Timbaland biting Dubstep?

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:20 am

thats cool if he admitted to being into jungle

i used to follow dnb way back in the day and remember people very often talking about how tim said he hated dnb and did not listen to techno shit

doubleclick · Post by **doubleclick** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:23 am

Parson wrote:thats cool if he admitted to being into jungle

i used to follow dnb way back in the day and remember people very often talking about how tim said he hated dnb and did not listen to techno shit

Weird, never heard that before. I remember one particular interview where he was driving around with the interviewer, playing Jungle on the stereo. Maybe he's one of those people who sees D&B as being distinct from Jungle?

parson · Post by **parson** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:27 am

well if thats true it just changed my whole perspective of the guy

flippo · Post by **flippo** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:53 am

[quote="lich"]but after listening and reading his response to the situation involving the finnish producer.. well that was just garbage. He sounds like an ignorant bastard, and like he has absolutely now idea what is h appening with it. As if a lawyer was just feeding him brief summaries about the situation (which i am sure is happening).

so yeah thats all. btw this is my first post.[/quote

"..the dude is trying to act like I went to his house and took it from his computer. I don't know him from a can of paint. I'm 15 years deep. That's how you attack a king? You attack moi? Come on, man. You got to come correct. "

lol, what a fucking wanker.

onosendai · Post by **onosendai** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:43 am

Timbaland combs old Amiga websites for .mod file inspiration and jerks off to dubstepforum posts. I saw him do this once so this post is pure fact.

selector.dub.u · Post by **selector.dub.u** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:06 am

OnoSendai wrote:Timbaland combs old Amiga websites for .mod file inspiration and jerks off to dubstepforum posts. I saw him do this once so this post is pure fact.

LOL

petergunn · Post by **petergunn** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:23 pm

numaestro wrote:I mean - phaps it was the london sound that copied him . phaps not?

"ain't that your bitch" was a huge influence on alot of grime beats

petergunn · Post by **petergunn** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:24 pm

lycaon_prod wrote:"...sick beat!
didn't think it sounded like dubstep tho.
its an epic hip hop beat at 70ish bpm no?
not even any bass in it!

could be the camara phone audio...

kozee · Post by **kozee** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:42 pm

He's kool with Dillinjah right?
Or is that a rumor my ex told me....

shonky · Post by **shonky** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:33 pm

Was just thinking about early Timbaland stuff and Beep me 911 by Missy's got a pretty, halfstep beat which I can remember emulating when I was trying to make hip hop years ago. That tune's from 98, so certainly predates halfstep by quite a few years even if the bass isn't quite as developed as it is now.

Didn't think the tune at the beginning of the thread sounds like dubstep at all to be honest.

showguns · Post by **showguns** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:27 am

what a sick rnb song 'we need a resolution: is.

inaya · Post by **inaya** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:16 pm

Parson wrote:nothing wrong with what timbaland does

its just that he denies his blatant influences and that is extremely extremely wack

Exactly. I remember actually watching an interview when he was big on reeces and just drum and bass influence in general about 6 years ago and they say "So clearly you're very influenced by dance music such as drum and bass". He cuts the person off abruptly and says "no I've never heard of drum and bass". Umm sure

It would be great if he'd fess up, not only for honesty's sake but he could gain a lot of exposure for the genres in question which he's been "influenced" by. But then people wouldn't think he was so innovative, I guess. It's sad because as a great producer who is protective over his ideas... it's very ironic and a douchebag move to pull the same on other hard working producers.

overdose · Post by **overdose** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:24 pm

Just an innocent question here: would you all say that autechre or aphex or someone was biting dubstep if they took it that route, or would you say this shit is dope? I don't see the difference? Is it just because you assume that timbaland may not admit where he got the sound?

doubleclick · Post by **doubleclick** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:38 pm

inaya wrote:
Parson wrote:nothing wrong with what timbaland does

its just that he denies his blatant influences and that is extremely extremely wack
Exactly. I remember actually watching an interview when he was big on reeces and just drum and bass influence in general about 6 years ago and they say "So clearly you're very influenced by dance music such as drum and bass". He cuts the person off abruptly and says "no I've never heard of drum and bass". Umm sure It would be great if he'd fess up, not only for honesty's sake but he could gain a lot of exposure for the genres in question which he's been "influenced" by. But then people wouldn't think he was so innovative, I guess. It's sad because as a great producer who is protective over his ideas... it's very ironic and a douchebag move to pull the same on other hard working producers.

He's a strange man then.

I can only assume he only paid attention to what he heard as "Jungle", a term he most definitely knew. I mean, there's a 176bpm d&b track on one of his crew's lps, which he made!

The more I think about it, the more it looks like he just enjoys fucking with people, and I can kind of respect that

two oh one · Post by **two oh one** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 3:50 pm

I think the fact is that in the future, there will be a few tracks featuring wobbly bass lines with airheaded corporate puppets singing over them.

It will be watered down as not to offend the mainstream sensibilities and then probably be forgotten about several years later, anyway. The mainstream is fickle and will see it as a novelty.

allah · Post by **allah** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:11 pm

Tee2006 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQaSkh0JUBE

Would make sense having built his career by stealing world music as his own for 15 years....

One in a Million came out in 1996, way before most dubstep
and "popular" grime and garage.

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 5:05 am

That is clearly not dubstep - I was really expecting to hear something that closely resembled the london sound too -- there's plenty of bad hiphop all over myspace that sounds just like this - typical half-time southern beat, some strings over a banging 808... nothing new here... don't mean to come off prickish but if you can't tell the difference between that timbo beat and the majority of dubstep then you are musically handicapped

::edit:: just realized how old this thread is... it needs to go away!!!

clone.a.k. · Post by **clone.a.k.** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:25 pm

not dubstep to me.
at least not the good shit.

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Sun Sep 23, 2007 7:05 pm

I was waiting for the do do do do dooooo doooooooooo doooooooooooooo

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:44 am

Timbaland is shit... He can make catchy tunes that can be rinsed on commerical radio over and over for the masses to swallow.... couldnt care... very overrated i think, i'm not sure what the hype is about, cept his tunes are 'catchy'

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