Slothrop
Tight but Polite
This kind of comes out of a few posts and articles that I've seen recently where people seem to dismiss dubstep out of hand based on the assumption that it's just ploddy halfstep wobble all night every night. Lots of people in the dubstep scene are wary of dubstep making the same mistakes as dnb, and are very keen on the scene staying together and not getting into pigeonholing and endless subgenres and niches, but the different ends of dubstep are getting to be such different things that it's beginning to seem pointless trying to hold them together in some kind of shotgun wedding. Rusko's basically never going to play Roll With The Punches, Peverelist's never going to play Cockney Thug, it seems kind of like wishful thinking to say that everything labelled dubstep is still one big scene with a lot of variety, and to think that if you don't admit to the existence of any divides the whole thing will stay in a sort of eternal 2005.
A few individuals (both producers / labels / nights and critics) already seem to be distancing themselves or others from dubstep (cf that Derek Warmsley thing about Kode 9, Whistla's stepcore, breakstep etc), but is it getting to the point where it's neccessary or helpful to talk about a whole other scene forming around more broadminded DJs, producers, promoters and labels? Is there any benefit to Hessle Audio (for instance) in still being under the same banner as Dub Police?
I guess this is kind of like the Subvert Central 'project', but dubstep now is a lot less dominated by the predictable no frills floorfillers than d&b was when they started doing their thing.
FWIW, I've not actually got anything against the whole halfstep + wobble party tunes thing, I just think it'd be a bit shit if the people doing weird / percussive / sexy / deep / housey / minimal party tunes got entirely sidelined by it. And arguably it'd help more people to appreciate what Caspa and Rusko are doing if they didn't feel obliged to slate it to stop it steamrollering over a lot of other interesting stuff...
A few individuals (both producers / labels / nights and critics) already seem to be distancing themselves or others from dubstep (cf that Derek Warmsley thing about Kode 9, Whistla's stepcore, breakstep etc), but is it getting to the point where it's neccessary or helpful to talk about a whole other scene forming around more broadminded DJs, producers, promoters and labels? Is there any benefit to Hessle Audio (for instance) in still being under the same banner as Dub Police?
I guess this is kind of like the Subvert Central 'project', but dubstep now is a lot less dominated by the predictable no frills floorfillers than d&b was when they started doing their thing.
FWIW, I've not actually got anything against the whole halfstep + wobble party tunes thing, I just think it'd be a bit shit if the people doing weird / percussive / sexy / deep / housey / minimal party tunes got entirely sidelined by it. And arguably it'd help more people to appreciate what Caspa and Rusko are doing if they didn't feel obliged to slate it to stop it steamrollering over a lot of other interesting stuff...