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by threnody » Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:41 pm
Interesting thread....until that time signatures stuff came in, do some research or make something amazing to change western music.
As for the state of dubstep there is plenty diversity...toasty, distance, burial, kode 9, mala to name the big boys. Combat recording have been putting out some different stuff consistantly....that latest Scanone ep is like nothing else about.
Some newer people are pushing different sounds too, Sully is large, Shonky twists it up and metalbox has put his own spin on a more'typical' dubstep sound with plenty switches and edits. Other producers are coming through...Vaccine and TRG spring to mind and both are doing something different.
Dubstep will always have core elements and will evolve. Halfstep is a major part of the sound...just as breakstep was a few years back...i think that these are core elements....put a kick on each beat of the bar and it's going to sound like house or nu skool breaks or whatever. People should always experiment though and this is often missing from some of the huge amounts of 320s i've picked up on this board.
Going back to the old dubplate.net days i remember checking every day to see what new tracks were up on the dubplates section and often getting excited by them but it was a handful of producers with their own spin on the genre and their own sound....now there is an audience to listen and replicate so obviously some kind of copying will take place....however remember that the original batch of producers brought their own sound and this is something newer producers may not have found yet...they will surely develop just as everyone does and come across something new as they develop their skills.
I personally blame reason for a lot of evils in electronic music....exactly how many bass sounds can you get out the subtractor? I reckon this is the most used software by the new producers and with such a limited number of instruments and effects (and of course limited knowledge on how to use them) things will sound samey...on the flipside artists like Luke Envoy know how to take the software and use it in new ways....goes back to originality.....
The point on quality control is also important as many people are letting half finished and half baked tunes go as 320s when they would be best off on the harddrive of a virus laden machine...however it is simple...don't download them i guess! There was an interestin thread in the production forum about how long it takes people to write a tune and people were saying they bang out 10 a day or have them finished in 24 hours....this surely must be destructive...how can you be original 10 times a day or give a tune time to evolve and develop in 24 hours. I'm sure this is how music by numbers occurs and how people are banging out beat followed by beat with the same ideas...even if you bin 99% of what you cram into the hours can the 1% really have enough time to develop and be original.....i'm sure a lot of producers could knock up a halfstep beat, wobble bass and ragga vox in an hour but then this is dubstep by formula.
So let the innovators break though (as i'm sure they will) and let the established names develop, suprise and redefine. Try new software, new VSTs, new effects....be influenced from outside as well as in and develop a polished and original sound before posting 320s....minimal, maximal, techno, wobble, halfstep, 4x4, original, ragga, evil, glitch, whatever....if it sounds like you and not the next man then i'm sure it will fall on gratefully receiving ears.
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threnody on Mon Feb 19, 2007 9:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
