Essential Dubstep artist albums...

[Shum]

What would be the first album that had a strong techno vibe underlying it like Nomad? 2562's - Aerial?

[gwa]

oooo aerial good shout

[Dead Rats]

Scorn - Stealth
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Skreamizm, yep
Diary of an Afro Warrior as well
Virus Syndicate - Work Related Illness I would put there
Probs some Milanese
Degenerate
London Zoo, yes
Caspa's Everyone talk-...nah, can't even joke

[fassyman]

skream! is the only essential dubstep album

[gwa]

UNDERWATER DANCEHALL >>>> SKREAM

ffs.

[magma]

I'd put Nomad, Glyphic and Island Noise in the "recommended" pile (City Limits too)... but if you've not got Skreamism, Degenerate, London Zoo and Untrue on your shelf you're just not living right.

The only thing that lets Underwater Dancehall down are some of the dodgy vocals... it's an absolutely pivotal album. It was the moment when I realised Bristol was taking this Dubstep thing very seriously indeed - Bass Clef's Cannot Be Straightened showed me they were on the map, but Pinch showed me how they were planning to take over.

Aerial is a great shout. Essential because it's the standard to which all 4x4 Dubstep/Techno/Crossover should be held.

[gwa]

the vocals are spot on, what's yet gripe?

[wubstep]

Everyone chats about Vex'd/Distance/Boxcutter/Milanese getting them into dubstep/being essential, but no one fucking plays it out or makes anything like it any more.

Fruits, the lot of ya.

[scspkr99]

I wonder whether this was what wub was intending.

Think the more interesting question is why an album for an art form that generally builds around singles.

I'd have In Fine Style but I don't know it's dubstep

[Forum]

A lot of these might as well be extended EPs, a proper album should be made for listening from start to finish, not just a collection of bangers

[scspkr99]

A lot of these might as well be extended EPs, a proper album should be made for listening from start to finish, not just a collection of bangers

which is why the question originally was whether there is such a thing as an essential dubstep album

[wub]

I wonder whether this was what wub was intending.

A lot of these might as well be extended EPs, a proper album should be made for listening from start to finish, not just a collection of bangers

which is why the question originally was whether there is such a thing as an essential dubstep album

[Forum]

I think the 3 i named fit the description

Distance - My demons
Clubroot - Clubroot
Ital Tek - Cyclical

[gwa]

underwater dancehall is an album

[Dead Rats]

Everyone chats about Vex'd/Distance/Boxcutter/Milanese getting them into dubstep/being essential, but no one fucking plays it out or makes anything like it any more.

Fruits, the lot of ya.

Yeah, I know, but what can you do? To be fair, these kind of artists are like, when you go and see em' you go and see THEM, not Dubstep, do you know what I mean?

Milanese is a bit of a beast to mix

[wubstep]

I know but I'm still gutted, the whole breaky step thing is dead.

Boxcutter is now 'The Host', I never even got to see him playing his original sound.
Vex'd is no more. Fuck knows what Milanese is up to.
JK Flesh & King Cannibal are doing wicked shit I guess, not many.

[BonerJams04]

oneiric. listened to the whole thing several times through on the drive to colorado, now it always reminds me of mountains and snowboarding

[skimpi]

Errrr Peverelist - Jarvik Mindstate duuurrrr!

[leyenda]

+1 to Degenerate, In Fine Style, Skream!, London Zoo, both Burial albums, Memories of the Future. Possibly Underwater Dancehall, One of Us and both Distance albums.

But really Degenerate is the one. It really comes up trumps not just on the obvious ones but also tracks like Crusher Dub.

Obviously not officially released but if that bunch of Toasty dubs he gave away was released that would be up there too.

[wubstep]

Any chance of a reup of those? Plenty of call for it in the Toasty thread but no one has done so...