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OK, so I only really got into this sound after hearing Skream's phenomenal mix on Blackdown and Youngsta's Dubstep Allstars, and have spent most of my wages since on tracking down releases.

So far I've got:

Big Apple 3 - 7
DMZ 2 - 5
Hyperdub - all except 1
(can't find those pesky first releases!)
Skream - Angry/Traitor
Skream - Request Line
Skream - Southside Dubs (woo!)
Grime 1 & 2 on rephlex
Dubstep Allstars 1 & 2
Tempa Allstars 2
Techtonic 1 & 2
Scuba - Sleepa/Timba

What's missing? What are the stone cold classics of the sound that I need?

Cheers folks!

Some of the recent classics (last 2 years or so) that are worth tracking down:

Sholay - High Plains Drifter- Tempa
Highland Spring - Benny Ill vs Hatcha - Tempa
Pump up the Jam - Plasticman - Soulja
Saddam / Zombie - SLT - Soulja
Candy Floss - S&D - Hot Flush
Knowledge - Toasty - Hot Flush
Pop Pop - Vex'd - Subtext
Lion - Vex'd - Subtext
Twisup - Loefah - DMZ


Plents more I haven't included, I'm sure others will fill in the gaps. Some of them will be harder than others though - good luck

Nice one.

Pop Pop - Vex'd - Subtext
Lion - Vex'd - Subtext
Twisup - Loefah - DMZ

Forgot Vex'd - got the 2CD on Planet Mu that covers them.
Still hunting for Twisup - got the mp3 from Bleep but need the vinyl.

Figured Tempa and Soulja would be in there, just need to find them now...

Skull Disco 001 - Appleblim & Shackleton
Halo Beats 001 - S&D / SLT Mob
Urban Grafitti 001 - SLT Mob
Boka 003 - Low End Dubs EP

Not got any Distance beats?? Go buy!!!

Horsepower 'In Fine Style' LP (tempa)
Ghost 'Dancehall EP'
Ghost 'The Club' (Ghost 1)
Phuturistix LP (Hospital)

That SLT Mob vs Search & Destroy 12" on Soulja grabbed me by the balls when I first heard it.. Dub Weapon and Zombie especially.

Blackdown wrote:Phuturistix LP (Hospital)

Would you really call this a classic Dubstep release Martin? Huge of fan of Zed Bias and in particular the Phuturistix stuff on Hospital though I am, I thought their LP was a bit of a let down.

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All good stuff, keep it coming!

Christmas list is getting longer...

ThinKing wrote:

Blackdown wrote:Phuturistix LP (Hospital)

Would you really call this a classic Dubstep release Martin? Huge of fan of Zed Bias and in particular the Phuturistix stuff on Hospital though I am, I thought their LP was a bit of a let down.

Yeh, couple of good tunes (e.g. Bad Mood), but nothing much to get excited about.

Paulie wrote:

ThinKing wrote:

Blackdown wrote:Phuturistix LP (Hospital)

Would you really call this a classic Dubstep release Martin? Huge of fan of Zed Bias and in particular the Phuturistix stuff on Hospital though I am, I thought their LP was a bit of a let down.

Yeh, couple of good tunes (e.g. Bad Mood), but nothing much to get excited about.

That's it mate, I was excited for literally months about the LP, seeing as I'm really into Zed Bias, and can't get enough of Hospital's garage-tempo output. When I finally heard it, I only liked a couple of the tunes, and almost all of it was ruined by poor vocals IMO.

Shelflife 002 - Blaze - Come Again/The Other Side

RTP 001

002 soon

some other essentials to throw in:

- Zinc '138 Trek'
- El B / Roxy 'Cuba' on Bison
- SLT Mob 'Dub Weapon/Saddam' on Soulja
- All the Oris Jay / Darqwan stuff on Soulja. Actually almost everything on Soulja
- Pretty much any of the Tempa releases you can track down
- Menta 'Sound of the Future'
- Zed Bias 'Ring the Alarm rmx'
- DJ Hype 'Pussy rmx'
- Any of the releases on Road

vexd, 'angels' STANDARD!!

http://www.planet-mu.com/discog/ziq115/ ... els_hi.mp3

on planet mu

ThinKing wrote:

Blackdown wrote:Phuturistix LP (Hospital)

Would you really call this a classic Dubstep release Martin? Huge of fan of Zed Bias and in particular the Phuturistix stuff on Hospital though I am, I thought their LP was a bit of a let down.

hmmm. i know the whole jazz-y angle is dangerous, it's usually a sign that a producer wants to forget the dancefloor energy that they made their name from and attempt to cultivate a more 'serious artist' audience. and jazz-y is a mistake because how can you be jazzier than jazz itself?

these general issues aside though, i thought the Phuturistix LP was really broad in its scope, coherant as a whole and ahead of its time. i think 'thelonius punk' is one of zed's best beats ever.

but yeah, if someone wants to say it's not all that, i wont argue (like i might do with the first Horsepower LP).

loefah - jazzlick- and -indian dub- always get left out in these threads. i don't get it. those tunes were MASSIVE.

you have ALL dubstep releases here -> http://dubstep.blogspot.com/2005/07/releases.html

you have ALL dubstep releases here -> http://dubstep.blogspot.com/2005/07/releases.html

Yeah, I've seen that and it's a good resource, but I was wondering what people consider to be the essential dubstep releases.

Mind you, you might consider them all to be essential!

Cheers for all the contributions, busy weekend ahead checking these out.

On top of my head:

Roxy - Watch dis/Morsecode
Nude - Digitize
El-B - Digital
Ghost - Dancehall EP
Benny ill/Kode9/The Culprit - Fat Larry´s skank
Hatcha - Bashment
Skream & Benga - The judgement
El-B/Roxy - Southwest
Blaze - De Witched
Horsepower - Django´s revenge
Ghost - Lyrical tempo
J Da Flex - Bison
Menta feat Ms Dynamite - Ramp
Slaughter Mob - Thriller funk