Dubstep...I'm undecided.

[Dask]

I'd equate when I first heard dubstep the same as when I first heard stuff like:

Doc Scott - Shadowboxing
Ed Rush - Subway
Anything on No U Turn records
DJ Trace - Mutant Revisited
DJ Krust - Soul In Motion
Optical - To Shape the future

Those tracks where innovative at the time, obviously now they sound dated, but they pretty much set the blueprint.

 

[foo]

it's all about meditating on some basslines in front of a biiiig rig

sounds just what i'm in need of right now.

i like dubstep but every time i search for it, i find the same stuff all the time. i need someone to make me a cd of the good stuff.

<looks at Dub>

<remembers last request for gospel and decides to shut up>

 

[rutabowa]

I'd equate when I first heard dubstep the same as when I first heard stuff like:

Doc Scott - Shadowboxing
Ed Rush - Subway
Anything on No U Turn records
DJ Trace - Mutant Revisited
DJ Krust - Soul In Motion
Optical - To Shape the future

Those tracks where innovative at the time, obviously now they sound dated, but they pretty much set the blueprint.

ooh that's exactly the era i was buying drum and bass, i've got nearly all those.

 

[dtb]

me thanks.

that's a fairly patronising statement, tbh

good for you. i've spoken to plenty of people that say they're into it but have never been to a dubstep night before. the hype surrounding the music doesn't seem to match with the numbers you see attending the club nights

 

[Dan U]

Basically, the people on drugs are going (dm dm tsh ... dm tsh) in their head to convince themselves it's d'n'b, and are dancing to that instead

yes!

 

[Dan U]

that's a fairly patronising statement, tbh

Like when you dismissed my entire music taste, despite not knowing what it was, because i thought the Go! Team were shit

you're an amusing sod you are

 

[Crispy]

I'd equate when I first heard dubstep the same as when I first heard stuff like:

Doc Scott - Shadowboxing
Ed Rush - Subway
Anything on No U Turn records
DJ Trace - Mutant Revisited
DJ Krust - Soul In Motion
Optical - To Shape the future

Those tracks where innovative at the time, obviously now they sound dated, but they pretty much set the blueprint.

The things I've heard from the names there that I've heard of, I like. tbh I don't really pay attention to what date the music is, I just knows what I loike. If you could link me to what's new and innovative, that'd be great, and I could form a proper opinion instead of a handwavey one

 

[Dubversion]

Like when you dismissed my entire music taste, despite not knowing what it was, because i thought the Go! Team were shit

you're an amusing sod you are

hyperbole, my friend, hyperbole.

 

[christonabike]

Originally Posted by dtb
i wonder how many people who say they like dubstep have actually gone out and listened to it in a club before.

I have

It's great

My missus loved the dubstep do we went to, and she is fussy on her nights out with loud music

So, that's two of us

 

[rutabowa]

I have

It's great

My missus loved the dubstep do we went to, and she is fussy on her nights out with loud music

So, that's two of us

THREEE!!

noone reads my posts.

 

[Dan U]

hyperbole, my friend, hyperbole.

tis all good

 

[DJWrongspeed]

The excellent Goth-Trad is over from Japan for the next DMZ in sept 8th. As folks have mentioned unless you goto DMZ @Mass you ain't really experienced what all the fuss is about. I remember going a couple of yrs ago when it was empty

 

[Orang Utan]

I'm too old for it.

You're younger than me, you big silly

 

[sam/phallocrat]

ooh Goth-Trad is meat to be amaaaaazing

can't make it though

 

[Mation]

So you like boring tired cliche ridden D&B?

Dancing is like, so 2000 and whatever...

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Can't say I "got" Dubstep until I went to DMZ - hearin git on that system really clicked it into place for me

 

[killer b]

To me it sounds like what drum and bass used to sound like, ie innovative and forward thinking, not based on a tired cliches that the whole D&B scene seems to be holding onto.

Dubstep doesn't have to be half step either, listen to this DJ Pinch mix, it sounds more like Derrick May to me than "dubstep"...it's pretty much entirely 4/4

http://rapidshare.com/files/25966464/dj_pinch_-_live_at_mary_anne_hobbs-13-04-2007.mp3

this is really good. it's techno though, on the whole, yeah? i mean, it's advertised as a 'techno vs dubstep' mix, and sounds much more like basic channel with sub-bass than yer actual dubstep as such...

 

[xenon]

Downloading that mix Dask posted. Cheers.

 

[Teepee]

It seems to me that this underground sound is now doing the rounds. Its good for its wobbly bass tracks, skream, loafah and the Digital Mystikz DMZ and Tempa label have produced some good stuff.

Now everyone seems to be getting in on the act.

So much so that Mark Iration was biggin it up as the new dance sound last year at Hyde Park Unity festival. Now Simon Scott is the new don on the Iration Sound Systim playing all this stuff. Aswell as Iration inviting the DMZ crew to leeds regularly. The Bugs now got a remix track out by loafah an 'all.

But i'm still undecided to it.

Any fans out there? Persuade me...

It's crap

 

[Crispy]

this is really good. it's techno though, on the whole, yeah? i mean, it's advertised as a 'techno vs dubstep' mix, and sounds much more like basic channel with sub-bass than yer actual dubstep as such...

I really liked it too. But then the next mix on my player's shuffle was a surgeon set, and that was even better

 

[killer b]

i'm downloading meme's dubstep sufferahs volume 3 at the moment... he's usually good value.

http://www.gotdarker.com/?fileref=0dee167b27af9d42237ab081661a2e22

 

[Dubversion]

he's a genius

 

[killer b]

i seem to have an inordinate amount of his mixes fouling up my harddrive.

his industrial ambient mix is still my favourite - i actually think my current musical tastes could be quite different without it...

 

[Apathy]

its growing on me, in small doses tho, and in a club? nah not for me but deffo gonna burn a few CDs for afterhours comedown

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

The sound of dubstep

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Chillout music for London ketheads who can't be arsed to dance to anything fast.

 

[ringo]

I've gone from indifference to being really into it. Live stuff on a fat system makes it start to work better. As with everything.

 

[Dask]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Chillout music for London ketheads who can't be arsed to dance to anything fast.

Why do you have to dance to fast music?

Surely the faster the music, the less space in between the beats means less groove?

FYI Dubstep is usually around 140 BPM, is that really that slow? Ever tried dancing to hip hop or funk?

 

[rutabowa]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Chillout music for London ketheads who can't be arsed to dance to anything fast.

this really isn't what dubstep nights are about at all... but maybe you've been played it by people who don't go to dubstep nights and use it as "chill out" <spit> music.

 

[Crispy]

"chill out" <spit> music.

It's music you play after the club, when you're winding down (or 'chilling out' as the kidz used to say). Would 'winding down' music be a less offensive term?

 

[rutabowa]

It's music you play after the club, when you're winding down (or 'chilling out' as the kidz used to say). Would 'winding down' music be a less offensive term?

it is the music as wallpaper concept i don't get. i find it disrespectful to music. it's like when people say they like reggae cos it's "relaxing".