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― jim, Thursday, 10 May 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
I always forget just how fantastic the best bits of the Kode9/Space Ape album, which are a lot of them! My favourite stuff is all the ominous hip hop - the slowly stomping "Backward", the constantly shifting "Portal" (this is prob. my favourite), the delicate "Addiction". the tense "Bodies"... If all of the tracks were in this vein! On a positive note the recent Soul Jazz track "Magnetic" is fairly close to this sound, though on moreo of ambient dancehall tip perhaps owing to no vocalist.
I love that a lot of the above tracks are more on this kind of Japan "Ghosts" meets early Mannie Fresh vibe rather than same old same old dub stuff - I've always really disliked "Sine" to be honest. I like how effortlessly musical and agile and widescreen Kode9's more recent work has been.
― Tim F, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:11 (sixteen years ago) link
Ha perhaps the reason "Portal" knocks me out so much is that he sounds so similar to Target/Danny Weed.
― Tim F, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
http://media.sonar.es/alacarta07/lista1/kode9_160.mp3
Kode 9's mix for Sónar. File is tiny because it's streaming quality, 64kbps or some shit. Awesome selection though.
― jim, Saturday, 2 June 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^ cosignatory
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 2 June 2007 22:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Barefiles (a huge archive of Dubstep pirate radio sets) is back online! Alas, without any of the RinseFM sets because they're trying to start their own podcasting thing. But w/e. Still lots of good shit to be found.
Search: (mixes on Barefiles)
Plastician - May 07 (mentioned up-thread)
Excision - Darkside Dubstep, a classic mix
Lucky Strike b2b The Others b2b Rusko, mainly Rusko/Others tracks which means it's excellent; nicely sequenced
Plastician - May 2006, older mix, still very good
― DougD, Sunday, 3 June 2007 01:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I love love love the Vex'd/Distance Dubstep/Metal mix for the Breezeblock - is there anything else remotely like this?
― toby, Sunday, 3 June 2007 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm probably very much behind the 8-ball but Mala's Changes/Forgive 12 inch is great - so eerie! The harmonic synth chords! The cut-up choirs! I almost feel guilty for liking this kind of thing and not the bosh bosh stuff, like, my taste in dubstep is so boringly aristocratic. Or maybe i just like melodies?
Also Mala's stuff sounds fantastic pitched down to house tempos.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:39 (sixteen years ago) link
there was an older vex'd mix available - 'adverse camber'. was very quiet though.
and i know i keep mentioning it but garagepressure.com does a good job of 2 hours a week of dubstep largely uninterrupted by shout outs. they've started archiving things for more than a fortnight as well.
― koogs, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:43 (sixteen years ago) link
vex'd @ adverse camber: http://www.spannered.org/radio/1150/
― koogs, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Hi, just thought I'd add my two penneth' worth. I'm really glad I'm not alone in my thoughts on the Kode9/Spaceape album. I recently wrote a 1000 word review for Amazon as no-one had said anything despite it coming out last September or something and the bastards never uploaded it! Must have got lost in the ether. I basically spraffed how it was part of the freat linage of UK Dub going back Linton Kwesi Johnson, Mad Professor and even early Dreadzone i.e. stuff that's already been said about 8 million times regarding this album I 'spose. Stripped to the bones but arranged with startling originality and that's quite difficult to do.
"Sine" and "Backward" are the true stand-out's for me along with the very, very sinister "Correction". Had the pleasure of seeing both of them warm up for Rhythm & Sound at Fabric in March, which was blinding.
Has anyone heard the Cyrus from Random Trio album? Some people are comparing it to the Burial album but I've not heard it meself.
― My Morning Jakey, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Cyrus LP pretty much all previewable here (use individual 12"s rather than the cd):
http://www.boomkat.com/artist.cfm?a=13472
― koogs, Friday, 8 June 2007 16:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Cheers, I never thought of checking Boomkat for some reason seeing as a sizable amount of my salary goes into their coffers on a monthly basis.
Yeah, impressed with what I hear from the outset. Sounds more fragmented and experimental than I thought it might, but I think Random Trio have that dynamic in places. Don't think you could compare this to Burial as from my perspective their influences are coming from different orbits. I can see how people would make that comparison tho.
― My Morning Jakey, Monday, 11 June 2007 10:31 (sixteen years ago) link
i picked up n-type's "dubstep allstars vol 5" today, because i heard some liar say some lies about it being "intense" "big-room high-energy dance music".
LIES. it's the same old slow wobbly shit.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 08:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you expect hard house?
― Belisarius, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 09:01 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe something more along the lines of these kromestarr tracks
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
or is it tes la rok?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
i dunno, anyway about 5% of this is new and interesting, the other 95% (all these benga tracks especially) is pretty wack.
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 09:07 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe this music would sound better on a decent system if i was a pasty-faced weed-addicted shut-in
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 09:10 (sixteen years ago) link
What's with the number of dubstep artists with names ending in 'a'? Is this some phonetic thing that sounds cool, because for some reason it's gotten on my nerves after reading enough dubstep articles and browsing releases. It might be a problem with selective attention, though. -ga -sta -cha
― mh, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:12 (sixteen years ago) link
ubetcha!
― willem, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link