― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― xenografia, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
I think that's the one, I'll hook you up later today. It's all about the "Dub Plate remix".
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link
It is!
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Toasty "the Knowledge" (Hot Flush)Search and Destroy "Food Chain" (Texture)Slaughter Mob vs. Search and Destroy "Saddam" (Soul Ja)
Check out the Search and Destroy pirate radio shows if you are in London, a friend hooked me up with a CDR of Dj Prior's set on there and it's really heavy, super cool stuff.
ps: people seem to be calling the above records/scene "breaks" (yeah, dumb name, I know) rather than dubstep proper, but anyway to my ears it sounds like slowed down (to 120 bpm) jungle purged of its breakbeats but with those heavy heavy basslines, ecstatic/dark strings, and vocal/percussive tidbits getting tossed into ominous delays and reverbs. In other words, menacing and rad.
― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
destroy:horsepower productions, zed bias and any other lightweight wine bar shit.
― scg, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― scg, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:14 (nineteen years ago) link
I don't think I've ever been to a wine bar.
― .adam (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― scg, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
It's very Horsepower Productions also obv.
I have to disagree. The arrangement is much more whacked out whereas Horsepower is almost nu-jazzy - although maybe it's because I only listen to the dub (can't remember the a-side mix at all).
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
dubstep... money... don't make me laugh!
― martin (martin), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 21:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:04 (nineteen years ago) link
This is was the beginning of dark swing. As the Groove Chronicles' "1999" and El-B/Ghost's "2000" suggest, these predate the Pay As U Go /Musical Mob strains of dark garage that grime evolved out of in 2001.
― martin (martin), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link
February - Scientist, Youngsta, J Da Flex & mc Crazy DMarch - Plasticman, Kode9, Wonder & mc Crazy D
― Jon B, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― i am right (cs appleby), Sunday, 30 January 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
72 results found:
― DAEREST V1CE MAGAZINE!!!!! (ex machina), Friday, 17 June 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
dj younsta - dubstep allstars volume 2 - features the massive neverland coming to vinyl on DMZ005 soon - also includes a variety of forthcoming hotness
DMZ004 - Coki - officer &
N-Type - Square Off
the new one from D1 (SOULJA008)
the utterly essential HYP003 - kode9's Kingstown
Benny Ill vs Dinesh & Mark One (VEHICLE5)
very old now but dub child's - voodoo tears it
plus many others - excellent period right now
check mr blackdown and mr dusk's keysound radio mix
― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
And jed sent me Kingstown. Dusk and Blackdown's Keysound mix is REALLY good.
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― don, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
I guess....
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― myke boomnoise (myke boomnoise), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
We'd be remiss not to mention the Plasticman 1Extra mix as well (which I still haven't finished, but which is quite good so far.)
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been accused of abandoning dubstep once grime came along and simply following the dictates of fashion. I'd someday like to write something long and torturous about the kernel of traumatic truth in this: the fact that changes in fashion of this type are sometimes the precise thing which opens up the space to stand back from a genre and perceive its limitations: by the end of 2002 you could make the retrospective argument that dubstep had been the "wrong" microstrand to watch, that "Pulse X" was what was important, but right through the preceding year it had felt like there was a properly dialectical tension b/w dubstep and proto-grime, that the next thing was going to emerge from the interstices between the former's dazzling fluidity and the latter's blocky rigidity.
And this is actually what happened, if you squint: the blocky rigidity simply intensified and mutated itself into something else which on the one hand worked according to entirely different rules and on the other rhythmically pre-empted anything that dubstep might bring to the table (you could say that "I Luv U" was the paradigmatic tune here but I think a better example might be J Sweet, Cameo and Gemma Fox's "Baby" - a pop-grime 8-bar beloved of Femme Fatale which nonetheless contains within it the same sort of razzle-dazzle snare action dealt by Horsepower, Bias or DJ Hatcha at their respective bests). And it really was as-against-this that dubstep began to strike me as somehow insufficient.
There's a sense in which grime actually "ate" dubstep - or at least the bits that I love, that I would insist housed the largest part of its potential - and all of dubstep's developments since then - whether it be mirroring grime or drifting towards broken beat or simply intensifying its "pure" strain in which rhythmic invention is increasingly downplayed in favour of other, less immediately tangible principles (see how dubstep increasingly transplants the "House is a feeling!" catch-cry as its own) - feel like attempts to distance itself from that traumatic experience of cannibalism. The fashionable switch from dubstep to grime was responding to something quite real that was going on in the music i think.
NB. This may be interpreted as a rant against post-02 dubstep but it's not meant in that spirit. There is a lot of stuff in the genre that I really like. Just wanted to give an example (from my own experience) of what might be behind a lot of people preferring grime to dubstep.
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
The Plasticman mix is good. Release an album, Plasticman!
xp
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
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― don, Wednesday, 24 August 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I think it's actually partly because I do like individual dubstep tracks so much that it really frustrates me that I don't like more of the genre, and it makes me harsher on it than I should be. Dubstep wears it's "I bring you the FUTURE! THE FUTURE! THE FUTURE!" inclinations on its sleeve, so it's easy for it to feel like it's underperforming. The obvious corrolary is techstep/neurofunk '97, where there's a handful of stuff that is among my favourite music ever, and most of the rest I could probably take or leave.
