the genre known as dubstep - search and destroy

no, wack as in awesome. what's your take on that track?

wrong choice of word, sorry. i'm indonesian.

Top, top marks indeed for the new Mount Kimbie EP.

"Is that Mount Kimbie release available on download anywhere? Sounds great."

It's floating around as a 320 mp3 torrent and will probably make the Rapidshare rounds before long.

worth mentioning on the colourful, actually kinda funky tip is gemmy's 30 min mix for fact, not sure which are which but there's at least four or five fantastic new-ish ones on there. (tracklisting here)

also good is this 2000f mix from december, nothing really tops 'you don't know what love is' but lots of bouncy 'not joyless' gems still. if you can stand 64kbps, joker and nomad's dec 22 rinse show is long enough to play catch up with most of the best recent big tunes from this corner

Feeling in a big way right now:

Untold's stuff on Hemlock: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=158993
Breakage / Instra:mental on Naked Lunch: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=157855
Millie, Daphne 02: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=155823
Anstam, Cree: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=157871

Not so much "classic" dubstep, more accents of techno, IDM and even industrial. But definitely the strain I'm most interested in at the moment.

random generalisation but i was listening to the distance album last night and much as i like it (prob one of the best dubstep albums), it reminded me that one of the things i dislike about dubstep is how weak it can sometimes be rhythmically.

not sure about this new Horsepower 12".

lead track is over-busy. Crap snare drum and hi-hats. Full of samples of sirens and gun shots, cars screeching and explosions. Also skanking guitar and melodica. Personally I'm a bit sick of cod-reggae touches in dubstep, even though that's a bit hypocritical cause I'm still in to all the old tracks with said touches in them. Really overstays it's welcome, over six minutes and could do with being less than four.

Second track has some cod eastern touches and wobbly bass. Just generally do not want.

Neither track very 2steppy at all.

oh in fact i should mention the second track has Spongebob esque metallic annoying mid-range bass wobbly, not even just regular wobble.

bollocks. i have a total wobble-aversion but Kingstep only has it in touches at the end. mostly it's like Sholay on steroids. sure i'd have loved it to be garage but in its own right it's a great tune.

i wish it was like Sholay on steroids!

dorian concept's new album is sounding pretty solid as of halfway through, lots of nice simmery pitchbent chime sounds. can be listened to here. not dubstep, but in a similar vein to rustie i guess--are there any other threads for this stuff?

someone needs to create a rolling wonky thread.
― p-noid (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:18 PM (1 week ago)

^^! if only there were a better name!

On the wonky tip, Kode9’s forthcoming “Black Sun” is ridiculous. Funky beat + all the perverse synth maneuvers of wonky = devastating. I’m sure those of you in London have already heard this out…

new dusk n blackdown show has some goodies. though i usually always skip the opening history lesson and get to the new exclooses.

Anyone heard Skream's remix of La Roux then? I think it's fantastic, although i wish the breakbeat at the end went on a bit longer.

http://twitter.com/snoopdogg

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j198/thirdandarmyst/snoop.jpg

and Plastician is saying he's playing some shit tomorrow night on Rinse.

just heard it. its snoop produced by chase n status. its a bit shit tbh. lil waynes dubstep track with pharrell was better.

lol, just posted this on the autogoon thread. it's a bit nine inch nails, weirdly. i like it though

it sounds like corny dubstep and snoops verses are really boring.

actually it makes sense that its corny cos a) its chase n status b) they usually make d&b/breakbeat stuff (far as im aware), not dubstep.

I love the corniness of Chase and Status usually though. It's the best thing about them!

Like they're the Aphrodite of their generation.

haha man, atrocious. d&b bros go die.

still, i dunno, i'm glad it exists.

its not new but the LD remix of do you mind is still so fucking beautiful (they just played it on rinse). no idea why it wasnt on the official re-release. now im gonna have to buy it again.

On what release is the remix? It's not on my Maximum Bass cd single.

Traumatic Times EP on hyperdub is a beaut.

Also, sate my curiousity: why are Dubstep labels so intent on only releasing 2 tracks on a single 12", which ultimately takes up less than half the surface area available. Does it have to do with pressing and sound quality? (I don't know anything about these things) why don't you see more 10"s? or is it just matter of not wanting to flood the world with too many tracks, or even just to boost profits?

cos theyre anal about sound quality. same reason when dubstep albums come out on vinyl certain tracks from the cd are missing.

I thought that was partly because the albums tend to leave out previously released singles.

Interesting Q & A with Kode9 (of Hyperdub Records) on eMusic in early April.

I'm slowly falling deeply in love with 10-20's s/t album. It's so textured, so rich in layers and overflowing with beautiful melodies and strange bubbling beats 'n bass. It's as far away from the dancefloor as you can imagine, and that's precisely why I love it so much. Just like Mount Kimbie's EP. 10-20 is just such blissful, atmospheric dreamlike dubstep, I don't know if I can call it dubstep anymore. But I don't care for that, this is just heavenly great.

His album's ou ton Highpoint Lowlife btw

"out on"

10-20 is sounding like early vladislav delay doing dubstep to me. really nice, thanks for the tip dude.

actually, it just reminds me of vladislav delay. not really dubsteppy.

No problem! There's only a wee bit of dubstep trickling through, yes. Didn't know where else to put it though. The Delay comparison is otm.

yeah, i was listening to it on my wee computer speakers, but on headphones i'm hearing it a little more in the bass and whatnot.

i've been enjoying the mount kimbie EP, too.

Any verdict on the Martyn album yet? What little I've heard suggests he's played it a bit safe but will give it another go.

Based on my limited exposure I'd cosign your prelininary judgment.

as well as your preliminary judgment.

Skream's "Fick" is killing me.

The Silkie album is a joy. Recommended...

Excited about that one!

Glad I heard about the Mount Kimbie EP on here. Really loving it. I'm a big fan of the Martyn album too, though it is a bit unwieldy at 75-odd minutes long. Elden St especially is a corking tune.

Martyn and TRG(?) mix (1hr each) on RDB yesterday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/

Don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Uncle Sam's "Round The World Girls" on the Soul Jazz "Steppa's Delight" comp is absoultely fantastic. Maybe not strictly dubstep, but would def like to hear more stuff like this. Reminds me of an electro-fied Beres Hammond.

I think this is the version I know, sadly can't listen at work to check:

It has been mentioned upthread, I know this because I posted about it:

D1 - Trial run ep is pretty great. The highlight being coincidentally enough the D1, Mind and soul, a fantastic bit of vocal dubstep (vying with Burnin' and Tes la rok's "Round the world girls" for my favourite vocal dubstep tune at the moment) with slinky keys and quite cheesy but cool synth stabs. Vocals on a female r'n'b/chipmunk mode.

― jim, Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:59 PM (2 years ago)