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i know fuck all about current electronic music, but this mix i'm listening to by Various Productions is really kicking my ass. the guy at wordthecat says they're dubstep/grime beats. i don't really know much dubstep but it's way slower than any grime i've heard. i'm hearing more of a crunchy, heavy rhythmic (timbaland influenced) downtempo type beat with weird folky female vocals and vocal samples on top. really beautiful & creepy stuff. if listened to the wrong way, one could hear traces of IDM or portishead, but it's way better than any of that.

here's their site: http://various.co.uk/ besides having amazing music, the illustrations on the site are top notch.

you can download the mix here
http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/?p=81

have they already been talked to death on ILM?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

The Various Production thread

not especially

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:53 (twenty years ago)

shit. i swear i searched the mutha

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

i was pretty excited by the idea of them (and i looooooove the packaging) but the actual records kinda leave me a little cold. (like dubstep, blah blah.)

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:55 (twenty years ago)

they've got that indie "filter"

― team jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

all i've really heard is the mix and two singles tho, so maybe i'm not hearing their best work.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 February 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

I've heard the mix and I quite like it. I suspect that dubstep has been growing me lately on me though.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:33 (twenty years ago)

i actually listened to it again this am and it sounded much better than my first impression. i want a CD because there's no way i'm springing for a bunch of 7"s.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

pretty as they may be.

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:39 (twenty years ago)

http://bleepfiend.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/VAR009.jpg

― ham'ron (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the art (and website) is really great.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 17:48 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

yeah, i really like hater and sir on the world is gone- they don't sound overly dubsteppy to me -very echoey, lots of effects with nice vocals on top.

― Tara McNulty (Tarasky), Monday, 2 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

i need to spend more time with this.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 2 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

having found this album in the clearout bins recently, i have spent more time with this in recent weeks that just about anything else.
hater is drop dead brilliance.
time for followup surely ?
[note : i am not including last years collab with poet - is that wrong of me ? ]

― mark e, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:13 (sixteen years ago)

No, that collab was terrible. The first thing I didn't buy from them. There are a bunch of great tracks that didn't make it on the album though, and you definitely need to track down the soundboard live recordings from their mini tour a couple years ago.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:22 (sixteen years ago)

Didn't they do a remix record too?

― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 January 2010 22:43 (sixteen years ago)

yes they did, it had a handful of unreleased tracks on it too.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 14 January 2010 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

The remix record is definitely worth seeking out, I like the version of Hater on it even more

― mh, Friday, 15 January 2010 01:02 (sixteen years ago)

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