autonomicforthepeople said:
A technical question re: Burial Mix and related, does it tend to be in the same neighbourhood tempo-wise as dubstep (more or less)? Is there much consistency across tracks and artists?
FYI, the Burial Mix label releases are still by the artist Rhythm & Sound. Not sure why some are on Burial Mix and some on the Rhythm & Sound label. Ah well.
Anyway, to your question, the the first lot of releases, which were collected on CD as 'Showcase', were basically house tracks (in terms of tempo, drum patterns, basslines, etc.) so probably still too slow to fit dubstep speeds.
After that R&S seemed to slow right back, so heaps of the recent stuff might fit with dubstep if you think of dubstep as lingering around 70 rather than 140 bpm...
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Depends how you want to mix it, I spose.
If people want to check out a whole bunch of different takes on dub-based electronics, you could dig into the aforementioned ~scape labels 'Staedtizism' releases. They don't scream out as being essential or anything, but I somehow ended up buying all 4 and get sudden yearnings to hear tracks off each of them.
I'm not a huge fan of the more roots-emulating modern dub sounds. At least what I guess is called "digidub". I love the more erratic and shambollic sounds of the 70s dub records, plus the fact that they're actually
not super heavy. Well, they're plenty huge on a PA, obviously, but not sorta stupefying.
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