Dubquixote said:
I predict the return of 2-step shuffle very soon. The Burial album is only the beginning...
I do hope so but not the cheesy running stuff of old. It's a shame that when garage died it also removed one of the few outlets for UK soul which was intricately bound up in it's twitchy 2 step r'n'b stylings. Give me funky vocal garage over funky vocal house anyday. Although early/mid nineties classics like xpansions, k-klass, bass o matic, strike and bizarre inc to name a few were just so infectiously uplifting you'd have to be a zombie not to have been moved.
I wonder whose going to re interpret the classic stand up piano house riff of that era into the dubstep sound as tech itch did with the acid squelch on ascension.
Another thing is, if I want the dubbier side of anything I'll just listen to dub. More step, less dub is a maxim I've always tried to champion when talking about dub-step and in *cough* producing*cough* it.
On a side note, everyone goes on about El-b and zed bias as proto dubstep dons but in my mind Oxide was way more influential to the developing dubstep sound.
If you listen to so solid - 'they don't know' album which was basically a sanitised greatest hits package of their gritty earlier stylings or "execute" minus the equally impressive neutrino you'll hear it all, the rolling sine wave, the wobble and occassionally a snippet of halfstep.
so any return of the 2 step shuffle could possibly only recreate what he did back in the day.
As for Burial I still think he suffers from a lack of innovative drum programming. Which is understandable if the myth of composing in soundforge is true, as it suggests the sample, edit and filter entire beats method as opposed to building beats from the ground up and effecting each sampled hit.
Bummer to hear about shackleton I reckon he'll be back. Like lycanthropism, once bitten, forever infected. I think it's in his blood.