Electronic Music 411 - dubstep = poo - poopie, fart basses, clunky beats

Its all about Burial & Benga for me. Both of em consitently turn out dazzling records. Interestingly they sound *nothing* like each other, or anyone else, yet are still considered to be making 'dubstep' .. which says a great deal about how interesting it was when the scene first started.

Pretty much 99% of the rest are just copying each other., going nowhere.

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10/26/07 + jonbro

rinse.fm is where you listen to it... plastician and skream both have shows... there are some other ones too, but I don't know who. Mostly they all play the same dubplates tho, so tuning in to either of those guys will hear you the new stuff.

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10/26/07 + KidQuaalude

ekstrak said: "Pretty much 99% of the rest are just copying each other., going nowhere."

yeah. this happened with jungle/dnb, garage, grime and dubstep scenes imo. exciting to begin with while the producers are figuring out what works and what doesnt, then once a few key records are made its all facsimile productions after that and the music stagnates...

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10/26/07 + disturb

wow i excpected to be flamed with this...

well, i'm just fed up with this stuff, i agree there are a few exceptions though, seems like there are some cool stuff on the latest boxcutter for example.

but laetly if you checkout a website like boomkat.com on a semi-regular basis, you come to realise how everything fits in little soundalike niches :
dubstep, dubby/minimal techno, hipster techno, droney stuff w or w/o guitars, post indie rock (a.k.a. wtf, do you really think singing off key makes you look cool ?) etc

i wouldn't be pissed at dubstep if everyone and their moma wasn't trying to get people to believe that this shit is awesome, and that it's the next big thing happening right now. I truely believe it's gimmicky and 90% of it is totally formulaic and boring, just a kind of new set of rules people stick to.

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10/26/07 + license

I really like Bass Clef, I don't understand the rest. Burial's production is great but the hype had me expecting something really exciting and unique and it's just not.

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10/26/07 + thehydrax

I was surprised that the new System e.p. "Tempo" is a bit dub step. I prefer straight up dub, but ya know, if you don't dig it you don't have to partake

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10/26/07 + thehydrax

oh that new Disrupt album "foundation bit" smokes, btw

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10/26/07 + jonbro

hey disturb, it is possible to troll on em411, but generally you need to be a bit of an ass, otherwise people will assume that you want to get into an intelligent conversation... interesting place, this.

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10/26/07 + jogn

Singing off key like the fall or pavement is great. The deerhoof-y animal collective bits are a little iffy though. But i'm digging the new animal collective album. I think you're coming to appreciate what the internet has truly given us .... democratic sounds --- everywhere, all the time and derivative of something else, and infinitely reproducible, but only the best or the loudest will be remembered.

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10/26/07 + disturb

when i said singing off key i didn't mean anything pavement like.
pavement are awesome.

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10/26/07 + license

that dude Spark linked to is pretty sweet tho.

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10/26/07 + jogn

you know that dude's just aching to go all breakcore.

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10/26/07 + madeofoak

yes, hating is lame, but damn if that isn't the best title for a blog ever.

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