Interesting Q & A with Kode9 (of Hyperdub Records) on eMusic in early April.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 13 April 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
His album's ou ton Highpoint Lowlife btw
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"out on"
10-20 is sounding like early vladislav delay doing dubstep to me. really nice, thanks for the tip dude.
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:49 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, it just reminds me of vladislav delay. not really dubsteppy.
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 11:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Gerard (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― you say tomato, isao tomita (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 14 April 2009 13:01 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― sam500, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Based on my limited exposure I'd cosign your prelininary judgment.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 00:49 (fifteen years ago) link
as well as your preliminary judgment.
Skream's "Fick" is killing me.
― bendy, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:54 (fifteen years ago) link
The Silkie album is a joy. Recommended...
― Martinclark, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Excited about that one!
― Tim F, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Chris in Belfast, Saturday, 18 April 2009 21:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Martyn and TRG(?) mix (1hr each) on RDB yesterday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/robdabank/
― koogs, Monday, 20 April 2009 09:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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:
― the next grozart, Monday, 20 April 2009 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link
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)
― Suggesteban Cambiasso (jim), Monday, 20 April 2009 13:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of went off it tho, D1 track still a totally slept on favourite tho!
too many tho
it's a great crossover track though. i've dabbled with dubstep but am by no means an expert, if i play that track at home/in a club though, people just stop what they're doing for at least a minute.
― the next grozart, Monday, 20 April 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Any love for the new Boxcutter album, Arecibo Message? I've listened to it 5 or 6 times through, and the first half a bit more than that, and it's not quite up to Glyphic standards but good nonetheless. Fantastic in places, especially the first three tracks and 'A Familiar Sound'. The back end has yet to open up properly for me (oo-er). It's much more dense, claustrophobic and restless than Glyphic, and there's a bit of a cosmic funk feel to a lot of it. Less than half probably counts as dubstep, though weirdly enough the first half of 'Sidetrak' is a dead ringer for Burial.
― Chris in Belfast, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Boxcutter left me cold. Semi-interesting sounds, but nothing sticks and nothing is memorable.
This, tho --
there's a bit of a cosmic funk feel to a lot of it . . . (and) the first half of 'Sidetrak' is a dead ringer for Burial
-- is intriguing.
― Daniel, Esq., Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:47 (fourteen years ago) link
I know what you mean by nothing being memorable. I wouldn't quite go that far, but there are precious few tracks of his I'd be able to hum bits of, and last.fm tells me I've listened to Glyphic nearly 20 times through. Still great though.
― Chris in Belfast, Tuesday, 21 April 2009 22:50 (fourteen years ago) link
new Rinse FM show from us, http://www.sendspace.com/file/sx0168
Tracklist here: http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2008/01/dusk-blackdown-rinse-archive-page.html
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― Martinclark, Friday, 1 May 2009 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Based on samples the new 12"s by Untold sounds really ace.
"Dante" sounds not unlike Baby Ford making dubstep.
― Edward Saroyan, Sunday, 24 May 2009 19:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Untold is one of my absolute favorites right now -- so much space and detail and motion in his work.
― pshrbrn, Sunday, 24 May 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah that untold record's nice. although the dudes sharing it on slsk are the banniest mfers ever.
also liking akira kiteshi a lot, but he's one of those guys where i'm never quite sure if it "counts" as dubstep.
― i'm too hardcore to be bourgeois (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 25 May 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
speaking of not being sure if it "counts" as dubstep, howsabout timeblind's awesome recent 12" for version? great, great, great fucking record. no surprise, coming from timeblind. i actually have a hard time figuring out what i think about his relationship to dubstep, in part i guess because he's been doing his thing since before dubstep had a name, and because tempo and sonics aside, he never quite hews to recognizably dubstep beat structures. (this is not a dig, btw! nor of course would it be a dig if he were, like, totally identifiable as dubstep. but i like this idea of flux in the margins, where you sort of "know" someone is "dubstep" but can't say why.)
