Circle/Yellow/Dubbage

Fundamental

Well-known member
Just like things said about funky house. There isn't still much UK productions around but there will be.


Yeah tbh I also think it will not be as big as those genres/movements (atleast in terms of musical innovation), but this is just like usg -> ukg, us house -> funky. Only difference I see is that they'v reached bigger audience without own productions. But tunes will come.

Yeah I hope they do. But sonically funky is a new area. There wasn't much house on the UK radar that had the soca/gallop before it. That was new territory, it demanded a new moniker.

Taking a tune from 2008 or deep house from america or europe and slapping the 'dubbage' tag on it is not genre creation. If something results from that like us garage-> 2-step then brilliant, but anything at this stage is nothing more than courageous prophecy. If I go by what I hear on rinse and the sets on the net.

I would liken what is going on at the moment to the rare groove explosion in the 80s. It's currently more of a collage of tracks, although it does have the capacity to become more than that

I'm not saying it won't happen, and I hope it does. There is a maturity and a level headedness to the tunes that the dubbage guys are supporting, that has been lacking in london since UKG. But if you don't have distinct tunes and a proper creative base of original productions to plunder then I think it naive to market old corn as new seedlings. Just call the music 'house music' and get over trying to engineer a scene with a new name for the sake of control.
 

Ory

warp drive
Just like things said about funky house. There isn't still much UK productions around but there will be.

but in 2007 there were already producers like apple, fingaprint and swift jay switching things up. that's what got people excited.

meanwhile, what has dubbage accomplished? if i've got it right, their scene is just as old as funky. they just don't have that "push things forwards" drive.
 

Richard Carnage

Well-known member
except he didnt, and they don't sound like his productions.

The TWC EP sort of fits, no?

Agreed on a lot of points here. There needs to be some good productions coming out, otherwise they're just a bunch of mates playing a range of bouncy tech-house. Just because it's shirt & shoes and they're getting 2000 people into their parties doesn't make it particularly special.
 
So have any of you been to any of these Circle/Yellow raves then? Blackdown?

If you're writing an entire column without even witnessing it off the basis of a recorded set from February it's a bit disappointing really.
 

Sick Boy

All about pride and egos
So have any of you been to any of these Circle/Yellow raves then? Blackdown?

If you're writing an entire column without even witnessing it off the basis of a recorded set from February it's a bit disappointing really.

Conjecture is the mother of music journalism.
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
Forever Young on IC's soundcloud is not bad I reckon, some of the other productions he has on there are a bit too linear for me, that's just personal taste though.
 

Blackdown

nexKeysound
So have any of you been to any of these Circle/Yellow raves then? Blackdown?

If you're writing an entire column without even witnessing it off the basis of a recorded set from February it's a bit disappointing really.

dasapar slackk, and since a few of your own tunes have been a bit nicey nicey deep housey, I wouldn't throw that much mud. I've done three full length interviews with key players in the scene before writing that piece, and as I've said from the start I feel both sides of the argument here and after months of sitting on it felt it would be better discussed in the open, regardless of whether dubbage is the next ting or just tech house re-contextualised.
 
Nah you're right on that front in terms of speaking to them, wasn't intended to be as much of a send as it came across. Ignore me long day.
 

alex

Do not read this.
yea sorry i did state that it is an all garage set, no house whatsoever? did i, im sure i did!

**when i say no house whatsoever i mean the house they normally play, i.e deep & techy
 

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
what's the first tune in that A-Plus set blackdown posted?

That's DJ Sdoko - World On Fire:
It's a South African production iirc. Great tune, been getting lots of play from funky and kinda post-dubstep type guys too. Think there's various remixes of it kicking about.
 

Ory

warp drive
ahh yeah, it was in that one jam city mix too.

sounds just like a dj champion production or something.
 
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