Dance/House Music Thread...

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Miami Blue said:
WOW! Too bad I am in Miami, and they haven't broken through here yet. They played here once like two years ago and haven't come back since.
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Yeah they've been around for a few years but are starting to get more recognition now. They're signed to Ninja Tune, the same label that Bonobo, Amon Tobin, Floating Points etc...

Really hoping I can drag someone along to that gig on Saturday FFS!
 
Baines' left foot said:
Yeah they've been around for a few years but are starting to get more recognition now. They're signed to Ninja Tune, the same label that Bonobo, Amon Tobin, Floating Points etc...

Really hoping I can drag someone along to that gig on Saturday FFS!
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Bonobo! Going to be checking Bonobo out at ADE in October. I will be splitting time between Amsterdam and Liverpool. Leaving Amsterdam on the 17th to catch the game against the Mancs at Goodison and heading right back to Amsterdam to continue ADE.
 

Never really understood how benga got big, his production skills were pretty amateur compared to most and it's pretty clear he wasn't musically trained either... which is fine in many cases (burial for example) but isn't so great in plenty of others. Same goes for plenty of dubstep originators though, Skream, Coki, Mala etc. I appreciate what they did but that side of dubstep never appealed really... just sounded like really badly produced dnb slowed too much lol.

Maribou State are outstanding though, best album of the year for me.
 
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longers said:
Never really understood how benga got big, his production skills were pretty amateur compared to most and it's pretty clear he wasn't musically trained either... which is fine in many cases (burial for example) but isn't so great in plenty of others. Same goes for plenty of dubstep originators though, Skream, Coki, Mala etc. I appreciate what they did but that side of dubstep never appealed really... just sounded like really badly produced dnb slowed too much lol.

Maribou State are outstanding though, best album of the year for me.
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Worth reading this

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-oral-history-of-dubstep-vice-lauren-martin-610

I think the early dubstep days were great and really exciting, it's not often a new genre comes and has the underground affect that it did. These guys were 17/18, make stuff up as they went along and the atmosphere in the small clubs/basements was brilliant, much better than the club atmosphere of today.

For me, it's quite easy to see how Benga became big, he polished up his production skills (which for me, was a negative, preferred the rawness) and formed Magnetic Man at the right time. It was pretty much Magnetic Man that changed the genre (for the worse imo), gone were the days when you were in a sweaty club with Benga playing over you topless or something and it ended up being in a superclub, in a shirt. As soon as that happened, dubstep was lost.

Since then my tastes have changed, much more into techno and there abouts, but nothing compares to the fun I had when dubstep first came out. Would have loved to have gone to that DMZ night though.
 
coollino said:
Worth reading this

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-oral-history-of-dubstep-vice-lauren-martin-610

I think the early dubstep days were great and really exciting, it's not often a new genre comes and has the underground affect that it did. These guys were 17/18, make stuff up as they went along and the atmosphere in the small clubs/basements was brilliant, much better than the club atmosphere of today.

For me, it's quite easy to see how Benga became big, he polished up his production skills (which for me, was a negative, preferred the rawness) and formed Magnetic Man at the right time. It was pretty much Magnetic Man that changed the genre (for the worse imo), gone were the days when you were in a sweaty club with Benga playing over you topless or something and it ended up being in a superclub, in a shirt. As soon as that happened, dubstep was lost.

Since then my tastes have changed, much more into techno and there abouts, but nothing compares to the fun I had when dubstep first came out. Would have loved to have gone to that DMZ night though.
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I'll give it a read but i know all about the history, i went to DMZ a few times to check it out but was never really into the original dubstep sound... to me and my mates it just sounded like people with zero production skills making bad jump up at 70bpm. Amusingly all the failed dnb producers all started jumping ship to Dubstep because they realised they could actually make it in the dubstep scene due to the production standards being so much lower. Around the same time i luckily discovered artists like Burial, Pangea, Boxcutter etc so i didn't dismiss the genre totally.

I know the argument for all the early stuff was that it was raw, and it was... but so was burial, only his music actually had depth to it rather than some crap wubwub baseline which i honestly could [Poor language removed] out in any synth in about 1 minute.

Still as much i found that original 'dance floor' sound to be weak it did pave the way for tons of producers who i do now rate.
 

coollino said:
Benga explaining why he retired, pretty big news. One of the first people I saw back in 2006 or so, changed my life for the better with regards to going out etc.

http://www.factmag.com/2015/09/16/benga-mental-health-retirement/
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Fair play to him for speaking up about it.

I quite liked Skream and Benga back in the day.

longers said:
Never really understood how benga got big, his production skills were pretty amateur compared to most and it's pretty clear he wasn't musically trained either... which is fine in many cases (burial for example) but isn't so great in plenty of others. Same goes for plenty of dubstep originators though, Skream, Coki, Mala etc. I appreciate what they did but that side of dubstep never appealed really... just sounded like really badly produced dnb slowed too much lol.

Maribou State are outstanding though, best album of the year for me.
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It is indeed a cracking album.

coollino said:
Worth reading this

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/an-oral-history-of-dubstep-vice-lauren-martin-610

I think the early dubstep days were great and really exciting, it's not often a new genre comes and has the underground affect that it did. These guys were 17/18, make stuff up as they went along and the atmosphere in the small clubs/basements was brilliant, much better than the club atmosphere of today.

For me, it's quite easy to see how Benga became big, he polished up his production skills (which for me, was a negative, preferred the rawness) and formed Magnetic Man at the right time. It was pretty much Magnetic Man that changed the genre (for the worse imo), gone were the days when you were in a sweaty club with Benga playing over you topless or something and it ended up being in a superclub, in a shirt. As soon as that happened, dubstep was lost.

Since then my tastes have changed, much more into techno and there abouts, but nothing compares to the fun I had when dubstep first came out. Would have loved to have gone to that DMZ night though.
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Agree completely.

longers said:
I'll give it a read but i know all about the history, i went to DMZ a few times to check it out but was never really into the original dubstep sound... to me and my mates it just sounded like people with zero production skills making bad jump up at 70bpm. Amusingly all the failed dnb producers all started jumping ship to Dubstep because they realised they could actually make it in the dubstep scene due to the production standards being so much lower. Around the same time i luckily discovered artists like Burial, Pangea, Boxcutter etc so i didn't dismiss the genre totally.

I know the argument for all the early stuff was that it was raw, and it was... but so was burial, only his music actually had depth to it rather than some crap wubwub baseline which i honestly could [Poor language removed] out in any synth in about 1 minute.

Still as much i found that original 'dance floor' sound to be weak it did pave the way for tons of producers who i do now rate.
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Burial! Now that man is talented.
 
Got a Detroit evening coming up

2 Documentaries about Detroit/Electronic music, Q&A with DJ Stingray and Keith Tucker plus DJ sets after. Nice.
 

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