The Our Sound Vol 1 & 2 compilations on Destructive records are a good place for breakstep. Scarecrow for me always made sick sounding tunes and Vex'd vs Search & Destroy - End OF Line is heavyweight.
dutty_switch wrote:The Our Sound Vol 1 & 2 compilations on Destructive records are a good place for breakstep. Scarecrow for me always made sick sounding tunes and Vex'd vs Search & Destroy - End OF Line is heavyweight.
oh my, are those z-plane filters i hear there? i haven't listened to that tune for so long, it's funny how your perception of music changes when you learn about production
will check out that comp fer sure.
now a question to you lot, does this qualify as breakstep? i know it's not particularly dark or idm-ish but i love the vibe of it
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:45 am
by cogidubnus
We just put an EP out by Duskky that should appeal to the breakstep appreciators, previews here:
One of the first to rep and still doing it now, don't forget about Urban Graffiti too
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:44 pm
by esfandyar
rogue star wrote:One of the first to rep and still doing it now, don't forget about Urban Graffiti too
Urban Graffiti has weight.
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:27 pm
by threnody
Urban Graffiti are simply a legendary label. Such a good and consistent back catalogue.... I'm talking Toasty, SLT Mob, Sully, Reso, Redline, apart from obvious Rogue Star, H*O*D and myself. Solid label!
I still remember one of the first 'dubstep' nights i went to (The Rephlex Grime launch party @ The End)....Rogue Star on the mic & SLT (plus MRK1 & Plastician) tearing it up.... No one even knew how to dance to stuff back then but it was like a musical epiphany. Such an honour to have Rogue do the MC duties on some of my sets since then.
I think that a lot of the original breakstep crew didn;t classify their sound as breakstep...it was all just seen as different angles of dubstep and maybe this is why it never really got it's own identity.... Of course genre names are just genre names and real producers just write music and let journalists/fans classify it as they wish....
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:34 pm
by mks
It seemed that breakstep and dubstep both became common parlance around the same time in 2001-2 and a lot of the DJ's playing darker dubwise 2-step were playing both. I know I was.
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:41 pm
by Shum
I remember the word "dubstep" coming along well after breakstep and in between that time there was instrumental grime and the various names people were giving on the darker offshoots of that, "sublow" and the like. Just my rusty ruminations on things.
edit: Should have read back on more of the posts in here.
01. Benga - Untitled [Dub]
02. DJ Distance - Vicious Circle [Dub]
03. D1 - Debussy VIP [Dub]
04. Toasty Boy - One Life [Dub]
05. Toasty Boy - Some Kind of Noise [Dub]
06. Dubchild - Warning VIP [Dub]
07. Search & Destroy - Killamanjaro [Dub]
08. Search & Destroy - Detox [Dub]
09. Search & Destroy - Dawning [Dub]
10. Skream - Lightning Dub (DJ Distance Special) [Dub]
11. DJ Distance - Traffic [Dub]
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12. Elemental - Soul Fire [Dub]
13. Search & Destroy - Positive [Dub]
14. Scarecrow - Taken [Dub]
--. (Reload)
15. Caspa - Rubber Chicken [Dub]
16. Flatline - Cardiac [Dub]
--. (Reload)
17. Toasty Boy - Skinny VIP [Dub]
18. Elemental - Deep Under [Dub]
19. DJ Distance - Tuning [Dub]
20. Vex'd - Killing Floor [Dub]
--. (Reload)
21. Caspa - For the Kids [Dub]
--. (Reload)
22. Dubchild - The Rocker [Dub]
23. Elemental - Tribute [Dub]
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24. Darqwan - Bigga Times [Dub]
25. DJ Distance - Empire VIP [Dub]
26. Toasty Boy - Knowledge (Vex'd Remix) (DJ Distance Special) [Dub]
27. Dubchild - Psycopath VIP [Dub]
28. Search & Destroy - Deepest Fear [Dub]
29. Boxcutter - Gave Dub [Dub]
30. Toasy Boy vs Search & Destroy - As One [Dub]
31. Scarecrow - Snakes & Ladders [Dub]
32. L Wiz - Snoogle [Dub]
33. Benga - Untitled [Dub]
34. Boxcutter - Sunshine VIP [Dub]
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:30 am
by Forum
Such a shame what happened to hot flush, when you remember how many great tunes they put out in day
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Fri Dec 20, 2013 11:34 am
by Riddles
southstar wrote:Such a shame what happened to hot flush, when you remember how many great tunes they put out in day
I know, so many brilliant tunes
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2013 8:18 pm
by +torment+
bumpin simply for this selection. bigs.
threnody wrote:I don't think breakstep is dying out as you say wubstep... no need to just listen to old music to get the breakstep flava, you just need to go deeper underground..... There are some classics and a good place to start is my history of breakstep show which was on Sub FM a couple of months ago....
Threnody – An Anthology of Breakstep
Date: 25/03/2011
Time: 00:00 – 02:00 am (Thurs Night/Fri Morn)
Location: SUB FM (http://www.sub.fm)
Dubchild – Mount Zion [Storming]
Darqwan – Rob One 7 [Texture]
Toasty – Too Hot [Storming]
Geeneus – Detroit [Dump Valve]
Mark One – Stargate 92 [Rephlex]
Search & Destroy – Food Chain [Texture]
Jammin – Go DJ [Bingo]
Bogeyman – Smelly [Storming]
Vex'd + Search & Destroy – End of Line [Destructive]
Distance – Trust My Logic [White]
Zinc – 138 Trek [Phaze:One]
Darqwan – Said the Spider [Texture]
Toasty – As One [dub]
Freq Nasty – SE15 [Botchit & Scarper]
Boxcutter – Brood [Hotflush]
Squire of Gothos – Emptyin Full Clips [Rag & Bone]
Threnody – Want Me [Creative Space]
Blackmass Plastics – Pandemic [Rag & Bone]
Succulent-C – 21st Century Box [UK Trends]
Succulent-C – 21st Century VIP [UK Trends]
Kanvas – Flip The Script [dub]
Sully – Living [Urban Graffiti]
Noiz – Slashback [Yellow Machines]
Full Spektrum – You Got The Love [dub]
Reso & ID – Shifty [Smokin Sessions]
Valta & Minikin – Protection [dub]
Threnody – Sound [Rottun]
Reso & Rogue Star – No Such Thing as Fate [Urban Graffiti]
HOD – Stayin Put [Urban Graffiti]
Bojcott – Original Dub [dub]
Anodyne – Empire of Light [Combat dub]
Scan One – Breedle [Yellow Machines]
Threnody – Into Night [dub]
Slaughter Mob – Pull Up [Urban Graffiti]
Toasty – Like Sun [Hotflush]
Not In My Name – Scatter [UK Trends]
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2013 12:33 am
by cloaked_up
hotfluh is a medium room tech house exercise
Re: Breakstep
Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:12 pm
by Sunset
im bringing this which i recently did. covering much breakier and pre-dubstep stuff from the early days
