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onewheelwizzard:
You're not really paying attention if you think it comes down to which side of the Atlantic you're on. There's a lot of extremely creative talent in the US, especially coming off the West coast.
But judging from the tracks you just linked to, I don't think we're working with the same criteria here.
JD:
aw hell is that a new beats antique album
the_pied_piper:
--- Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 08 Nov 2010, 14:28 ---You're not really paying attention if you think it comes down to which side of the Atlantic you're on. There's a lot of extremely creative talent in the US, especially coming off the West coast.
But judging from the tracks you just linked to, I don't think we're working with the same criteria here.
--- End quote ---
While all of those tracks you linked are fantastic the only one I'd call Dubstep myself is the Beats Antique one. The Eskmo to me is straight up Electronica and the others I have no idea what they'd be called but I wouldn't call them Dubstep.
I'm more inclined to agree with KvP's analysis that Dubstep has a link to Garage and Grime but then again I'm from the other side of the Atlantic so maybe that comes into it too.
KvP:
Ayuh, I went to see Eskmo and while bass was a big part of it his vox tips the music towards distinctly Moby-esque territory.
Clintaga:
Odal, dubstep is my second most favorite genre of music (post rock being my first and greatest love) and I have to admit that 95% of modern dubstep is unbearable. It does boast an impressive array of real talent, however, and its not hard to see why it fuels such massive movements so quickly: It's damn catchy, fun to dance to, and provides a much needed down-tempo alternative to fans of dark bass heavy music beyond drum & bass, psy-trance and electro-house. Dubstep is the "Doomy Sludge Metal" of electronica (or has the capacity to be) and there are tons of great places to start if you really want to sink your teeth into it.
Great UK Dubstep Pioneers:
Benga (Diary of an Afro Warrior is a must have dubstep album, IMO):
26 Basslines
Pleasure
Skream:
Nemesis
Dutch Flowers
Distance (My personal favorite dubstep producer working right now):
Fallen (Vex'd Remix)
Traffic
Rusko (In contention with Bassnectar and Mimosa as the top touring dubstep producer right now, Live shows are 50/50 split between balls to the walls or blase'):
Raver's Special (This song is so utterly groovy I can't deal)
William H. Tonkers
and I couldn't drop a UK All Stars Mega Post without
Burial:
U Hurt Me (I have been listening to this song for three years and it is still hauntingly beautiful)
Prayer
These five DJs, as you can see for yourself, range from atmospheric chill out tunes with tight spooky snares and weird whistling/rustling effects to the grittiest and grimiest of wobble and womp. Traffic by Distance sports one of my top three drops in any dubstep track ever, and Skream has a back catalog of almost a hundred dubstep tracks, and many of them feature distinct takes on wobble bass and drumstep, with lots of really exciting tidbits in them.
I love many of the more recent djs, and only one or two of my many favorite dubstep songs even made it into this post, but these five offer a lot of great albums to start with.
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