Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by joeki » Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:00 pm

Yeah, why not check out my top tracks of 2011.

Unfortunately, some December releases didn't make the cut (in particular, new Actress, Pinch and A Made Up Sound)

http://submeditation.wordpress.com/2011 ... s-of-2011/

Have a good read :4:

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by garethom » Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:05 pm

Big up Joeki, that's a good read.

Here's my top 50, the link is to the top 10, but there's links for the rest in there too.

http://night-tracks.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... p-ten.html

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by joeki » Wed Jan 11, 2012 11:17 pm

cheers man, good read and selection there also!! loving the graphics of that site too!

makes me want to put on a record!

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Charco » Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:21 am

joeki wrote:Yeah, why not check out my top tracks of 2011.

Unfortunately, some December releases didn't make the cut (in particular, new Actress, Pinch and A Made Up Sound)

http://submeditation.wordpress.com/2011 ... s-of-2011/

Have a good read :4:
Bookmarked for a proper read in a bit :W:

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by meshblorg » Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:33 am

You guys really do live and breathe this music :mrgreen:

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by nclpad » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:01 am

sully – trust
author – green and blue
burial – street halo
consequence – of uncertainty
kryptic minds – fade to nothing
LV and joshua idehen – lean Back
machinedrum – she died there
zomby – a devil lay here
kuedo - Scissors
lee 'scratch' perry – like the way you should (mala remix)
horsepower productions – justify
pinch and shackleton – cracks in the pleasuredome
silkie ft. truth – feel
swarms – fracture
LHF – bass 2 dark

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by SCope13 » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:03 am

garethom wrote:You're not a hipster if you don't like a certain sort of music. Believe it or not mate, some people genuinely don't like it. They aren't pretending.

Grammy nomination as indicator of quality? LOL.

Everyone that's slating this guy's list. It's his opinion man. He's not forcing you to listen to them. If you disagree with him, make your own list. Rather than sit there slagging tracks another guy likes, let people know about songs you do like, maybe they'll pick up on them.
You're right, but the fact that it isn't dubstep is not an opinion. You cannot objectively call it dubstep.
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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by joonipah » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:39 am

garethom wrote:Big up Joeki, that's a good read.

Here's my top 50, the link is to the top 10, but there's links for the rest in there too.

http://night-tracks.blogspot.com/2011/1 ... p-ten.html
enjoyed yours and Joeki's list, I hadn't listened to the the clouds tune until now, lush. reminds me of Instra - Vicodin.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by hendramarshall » Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:23 am

meshblorg wrote:You guys really do live and breathe this music :mrgreen:
dun kno 8)

joeki that was a good read
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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Molzie » Thu Jan 12, 2012 8:05 am

top list joeki. not far off my picks for the year.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by fassyman » Thu Jan 12, 2012 1:13 pm

Thrilla wrote:@scattbean and @ difference
if you honestly didn't understand what i wrote, then maybe should go back to english grade 5? you all take it so seriously.. it's music, music will always evolve in every genre. you're all so worried about appearing cool for listening to music that isn't well known, and here dubstep is starting to get more and more known.. which is obviously the reason you're getting mad. i haven't heard one valid excuse as to why everyone hates skrillex and other 'brostep' producers. you can't say skrillex is shit, sure you can dislike his music, but you can't say that you hate him because he's shit. because we both know that his production skills are out of this world. he came in, changed the game, all hipsters got mad because they can't listen to something that's going mainstream. skrillex is nominated for 5 grammys.. is burial? ask yourself that.
theres way more hipsters jumping on the midrange dubstep fad than there ever has been supporting the foundation sound.
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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Maccaveli » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:49 pm

Thrilla wrote:@scattbean and @ difference
if you honestly didn't understand what i wrote, then maybe should go back to english grade 5? you all take it so seriously.. it's music, music will always evolve in every genre. you're all so worried about appearing cool for listening to music that isn't well known, and here dubstep is starting to get more and more known.. which is obviously the reason you're getting mad. i haven't heard one valid excuse as to why everyone hates skrillex and other 'brostep' producers. you can't say skrillex is shit, sure you can dislike his music, but you can't say that you hate him because he's shit. because we both know that his production skills are out of this world. he came in, changed the game, all hipsters got mad because they can't listen to something that's going mainstream. skrillex is nominated for 5 grammys.. is burial? ask yourself that.
Lmao, every single sentence in this post is hilariously naive, misguided or just stupid. So many ridiculous assumptions :lol:

I'm not gonna bother addressing everything here, but A: did it ever occur to you that maybe people just enjoy underground music cos it's good music, not because they're posers? And B: what do you deem a 'valid reason' for hating Skrillex? Just look around this forum, you'll find loads.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Maccaveli » Thu Jan 12, 2012 2:49 pm

Edit: what's with all the double posts recently?

