the genre known as dubstep - search and destroy

like most (all) that goes under then name of grime.

most overrated genre of 2004!

like most (all) that goes under then name of grime.

most overrated genre of 2004!"

nah, it is overrated but theres some good stuff there. dubstep is generally the superior thing.

right or wrong?

I think that's the one, I'll hook you up later today. It's all about the "Dub Plate remix".

It is!

Toasty "the Knowledge" (Hot Flush)
Search and Destroy "Food Chain" (Texture)
Slaughter Mob vs. Search and Destroy "Saddam" (Soul Ja)

Check out the Search and Destroy pirate radio shows if you are in London, a friend hooked me up with a CDR of Dj Prior's set on there and it's really heavy, super cool stuff.

ps: people seem to be calling the above records/scene "breaks" (yeah, dumb name, I know) rather than dubstep proper, but anyway to my ears it sounds like slowed down (to 120 bpm) jungle purged of its breakbeats but with those heavy heavy basslines, ecstatic/dark strings, and vocal/percussive tidbits getting tossed into ominous delays and reverbs. In other words, menacing and rad.

destroy:
horsepower productions, zed bias and any other lightweight wine bar shit.

I don't think I've ever been to a wine bar.

It's very Horsepower Productions also obv.

I have to disagree. The arrangement is much more whacked out whereas Horsepower is almost nu-jazzy - although maybe it's because I only listen to the dub (can't remember the a-side mix at all).

dubstep... money... don't make me laugh!

This is was the beginning of dark swing. As the Groove Chronicles' "1999" and El-B/Ghost's "2000" suggest, these predate the Pay As U Go /Musical Mob strains of dark garage that grime evolved out of in 2001.

February - Scientist, Youngsta, J Da Flex & mc Crazy D
March - Plasticman, Kode9, Wonder & mc Crazy D

72 results found:

dj younsta - dubstep allstars volume 2 - features the massive neverland coming to vinyl on DMZ005 soon - also includes a variety of forthcoming hotness

DMZ004 - Coki - officer &

N-Type - Square Off

the new one from D1 (SOULJA008)

the utterly essential HYP003 - kode9's Kingstown

Benny Ill vs Dinesh & Mark One (VEHICLE5)

very old now but dub child's - voodoo tears it

plus many others - excellent period right now

check mr blackdown and mr dusk's keysound radio mix

And jed sent me Kingstown. Dusk and Blackdown's Keysound mix is REALLY good.

I guess....

Scientist *artwork*

http://www.crestock.com/uploads/blog/2009/reggaecoverart/1982-Scientist-Scientist_wins_the_world_cup.jpg

(this^ owns though even if it's not a gamechanger per se)

"are earlier scientist discs "uber-classics"?"

They are really good, yeah (agree they are not really game-changing though). And artwork is def. amazing.

scientist rids the world of the curse of the vampire is uber classic

I'm glad that The Wire is covering Shackleton a lot recently. I really like his stuff.

he's kinda scaring me with the gregorian chant though

Most of you already now this by now, but Scuba - Triangulation is seriously the bidness!

It's actually kind of ridiculous how amazingly well this album flows. It manages to listen like a masterfully well sequenced mix; this makes me all the more excited to see him play here in a week!

The remix disc isn't bad either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CgT4N0zU1M

Yeah I just got the double CD pack. Shall be listening to the remixes later. I've just heard the Deadbeat one thus far, but it's good.

this is actually a really good mala interview. maybe the best out of the ones ive read this year (much better/more specific than the one on factmag). i like him more after reading this.

http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/feature/little-white-earbuds-interviews-mala/

The new LV album's got a track called "Northern Line" which I'll never be able to get out my head when getting on the tube.

What you know about Kings Cross??

DESTROY IT ALL

The Hotflush compilation is quite good, the growing ubiquitous of clubnights playing lolstep in my area not so much

+ness

http://gotsars.com/images/384cdf0a024c703fa22778c7ed43f4c2.jpg

that is every kid in Hitchin

sans cat of course.

DESTROY: http://www.nme.com/news/korn/59480

probably the first dubstep song i ever liked. \o_o/

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/705/779544flvej5.gif

http://www.residentadvisor.net/images/reviews/2012/silkie-and-quest-dubstep-allstars-vol.09.jpg

5/5

Can't wait to get this, even though I've heard the Quest tunes a billion times before and the last Silkie album underwhelmed me. These two together are straight fire.

