philblackpool
gamelanstep
Preparing to get torn to shreds here...
Maybe not in all circles, but certainly here & in many other places, I think 'golden era' dubstep is a massive sacred cow, although whether it will stay that way remains to be seen (been here before with drum n bass etc). I feel I can just about get away with saying this, because when I lived down Essex way, I was one of the people who used to go & badger Uptown about El-B white labels 2001ish, so I'm not remotely averse to pre-wobbler stuff. I absolutely loved Ghost stuff at the time & really liked a lot of Zed Bias, used to listen to new stuff on Dubplate.net or whatever it was called (Artwork "Red", Horsepower etc) but started to think it was diminishing returns even then. And I was just starting to think about a FWD visit early 2003...when suddenly I moved up north.
I eagerly kept half an eye on it from then on, but I have to say I didn't find myself being drawn in much again until the end of 2007 (admittedly partly cos there was nowhere to hear the stuff on big speakers). Thats not to say I don't have one or two things on MP3 that I love (Slimzee, Geeneus & Riko at FWD 5th Birthday comes to mind, as does "Request Line" of course), but I always felt a bit too much fuss was made about its diversity & forward-thinking nature, when all that usually amounted to was using some pseudo-ethnic keyboard sound or a few 'Jah Rastafari' samples.
I'm probably with Mr Finney on this one, who was saying somewhere else on here that he thinks its better now, more genuinely varied. I think the wobblers have their place, the half-step stuff is still in there, you get full-on reggae-&-RnB-based tunes, some crossover with Funky & 2Step, the minimal, technoy stuff, the weird gruff offshoots like The Bug & Mordant Music, the Rustie end of wonky. Maybe its just cos I'm paying attention now & have caught up a bit, but I'm rally enjoying dubstep now, like I did 2000-2003, & for me 2004-6 was largely for the specialists!!
Ducks pretty quickly...
Maybe not in all circles, but certainly here & in many other places, I think 'golden era' dubstep is a massive sacred cow, although whether it will stay that way remains to be seen (been here before with drum n bass etc). I feel I can just about get away with saying this, because when I lived down Essex way, I was one of the people who used to go & badger Uptown about El-B white labels 2001ish, so I'm not remotely averse to pre-wobbler stuff. I absolutely loved Ghost stuff at the time & really liked a lot of Zed Bias, used to listen to new stuff on Dubplate.net or whatever it was called (Artwork "Red", Horsepower etc) but started to think it was diminishing returns even then. And I was just starting to think about a FWD visit early 2003...when suddenly I moved up north.
I eagerly kept half an eye on it from then on, but I have to say I didn't find myself being drawn in much again until the end of 2007 (admittedly partly cos there was nowhere to hear the stuff on big speakers). Thats not to say I don't have one or two things on MP3 that I love (Slimzee, Geeneus & Riko at FWD 5th Birthday comes to mind, as does "Request Line" of course), but I always felt a bit too much fuss was made about its diversity & forward-thinking nature, when all that usually amounted to was using some pseudo-ethnic keyboard sound or a few 'Jah Rastafari' samples.
I'm probably with Mr Finney on this one, who was saying somewhere else on here that he thinks its better now, more genuinely varied. I think the wobblers have their place, the half-step stuff is still in there, you get full-on reggae-&-RnB-based tunes, some crossover with Funky & 2Step, the minimal, technoy stuff, the weird gruff offshoots like The Bug & Mordant Music, the Rustie end of wonky. Maybe its just cos I'm paying attention now & have caught up a bit, but I'm rally enjoying dubstep now, like I did 2000-2003, & for me 2004-6 was largely for the specialists!!
Ducks pretty quickly...
