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by ikarai » Tue May 09, 2006 12:02 am
juliun_c90 wrote:really tried hard not to get involved in this one and get acrimonious, but your attitude's got the better of me.
my loss on two counts i guess:
1) i couldn't rise above
2)just wasted two and a half minutes of my life downloading and listening to your revolutionary new direction in dubstep.
lol
got onto this old thread somehow, dl-ed his tune (before readin ur post C-90) and....
yeah
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by a_k47 » Tue May 09, 2006 12:54 am
luke.envoy wrote:no half step is the 1 mate
yeah me 2 i like da separates kicks snare hi hats etc. im not realy into stuff wid loops it sounds 2 much like dnb 4 me. i might aswell listen 2 da real ting
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by ikarai » Tue May 09, 2006 1:05 am
Jesus. Just finished readin this whole thing and can i just say...
i'm sooo sorry if i've resurrected this thread.

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by stone » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:46 am
thc wrote:pretty much all other styles of electronic music are uptempo, not half-step. i dont see why anyone insists that dubstep be uptempo like everything else.
except for 'trip hop'. I am actually nervous sometimes that half step will just morph into a trip hop revival. i have to keep teliing myself that this is not going to happen.
yeah sorry for commenting on a thread that has been beaten into the ground, i just haven't been on here in a while and i am a little rusty.
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by excision » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:37 am
Let the producers make whatever they want, halfstep or anything else, if you don't like it, START PRODUCING!
THE END
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by collige » Mon Mar 01, 2010 11:09 pm
digi diana wrote:
except for 'trip hop'. I am actually nervous sometimes that half step will just morph into a trip hop revival. i have to keep teliing myself that this is not going to happen.
I am very concerned about this.
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by grimesceneinvestigation » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:00 pm
collige wrote:digi diana wrote:
except for 'trip hop'. I am actually nervous sometimes that half step will just morph into a trip hop revival. i have to keep teliing myself that this is not going to happen.
I am very concerned about this.

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by blackdown » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:09 pm
digi diana wrote:thc wrote:pretty much all other styles of electronic music are uptempo, not half-step. i dont see why anyone insists that dubstep be uptempo like everything else.
except for 'trip hop'. I am actually nervous sometimes that half step will just morph into a trip hop revival. i have to keep teliing myself that this is not going to happen.
i dont think there's much risk of 140 dubstep becoming trip hop, not when there are so many Flylo clones around working at 94bpm. Now the worst of
that stuff sounds like trip hop!
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by time nice » Wed Aug 03, 2011 2:50 pm
Funny to see how relevant this topic is 3+ years later. The debate over halfstep/brostep etc. is raging. Definitely feeling like "Half-Step" is more in line with the original vibes of dubstep. Swamp81 > Skrillex imho
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by Mr Hyde » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:37 pm
time nice wrote:Funny to see how relevant this topic is 3+ years later. The debate over halfstep/brostep etc. is raging. Definitely feeling like "Half-Step" is more in line with the original vibes of dubstep. Swamp81 > Skrillex imho
this thread started in 2006- and right back on the first page people were saying the same old responses that this has already been debated loads and no point pigeonholing, good music is good music etc.
perhaps people say dungeon vs filth rather than halfstep vs breakstep...but whatever, it has been discussed to death and is a really boring and repetative topic of conversation.
......the only interesting thing to take from it is that people keep repeating the exact same boring conversation year after year, so anyone that thinks they are being original starting a dmz>circus thread really isn't and should shut the fuck up becasue its been done and was a boring repetative conversation 5 years ago
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by fractal » Wed Aug 03, 2011 5:59 pm
Except dungeon and filth are both tiny slices of half step... So glad the skip & swing has returned, healthy doses of all sounds keeps it exciting and dynamic
sub.wise:.
slow down
epochalypso wrote:man dun no bout da 'nuum
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by particle-jim » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:00 pm
blackdown wrote:Joseph-J wrote:Also it gets the scene away from going down the Harder, Faster route that dnb went down...
this absolutely has to be avoided.

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by AJP UK » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:16 pm
plastician wrote:I prefer the half step stuff to the breaky noisy stuff personally.
It offers another dimension sonically to DJ sets, I think it is always great when you can pull off dropping a half step track after playing something really up tempo.
It's an integral part of both grime and dubstep and being a DJ who spins both in the same set, the halfstep dubby stuff really works well with grime.
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by fractal » Wed Aug 03, 2011 7:18 pm
completely agree! but an hour of one type of beat is pretty boring imho. remember when dubstep sets moved? when the beat would slow down to a crawl, only to explode and swing all over the place? it's happening again with a lot of great djs today!!

sub.wise:.
slow down
epochalypso wrote:man dun no bout da 'nuum
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by Pistonsbeneath » Thu Aug 04, 2011 2:09 am
breakstep goes wicked wth grime wot u talkin bout stish
s&d goes big into danny weed
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by gremino » Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:15 am
excision wrote:Let the producers make whatever they want, halfstep or anything else, if you don't like it, START PRODUCING!
THE END
quoting very old post here, but here we go anyway:
it's not listener's job to produce. producers are free to make what they want, but listeners can still demand things whether it's going to happen or not.
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by murky21 » Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:30 am

Halfstep.... that is all
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by time nice » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:06 pm
Mr Hyde wrote:time nice wrote:Funny to see how relevant this topic is 3+ years later. The debate over halfstep/brostep etc. is raging. Definitely feeling like "Half-Step" is more in line with the original vibes of dubstep. Swamp81 > Skrillex imho
this thread started in 2006- and right back on the first page people were saying the same old responses that this has already been debated loads and no point pigeonholing, good music is good music etc.
perhaps people say dungeon vs filth rather than halfstep vs breakstep...but whatever, it has been discussed to death and is a really boring and repetative topic of conversation.
......the only interesting thing to take from it is that people keep repeating the exact same boring conversation year after year, so anyone that thinks they are being original starting a dmz>circus thread really isn't and should shut the fuck up becasue its been done and was a boring repetative conversation 5 years ago
I totally agree, good music is good music & I will never knock anyone for doing there thing.
However, despite what a boring conversation it is according to you... you still fell the need to respond, give your opinion & get emotional to tell others to "shut the fuck up"

The only thing I can say is that if you find it boring & repetitive, then don't contribute to the conversation, plain & simple...
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by time nice » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:09 pm
fractal wrote:completely agree! but an hour of one type of beat is pretty boring imho. remember when dubstep sets moved? when the beat would slow down to a crawl, only to explode and swing all over the place? it's happening again with a lot of great djs today!!

Agreed 100% lot's a good DJ's & producers holding it down! Unfortunately, even though Dubstep seems to be blowing up in the states, the good DJ's & producers seem to be slept on by most of the people who are getting into the music currently
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by -[2]DAY_- » Thu Aug 04, 2011 3:25 pm
half step brings swagger to the vibes
A night of all one type of beat is worse than "pretty boring", it's a failure and it's unacceptable imo.
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