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hasezwei wrote:my worst fear: drumstep, being about as formulaic as it gets attracts tons of people, they'll want "deep drumstep" as a counterbalance for all the wobbliness going on and all start copying rockwell just with more trancy shit going on.
i envisioned some new artist called xellirks having 4 of the top 10 selling tunes on beatport and a bunch of hipsters suddenly showing up at dnb shows.
no but seriously i think you've just predicted the future. i'm not gonna lie, lately all the stuff i've been making ends up being a kick on 1 snare on 3 pattern but at 165-175 bpm with a bunch of distorted mid range. however, even i wouldn't be happy to see that end up happening. although maybe if that's the case dubstep will become too slow for all the little aggro skrillex fans... not saying i don't like seeing skrillex.
sackley wrote:Coming from a love of jungle I think of it as half-time dnb (steptoe was the first one that really did it for me) but kind of agree that when someone says "drumstep", you know wtf they're on about (filth at dnb tempo with the snare on the backbeat). I hate that term, but there's not much anyone can do now.
Soon people will think to make the chilled stuff more aggro and make it doubletime
yeah funny, i was thinking that people'd be on about deeper, dubbier d&b with a halftime vibe. Clearly the dumbing-down of genres has made its way over this way, as well-- apparently it's only "drumstep" when the snare/clap/whatever is on the 3rd beat. not the fourth.
as a plus, we no longer have to wonder if fans of the genre can count to 4, so that's good.
seriously tho, this vibe has been around for ages, and while it often feels fresh, that's more a testament to the power of the rhythms than anything else. Calling it "atmospheric drumstep" vs. "autonomic" vs. "halftime d&b" is, you know...
retarded.
it seemed to go dubstep got popular, dnb heads brought over the clownstep/jump up and neuro sound to dubstep, dubstep heads who never were into dnb and vice versa or turned their back on it "rediscovered it" but brought the hybrid tsecni baby of sounds and gave it a new surname even though it had long existed before
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