Dubstep buildings

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 2:27 am

Theres something about battersea power station that i find really compelling but also disturbing. It, as a structure, more than anything instills an orwellian big brother sense of paranoia and insecurity i hear in alot of UK dubstep tunes.

So if dubstep or some tunes were buildings then for me burial would be battersea or as mentioned the old wandsworth prison.

Juxtapose that with caspa and rusko's gherkin. Twisted, geometric transparent and brash.

or digital mystics. Immutable, mysterious and forboding constructions that celebrate time and timelessness.

Do any buildings where you're at scream dubstep or represent artists as bulidings. If so why ?

bennyprofane · Post by **bennyprofane** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:13 am

epithet wrote:an orwellian big brother sense of paranoia and insecurity

panopticon

nousd · Post by **nousd** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:13 am

Don't see DS as so grandiose...

more like a grime-covered, broken, beaten-up old shed by the railway line I can see out my kitchen window.

Fuck monumental architecture...that's prog rock wankery.

(Didn't Pink Flloyd use Battersea Powerhouse on an album cover...proof)

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:36 am

bennyprofane wrote:
epithet wrote:an orwellian big brother sense of paranoia and insecurity
panopticon

cool bro

panopticon = kode9 ?

The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

It doesnt have to be monumental. So who's this shitty railway shed artist then SD5 ? Post a pic and give it a name.

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:44 am

darqwan

Dark and floating. Menacing yet somehow incomplete. Still capable of delivering a knockout blow on a planetary scale. An album would surely be the deathstar complete.

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 3:58 am

reso

The borg cube. Sole purpose is to travel between places and spaces assimilating all unto its man machine like aesthetic. It owes no allegiance to anything but its own electronica like hive mind.

bennyprofane · Post by **bennyprofane** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:20 am

Does this count?

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 4:32 am

bennyprofane wrote:Does this count?

Hell yeah it counts !

Ramshackle, cobbled from others, reggae inspired lean to set in post jungle environ haphazardly thrown together in eurotrash style and given a lick of jamaican paint?

Sheeeit that could be a whole lot of peeps.

bennyprofane · Post by **bennyprofane** » Sun May 18, 2008 5:14 am

It's more of a skankin dubstep building.

echo wanderer · Post by **echo wanderer** » Sun May 18, 2008 6:50 am

The (failed) Museum of Pop Music in Sheffield:

Got a MRK-1 kinda feel I reckon...

The concept is 4 hand drums and on top of the buildings are supposed to be
"hands" beating on them.

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:11 am

conquest:

organic and unpretentious

silkie:

nature meets the future

bennyprofane · Post by **bennyprofane** » Sun May 18, 2008 7:24 am

EMP in Seattle.

The flangey bit on the left has a bit of a wub feel to it. Dunno who 'tis tho.

delendi · Post by **delendi** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:28 am

lol @ this.

none come to mind... i do absolutely LOVE battersea power station tho. i think it's beautiful. and i have wanted a rave there for a VERY long time.

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:34 am

bennyprofane wrote:EMP in Seattle.

The flangey bit on the left has a bit of a wub feel to it. Dunno who 'tis tho.

That buildings serious

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 10:07 am

^^oh thats definitely Loefah. Lustrous and viewed from the outside, it gives a windowless view to the soul of a serious artist whose work is minimal yet expansive, functional yet dysfunctional, innovative and groundbreaking yet totally lacking in pretension.

bjackman · Post by **bjackman** » Sun May 18, 2008 11:42 am

bennyprofane wrote:EMP in Seattle.

The flangey bit on the left has a bit of a wub feel to it. Dunno who 'tis tho.

mate that's not dubstep it's CLEARLY bassline house

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Sun May 18, 2008 9:27 pm

Magnetic man
skream/artwerk/benga

The Large Hadron Collider at Cern. A massive joint operation taking place underground involving smashing accelerated particles together to discover hidden fields of unknown qualities.

RubiconMan · Post by **RubiconMan** » Mon May 19, 2008 1:09 am

Echo Wanderer wrote:The (failed) Museum of Pop Music in Sheffield:

Got a MRK-1 kinda feel I reckon...

The concept is 4 hand drums and on top of the buildings are supposed to be
"hands" beating on them.

it did indeed fail as a pop museum, however all 4 hubs are being used, for example one is sheffield live 92.3fm broadcasting nuff quality and hilarity from r8 records with the dubstep to mista joe with the ukhh and an old lady reading stories at tea time hehe...
they have always looked like them stones they use in "curling" on ice...

claw · Post by **claw** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:56 am

This building is Trillbass

epithet · Post by **epithet** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:47 am

claw wrote:

This building is Trillbass

^^Gaudy, brash, fake european, american boys own club lacking in character and taste.

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