Word y'all.
Out of all the boards there seems to be a genuine appreciation of styles across genres here..
I like to play sets consiting of tough electro (proper, not "clash") dubstep, broken beat and crunky hip hop etc. For me, the dubstep rhythms fit perfectly with electro shit and broken/bruk tracks from the likes of Seiji, Afronaught etc.
Have been to FWD a few times, 3rd bass etc to get my dubstep fix. I check hip hop nights to get that fix (though more often than not its the same tunes as I was hearing and playing 10 years ago), and I'll try and reach Co-oP to hear broken beat. Now, I realise that you need pioneering nights such as FWD, in any scene, to champion individual styles of music but:
What I'm getting at I think is: Give me a night where I can go to hear diversity.
Where can you go and see 2Tall playing ditry hip hop, followed by Seiji dropping bruk step, followed by Youngsta ripping the roof off with his shit? Its all bassline music isn't it? Its all current, exciting stuff. It's all evolved from the same place.
Is it cause dance music is so splintered these days that if you put on a night combining the above mentioned styles people just wouldn't get it? Can you only play dubstep at Forward/3rd Bass? Can you only play Crunky deep south stuff at "commercial" hip hop jams? Would the grime/dubstep peeps hate if Youngsta or Hatcha dropped a Skream beat with a Houston crunk accapella on it at FWD?
Perhaps there are nights that I'm not aware of that do this. Have heard a few DJ mixes from the likes of Shadetek, DJ Ayres, Stacs of Stamina etc. that attempt to do this, but would it get love from the London peeps if you attempted to pull it all under one roof? Would the dubstep boys turn up alongside hip hop kids alongside broken beat followers? I doubt it. Surely people are open-minded enouigh these days to look further than their "scene" of choice? Maybe not..
Excuse the ramblings but it'd be good to hear your thoughts...
Out of all the boards there seems to be a genuine appreciation of styles across genres here..
I like to play sets consiting of tough electro (proper, not "clash") dubstep, broken beat and crunky hip hop etc. For me, the dubstep rhythms fit perfectly with electro shit and broken/bruk tracks from the likes of Seiji, Afronaught etc.
Have been to FWD a few times, 3rd bass etc to get my dubstep fix. I check hip hop nights to get that fix (though more often than not its the same tunes as I was hearing and playing 10 years ago), and I'll try and reach Co-oP to hear broken beat. Now, I realise that you need pioneering nights such as FWD, in any scene, to champion individual styles of music but:
What I'm getting at I think is: Give me a night where I can go to hear diversity.
Where can you go and see 2Tall playing ditry hip hop, followed by Seiji dropping bruk step, followed by Youngsta ripping the roof off with his shit? Its all bassline music isn't it? Its all current, exciting stuff. It's all evolved from the same place.
Is it cause dance music is so splintered these days that if you put on a night combining the above mentioned styles people just wouldn't get it? Can you only play dubstep at Forward/3rd Bass? Can you only play Crunky deep south stuff at "commercial" hip hop jams? Would the grime/dubstep peeps hate if Youngsta or Hatcha dropped a Skream beat with a Houston crunk accapella on it at FWD?
Perhaps there are nights that I'm not aware of that do this. Have heard a few DJ mixes from the likes of Shadetek, DJ Ayres, Stacs of Stamina etc. that attempt to do this, but would it get love from the London peeps if you attempted to pull it all under one roof? Would the dubstep boys turn up alongside hip hop kids alongside broken beat followers? I doubt it. Surely people are open-minded enouigh these days to look further than their "scene" of choice? Maybe not..
Excuse the ramblings but it'd be good to hear your thoughts...
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