Just heard Vex'd - Degenerate for the first time...

[joeki]

All about the Bombardment for me. But yeah, Cloud Seed is magnificent in its own right, but Degenerate was a monster for sure. I adore Kuedo's current output, but not the early stuff, on "Severant" he finally got the balance right for me. Even though there is more than a wink at Vangelis. Roly's current work often gets overlooked too. I mean, if you hear his current ambient productions, I dare state that a lot of Vex'ds atmosphere was his creation.

[idontreallygiveashit]

Roly and Jamie are the sickest. Nuff said.

[Soiree]

love me some vexd !

[Genevieve]

From Kuedo twitter:

"i never made dstep. i just made 140 shit for a while. only dstp i much cared for was kode9, mala + loe, & they were beyond that genre really"

Yeaaah and Toasty.. and Burial..

"YO GUYS, I'M ACTUALLY TOO GOOD FOR DUBSTEP, WELL, I DO LIKE SOME DUBSTEP, BUT BECAUSE I LIKE IT, IT'S BEYOND DUBSTEP. SURE, A LOT OF MY MUSIC IS TEXTBOOK DUBSTEP... OK AND MY MIXES FEATURED DUBSTEP AND.. HELL, I'VE BIGGED UP SO MANY DUBSTEP ARTISTS BEFORE.., BUT LET'S BE HONEST HERE, I'M WAY TOO WICKED ELITE TO BE PART OF THAT, RIGHT?'

The typical attitude that a lot of people associate with "hipsters".

[joeki]

Yeah I don't really get that twitter message, as far as his own (un)willingness to associate with the genre goes, I have nothing to say. But to say Loefah, Mala and Kode9 were beyond the genre is wrong. That doesn't make any sense. Perhaps they are now, but not back when Jamie was listening to them. So I ignore the statement all together, but yes indeed I've seen often how people like to dissociate from the audience that brought them somewhere to begin with, but oh no not now, there's some commercialism and mainstream-ness at the fringes, it is hands off now.

It happened to Mick J. Harris with Scorn, he was a prime example shitting on everyone in London, his own label Ad Noiseam, refused to accept that those were the people that liked his music. Then again, with him, he never gave a shit about audience, money,...so all credit to him on that regard, at least he was consistent.

[Maccaveli]

From Kuedo twitter:

"i never made dstep. i just made 140 shit for a while. only dstp i much cared for was kode9, mala + loe, & they were beyond that genre really"

Yeaaah and Toasty.. and Burial..

"YO GUYS, I'M ACTUALLY TOO GOOD FOR DUBSTEP, WELL, I DO LIKE SOME DUBSTEP, BUT BECAUSE I LIKE IT, IT'S BEYOND DUBSTEP. SURE, A LOT OF MY MUSIC IS TEXTBOOK DUBSTEP... OK AND MY MIXES FEATURED DUBSTEP AND.. HELL, I'VE BIGGED UP SO MANY DUBSTEP ARTISTS BEFORE.., BUT LET'S BE HONEST HERE, I'M WAY TOO WICKED ELITE TO BE PART OF THAT, RIGHT?'

The typical attitude that a lot of people associate with "hipsters".

Yeah, it sounds more like a desperate attempt to separate himself from what dubstep is seen as today than the honest truth. I mean, if Killing Floor and Bombardment of Saturn weren't made with the intention of being labelled dubstep then... no, that's not even possible