Tentative Andy
I'm in the Meal Deal
Wanna see you do the night-squid skank...
ever heard Mala?
ever heard Roska or Hard House Banton?
Should have been more like this, no?
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When did Spongebob come out?
can opener tunes.
The smoking ban... a joke but I think that the music did really change from being all about stoned swagger/paranoia/dub-echo to being proper 'rave' music - big bolshy synths, 'who's got the biggest drop' contests etc. at a certain point. It was probably a number of factors, including trying to export the music from small dark loud spaces like PP to big rooms where the sound wasn't good enough to make sub-bass interesting.
As much as I hate a lot of wobble and the expectations/crowd its created, I think you could say that it was a neccessary evolution - I mean, I always bang on about how great 2005/6 were but if it had carried on down that gloomy half-step road it would have got boring eventually... Divorce a lot of these tunes from their context ('Night', 'Spongebob' etc) and they can sound pretty great. And stuff by artists like Joker/Gemmy/Zomby has benefited from the shift in emphasis from minimalist/sub-bass to colourful synths and an unhinged feel.
when metal lingo started being used e.g. "brutal", "moshing".. I think this was around 2007. what a horrible fate.
Re the couple of mentiones of Cockney Thug: I (like most people I would expect)quite like it, but the interesting about it is that although obv it has that big wub-wub sound going right through it, it doesn't really sound like what I would understand this idea of 'heavy metal wobble' to be. More like a dubstep equivalent of happy hardcore, if such thing is conceivable. :slanted:
The 'wub-wub' Cockney Thug thing I get,but 'heavy metal wobble'?.Can someone point me in the direction of some examples? If I think Distance am I going wide of the mark?