El-B or not 2be

[fly music]

It was never about the pay check with El-B... in fact he kept on making hot riddims but just never released them...

They will be trickling out slowly in some form or another...

[elgato]

as to zed bias, i got a relatively new maddslinky remix the other day, its fucking sick, he's blatantly still destroying it in whatever he does, and there's no way he's doing it for the cash, this remix was on the flip of a release from a completely minor label, i would guess there's way more cash in dubstep nowadays

its important to remember how much a lot of the scene has changed since the days that they were kings of it, i can imagine that it just might not appeal all that much anymore... but anyways we've just had word of this El-Slaughter biz so that puts paid to a lot of this

i'd like to see them return to the scene with some old-school styles, or lighter vibes, i reckon it'd be a good thing, but having said that i'll be mixing maddslinky with dubstep, so other than being on a 'dubstep' label or giving their dubs to the inner circle (as it were), there isnt that much difference anyways

but at the end of the day who are we to question two of the most talented and important producers in modern music?!

[thinking]

as to zed bias, i got a relatively new maddslinky remix the other day, its fucking sick, he's blatantly still destroying it in whatever he does, and there's no way he's doing it for the cash, this remix was on the flip of a release from a completely minor label, i would guess there's way more cash in dubstep nowadays

yea Zed Bias has been pretty prolific under his broken beat monikers, some of his releases in the last couple of years have been heavy.

Regardless of his own motivations, generally speaking I would guess that there is still a bit more cash to be had in the broken beat scene - there's not much of an 'underground' i.e. clubnights etc, but more records are getting bought worldwide than in dubstep. For how long that will be true, I don't know.

btw also on the money front, don't forget that more often than not, remixes by 'names' are paid for - Goya distribution (by far the main distro for broken beat) always look for a 'big name' remix on stuff they are asked to distribute, particularly on new/small labels.



I do wish he'd come back & visit the dubstep scene tho, I wanna hear a Neighbourhood 2006 refix.

[bob crunkhouse]

money might be a factor when putting out a record,, it dont mean they aint makin beatz.. el-b prob has a tonne of dubs thatll never hit the streets.

just something i thought

yeh, i never get this kind of thing, if someone has a load of unreleased tunes then just put em on the internet, i mean if u know there not gonna get released then make all your fans happy right?

[pk-]

can anyone point me in the direction of a few el-b early dubstep tunes? i loved his set at FWD a month ago or so, but i swear he was playing 2step stuff

[thinking]

money might be a factor when putting out a record,, it dont mean they aint makin beatz.. el-b prob has a tonne of dubs thatll never hit the streets.

just something i thought

yeh, i never get this kind of thing, if someone has a load of unreleased tunes then just put em on the internet, i mean if u know there not gonna get released then make all your fans happy right?

I know what you mean, and it's hard for punters to accept that there will be tunes you can't get your hands on. The thing is, flooding the market like that make it much harder to shift the tunes you actually want to sell.

[DrGatineau]

wtf lemon.....

[RKM]

did u intentionally leave out blackdown alone from bigging up this thread ahah

[rorz9992]

I just want to say that I have all the El-Tuff records and that I wish El-B would go back to doing some more stuff like that

[sixs]

I wanna hear a Neighbourhood 2006 refix.

man called it 3 years before it happened

[_TraX_]

I'm craving that shuffleswing

[cyclopian]

Some super questionable tunes, but mainly decent stuff imo