Vahid did you ever hear their Uprooted live set from like 2008? One of my favourite sets ever.

<3<3<3 Silkie

yes and i liked it

it's going to sound corny but this is like the jacob's optical stairway of dubstep in places

they are synth wizards

Yeah Jacob's Optical Stairway are a good comparison.

I think also Bugz in the Attic at their best?

A POX of this vibe (across sub-genres) would be interesting.

i'm working on one but i think LHF would be up there too

sorta think LHF are too good-but-boring?

you heard this yet tim?

IT IS SO FUCKING GOOD

I just nabbed it today!

good, cause it's good

<3<3<3<3<3 this

damn I was just thinking today how Silkie and sully are really the only dubstep I f/w. gotta check that out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0RX5Nvd62k

Ruff ruff ruff
Beats beats beats

All Loefah DMZ tracks on his Bandcamp now.

So, the new Skrillex with Fred Again song actually sounds like dubstep for once.

Also revive to post one of my favorite dubstep tracks of all time:

Milanese - caramel cognac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0KTKlCQTjE

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000rp0p

repeat play for the 20th anniversary of Dubstep Wars episode of the Beezeblock

"20 years ago, Mary Anne Hobbs made a show called Dubstep Warz, originally broadcast on Radio 1, on January 10th 2006. She brought together a group of Artists from a very young South London scene, and in that moment, they changed the world of electronic music forever. Digital Mystikz, Skream, Kode 9 & The Spaceape, Vex’d, Hatcha & Crazy D, Loefah & Sgt. Pokes, and Distance. This the true sound of Dubstep, still so fresh and future-facing in 2026."

the Skream, Vex'd and Distance are as good as i remember them. makes me wonder if there was anything i missed back in the day.

Most of those Dubstep Allstars comps are solid gold from what I’ve heard.

number 2 was pretty much where i started. maybe the first vex'd lp, which isn't the traditional dubstep sound. and the dubstep show on FBI Radio in, of all places, australia (presenters were actually Moving Ninja)

Well looks like you’re yoinks ahead of me then lol. I don’t know if the style is quite “still so fresh in 2026” but there have definitely been some quality releases in recent times. (I haven’t been following closely enough to post regularly here though.)

my eldest got me the limited 2cd set that Tectonic Recordings released last year featuring new stuff.
it's all really f&cking good, but the appleblim track especially with the techno bleeps is very special.

https://tectonicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tectonic-sound

Really into that tectonic comp. Impressive to see a comp that long feeling both classic and fresh, and celebrating 20 years! I’d single out the Kahn and Neek track as my favourite.

I like that in the past few months I bought that comp and a repress of artwork’s Red. Feels like the circle of life is flowing.

saw this thread bumped and ended up listening to dubstep all-stars vol 6, which is somehow the only one in my library? I should rectify that

it's fun to skim through all the twists and turns here. dismissing the caspa and rusko direction right before that blew up, the commercialization of "dubstep" that sounded nothing like the original sound, etc.

I think a lot of the stuff that got dubbed (heh) dubstep in the early 2010s is probably just thought of as generically EDM now? rough times when "dubstep" seemed to mean "EDM with big drops" for a few years in the public ear

Skream got annoyed with me on Twitter at one point for saying trap was on the brostep spectrum roffle.

That Tectonic comp looks amazing

damn I was just thinking today how Silkie and sully are really the only dubstep I f/w. gotta check that out.

― blank, Thursday, 13 September 2012 04:53

And yeah interesting course of the thread here for sure. Is this Sully the same one who’s recently rampaged through the jungle scene?

the (digital copies of the) tectonic comp are half the price on boomkat that it is on bandcamp (and bandcamp seems to add 20% tax by default, which us Britishers aren't used to).

i also noticed there's a third tectonic plates comp i never got around to

and a fourth...

that said, i vaguely remember even the second one was moving away from what i liked about dubstep - the slow, dark, crow-dark, dubby bits - and was turning into something a bit more... fidgety.

listening now. and it's fine, but is it dubstep?

samples:
https://boomkat.com/products/tectonic-sound