It`s not like the ; Distance, Burial, etc. style of minimalist, atmospheric, bass beats, has not been done before under the premise of a different style.AxeD wrote:So do you mean exsisting styles reviving or actually a new sound?
Anyway, I'm voting for minimal dnb and easy dubstep. Basicly more stuff like: Distance, Actress, Instra:mental, D-Bridge, Burial etc..
But there is already a lot of material in any genre and every genre gets more material every year
PsyDub and quite a fair bit of Pete Namlook style atmospheric beats has been floating around under the guise of a different name for years.
Burial makes some beatless, atmospheric music with a track or 2 having some dubstep factors.
Not hating on Burial, love his beats.
But just being objective and looking at the music closely, you kind of realize that quite a bit of the popular so-called Dubstep, ex the wobble, is actually the same or similar sounding as genres long forgotten.
I think because of the nature of experimental/underground music and it`s reasent success.
It`s becoming cool to make music that is not genre specific.
So returning to my Burial remarks, take the 'Burial' albumn.
Good Albumn but how much is the music what we would term Dubstep?
One or 2 tracks are quite deffinately your typical Dubstep sound.
But the larger percentage could have fallen into different categories based on what the listeners were into at the time.
So because Dub sounds were popular and people released music to a largely dub audience, the less dubby sounds became known as Dubstep without a thought.
Take the same sounds, put them into a psychedelic dub, psytrance , environment and the sounds become known as soundscapes, atmosphere, IDM, etc.
So my feeling is the sound does not dictate the movement but rather the movement that dictates the sound.
If you want experimental, deep sounds, over Bombastic, grimey, smelly, wobbles.
You will just include that sound in your listening and granted enough people also listen to that sound in a certain context, that sound will become the popular sound of Dubstep.
Will the name still be Dubstep? that`s dependant on the community.
If it has bass there's no reason why not to call it Dubstep.
But we all know the proliferation of a name is just pointless.
So why not call it something different?
Because then it won`t remain as cool as we'd like it to be.
That`s why we have step this and step that.
And that is why atmospheric, soundscapes, are also being grouped into the Dubstep Genre.
In the end I like the term Bass Music.
Talk about remaining comfortably vague.
Works for me.
Get my drift?
sorry I do ramble sometime.
IMO the atmospheric, hypnotic, monotonal sounds
are the future of experimental music.
Ala kode 9
The fundemantal building blocks of music becoming a larger part of the music.
Rather than be musical, the musicality is created by tonal sound minupulation, hypnotic waveforms, etc.
ie. solar fields style hypnotic game soundtracks like Mirror's Edge
amazing
