To make good Dubstep...

[Dj Rephlex]

I mean you don't have to stop listening to bass music period. Just learn how to keep your music and the music you listen to in 2 different worlds. I listen to bass music mainly for inspiration and when I'm stoned. Do what you want aslong as you're not trying to re-create every song you listen to.

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And feel free to go outside of what you're familiar with because this doesn't mean, "Oh, well, I never liked metal before but I guess I have to learn to try to like it now." Search out some shit you've never even heard of - strange Japanese psychedelia, French hip hop, Afrobeat, Brazilian music (Batucada FTW!), Rembetika, Souk, Sufi trance music, the drummers of Burundi, Basque folk music, Gamelan music...

There's so much good music out there to discover I don't understand how anybody just parks in one genre.

I'm brazillian and what is "batucada"?

It's called a bateria, a collective of different percussionists. They can play samba, like the ones in samba schools or just random rhythms, like a college one, for example. Always thought that it was a verb. There's also a religion that goes by the same name if I recall. Learned something new I guess.

Yes: batucada is a Samba style that the big baterias play in Brasil, and it's fucking amazing. You know that big drum sound that hit hip hop a few years back with drumline/drum corps samples? Well, batucada sometimes makes that shit sound like kid stuff! It's more aggressively played than normal Samba which derives some of its feel from the unusual intervals, percussively speaking; batucada replaces those spaces with fills and huge surdo hits and things like that.

First heard it raving back in '93 or so - some local techno DJ would do a breakdown in his set at some point and come back with "Carnival de Batucada" by Sergio Mendes. When the drums hit in that one on a big system...

[Hircine]

my dad used to play on a samba school in rio, I just didn't know that there was a specific name to it. I should put my mala swag on and make a Mishva in Rio, proper third world vibes. brrraap

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my dad used to play on a samba school in rio, I just didn't know that there was a specific name to it. I should put my mala swag on and make a Mishva in Rio, proper third world vibes. brrraap

If you could get relatively clean multi-hits from samba school percussionists....

Seriously though, Brasilian music is among the greatest of all time IMO. Synthesizes African, Jazz, and Folk influences perfectly. I'm actually a huge fan of Bossa too. One of my top 5 songs of all time is "Waters of March" if that says anything.