Bengas drum beats.

[Ldizzy]

^ same here, i think el-b is as untouchable for garage as jay dee is for hiphop...

thing is i can hear the garage influence in benga's stuff... and he's still somehow attached to that world... the day it hit me i was able to feel the skippyness of his drums.. kinda like how i love machinedrum's stuff because ive been such a hardcore slum village fan (even tho hes never put something like Common's dooinit or Qtips lets ride out).

drumwise i like the more odd stuff like the drums on 2562s kameleon, or on blawans fram/iddy... toasty or mala's weirder releases... or of course the burial stuff

i just think its cool how benga still manages to get a good movement in what he does. it sounds legit even if his samples are really clean and cheezy. he has skills.

in the more dubstep sounding dubstep... and the hihat driven grooves.. Coki has the purest drums to me tho...

[MineOurArc]

I thought he just sampled Rusko's drums and looped them up?

[Ldizzy]

I thought he just sampled Rusko's drums and looped them up?

!?!?!?!

[Dystinkt]

Speaking of rusko, his beats were fairly good back in the good old days, when he was from leeds not america and he made dubstep not this commercialist bollocks hes currently touting.

[serox]

Speaking of rusko, his beats were fairly good back in the good old days, when he was from leeds not america and he made dubstep not this commercialist bollocks hes currently touting.

hes a pop star i heard

[glottis5]

Speaking of rusko, his beats were fairly good back in the good old days, when he was from leeds not america and he made dubstep not this commercialist bollocks hes currently touting.

hes a pop star i heard

He has a fantastic hair cut.

And Benga has fantastic drums.

[Dystinkt]

serox wrote:
Cheeky wrote:
Speaking of rusko, his beats were fairly good back in the good old days, when he was from leeds not america and he made dubstep not this commercialist bollocks hes currently touting.


hes a pop star i heard


He has a fantastic hair cut.

And Benga has fantastic drums.

His hair is tremendous and so are Bengas drums, the swing he has with them is beautiful. But the quality of Ruskos tunes since he went on his jolly to america have utterly nosedived.

[th@-pu$$y]

I'm sure I'll become a DSF leper for saying this, but fuck it. I've tried and tried and I just can't get into anything that Benga's done.

[glottis5]

I'm sure I'll become a DSF leper for saying this, but fuck it. I've tried and tried and I just can't get into anything that Benga's done.

Even Night or Baltimore Clap? Crunked Up?

[blazinaidan]

I'm sure I'll become a DSF leper for saying this, but fuck it. I've tried and tried and I just can't get into anything that Benga's done.

Even Night or Baltimore Clap? Crunked Up?

Ah, Night! Baltimore Clap!....

CRUNKED UP!?!?

[legend4ry]

Skunk Tip is one of my favourite benga tunes for drums.. oooooooo my! So groovey and spacious.

[th@-pu$$y]

I'm sure I'll become a DSF leper for saying this, but fuck it. I've tried and tried and I just can't get into anything that Benga's done.

Even Night or Baltimore Clap? Crunked Up?

Ah, Night! Baltimore Clap!....

CRUNKED UP!?!?

It's not that I think he is a bad producer, His shit just doesn't get me moving.

[Dystinkt]

fair dos man, each to their own I guess, but I prefer Bengas stuff more to brosteppy datsicion tings for sure

[faust.dtc]

He definitely has a distinct style of drum programming, for me it defines his sound and I don't think there are many other producers that use the same style of pattern, or at least use it as well. I like to think of it as somewhere in between 2 step and half step.

[Ldizzy]

He definitely has a distinct style of drum programming, for me it defines his sound and I don't think there are many other producers that use the same style of pattern, or at least use it as well. I like to think of it as somewhere in between 2 step and half step.

i feel u!! really in between

[jsills]

no denying bengas dopeness.

im feeling mensah and ramadanman for sick beats tho. terror danjah as well.

[volcanogeorge]

no denying bengas dopeness.

im feeling mensah and ramadanman for sick beats tho. terror danjah as well.

Mensah is amazing, he somehow gets amazing groove out of only a few hits

[honey-d]

And I'm really digging the whole 3/4 kick pattern right now (rusko style) which adds some more shuffle and movement than the 1 & 3 kick snare.

the what?:)

where is the kick/ snare in this pattern ^?

I think I got it wrong but its the 4/4 kick beat with the last kick either omitted or kept in

kick kick snare kick kick kick snare kick kick kick snare

That sounds even worse than kick 1 snare 3.

Like the most basic, thoughtless drum beat you could make.

Or we could be like gabber and put a kick on every 1/16. Lots of life in those kicks. To each his own.

The 4x4 sorta thing he's talking about that Rusko (sometimes) employs comes from reggae not gabba.

Wikipedia says:

"Reggae drumbeats fall into three main categories: One drop, Rockers and Steppers...

...In Steppers, the bass drum plays four solid beats to the bar, giving the beat an insistent drive. An example is "Exodus" by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Another common name for the Steppers beat is the "four on the floor." Burning Spear's 1975 song "Red, Gold, and Green" (with Leroy Wallace on drums) is one of the earliest examples. The Steppers beat was adopted (at a much higher tempo) by some 2 Tone ska revival bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s."

4x4 is rootsy


And on the note of best Benga songs, Crunked Up is NUMBA ONE

[qwaycee_]

i don't remember where i read or saw this but doesn't rusko have some sort of actual reggae background or something?

[Kochari]

i don't remember where i read or saw this but doesn't rusko have some sort of actual reggae background or something?

His older tunes are proper dubby, and if you can get hold of his megamix you're in for a treat.