About dubstep becoming a competition for the biggest drop...

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:25 am

the big drop is what killed dnb dead for me a few years back. I do see it creeping into dubstep, but i mix more like a techno DJ anyway (long blends/EQs) so it doesn't bother me too much.

random trio · Post by **random trio** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:02 am

u people are hard to please.

the music has to be made to cater 4 every 1. theres a post about people fed up wiv wabble bass lines now its the big drop.

i personally prefer slow minimal deep bass line business. dont mean to say i dont wana hear no wabble bass ( which i've recently tinkered wiv) or big drops. a good variation is wots needed.

wot kode 9 saying about fill tunes is true, i have beats i built that i use as fill tunes ( jus not as much in em). if they were all big madness tunes we'd all be skinny and needing oxygen tanks.

alot of stuff is produced due to a crowds reaction at the dance....so its all your faults mwhhahahah

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:08 am

Where's the interview?

selector.dub.u · Post by **selector.dub.u** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:11 am

Corpsey wrote:Where's the interview?

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/DIAR ... t_dpid=108

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:18 am

cheers

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:20 am

RANDOM TRIO wrote: wot kode 9 saying about fill tunes is true, i have beats i built that i use as fill tunes ( jus not as much in em). if they were all big madness tunes we'd all be skinny and needing oxygen tanks.

Truth. Maybe I'm overestimating people here, but nothing but big drop tunes = about ninety big drops a night and even the biggest drop-addicts are going to lose interest after a while...

So stick the slow creepers and the melodic sweetness and whatever else in the filler tunes and everyone's happy.

diablo · Post by **diablo** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:21 am

Here, Eat all these at the next DMZ

You may just win the prize for the biggest drop in Dubstep

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 11:32 am

Parson wrote:drops are fr people lookin for rewinds

personally rewinds annoy the shit out of me unless its like maybe one or two a night and the crowd is DEMANDING it

Nothing wrong with drops they have existed in electronic music since its inception and will continue you to for years after. I thought the original point raised in this threads was about the competition for ever bigger drops, not the use of the drop within the music. The drop is one of the most powerful tools hence its popularity, cant fault it a good drop sticks in ya head. but it gets stale when it becomes a competition, almost an end in itself, which can be heard in some tunes at the moment. I'm a sucker for variation in tunes, sometimes its the most simplistic lead line that has most effect like the one that comes in on the second drop of lean forward.

kion · Post by **kion** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:12 pm

Big drops came way before dnb! Listen to Jamaican soundclashes - thats where the vibe comes from.

ekstrak · Post by **ekstrak** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:37 pm

RANDOM TRIO wrote:u people are hard to please.

innit

t-woc · Post by **t-woc** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:58 pm

RANDOM TRIO wrote:u people are hard to please.

keep ya on your toes

the wiggle baron · Post by **the wiggle baron** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:11 pm

ThinKing wrote:the big drop is what killed dnb dead for me a few years back. I do see it creeping into dubstep, but i mix more like a techno DJ anyway (long blends/EQs) so it doesn't bother me too much.

I had no idea there was another way of mixing ^ ^

Can't beat seeing how long you can hold a mix together with it still sounding like one.

scarecrow · Post by **scarecrow** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:48 pm

Here we go again......

kion · Post by **kion** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:49 pm

how about we all start producing Regressive House

t-woc · Post by **t-woc** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:51 pm

or dub tech house step

elgato · Post by **elgato** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:08 pm

t-woc wrote:or dub tech house step

sounds fucking sick

necta selecta · Post by **necta selecta** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:39 pm

tom_bass wrote

yea i luv dem DMZ trax which have 16 bar intros. it's like saying "hi, this is a murder tune", and then cuttin straight to the chase. no BS, straight up, 'lay it on 'em' bizniss.

Yeah that's it. What's that one (coki I think) with hardly anything going on in the intro, just a cymbal and a gentle background noise or something? And not forgetting coki 'marijuana' - what's that, a 4 word intro or something ?- sick. I love the way it just gets dropped from the top, mostly. Handy for if it's gonna get 6 reloads too.

kion · Post by **kion** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:43 pm

^^ thats exactly it - those tracks are built for rewinds.

markle · Post by **markle** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:12 pm

[quote="Jubscarz"][quote="Parson"]drops are fr people lookin for rewinds

I'm a sucker for variation in tunes

You need fillers just as much as you need drops. Variety is not just the spice of life, music needs it to. Can you imagine endless drop tunes, everyone would be knackered after an hour.

As dubstep produces more tunes DJ sets will become broader and more varied. Dj's who still believe in the art of DJing will work their sets building and layering the music in a pulsing journey of bass.

Happy days

jfortune · Post by **jfortune** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 3:32 pm

I dig the "Drops", but also, I'm personally a fan of the drops that aren't 'DROPS', per se'...jus mixing the tunes and dropping the new bass in heavy style, is jsut as effective, and longer lasting than those rewind 'drops'...imo.

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