"this Pole thing"
WHAT Pole thing????
Pole commissioned a load of dubsteppers including Shackleton, Appleblim and Peverlist to do remixes for ~Scape see here... http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/43074-the-month-in-grime-dubstep
"this Pole thing"
WHAT Pole thing????
Re: 2D--- Its one of the tightest bits of programming I've heard, and a totally nu look for dubstep, opening it up rather than locking it into duff-step monotony (ie glitch electro-step).
Haha-- its better than THAT...
I frequently miss the raw minimal drums + bass + effects of earlier dubstep.
Bejeezus yr not looking very hard are you? 90%of dubstep still pretty much sounds exactly like this, doesn't it???
Ambient dubstep would probably work too (ie entirely drum free) providing you have enough bass-pulse rhythm to create a danceable music- (ie- imagine a club based music without drums... almost as if it takes "Sine of the Dub" as the starting point....)
i want dubstep to come around a kind of opposite devil mix, syncopated atmospherics and samples/melodies which instead of having that half step and bass where the syncopation is filled in by the dancer, i want no drums and no bass, pure build up
gek-opel said:Ambient dubstep would probably work too (ie entirely drum free) providing you have enough bass-pulse rhythm to create a danceable music- (ie- imagine a club based music without drums... almost as if it takes "Sine of the Dub" as the starting point....)
This is fascinating; as well as the Wiley devil mix thing, it reminds me of Weatherall saying that back in the early 90's (I think) he'd play Strings Of Life - but only the intro/build-up, as people knew it so well and would go nuts waiting for the track proper to kick in, but it never did. May's Sueno Latino mix does this sort of thing to some extent too, but with a febrile humid rain-forest density rather than ambience/chill-space. Ditto the sun-bleached phased swirl of Scratch Perry-produced River Stone by Zap Pow.
Strangely the trad roots reggae/dub "reversed" rhythm - with an empty 1-beat, and the kick falling on the 3 (snare) beat - is rarely (ever?) used in dubstep, but I imagine it could really ratchet up the tension/intensity at half-step speed with a good b-line.