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by joeki » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:03 pm

regardless of all the bullshit in that post which seriously doesn't even need addressing, what caught my eye was this :

"skrillex has mad production skills that changed the game"

You should have gone over some soundclouds two years ago man, there were small people producing this sound (and even back then getting a lot of hatred for it). The problem was they didn't have a commercial machine behind them to begin with, in that aspect, skrillex was a pioneer.
It's simply not dubstep man. I've never seen Skrillex saying for himself that he's the new child of dubstep. It's marketeers and retarded people with no musical knowledge whatsoever (let alone insight into subcultures including dubstep) who have been making these claims from the beginning.

I go out, with much pleasure, to a Bad Religion concert, they're mainstream as fuck. I go out to see James Blake amongst the hipster crowd, simply because I like his music, I immensely enjoyed M83 when he was touring in support of his debut album (don't like the new one by the way). I have no problem with mainstream and moving amongst it. That's just beside the issue.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by TheTornado » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:19 pm

If you want a different top 10/15/whatever list, check my crew's blog. Lists from myself, Whoa-B and Sushi - dubstep/grime/UKG.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Osario » Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:30 pm

fassyman wrote:
Thrilla wrote:@scattbean and @ difference
if you honestly didn't understand what i wrote, then maybe should go back to english grade 5? you all take it so seriously.. it's music, music will always evolve in every genre. you're all so worried about appearing cool for listening to music that isn't well known, and here dubstep is starting to get more and more known.. which is obviously the reason you're getting mad. i haven't heard one valid excuse as to why everyone hates skrillex and other 'brostep' producers. you can't say skrillex is shit, sure you can dislike his music, but you can't say that you hate him because he's shit. because we both know that his production skills are out of this world. he came in, changed the game, all hipsters got mad because they can't listen to something that's going mainstream. skrillex is nominated for 5 grammys.. is burial? ask yourself that.
theres way more hipsters jumping on the midrange dubstep fad than there ever has been supporting the foundation sound.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by meshblorg » Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:25 am

joeki wrote:regardless of all the bullshit in that post which seriously doesn't even need addressing, what caught my eye was this :

"skrillex has mad production skills that changed the game"

You should have gone over some soundclouds two years ago man, there were small people producing this sound (and even back then getting a lot of hatred for it). The problem was they didn't have a commercial machine behind them to begin with, in that aspect, skrillex was a pioneer.
It's simply not dubstep man. I've never seen Skrillex saying for himself that he's the new child of dubstep. It's marketeers and retarded people with no musical knowledge whatsoever (let alone insight into subcultures including dubstep) who have been making these claims from the beginning.

I go out, with much pleasure, to a Bad Religion concert, they're mainstream as fuck. I go out to see James Blake amongst the hipster crowd, simply because I like his music, I immensely enjoyed M83 when he was touring in support of his debut album (don't like the new one by the way). I have no problem with mainstream and moving amongst it. That's just beside the issue.
Well the style that Flux, Skrillex, and Nero have been making in recent years is a new style of dubstep. The old/classic style is still around and thrives in the underground. But you can't say that something that has the same beat rhythm and structure is not dubstep just because it's a new style of the genre.

:U:

This exact argument with traditional fans refusing to recognize and accept a popular new style of a genre is also is occuring in house and trance with older styles like tech house and uplifting trance hating on progressive house and progressive trance. Genres evolve and so do their fans. It's okay. No one's going to take away the style you like as long as passionate producers are still around.

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by luke snowbarger » Fri Jan 13, 2012 5:51 am

I do feel like Sonny overshadowed a lot of talent. But don't bash him for making it. You just look ignorant, not smart. It's really not rocket science. He worked hard. He played hard. He's extremely talented. Put underground and the past aside, Sonny set a new standard. It is what it is.
Cinema was the top dubstep track of 2011, simply because it was the top dubstep track of 2011. End of story.
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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

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Re: Top 15 Dubstep Tracks of 2011

Post by Maccaveli » Fri Jan 13, 2012 7:54 am

luke snowbarger wrote:I do feel like Sonny overshadowed a lot of talent. But don't bash him for making it. You just look ignorant, not smart. It's really not rocket science. He worked hard. He played hard. He's extremely talented. Put underground and the past aside, Sonny set a new standard. It is what it is.
Cinema was the top dubstep track of 2011, simply because it was the top dubstep track of 2011. End of story.
That's a fact is it? Get the fuck out of here with that 'end of story' crap...

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