Hate the word “dubstep”, it makes me think of cheesy electro house wobbly bottom beats. For me I like the top ends, the shuffling aspect of tunes in this dub, dub techno, dub- whatever the fuck genre…There is some great tunes out there with tones of producers creating and improvising to great effect, but in my opinion there is no one better than Burial. I have loved all of his productions, with this EP one of many highlights. His style is very crossover friendly and so a lot of people can relate to it. South London Boroughs actually reminded me of Kenlou- the Bounce (one of my favorite tunes), when I heard it for the first time.
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The EP is definatly worth purchasing, this is only one of he great tunes on it, grab it HERE!!
over hyped boredom
does this guy ever do anything but squeezing out the same old rehashed boring drum pattern w/the same rain/crackle effect (oops, it might have been a different rain/crackle this time) and… uh, forget it. I don’t smoke, so that’s what. I guess. Still way over hyped, on to the next site.
Like I said I think his style just suits tech heads and I think they can relate to it… In the our scene he is anything but overhyped. When you think this was produced on soundforge with no structure and drum machine, it’s similar to old disco and italo where structure would completely wreck the flow of the song!
Personally, dubstep makes me think of fast-paced 2-step beats associated with UK Garage, as was the prevailing sound pre-2005, and the grimey sound it was fused with to create the genre. The wobstep bubblegum dubpop nonsense always seemed too gimmicky and it annoyed me further that it seemed to represent the definition of dubstep to many people.
The earlier dubstep pioneers, like El-B (often known as Ghost), Digital Mystikz (also Mala and Coki, who together made up DigiMyst), Kode9, and a bunch of other “darkside garage” artists really strike me as the best in the genre.
Burial, while being pretty crossover-friendly, represents some of the few dubstep artists still refusing to fall to the gimmicky rubbish that the genre has fallen victim to.
As a response, too, was the genre of UK Funky derived, almost as an outcry against the beleaguered face of London’s raver underground, to represent the latest, but hopefully not the last, extension of the Hardcore Continuum, set in motion so long ago by Acid House and UK Hardcore. As of now, tunes like Cooly G – Narst set the stage for a 2-Step/Dubstep-derived genre to shake off the wobble bass and start funky fresh with sexy beats and icy tracks the likes of which only the ‘nuum purists could appreciate (until the chavs catch on again, that is).
haha thanks for the reply very incitefull, i rarely dabble into this genre but love what producers like 2562 and martyn are doing. Dirty dark and just very well produced, awesome music