producers from the London scene...from the early more purist ones like Pinch, Loefah, Kode9, etc...to the newer stuff that is taking in elements of techno or house...it seems like each artist offers a really unique, thought out sound. Ikonika kind of invented her own style, Burial did, Joker, etc etc
Versus, everytime I go to shows here that are dubstep all they wanna do is crank up the bass and loop a couple samples, like a variation on miami bass. Its like they never got past the most basic elements of it - wow, loud distorted bass! And it's sad if people think that is all there is to it because it's actually been a really interesting style of music over the past few years.
- Maybe it's like British people trying to make rap music:)ukit
- That is quite the apt analogy.duckofrubber
- sublocked0
Ukit I'm kind of with you. Boggles the mind that dubstep is so popular now. It weird me out that in 2005-6 nobody knew what I was talking about, now everyone is on some WOBWOBWOB shit.
I think the variety is what made dubstep cool in the beginning. People on the dubstep forums are calling this new movement with chainsaw wobbles "brostep" and that's pretty fitting, but funny.
Anyhow, the pioneers will continue on and make great stuff regardless of genre. I mean that's how dubstep was started. People moving away from things like dnb/garage/house when it got stale...why expect that ethic die off?
- ukit0
yea I mean I actually like Borgore and some of that...which a lot of people on electronic music forums don't take seriously. I enjoy it on a level you'd enjoy listening to Van Halen or something.
But to compare Bass Nectar, N-Type, or the other WOBWOB shit (like you put it) to something like Shackleton, Scuba, Burial, Kode9...it's like someone started a thread about hip hop and people started enthusiastically recommending Kayne West and Flo Rida as "the best hip hop"...seems wrong to cut the movement off from its roots.
- zr0
- inkpink0
yup @ ukit and sub. the sound hit max saturation and started going downhill a couple years ago. the real artists and innovators of the genre have moved on to explore new things.
and "brostep"... perfect. love that.
- Jimbo820
* slowly backs out of thread
- bliznutty0
Mimosa is dope (out of the Bay area US of motherfucking A)
- ukit0
@inkpink
I think it is still thriving...like you guys said the style has changed a bit, maybe more of what is released now is better called "funky" or whatever the fuck (kinda hate genre names), but there's no shortage of great music.
Like the Shackleton - 3EPs album from about a year ago, amazing! Ikonika album - really good too. Scuba album. Something tells me the Darkstar LP will be another classic.
- yeah i was referring to typical wobble sound you guys had mentionedinkpink
- sublocked0
I can appreciate and do like a lot of the "brostep" stuff - so don't get me wrong, but I do like the variety as well.
There's actually a ton of good up-and-coming cats on soundcloud. This is some super aggro shit, in the "van halen" vein, but really done well.
- sublocked0
This is more grime than dubstep, but by a US producer outta SF
- ukit0
I mean cmon guys how can you even compare this...
...to this???
- If you prefer the second one, thats cool, but they are not even similar styles of musicukit
- The 2nd is kinda what I've been calling "trancestep". Sounds Nero-esque. I think it's a different genre, but same BPM range.sublocked
- 2nd one is just more "pop-ish" which makes it more "accesible" .. actually i dont listen very much to dupstepelektro
- anyways, it's not even the same style. But somehow it's still dupstepelektro
- Yeah I mean like I said whos to say whats good or bad...but for me the top one defines dubstep, meaning the other one is something elseukit
- style of music is something else, and only kind of tangentially relatedukit
- it's like metal, there's tons of different style.. now, it's just 2 styles of dubstepelektro
- Jimbo820
It's a bad sign when most of the new stuff that comes out is a remix of a pop tune, like the Ellie Goulding one above, or Skream's remix of La Roux. It's the beginning of a formula that ultimately ruins the scene.
Garage is kinda seen as a joke now, but in the early to mid nineties it was banging. Then came the cheesey pop remixes. And we all know what happened then.
I'm not trying to pretend that I know much about dubstep, 'cos I don't.
* Hides behind curtains
- No you got a great point. It doesn't take any imagination to just slap an existing pop song onto a beat.ukit