what is wobble?

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[benjybars]

haha.. i'm so glad i wasn't at this night.

 

[Sectionfive]

I think there has been an Inspector gadget remix in every genre of music since the dinosaurs.

 

[Ach!]

Dr Philth - Mrs Blackbird

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someone should make a mix with wobble tracks and bassline

 

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[mms]

that second track could have been great if the bassline didn't take up the whole of the midrange - its an interesting melody, it shoudn't be the bassline though, could be more intense if it wasn't rather than just painful.

 

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..speaking of pain

 

[atoga]

kmt

 

[jimitheexploder]

haha

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[FairiesWearBoots]

The only sort of wobble I like

 

[Slothrop]

The perceived audience for wobble is quite interesting - depending on who you ask, it's either hipsters or chavs or students or moshers or americans or indie kids... it's kind of a role-call of subcultural bogeymen.

Simon Reynolds describes wobble as the properly hardcore component of dubstep - something Andy alluded to upthread, I think - which is fair enough: it's got the who gives-a-shit attitude to good taste, the dancefloor-centricness, the OTT caner thing. Although it doesn't have the haphazardly yoked together combination of elements and factions that made ardkore 92 so fertile - so it's more like happy hardcore or gabber or clownstep or whatever. Only much more mainstream at the moment.

It's kind of a shame that it's stuck as the thing that took over a previously amazing scene, really - I think if wobble had grown out of some weird metal subgenre people would have less of a reflexive hate for it...

 

[Tentative Andy]

Although it doesn't have the haphazardly yoked together combination of elements and factions that made ardkore 92 so fertile

Yeah that's an important point I reckon.

I should say again that I barely like any wobble at all. It's just that I also sometimes get uncomfortable about the sort of terms that people use to dismiss it, because if they were carried through logically they would also rule out a lot of the stuff that I do really like. But that's a fairly quibbling point in the grand scheme of things, I guess.

 

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[matt b]

Simon Reynolds describes wobble as the properly hardcore component of dubstep - something Andy alluded to upthread, I think - which is fair enough: it's got the who gives-a-shit attitude to good taste, the dancefloor-centricness, the OTT caner thing. Although it doesn't have the haphazardly yoked together combination of elements and factions that made ardkore 92 so fertile - so it's more like happy hardcore or gabber or clownstep or whatever. Only much more mainstream at the moment.

TBH, That does a great disservice to those who would have been happy hardcore fans at a similar point in the genres genesis.