Is anyone else experiencing this? Particularly people who tend to spin more of the London-based pirate-spun genres.
I found up until about a couple of years or so ago, I was quite content to play a mix of grime and dubstep. There were lots of releases and the quality was usually consistent and there was a definite audience for both sounds, commonly shared.
I am starting a new weekly club night in October. Bought a load of new records and have suddenly realized that I don't know what the fuck to play anymore. Here is why:
There is a drought in grime production right now. There are a few top boys who put their shit out on a semi-regular basis, but it doesn't happen frequently. I've been banging out Maniac, Nocturnal and Silencer beats for months.
Dubstep sounds like a lot of different things now, from the populist, numbskull Rusko/Caspa camp to the more cerebral, coffee-table shit like Joy Orbison, to the even more cerebral, avant-whateverness of w*nky.
Then you got real w*nky. The LA stuff: Flying Lotus, Ras G, Samiyam, etc.
Then you got Funky.
My issue is that while all of these genres have their high points right now, none of them - at least to me anyway - are consistently good enough to play an entire set of. Not least when you consider the great, and tangentially related, tracks from the other genres coming out.
So what you've got is a bunch of genres with an ever-widening bpm range that all sound like they are more or less the same genre. But when you play them all together it sounds disjointed and ridiculous unless you are playing like a 4 hour set.
Topics for discussion:
1. Anyone else feel this?
2. If you don't, how do you deal?
3. If you do, what are your thoughts?
Maybe this is why more and more people are spinning old school garage again. It's comforting.
I found up until about a couple of years or so ago, I was quite content to play a mix of grime and dubstep. There were lots of releases and the quality was usually consistent and there was a definite audience for both sounds, commonly shared.
I am starting a new weekly club night in October. Bought a load of new records and have suddenly realized that I don't know what the fuck to play anymore. Here is why:
There is a drought in grime production right now. There are a few top boys who put their shit out on a semi-regular basis, but it doesn't happen frequently. I've been banging out Maniac, Nocturnal and Silencer beats for months.
Dubstep sounds like a lot of different things now, from the populist, numbskull Rusko/Caspa camp to the more cerebral, coffee-table shit like Joy Orbison, to the even more cerebral, avant-whateverness of w*nky.
Then you got real w*nky. The LA stuff: Flying Lotus, Ras G, Samiyam, etc.
Then you got Funky.
My issue is that while all of these genres have their high points right now, none of them - at least to me anyway - are consistently good enough to play an entire set of. Not least when you consider the great, and tangentially related, tracks from the other genres coming out.
So what you've got is a bunch of genres with an ever-widening bpm range that all sound like they are more or less the same genre. But when you play them all together it sounds disjointed and ridiculous unless you are playing like a 4 hour set.
Topics for discussion:
1. Anyone else feel this?
2. If you don't, how do you deal?
3. If you do, what are your thoughts?
Maybe this is why more and more people are spinning old school garage again. It's comforting.
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