elibomyekip wrote:
Exactly. It's barely experimental when put next to a lot of the more obscure dubstep people are pushing out these days. It's just all the chainsaw heads are calling it pretentious because it's the only non-wobble stuff they've encountered in the mainstream.
I think it's easy to assume someone is overrated when everyone is going apeshit about them. Personally I think Joy Orbison is quite overrated, but that's just part of music industry. In a few years (probably more) when these artists go off the radar or stop making music, we're all gonna look back and be like "fuck, look what they were doing for the scene"
he's not really dubstep in my eyes, but still one of the most talented producers atm.
Why does he go out of his way to deliberately remove the flow from this track? cause if he didnt id really dig it. and yeah like alot of people have said on this thread hes not dubstep really
Dude makes amazing music if you ask me. may not be what you want to hear in a club while going ape shit, but def something I let rock on my headphones everytime im on the train.
he's not really dubstep in my eyes, but still one of the most talented producers atm.
Why does he go out of his way to deliberately remove the flow from this track? cause if he didnt id really dig it. and yeah like alot of people have said on this thread hes not dubstep really
he removed the flow because thats what you wouldnt expect. thats what james blake is all about; teasing ideas and movements but never actually getting there, its a bit like musical foreplay. hes shows you something that you like and says "hey, rather than building this and basing the whole song around it, im gonna give you something else that youll like even more.. or i dunno maybe im reading a whole too much into it...
he's not really dubstep in my eyes, but still one of the most talented producers atm.
Why does he go out of his way to deliberately remove the flow from this track? cause if he didnt id really dig it. and yeah like alot of people have said on this thread hes not dubstep really
he removed the flow because thats what you wouldnt expect. thats what james blake is all about; teasing ideas and movements but never actually getting there, its a bit like musical foreplay. hes shows you something that you like and says "hey, rather than building this and basing the whole song around it, im gonna give you something else that youll like even more.. or i dunno maybe im reading a whole too much into it...
@ Collision Course
makes it more interesting to listen to imo.
What I heard on his myspace sounded awful to me. I thought why on earth have R&S signed this guy considering the label's history. Personally what I've heard of his I don't like.
I wouldn't say he is overated, I mean some of his tunes i dont like, they are a bit too out there for me, but then others are just amazing! like CMYK, that is a bit more straight forward than his other though, but some of the ideas he has just leave me thinking, how did he think to do that in the first place! He may not be the most experimental producer out there, but he is alot more experimental than alot of dubstep, as it's normally quite straightforward flowing music, and its quite hard to get your music to not be really linear and to break it up when working with sequencing, well I find it hard to it it anyway lol.
i think he's great! really makes some dubstep that makes you ask, "what you call it?"
i've been missing that
especially when you see youths use phrases like "straightforward dubstep" or "proper dubstep", which are essentially oxymorons since dubstep is a genre that was, at one time, defined by sub bass and a shying away from formulas
thank you
mr blake!
that thank you also extends to the many producers out there who are still pushing things fwd>>
there are too many to name
2010 has been great so far
the future looks amazing!!
was djing about a year ago at a shackleton show
had james blake's untold remix with me
i kept thinking shall i? shant i? maybe it's a bit too off-kilter
was playing deep medi, rsd, deeper stuff
anyway mixed it out of somethin purple and the energy in the room as it built was electric
it dropped HARD - sounded insane next to everything else
had to edge it
tune of the night
sure it's probly already posted back in the thread but just in case
yeah, james blake is so good.
probably not really even dubstep. and i defo don't care whether he is or not. and to be honest if you care that much whether an artist is one genre or another, you've probably missed the point of talking about MUSIC so spectacularly that you should really just remove yourself from the conversation.
i get that genres are all well and good and stuff and its nice to be able to associate yourself or your music with a particular scene, or group of people, or whatever. but at the heart of it. especially at the moment, when theres so much new music going off, the concept of genre is inherently bad for music, because it makes people (producers/listeners/critics/journalist/DJ's) lazy and less likely or willing to try out or look for other types of music. and it would be from that, the most forward thinking progression in music as a whole would occur.
people like james blake just happen to be influenced by dubstep. he's clearly a very talented musician in a lot of respects, if you think he's making 'shit dubstep' then you've probably not learned anything about music since coki and mala in '05