― pshrbrn, Monday, 25 May 2009 04:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i guess i like this idea of identifying with genre, or not identifying -- it's sort of like gender/racial politics. like, does so-and-so identify as a man or woman, or does so-and-so identify as white or black? when genre affiliation gets so overdetermined (i'm probably using that term wrong, so sue me, or revoke my degree, whatever) it's nice to find artists that complicate what you thought you knew about given genres, and yet who also don't claim (or aren't claimed) to be somehow beyond or outside genre.
― pshrbrn, Monday, 25 May 2009 04:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Have a pretty big-time track ID, Appleblim's Mutek set closer: a kind of trancey beepy synth, perhaps arpeggiated, and vocals involving "rising sun". Any insight would be much appreciated.
― formerly: mehlt, edward saroyan (EDB), Thursday, 4 June 2009 04:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i like anaconda a lot. sweat and dante are alright, sweat to my ears at least has an 80s house/dubstep/2step consolidation thing happening, dante seemed to not have much to do with dubstep at all. its cool so many dubstep producers are diversifying but half these tunes that bring in outside influences seem to have little to do with the host genre.
i need to find a good dubstep show to listen to regularly - is there one where you can hear a mix of the wobbly/straight ahead and the more leftfield stuff? anti social seem to play too much laid back/comatose stuff.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 4 June 2009 09:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Phil. Talking of ideas around the margins, this post is next level: http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/06/loving-wonky.html
― Martinclark, Thursday, 4 June 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
This can be heard in Flying Lotus’s ‘Tea Leaf Dancers’ as the volume for every track except the drumloop rapidly decreases immediately before the kick and rapidly increases immediately after, giving the overall texture an ametrically undulating profile.
FL Studio peak controller madness! Been playing with this a lot, too. Could be any other program, I guess, but FL lets you trigger ridiculous things with peaks.
― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 4 June 2009 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
it's called sidechain and its daft punk's bread and butter
kinda cool to hear the technique used in other genres
― The Macallan 18 Year, Thursday, 4 June 2009 23:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, the reason I think some of it is peak controller is because, from what I understand, it's not a real sidechain. You can use it to trigger any effect, and - I'm not sure if this is the case with sidechain - you don't have to heard the track that's triggering it. I also gather from reading too much dubstepforum that tons of these dudes use FL.
― slugbaiting (rockapads), Thursday, 4 June 2009 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
quick! i've just download dubstep allstars volumes 1 through 6, which do i search and what do i destroy?
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 10 June 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
downloaded
http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=92378
^^^would crash
― DJ MARTIAN IS A KING AMONG MEN. Dan Perry, Tuesday, 15 January 2002 (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 18 June 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
I've been messing about with Reason to make dubstep tracks recently, and sidechaining is essential, but I'm interested to find out if peak controlling is possible in this program too?
― dog latin, Thursday, 18 June 2009 11:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Really really love the Cooly G Hyperdub 12" and the King Midas Sound EP. I guess neither are technically dubstep though (so much for policing the scene!)
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:08 (fourteen years ago) link
okay, i don't listen to this stuff, but i got this new album by CLOAKS in the mail and they are supposed to be dubstep and if other dubstep stuff sounds like this then count me in!
― scott seward, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Listening to the audio samples on their myspace they are a bit more breakcore than most dubstep. You might really like aXXo though. They are similarly heavy.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
no idea who cloaks are but was listening to beezy i think on rinse on wed night and it was seriously doing it for me.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Friday, 19 June 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
that cooly g ep is one of my favourite things of the year. i love her. seeing her dj in a week @ tactile, can't wait
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Lex have you heard the Dub Organizer stuff she's done?
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
i've got dub organizer vol 1 - 'dis boy pt 4' is so beautiful. "he says he wants to run away..."
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Are they just CD EPs then?
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i think there's just one, and mine is on cd - it's not even on discogs :/
(is yr clobbersaurus email up to date?)
― lex pretend, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Yup.
There are three listed on the BM-Soho shop. 4 songs a piece.
― Alex in SF, Friday, 19 June 2009 16:47 (fourteen years ago) link