So, James Blake's...

[legend4ry]

i'm not sure about James Blake really. he's clearly very talented, uses awesome sounds but i just don't feel it.

I reallllllllllllllllllllly didn't get james blake at first, nor mount kimbie but hearing kimbie's set at boiler room and hearing that one by james blake "yeah I found her, red coat.. " out live made me see it in a different light

I get that, I hear so much about him but i don't get why. He's got something for sure, there are some lush moments. Maybe I need to see him live too, I want to like him.

This limit to your love tune sounds poo, I don't know how else to say it. Not a great voice, seriously crap lyrics. It has an air of 'dubstep producer x remixes pop sensation Plan B (or whoever the fuck is on TOTPs at the moment) in the way it jumps between the vocal and electronic parts.

(anyone considering responding with "haters gonna hate" is a spastic)

I completely see where you're coming from but at least its originally structured and a true cover of a track - I mean, someone slapping a vocal over a beat and calling it a remix and someone covering a song are two different things, no?

Some people will 'get' it and some people won't.. But this just makes me think of how early dubstep used to be, it was proper marmite in a sense where everyone kind of appreciates it but doesn't find it their thing! Instead of just down, out-right 'hate' (gawd I really dislike 'hating' as a saying)!

Everyones entitled to their opinion innit!


And to everyone who says they have shit vocals - who cares? aslong as you have good content and can some-what hold a note it don't really matter, like someone said above - the bob dylan effect! Granted, hes a one off but theres plenty of ok-ish vocalists who make amazing tracks! Plus you could always go for the spoken word business and pitch down your vocals

[nowaysj]

[cloak and dagger]

And to everyone who says they have shit vocals - who cares? aslong as you have good content and can some-what hold a note it don't really matter, like someone said above - the bob dylan effect! Granted, hes a one off but theres plenty of ok-ish vocalists who make amazing tracks! Plus you could always go for the spoken word business and pitch down your vocals

only someone who has never heard me sing would ever say this

[nowaysj]

I say sing, it's like facial hair, there is no normative ideal. Grow the facial hair god gave you, it's your birthright.

[symmetricalsounds]

And to everyone who says they have shit vocals - who cares? aslong as you have good content and can some-what hold a note it don't really matter, like someone said above - the bob dylan effect! Granted, hes a one off but theres plenty of ok-ish vocalists who make amazing tracks! Plus you could always go for the spoken word business and pitch down your vocals

only someone who has never heard me sing would ever say this

indeed, some people can get away with it but most can't. i'd like to think i have enough character to get away with it but i don't, the wise option is to get someone who can sing to do it for me. why let the track end up not as good just because of sheer stubbornness.

[Ldizzy]

anyone could sing...

but some have better voice hygiene then others...

ive witnessed some pretty radical changes in singing skills allthru my life...

+ u dont have to be on scale, u just have to be confident, and be on scale sometimes... but confidence... its kinda like with any sound

[samurai]

I was just recording myself singing some poetry in the style of sylvia plath when my girlfriend walked in and threw a can of diet coke at my face.

[AJGR]

[jsills]

heard the stop what youre doing remix and have been interested ever since. Limit to your love gives me chills. his sample selections are top notch.

juke for me is the same story as dubstep, liked it, heard it in the club, loved it. the bass weight is no joke.

[legend4ry]

I was just recording myself singing some poetry in the style of sylvia plath when my girlfriend walked in and threw a can of diet coke at my face.

Thats dark ! Plath is good though

[Reamz]

Yea definitely feeling his style. Really inspirational

[Pedro Sánchez]

James Blake is a great talent and knows what he's doing with his production but I hope we don't get a load of copycat middle class ruperts thinking they can throw down some cut up acoustic guitars, singing about teenage love.

[nowaysj]

Wait, did you just describe James Blake?

[Sharmaji]

some great music in this thread. but where are the waveshapers ?

spaceape an octave up:

[Ldizzy]

^thats a really good track sir

[blazinaidan]

Just recently got a portable audio recorder, so I'm def about to put my 8 years of improv guitar into this new electronic stuff I've been doing. Also about to sample the fuck out of my school (arts school, so easy access to dope singers/drummers/horns etc etc). Totally on the hype for this side of dubstep.

[nowaysj]

^thats a really good track

indeed

[craig]

for me, it is obvious that james blake is a very talented guy who just happened to start producing and releasing music at a time when dubstep was big. i see him moving on and varying his sound even more.

i would not be surprised at all if in say, 5 years, certain people say they had hoped he would stick to the 'dubstep sound', similar to how some aphex and autechre fans reminisce over the simpler, 'ambient techno' sound.

it would be a real shame if he restricts what he does, because i think he has what it takes to make some truly new sounding stuff

[nowaysj]

Always thought dubstep as a label didn't fit well what he was doing. Think the same of Burial too, so wtfdIk.

[glottis5]

^thats a really good track

indeed

it's bloody amazing

london zoo is totally my favourite dubstep album