― 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
― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― 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
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link
and that's bad why? 8)
oh http://www.garagepressure.com/ has some podcasts available. it seems that grime has made it to australia.
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
i think this really means that the discourse is a self-sustaining thing which doesn't actually need the music input at all.
― The Man Without Shadow (Enrique), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link
OK maybe that was hasty, though - i just listen to youngsta's mix and it's a lot more than that. veering dangerously close to tranquility bass at times, however.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 February 2006 02:08 (eighteen years ago) link
pls message me if you'd like to part w/ a copy for a reasonable sum.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 24 February 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 24 February 2006 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 26 February 2006 05:53 (eighteen years ago) link
who's going to be mixing 3?
what's the dirt over at dissensus about these releases?
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 4 March 2006 06:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― martin (martin), Sunday, 26 March 2006 21:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 26 March 2006 22:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Bn1 (Bn1), Monday, 27 March 2006 08:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Burial on the Breezeblock
In session, Cinematic sounds from Burial a rising producer within the dubstep scene. Burial is a 26 year old from South London. This music is so far out, cool, fresh, haunting, eerie, atmospheric - INNOVATIVE and demands a listen.
Tracklisting info: Radio 1 - Mary Anne Hobbs [Now on Listen Again]
Burial music reminds me of Coil, dub, Omni Trio, Massive Attack, Eno & Byrne, Tricky, artcore drum n bass and the dubby side of early prog house circa 1992 ala Leftfield.
Deep aquatic spacey, eerie, haunting, dreamy, drifting, spatial music.
Leading dubstep music critic/writer: Martin Clark interviews Burial on the blog Blackdown
Plus free MP3 samples
Burial “Burial” is out on Hyperdub in May. Album of the year anyone? asks Martin Clark
Hyperdub: Burial
BURIAL: BURIAL - HDBCD001OUT MAY 15th 2006
This first album on Kode9’s Hyperdub label comes from the mysterious Burial. On this self-titled CD debut, Burial carves out a sound which sends the dormant slinky syncopations of uk garage, via radio interference, into a padded cell of cushioned, muffled bass, passing through the best of Pole’s Berlin crackle dub.
Burial explores a tangential, parallel dimension of the growing sound of dubstep. Burial’s parallel dimension sounds set in a near future South London underwater. You can never tell if the crackle is the burning static off pirate radio transmissions, or the tropical downpour of the submerged city outside the window. In their sometimes suffocating melancholy, most of these tracks seem to yearn for drowned lovers. The smouldering desire of ‘Distant Lights’ is cooled only by the percussive ice sharp slicing of blades and jets of hot air blowing from the bass. Listen also for a fleeting appearance from Hyperdub’s resident vocalist, the Spaceape unravelling his crypto-biography. In its loud quietness, Burial takes his kitchen crackle aesthetic neither from the digital glitch nor merely a nostalgia for vinyl’s materiality. Instead, as ‘Pirates’ suggests, Burial crackle mutates the tactile surplus value of pirate radio transmissions. Burial’s mix is haunted. Echoed voices breeze in and out, on road to another time. Pirate signal from other frequencies steams in. A tidal wave of noise submerging all but the crispest syncopations. The noise is not violent, but caressing, tickling, exciting the ends of your nerves. Seducing you in.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 4 April 2006 21:41 (eighteen 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