rolling back to the future garage/post-dubstep/alt-funkstep/intelli-2step etc thread
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Sectionfive
bandwagon house
Not sure if this is on topic but from that Blawan interview
And that old Reynolds Garage piece
And that old Reynolds Garage piece
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I tend to think my hair colour isn't right for the kind of beard I'd ideally like to pull off (or keep on - the surface of my face - to be more accurate) - if I had black hair I could get one of those whispy, not-quite-the-stubble-of-a-drunkard, not-quite-the-beard-of-a-future-garage-producer beards which sit like cotton clouds on the chiseled chin horizons of the obnoxiously attractive.
My beard goes ginger when it gets long, as opposed to my penis, which turns a violent shade of purple.
Oh and uhhh James Blake eh? Overrated or what?
My beard goes ginger when it gets long, as opposed to my penis, which turns a violent shade of purple.
Oh and uhhh James Blake eh? Overrated or what?
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I hope this doesn't make you feel too uncomfortable but I have a kind of prose/man-crush on you and I want to nest in your beard like a starling.
Benny Bunter
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Yeah why do all these producers insist on putting that horrible octave effect on the vocals they sample? cf. those James Blake harmonimixes.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Actually I think gumdrops might be right in arguing that the vocal on it sounds slapped on - perhaps thats why I find it quite irritating, because there's little/no harmonic anchor for it?
Mentioned a few pages back but I sometimes think the dominant/unifying factor in a lot of this post-dubstep music is mood rather than rhythm/sound. Its very rarely joyful, and much of it has this melancholy strain in it ala. Burial (RNB samples are often pitched down, the melancholic aspect in the original - if it exists at all- drawn out very strongly... or alternatively they're put through the pitch-ringer so they sound 'alien' or, if you will, 'wonky'). [seinfeld]Not that there's anything wrong with that![/seinfeld] It can be a very powerful effect. I used to love that kind of thing in jungle, for example... But sometimes it can make the use of RNB samples seem like a perfunctory grab for 'sexiness' or something, when the instrumental remains sub-bass heavy, rhythmically fundamentally churning/grinding...
Anyway, sorry for derailing. Back to beards.
Mentioned a few pages back but I sometimes think the dominant/unifying factor in a lot of this post-dubstep music is mood rather than rhythm/sound. Its very rarely joyful, and much of it has this melancholy strain in it ala. Burial (RNB samples are often pitched down, the melancholic aspect in the original - if it exists at all- drawn out very strongly... or alternatively they're put through the pitch-ringer so they sound 'alien' or, if you will, 'wonky'). [seinfeld]Not that there's anything wrong with that![/seinfeld] It can be a very powerful effect. I used to love that kind of thing in jungle, for example... But sometimes it can make the use of RNB samples seem like a perfunctory grab for 'sexiness' or something, when the instrumental remains sub-bass heavy, rhythmically fundamentally churning/grinding...
Anyway, sorry for derailing. Back to beards.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I've got one of those fancyish razors. Can they be used to create a masterwork-beard? I need to take night classes in facial hair maintenance.
james blake is someone who i would imagine would def get a beard for that sort of grizzled indie living in a log cabin a la bon iver sort of cred. the thing about the beard tom lea was saying is sort of right, but the number of ppl with beards is def a lot larger in this scene than in the funky, grime or even dubstep scenes combined. forget the beard thing though, a lot of this stuff does really feel like dance music for indie kids (this doesnt necessarily mean however that kaiser chiefs and arctic monkey fans are turning up to fwd). its that whole indie aesthetic aligned perfectly with dance. strange. but not surprising. indie is being used everywhere. doesnt matter if theyve never even been into the music, they dont have to have been. soon, youre gonna get ramadanman and martin kemp doing soundtracks for fucking wes anderson. or that overrated twat from the it crowd who directed submarine lol.
it does but a lot of the time it just feels almost put-on. like its there for the sake of being there, not cos it really is felt. at least thats how i felt at times while listening to that swamp 81 show on rinse the other night (though the mc was a bit like listening to lee nelson from bbc3). some of the tracks were interesting tho, if a bit one note.
actually the thing i thought while listening to the swamp set was that even tho it was a bit limited, i liked that it all at least had a unified sound to it all. yeah i know 'theres so much great and different music coming out now!' but it might be cool to have more djs have their own sound, like how loefah does. (i would say only playing your own beats is cheating)
obv this might also lead to boring sets.
it does but a lot of the time it just feels almost put-on. like its there for the sake of being there, not cos it really is felt. at least thats how i felt at times while listening to that swamp 81 show on rinse the other night (though the mc was a bit like listening to lee nelson from bbc3). some of the tracks were interesting tho, if a bit one note.
actually the thing i thought while listening to the swamp set was that even tho it was a bit limited, i liked that it all at least had a unified sound to it all. yeah i know 'theres so much great and different music coming out now!' but it might be cool to have more djs have their own sound, like how loefah does. (i would say only playing your own beats is cheating)
obv this might also lead to boring sets.
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Sectionfive
bandwagon house
Lets not forget
Benny Bunter
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I'm using the James Blake example again, but a lot of his stuff sounds like when Radiohead does electronic/glitchy stuff. Its the sort of flimsy beats that indie kids who turn electronic tend to make. This would all be fine but this stuff gets talked up as dancefloor music, where it just doesn't cut the mustard.
And the 4x4 stuff like that Blawan tune just sounds laughably polite compared to practically any good 4x4 funky track, or going back further a 1997 era Speed garage track for example. Like any given Tuff Jam banger would just eat it alive.
And the 4x4 stuff like that Blawan tune just sounds laughably polite compared to practically any good 4x4 funky track, or going back further a 1997 era Speed garage track for example. Like any given Tuff Jam banger would just eat it alive.
Benny Bunter
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Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Again, I'm interested to know why the beats seem flimsy - the way they're engineered? The sounds that are used? Or a lack of understanding of syncopation/groove?
Just replace the ball in this pic with an MPC.
bandshell
Grand High Witch
I like 'Getting me down'. It's a big tune. Overhyped, but so are most things. I think the white label release and it selling out quickly have fuelled the hype a bit too.
We've just coming out of winter. Might need to take that into account with the beard situation. A few might be lost as we approach the summer.
We've just coming out of winter. Might need to take that into account with the beard situation. A few might be lost as we approach the summer.
Benny Bunter
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Fuck knows why, I'd like to know too. :slanted:
Fuck knows why, I'd like to know too. :slanted: