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hopper

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Just bought officer/mood dub for £10. Fucking over the moon.

Does anyone find it staggering the amount of people who are into dubstep but have never heard of digital mystikz or loefah. Just started uni and it's crazy speaking to people about dubstep as it's just something so different to them than it is to me - the more I think about it the more I think that all this dubstep shouldn't be put under the same umbrella term.
 
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computer_rock

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back to the topic of the shackleton ep:

there's a slow train coming might be my favourite thing of his. pure desert apocalypse soundscape. incredible.
 
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mms

sometimes
gumdrops said:
good quote. though im not sure ive heard much good from him thats deep or a banger.

cool hyperdub list on fact today. though as someone in the comments box said, they really do need to sort out their artwork. great record label (as in the actual label and er, the label), not so great sleeve. the 2nd burial album is prob the best of the lot.
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nah the '5' sleeve is wicked - dense op art
not pretty but you know get pretty when you want to deck out your 3 year old girls bedroom.
 
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Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
hopper said:
Just bought officer/mood dub for £10. Fucking over the moon.

Does anyone find it staggering the amount of people who are into dubstep but have never heard of digital mystikz or loefah. Just started uni and it's crazy speaking to people about dubstep as it's just something so different to them than it is to me - the more I think about it the more I think that all this dubstep shouldn't be put under the same umbrella term.
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I know what you're saying. Outside the night that Benga was headlining over here, we were standing outside lamenting the money we had wasted on the door charge and got ourselves into a conversation with some drum and bass heads who couldn't believe we were criticizing this thing that was so new and so innovative and clearly the next best thing to the drum and bass they were accustomed to.

I replied that I wasn't saying that dubstep in general was bad, and that I've actually been excited about it for years, and that I was just criticizing the tunes Benga was playing in particular. So they asked us what parts we did like and it became very clear very quickly that we weren't talking about the same thing at all.

As far as they were concerned anyway - and let's be honest - they now outnumber us.
 
urbanite

urbanite

subnoto
Big Nose said:
Synkro and Indigo made the night for me, played lots of tracks Ive wanted to hear out for ages especially Fat Larry's Skank.
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Would you say they are worth seeing out? We got their show coming up tonight here... still haven't decided if it's worth going to see Choke, Synkro & Indigo and Babylon System... given that the post d'n'b type sound is not exactly my bowl of soup...
 
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hopper

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routes said:
that hyperdub top ten at fact magazine is WRONG, my 3 favourites aren't even on there!
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which 3? I think it was a bit Kode 9 heavy in honesty... I quite like those fact articles but the writing for the top 10 aphex twin was really horrible at times
 
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David_M

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yeah the list missed most of favorites too, Money Honey, the 1st Burial EP and specially Kingstown are definitely in my top 5. To be honest, i was quite happy when they started signing Ikonika, Darkstar, L.D, etc. but my fondest memories of the label are from the 2004-2006 period.

I also prefered the artwork when all the records were the same except a different colour
 
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routes

we can delay.ay.ay...
cool out, wind it up and globetrotting! :]

i wasn't being entirely serious tho, about it being wrong. it's pretty great that someone could do a top ten that doesn't include them... or need you...or cctv.. or love dub... or massive music rmx... FFS :confused:
 
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hopper

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yeah, cool out is definitely one of my favourite hyperdub 12"s - pretty much exclusively for the 2 remixes though. I wouldn't have had the quarta 330 or black sun releases on there. I don't really get the appeal of quarta 330 at all. The rustie spliff dub mix and takeover dub might've been worth a shout as well... When a label is that good though you're never gonna get something that satisfies everyone...

also - just how amazing is fostercare!
 
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CrowleyHead

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In the defense of the Top 10 thing, the "Album" is supposed to be an umbrella for all the Kode 9 output, save obviously tracks like Konfusion, Black Sun, etc. etc.

Though "Cool Out" should've been in there, both as a symbol of the full fledged embrace of the 'wonky' sound, as well as the simple fact that it's possibly the best Bug track Hyperdub put out.
 
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Mr Jeg

suck your thumb
^ i'd say the ikonika and zomby 12"s, both of which predate king midas sound, are more the signifiers of that particular development.

of course they're both missing from the list as well :D
 
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