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I love this music - I like anything that isn't the "generic wobble " really.

LOVE the old style dub influenced shit (Kromestar, some Widdler, some Matty G, Radikal Guru, Cotti etc) for having a chill dance to with a spliff in hand, love the real deep more downtempo good-to-meditate-to stuff (Digital Mystikz, Burial, Loefah, Pinch, Shackleton); then you get all the newskool heavy nasty shit like Excision; Datsik,Chasing SHadows, Riskotheque, Koan Sound, Borgore; Bar 9; midground (Emalkay, Bassnectar, Coki, Sukh Knight, Deaf Bass Twins; ); Benga, Ikonika, Akira Kiteshi, flux pavilion, Zeds Dead all coming with a electro sound

- I especially love the artists who mix it up and don't stay with one sound - 16bit, Bassnectar, High Rankin, Stenchman, Goth-Trad, Emalkay and even a lot of Skream's stuff - they keep it moving, evolving - much respect is dude even if they're "mainstream".

I just love how dubstep now incorporates dub, garage, hip hop, metal, electro, soul, even psychedelic kinda ish, the list goes oooooon.
 
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^ Whatever...it's not generic at all..they came with a very fresh sound all of them - it's quite far removed from the original roots but generic it is not..look up the term generic, it seems you need some help.

Thizzerfershizzer said:
Hate to break it to you, but Datsik, Borgore, and those other artists arent that underground anymore. Still nice (and im going to be meeting Datsik soon actually as he's a friend of a friend), but not that underground anymore, sadly.
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Why does it matter whether an artist is underground?? The only thing that's bad is if an artist stops making tunes that are from natural expression, and starts making tunes are that go with the flock to make that extra bit o' paper.
 
Jblazingphoenix100 said:
^ Whatever...it's not generic at all..they came with a very fresh sound all of them - it's quite far removed from the original roots but generic it is not..look up the term generic, it seems you need some help.
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hahahaha

Have you ever heard any of the other producers on Rottun? They all sound exactly like Datsik. All of that shit is so formulaic and extremely generic.

That's why it's called brostep. An that's why the bros love it.
 
I actually enjoy datsik, numbernin6 is absolutely disgusting though.

The widdler is good for laid back heavy bassness.

I will actually be broadcasting a dubstep mix tonight 9pm est. but ill be smashed and most likely end up throwing up on the decks, good times. I posted the info in the webcast thread.
 
So i'm trying to get into dubstep

so far I've only heard burial... which is TERRIBLE. Reccomend me some stuff that sounds nothing like him. hard hitting if possible, no crappy female poppy vox over the top either...
 
Bass is one of the most important parts of dubstep, so most tracks hit hard... and pretty much no dubstep sounds like Burial.

So... you're not giving us much to work with.

You could start with a few comps.
5 Years of Hyperdub
The Roots of El-B
Ammunition And Blackdown Present: The Roots Of Dubstep
the Dubstep All-Stars comps

Classic producers:
Skream
Coki
Benga
Loefah
mala
Kromestar
Appleblim
Geiom
Peverelist
Shackleton

Here are some big names (many of these classic producers too):
Joker (purple wow)
Datsik (brostep)
Om Unit (housey dubstep)
16bit (brostep)
Boxcutter (planet mu mutant dubstep)
Starkey (wonky hip-hop/dubstep)
Mimosa (wonky dubstep)
2562 (techno influenced dubstep)
Pangaea (techno influenced dubstep)
James Blake (")
Mount Kimbie (")
Vex'd (techno influenced dubstep, I guess?)
Ramadanman (house-y dubstep)
FaltyDL (all over the place "dubstep")
Headhunter/Jakes (techno/house dubstep hybrid)


the descriptions are really loose, but kinda give the general direction dubstep has gone in. It started off as an offshoot of UK Garage, then a lot of dnb producers joined in. Now you see a lot of brostep being made, and seemingly almost as a reaction, many producers going to more subtle, well-produced house (uk funky), techno, and UK garage influences (leading to the term "future garage"). From the beginning Grime has also had a large part in shaping the overall gutter sounds of a lot of dubstep.
 
Alright, I could call him wobble... but 16 bit honestly does fit more with brostep than anything else. He's an interesting producer, but he does tend to be more on the heavy wobble side, appear on heavy wobble brostep mixes, get played by brostep DJs at brostep events.... brostep by proxy at least.

edit: also, like I said "the descriptions are really loose". Brostep is a joke style within a very loose style of electronic music. But if he enjoys brostep, he'll probably enjoy 16 bit... chances are if he enjoys 16 bit then he'll enjoy a lot of brostep. Just trying to help him a little with hearing some differences in this style.
 
Nah dude I haven't heard anyone else on the Rottun label - I'm not heavily into it - I like to keep my music tastes eclectic, although Dubstep is what I dance to most these days...All I know is first time I heard Datsik I hadn't heard anything like it, other than Excision - in fact I heard them both together...

infestedpasta said:
Anyone here heard of doctor p?
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I heard "Sweet shop"- wasn't impressed... like "Badman Sound" a bit better...

Loving Cotti at the mo - "Dem Fi Know", and "Rise the temperature" which is a dutty skanking tune - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZp0bXApJqQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=AtcU2CzhcF4

I like heavy stuff for when I'm in need of some release or I got a lot of shit to do, but mostly I like the chilled skanking kinda dubstep, keeping it closer to the roots of dub music, good for waking up smoothly, for walking on a sunny day...it's all good :)
 
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Big shit:

Eprom - Shoplifter (Crazy wonky shit. Every track is big. Slugabed rmx? Yes plz.)
Dam Mantle - Grey EP (lush; one of the most interesting releases this year; Glaswegians like pretty music)
Hackman - Bodies EP (acid-y, tropical future garage)
Africa Hitek - Blen ("Blen" is bashment badassness from Mark Pritchard)
D-Bridge, Skream & Instra:Mental - Acacia Avenue (just look at that line-up, what needs to be said?)
 
Detroit dubstep anyone?

Hello everyone, im from detroit and have been part of the detroit dubstep scene for quite a while now. The circus events have been amazing, anyone else from the detroit area experienced these events? From what I understand d town has one of the better dubstep scenes, but for all you people from other cities how popular is womp in your area? i'm curious because its become quite huge now around here, but I know alot of places have yet to be exposed to it. Just looking for a little feedback! Good music, good times.
 
Deep Medi Releases Volume 2

tracklist:
NSFW:
01 Kromestar - Marz Attak 05:44
02 Kromestar - Rainy Dayz 06:08
03 Quest - The Seafront 06:13
04 Quest - Deep Inside 05:50
05 Silkie - Hooby 05:49
06 Silkie - I Sed 05:07
07 Tunnidge - Deddeon 05:39
08 Tunnidge - Face Melt 06:04
09 Goth-Trad - Law 05:02
10 Goth-Trad - The Clown 05:47
11 Mala - Miracles 05:09
12 Mala - New Life (Baby Paris) 06:00
 
What the hell is brostep? Is it like clownstep/Jump Up in the Drum & Bass world? Or is it dubstep that frat boys listen to? But since when do frat boys listen to dubstep? Maybe it's just our frat boys who are 5-6 years behind the curve, I'd imagine USC type frat boys might be more likely to know what brostep is.

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I wouldn't call 16 Bit "brostep." For one thing, "Shallow" and "Twice" are sublime and not bro-y at all.
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Yeah, 16 bit should not be considered brostep. Shallow and Twice are indeed out of this world. Very few tracks can match Shallow IMO.
 
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