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Odal:
--- Quote from: KvP on 07 Nov 2010, 02:17 ---It's not so much that US Bass music is different from UK dubstep that makes it tiresome, so much that it's just one song. Not even that, just the one element, the wobble bass drop, the bigger the better. And over the few years of the scene's existence there hasn't seemed to be a single artist that's been willing to move beyond that focus, outside of Low End Theory's emphasis on Dilla-esque beat programming. Even that seems to be stagnating, recently.
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Well, I'll admit some, if not all, of the artists I put follow the formula listed in that tutorial video. There's only one artist so far, though, that I can say I like everything he's done and that's Mimosa. It's his music that got me into the genre. He doesn't seem to be the typical like NiT GriT (though I do like a lot of his stuff too). Silver Lining (Mimosa's new stuff) was definitely not what I was expecting from him, but I still like it because it's got a relaxing feel to it.
The only thing that bothers me is how much hate there is associated with music. Like the first few posts in this thread seemed to be offended, like I just took a shit on their car. First of all, there's this pride that isn't associated with any accomplishment towards people's taste in music. How does that happen? "I like this less known music. I'm so proud of myself." I just love music in general but I can't be bothered with the TV and Radio because those are the truly shitty music outlets 99.9% of the time. And secondly, like I said before, I only say "dubstep" because I never heard any official name otherwise for the music I'm describing. I'm not trying to go out of my way to call it something it might not be. I could've said "Hey guys I got some great country music." And used the same links, and It'd be regarded as trolling (not to mention "great country music" is an oxymoron). If anything Dubstep could use a sub-genre split or two, because there's a huge excess of music that calls itself Dubstep out of lack of a more accurate name.
--- Quote from: ThePianoMan on 07 Nov 2010, 09:42 ---No one's gonna do it? Well, I guess it'll be me, then.
Skream - Midnight Request Line
This is one of the defining tracks of dubstep--if you know dubstep, you should know this track.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6pTSGvp7T8
Benga - Emotions
Benga's a classic, and this is a great example of the more melodic side of dubstep.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_rCgJiXr-g
Kode 9 vs Badawi - Den of Drums
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNOvlNZAACY
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
This was a big track last year, if I recall correctly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsJVW5apRmY
Burial - Archangel
This is more a fringe dubstep sound--Burial broke through in a big way, but his sound is far from typical dubstep. Well worth hearing, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlEkvbRmfrA
That should give you a decent start. I could really go on and on, though.
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I likey. :D Need less posts that don't post songs. Edit - And "Wut" was good too :)
David_Dovey:
Aw man you were doing OK there and then
--- Quote from: Odal on 07 Nov 2010, 18:26 ---(not to mention "great country music" is an oxymoron).
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fuck.
and so on and on. Haha, next you'll say there's no great pop punk music!
P.S; the last thing electronic dance music needs is more subgenre descriptors. Oy vey es mir.
Alex C:
There was even a time when the heavily produced covers by lesser artists weren't complete shit.
onewheelwizzard:
I'm going to contribute a fair amount more to this thread later, I expect, but for now I'm just going to put a few things out there:
1. When KvP said that US bass music is "all just one song" what I heard was "I haven't really bothered to get into this genre because the scene surrounding it doesn't interest me." (This also kind of reads as "I'm really uncomfortable around people who are on lots of ecstacy.")
2. Radikal Guru and Jazzsteppa are good examples of dubstep with real flavor, and both are totally awesome and should get more attention.
3. Pretty Lights is only awesome if you enjoy great dance parties.
4. Dubstep in most of its incarnations ends up somewhat lacking if the sound system it's being played on takes up less than, say, 40 cubic feet of space.
KvP:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 07 Nov 2010, 22:02 ---1. When KvP said that US bass music is "all just one song" what I heard was "I haven't really bothered to get into this genre because the scene surrounding it doesn't interest me." (This also kind of reads as "I'm really uncomfortable around people who are on lots of ecstacy.")
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Seriously though you can recreate Bassnectar's entire discography in 30 seconds. It's like nobody out here ever got past Skream circa 2005. It's just lazy production and a lazy sound.
If I liked everything people on ecstasy liked, I'd like psy-trance and gabber. I like my artists to put in at least a little bit of work. There are, in my experience, two brosteppers that do - Slugabed and Starkey, and the latter's at his best when he leads away from hip hop towards grime.
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