john eden
male pale and stale
I don't really like starting threads slagging things off, so please let me utter a disclaimer first of all:
All this is my subjective personal opinion and I accept others may feel differently. I have nowt against Dubstep fans, producers etc and it's clearly a scene with a load of great people in it and some proper life about it.
I'm quite envious of it all to be honest, but I just cannot work up any enthusiasm about the music.
Paul Meme has been going on about a "sleng teng refix" for a while and how great it is, so I was genuinely looking forward to hearing it.
The first thing to say is that it isn't a sleng teng refix but a refix of
which appeared a few years back on the Clappas Riddim by the outstanding South Rakkas crew ,who also did the Red Alert and Bionic Ras riddims.
You can hear the original here: http://www.greensleeves.net/bio/biogclappas.html
You can hear Cotti's version here: http://www.myspace.com/COT4N
To me, it sounds like someone has taken a fantastic dynamic dancehall tune and then systematically sucked all of the life and energy out of it.
Even hearing it on a big system at FWD didn't do anything for me.
It's driving me a bit bonkers all this - why do people get so excited about this stuff?
All this is my subjective personal opinion and I accept others may feel differently. I have nowt against Dubstep fans, producers etc and it's clearly a scene with a load of great people in it and some proper life about it.
I'm quite envious of it all to be honest, but I just cannot work up any enthusiasm about the music.
Paul Meme has been going on about a "sleng teng refix" for a while and how great it is, so I was genuinely looking forward to hearing it.
The first thing to say is that it isn't a sleng teng refix but a refix of
ALOZADE & HOLLOW POINT featuring MR VEGAS - Under Mi Sensi
which appeared a few years back on the Clappas Riddim by the outstanding South Rakkas crew ,who also did the Red Alert and Bionic Ras riddims.
You can hear the original here: http://www.greensleeves.net/bio/biogclappas.html
You can hear Cotti's version here: http://www.myspace.com/COT4N
To me, it sounds like someone has taken a fantastic dynamic dancehall tune and then systematically sucked all of the life and energy out of it.
Even hearing it on a big system at FWD didn't do anything for me.
It's driving me a bit bonkers all this - why do people get so excited about this stuff?
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