Dubstep
NOMAD042: Soundcloud Dubstep
There’s so many good dubstep tracks about on SoundCloud at the moment, I thought it was time to do a mix of them. You can too, as everything you’re about to hear is free to download! Can’t say fairer than that. Some of these have only been listened to by 30 or so people in the whole world at the time of writing. How underground is that?! Hit continue for the track list.
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Sweeping Genre-lisation
So, I promised to defend the practice of writing about music. I said that music couldn’t be described in words. That was true once. But that was before tagging came along…
The need to classify music into genres used to infuriate me. How do I know you’re hearing what I’m hearing? “We can see other people’s behaviour but not their experience” says Laing. More to the point, is it Rhythmy Blues or Rock & Roll? Does Various Production count as light-Dubstep or heavy-electro-Folk?!
Now where did I put that Enya LP..?
The rigid hierarchy of genres was only a problem with physical records. If you’re in a record shop then you’ve got to choose where to put/ need to know where to get tunes: genres seem as sensible structure as any (unless you’re Rob Fleming in which case you’ll organise your personal CD collection into autobiographical order). Pigeon-holing (the filing metaphor not the blood sport) is inevitable when tunes have to be carved into plastic.
Now that music has a virtual as well as a physical presence, genres can be interpreted far more flexibly. Everything is miscellaneous. Various Production can be dubstep, folk, electro, and whatever else you want, all at the same time.
So, if everything is miscellaneous, and writing about music can now extend over an infinite range of possibility, then how do we read it? In other words, what use are tags to the listener? Enter meta-data…
Dubstep Two Point Oh
I saw this and thought of you…
Discovered at Toothpaste For Dinner
“Bad poetry: oh noetry.”
ps. 2.0 meme, your days are numbered.
NOMAD028: Testrack @ Not4Prophet
Dirty, nasty, filthy Dubstep as usual! I played a set last night at Not4Prophet and this is it. Well, no it isn’t actually, this is the practice I recorded the day before. The actual set only went on for half an hour as the venue shut early. Rubbish! But we’ll gloss over that for now and play this podcast really loud while dancing like twats in our living rooms. Yes we shall Jesus, yes we shall.
Podcast: Download (duration: 52:42 — 48.3MB)
Review: Bass Camp @ Moho Live
That's your mum, that is
Coki from dubstep doyens Digital Mystikz was in town last weekend to perforate Manchester’s collective eardrum at Drum Music’s Bass Camp night.
Newish nightspot Moho Live was an appropriate venue, being cosy rather than cramped, and its effective soundsystem did indeed help Coki, Kutz, Ken Evil & co vibrate the audience into a frenzy.
Or most of the audience. One little corner discovered that you can do medieval dance moves to dubstep.
Meanwhile, in the Whatever the Weather room many finished off the evening with a nice spot of drum & bass. Where it was discovered that medieval dancing is possible to that, too.
Marvelous.
NOMAD025: Watoo & Unbalanced Jack
Those naughty turntable fondlers from ReDub play us a bit of Breakstep. Like dubstep and breakbeat, but all mixed together in a big pot. There’s some really good melodic bits as well as heavy beats and bass lines (obviously – what did you think was going to happen?). Look out for them playing somewhere good in a field soon!
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NOMAD024: Random Factor
E.J Steer of Crazy Robot Productions plays Nomad one of his series of Random Factor mixes. If you’ve not heard his style before, I think you’d better check it out hadn’t you. You naughty scamp. This one spans, amongst other genres, blip-hop, machine funk, gitchy electro and dubstep I reckon. B.o.n.e.r!
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NOMAD021: How I’m Livin
Ritual sacrifice of 3 goats and a chicken has bought sonic fruit to the valley of bass. DJ Kane of the Ohana soundsystem delivers a succulent platter of hiphop, electronics and dubstep to the waiting gibbons. May your testicles or mammaries vibrate with impending
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NOMAD008: Dubstep / Breaks from Meganesh and Watoo
I’ve been hearing a lot of Dubstep that bores the tits off me recently… This set from Megansesh has definitely rekindled my love for it though… I’d class it is “fucking well interesting” to be honest. Just like dubstep should be. Followed by some more wicked Breakbeat from Watoo, this time on his own…. The unifying features of these sets are “Bass” and “Dirty”.
Podcast: Download (60.0MB)
NOMAD001: Electronica then nasty D&B
Wahey! It’s the first Nomad Radio show! Nic’s kicking it all off playing some electronica, dubstep and nasty DnB from his obscenely large vinyl collection…
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