Slowed down drum and bass

[KIWI]

Is there a specific name for a subgenre like this? So basically semi-dubstep with drum and bass breaks in it, like Perfect Stranger by Magnetic Man.

And could anyone recommend me some more tunes like it?

[fractal]

it's just dubstep

dubstep can have any type of beat pattern

other dubstep songs that use amen breaks/jungle style percusion would include, but are not limited to:







there's more, i'm just too tired to think of em right now
it's also worth checking out the autonomic rinsefm show and podcast, not exactly the same thing but i think you might find it interesting

[abZ]

It's just dubstep but a few years back they used to call it Breakstep fwiw.

[fractal]

When I think of breakstep I think more along the lines of Oris Jay (drq1), toasty, threnody and early vex'd...

[threnody]

Fractal i would agree for me breakstep was DQ1, Zinc's breakbeat garage, definitely Toasty, Elemental, my stuff as well etc... This sound has really morphed in the same way the 'harder' stuff morphed into what is comically called brostep etc. These days there are quite a lot of producers working with the breaks and along the breakstep sort of line.... More of an evolution of the Toasty's breakstep than the Oris Jay or Zinc breakstep.

The dubs n breaks blog is a great starting point to discover more artists working on these territories (http://www.dubsnbreaks.com/). For me this sound is round about where dubstep was in late 2005. A handful of artists producing great tracks along similar lines but from very different angles. Lots of sharing dubs and a few labels supporting the sounds. The sounds are definitly there and there is a bit of media support (like Knowledge mag & Big Up mag) and a couple of raves but as of yet no real identity for the sound other than it being 'leftfield, abstract, breakdriven dubstep'. It is always a great time for a sound before it is named and starts to fall into the trappings of genre.

I think Magnetic Man (and well before that Dj Deekline) show how the breakier side of things has a commercial side but down in the underground where this scene is developing the sounds are quite raw and anti-commercial....

Good article from a couple of years ago here http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicbl ... cene-heard and it is out of this that the new scene has been emerging.

Artists to watch:-
Full Spektrum
Noiz
Threnody
Molez
Stormfield (& Combat A.V crew)
Blackmass Plastics
Elemental
ScanOne
Wagawaga
Coleco
Matt-U
Hurtdeer
Succulent-C
Paradigm X
Dekode

[schema]

Loving thus sound atm..

here's a freebie from pyramid to promote there 140 ep out yesterday on funkatech with remix from the others..



http://soundcloud.com/funkatech-records ... e-download

also keep an eye out for racknruin's new ep & Pyramid vs schema - into your arms, both out soonish on sub slayers

[KIWI]

Thanks for all the recommendations! Think I'm good for a while haha.

[SketchyDub]

i'm on this tip
Soundcloud

[manillathrilla]

good

[herbalicious]

I think of it as less 'slowed down drum and bass' and more 'Junglist'

[clifford_-]

140 jungle is an interesting idea.
dark sky - something to lose
skream - burning up
benton - sax shaker
are the only other ones i can think of at the moment.

[herbalicious]

Emalkay - Crusader is another.
There's a The Others tune that N-Type was rinsing a month back that's a bit of a Junglist Dubstep tune...Can't remember the name though .

[seckle]

[seckle]

can i just say also that if youre going to use amen, at least try and edit it up a bit, and keep that amen "edits" tradition going.

[clifford_-]

Emalkay - Crusader is another.
There's a The Others tune that N-Type was rinsing a month back that's a bit of a Junglist Dubstep tune...Can't remember the name though .

Oh yea, think theyre both forthcoming dub police?

[herbalicious]

Think so yeah mate (Well, I know the Emalkay one is..)

[dubloke]

Alot of Cluekid stuff is like slow jungle, and RSD as well

[clifford_-]

biggles. i do love playing this stuff in the mix. the bass on something to lose by dark sky makes places shakedown!!

[fractal]

Alot of Cluekid stuff is like slow jungle, and RSD as well

i was thinking this, but couldn't remember some track names....

[clifford_-]

the bside to chickenfoot is a bit like that if i remember rightly...