the genre known as dubstep - search and destroy

In truth, both Shadow and Burial are mood muzak, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, and I like the most overblown pop moments of the Burial album for largely the same reasons that I like the most overblown pop moments of The Private Press.

the 17th according to amazon, yes. according to boomkat it's out in two days (but that's got to be a mistake, right, nothing's ever released on a thursday). ordered mine yesterday but it says '4 to 6 weeks' for delivery, so maybe not. it's a double cd btw, hatcha and youngsta mix a disk each.

More thoughts to follow.

The Lex's review of same in The Guardian

Science Faction: Dubstep

01 - Scuba - Brown
02 - Pinch - Qawwali
03 - Gravious - Wormsign
04 - DJ Distance - Cyclops
05 - Hatcha & Benga - Progression
06 - Luke Envoy - Gamma
07 - Pinch - Punisher
08 - Scuba - Twista
09 - Vex'd - Killing Floor
10 - Scuba - Harpoon
11 - Search and Destroy - Candyfloss (Loefah Rmx)
12 - DJ Distance - Traffic
13 - DJ Distance - Nomad (Scuba Rmx)
14 - Mark One - Devil Boy
15 - Sileni - Twitchy Droid Leg (Vex'd Rmx)

(haven't heard this yet fwiw)

Badness!

Can some mod please change this thread's title? Makes me wince everytime I see it.

(or, is your point something about that tracklist being too old/familiar/too small a pool of producers vahid? it's hard to tell)

burial = "new forms"
science faction = "run the road"
dubstep allstars 4 = "platinum breakz 2"
spaceape = bad memories of talkin loud spoken word stuff circa 98 etc

The first truly exciting thing to happen in dance music since the turn of the millennium, dubstep appears to be reaching a kind of critical mass in terms of the feverish media coverage afforded to it. At the epicentre of this swirling hype tornado is Skream, whose eponymous debut album arrives this week looking like it could be just the thing to tip dubstep over into the mainstream.

The Lex's(!) review of MAH's Warrior Dubz compilation in today's Graun (N.B. he was calling dubstep boring like two months ago!):
This is a superb introduction to some of the most thrilling, forward-thinking music in the UK today.

Time-out:
A woofer-carried pandemic is on its way and frankly, resistance is futile

LOL he would! what a clown.

The other two are pretty silly, but that's pretty much par for the course on any music review anywhere. Most journo's don't try to make stuff they like sound boring.

I have this notion that DJ Clever's mix will be great, better probably than all the other dubstep mixes I have. This based on the fact that what Clever cherrypicks from drum & bass is pretty much exactly the same sort of stuff (once you slow it down a bit) that DJs should be cherrypicking from dubstep. That he includes "Qawwali" is a tentative empirical confirmation (yeah, I know, it's kind of an obvious inclusion at this point, and no way is "Punisher" nearly as good no matter what wack people say).

the pretension at dissensus can be choking but they do mention good tracks that don't get highlighted here.

By minimal though, are you meaning dubstep ?

ardkore>>jungle>>drum n bass>>nu skool breaks>>breakstep>>dubstep ??

Those were both by the same guy. I'd call him the Geir of breaks.

But I suppose it was worth it to read this from Blackdown:

a big name minimal artist has the parts to at least two different dubstep artists' tracks...

@Tim Finney--- yes, there is no way Punisher could be thought of as even a quarter as good as Qawalli, (tho the VIP mix had some tastily engineered percussion in a minimal house stylee). Allegedly Pinch has moved away from Qawalli's sound now, which is really pretty unfortunate.

I think maybe that whole masculine robot sharpness thing which defines so much dubstep (and which define both "Punisher" and the VIP against "Qawwali") is perhaps a very minor turn-off for me, it's quite astonishing how much I love "Qawwali" above and beyond all dubstep going right back to, like, mid-2002.

The Shackleton track that begins the Cassy mix (and is the best thing on there apart from the DJ Abstract track, can you believe this is me saying that??) is in a vaguely similar style, perhaps I should check out more Shackleton...?

You can find it at the forum

Vaccine's track to start off the mix is quite good.

And Tim, I take it back, I'm not sure if you'll like Shackleton's other stuff really, its got a kind of sterility to it.

Clean, precise, experimental definitely.

Some of its really, really good though.

-- gekoppel (inabeautifulplaceinthecountr...), October 17th, 2006."

there's a new one by Pinch called 'One Blood' that sugests this isn't quite true.

(vol 2 is my favourite by some distance fwiw. also, check out the garage pressure podcasts (garagepressure.com).)

plenty on bleep as well, check the ROAD section in the labels dropdown.

and pinch's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/tectonicrecordings
and all his friends (distance, headhunter, vexd...)

Shackleton - Skull Disco 3 (whole 12) / 'Tin Foil Sky' / 'Hamas Rule' / 'I Want To Eat You'
Toasty Boy - 'Splash'

I'd recommend it to people but I'm not sure that I even get it myself.