And in the spirit of forgiveness I should make a gratuitous shout-out to my favourite "mid-period" dubstep track, DJ Abstract's "Touch" - which is thoroughly awesome, but maybe I like it so much because it's almost a "proper" 2-step track. Female vocals! And gorgeously syncopated breakbeats, like a mutant hybrid of The Wideboys "Something's Got Me Started (Dub)" with the Zed Bias remix of 2 Banks of Four's "Hook and a Line". And squiggly keyboards!
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Dubstep lovers, this week's Breezeblock was a dubstep special (programme is streamed for a week), with Mala (Digital Mystikz), Skream, Kode 9 and Space Ape, Vex'd, Hatcha, Loefah and Sgt. Pokes, and Distance.
Tracklisting here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance/breezeblock/breezeblock_archive.shtml?20060110
― stevo (stevo), Thursday, 12 January 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
vexd.blogspot.com
and their mix from 11th November at Adverse Camber is also worth a listen (but is very quiet) http://spannered.org/mixes/vexd/vexd_nov11_2005.mp3
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 12 January 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Really??? To me says "I am 1978! 1978! 1978!!!!"
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago) link
"are earlier scientist discs "uber-classics"?"
They are really good, yeah (agree they are not really game-changing though). And artwork is def. amazing.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Saturday, 20 November 2010 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
scientist rids the world of the curse of the vampire is uber classic
― The Great Cool Lulu who sleeps in Riley... (dog latin), Saturday, 20 November 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm glad that The Wire is covering Shackleton a lot recently. I really like his stuff.
― jeevves, Saturday, 20 November 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
he's kinda scaring me with the gregorian chant though
― moonship journey to baja, Saturday, 20 November 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Most of you already now this by now, but Scuba - Triangulation is seriously the bidness!
It's actually kind of ridiculous how amazingly well this album flows. It manages to listen like a masterfully well sequenced mix; this makes me all the more excited to see him play here in a week!
― EDB, Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
The remix disc isn't bad either
― Number None, Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgT4N0zU1M
― bows don't kill people, arrows do (Jordan), Thursday, 23 December 2010 16:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah I just got the double CD pack. Shall be listening to the remixes later. I've just heard the Deadbeat one thus far, but it's good.
― EDB, Thursday, 23 December 2010 17:11 (thirteen years ago) link
this is actually a really good mala interview. maybe the best out of the ones ive read this year (much better/more specific than the one on factmag). i like him more after reading this.
http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/feature/little-white-earbuds-interviews-mala/
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
The new LV album's got a track called "Northern Line" which I'll never be able to get out my head when getting on the tube.
What you know about Kings Cross??
― Evil Eau (dog latin), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
DESTROY IT ALL
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hotflush compilation is quite good, the growing ubiquitous of clubnights playing lolstep in my area not so much
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
+ness
― o0o00h really? (boxedjoy), Wednesday, 6 April 2011 21:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://gotsars.com/images/384cdf0a024c703fa22778c7ed43f4c2.jpg
― sam500, Wednesday, 18 May 2011 08:58 (twelve years ago) link
that is every kid in Hitchin
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:02 (twelve years ago) link
sans cat of course.
― broodje kroket (dog latin), Wednesday, 18 May 2011 09:03 (twelve years ago) link
DESTROY: http://www.nme.com/news/korn/59480
― Hills Like White Broncos (EDB), Thursday, 29 September 2011 08:01 (twelve years ago) link
probably the first dubstep song i ever liked. \o_o/
― crutbeef (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 29 September 2011 08:27 (twelve years ago) link
http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/705/779544flvej5.gif
― Ford Cumlord (The Reverend), Thursday, 29 September 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2012/silkie-and-quest-dubstep-allstars-vol.09.jpg
5/5
― the late great, Sunday, 2 September 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
Can't wait to get this, even though I've heard the Quest tunes a billion times before and the last Silkie album underwhelmed me. These two together are straight fire.
Vahid did you ever hear their Uprooted live set from like 2008? One of my favourite sets ever.
― Tim F, Sunday, 2 September 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
<3<3<3 Silkie
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
yes and i liked it
it's going to sound corny but this is like the jacob's optical stairway of dubstep in places
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
they are synth wizards
Yeah Jacob's Optical Stairway are a good comparison.
I think also Bugz in the Attic at their best?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
A POX of this vibe (across sub-genres) would be interesting.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 06:28 (eleven years ago) link
i'm working on one but i think LHF would be up there too
― the late great, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
sorta think LHF are too good-but-boring?
― Tim F, Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:45 (eleven years ago) link
you heard this yet tim?
IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
I just nabbed it today!
― Tim F, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link
good, cause it's good
― the late great, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
<3<3<3<3<3 this
― tuomas without a nose ring (The Reverend), Wednesday, 12 September 2012 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
damn I was just thinking today how Silkie and sully are really the only dubstep I f/w. gotta check that out.
― blank, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0RX5Nvd62k
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 9 July 2015 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Ruff ruff ruffBeats beats beats
All Loefah DMZ tracks on his Bandcamp now.
― I've got my bidet and my pills (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 March 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
So, the new Skrillex with Fred Again song actually sounds like dubstep for once.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 19 January 2023 04:06 (one year ago) link
Also revive to post one of my favorite dubstep tracks of all time:
Milanese - caramel cognachttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KTKlCQTjE
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 19 January 2023 04:07 (one year ago) link