UFO: hahaha...
Yeah The TRG stuff I've heard so far is good shit, 2step but even more tightly rhythmically wound up in an almost minimal like manner, vocals too- good work. What other stuff have you got planned for release? Also where does this stuff get played out?
I can't really talk, I've been on here all night...
The next Hessle Audio things are likely to be by Pangaea -
www.myspace.com/journeytopangaea, and Ramadanman -
www.myspace.com/ramadanman They probably won't surface for a few months though, as we're all students = penniless.
Come to Platform 1 on the 14th if you're in London, it should be good. It's a development of the old Red Star sessions which was basically
the place to hear dubstep and grime up and comers before the owners backed out. Can't remember everyone who's playing at the next one but Chef and LD are headlining. They go quite deep sometimes, as well as playing the standard bangers. Oneman will play a ukg/dubstep set, he combines the two really well, better than anyone else probably. I'm playing at some point, I'll probably go quite deep..
But yeah, it's difficult. The problem from my perspective is less with the quality of the music being made, but getting to hear it out. FWD>> is still the only well attended regular night, and though they're booking a few more interesting people, like Appleblim and Jon Rust who play really different stuff, it's much of a muchness down there these days. And of course the lack of grime is well documented on here.
One of the problems is that most of the big producers also DJ, and play 90% their own tunes - not only does it mean that technically more qualified DJs don't get booked, but it also means the selection is so one dimensional that newer, less experienced producers don't have the luxury that Benga, Skream, DMZ etc had in the old days of hearing their tunes played on loud sound systems by good DJs. Pinch and Kode 9 are the obvious exceptions to this.
gek opal said:
PLUS- and on a positive tip--- not really been mentioned much but I thought Timeblind's "Ghostification" ep was really pretty decent- nicely sonically opposed to dreary drum-maximalism (and fantastic sound design).
That Timeblind thing is wicked yeah, that Ontological Grounds for Being tune is heavy. I think Kode 9 played that one quite a lot about a year ago. Still dig it out quite regularly
Have you heard the new Martyn record blackdown's been writing about? Heavy stuff, and there's a lot more where that record came from too.
Two other things to check - the forthcoming
2562 record on Tectonic and
this remix thing, under his Made Up Sound alias. Worth looking out for the Cyrus album too but that might not be so much your thing.
