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Dubstep
David_Dovey:
What about Drive Like Jehu/Pitchfork/Hot Snakes/Rocket From The Crypt/and so on and on and on?
Patrick:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 11 Nov 2010, 05:11 ---Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The Glove. Cream. Arguably Heaven and Hell. Shitloads of metal bands.
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Speaking of Clapton, how about John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominoes?
KvP:
Martin Clark over at P4k wraps up the year nicely and gives a pretty unfuckwithable and comprehensive lay of the land within the grime/dubstep/funky areas. Every recommendation he gives is a good one.
The pertinent passage:
--- Quote ---Dubstep has never been bigger. American R&B superstars know what it is and its DJs, like Chef and Plastician, play to massive audiences, like the 30,000 people at their Exit Festival sets. Their school friends Benga and Skream took it live to festivals as Magnetic Man and had UK hits. Skream was invited to Buckingham Palace. The genre had its own first lady, Katy B. Rusko collaborated with Britney. Seal wasn't too sure about the genre, but the fact that he'd even heard of it was insane. Very little seemed impossible anymore for the genre that began as a small collection of friends from Croydon who DJed together once a month in east London ten years ago that no one wanted to know about. Now dubstep is one of the default dance music of choice for say, the west coast of America, or Friday night out at a superclub in London.
On the flipside, "dubstep," in what it means to its new found mass audience, has never been more dumbed down or formulaic. If someone finds dubstep for the first time by typing it into YouTube, they find mostly brostep idiocy by people who had no part in building the scene nor brought any original ideas with them when they arrived. In 2006, the tipping point year for dubstep, Loefah said in a documentary one of the reasons dubstep needed to be built was because the genres near it had become "formula-ed." Four years later, large parts of dubstep are now fully "formula-ed."
After a period of dysfunctional relationship, in 2010 there's been an amicable divorce between those artists who make "dubstep" and those who believed in its spirit of bass, experimentation, and reduced boundaries, and both parties are much happier for it. Those who it is most concerning for, however, are the increasingly smaller number of dubstep artists who have stuck to their guns, working on interesting dark music at around 140bpm, without making wobble.
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Also Scientist is releasing a curated dubstep comp, which is sure to be legit.
onewheelwizzard:
Couldn't resist the pagebreak.
edwinalink:
:mrgreen:I listened to every track posted in this thread and I still don't really get "WHAT" Dubstep is.
I'm going to go hide in some Triphop and pretend its still edgy. KTHNXBAI.
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