Essential Dubstep artist albums...

[say_whut]

+1 for that Toasty re-up.

I really like Anidea by Guido, not sure if it fits this but it's just so catchy and funky

[Forum]

Errrr Peverelist - Jarvik Mindstate duuurrrr!

There was nothing essential about that album

[deadly_habit]

vex'd - degenerate
distance - my demons
skream - self titled (kicking myself for selling this when hard for cash)

those are my top 3

[collige]

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This is the Essential 4chan dubstep guide. I didn't make it originally, but I keep it fairly updated. I think it covers pretty much all the bases.

[Kochari]

Err

[deadly_habit]

http://i.imgur.com/7JMQa.jpg
This is the Essential 4chan dubstep guide. I didn't make it originally, but I keep it fairly updated. I think it covers pretty much all the bases.

ah one of the sensible people from /mu/
i generally hate that board

[deadly_habit]

Err

as much as i love breakage i always found his dubstep stuff lacking a certain something compared to his dnb
still great stuff, but his essential lp to me is


so much so that i own it on white labels and bought it a couple weeks before it was officially released

[AntlionUK]

recently

Goth Trad - New Epoch
DJ Madd - The Real and The Shadow

both fucking sick IMO

[scspkr99]

I've thought about this a bit and I don't think any dubstep album is likely to make an essentials list, the album just isn't central enough to what dubstep is.

Think mixes are way more likely to capture a particular zeitgeist in the sound and maintain a coherence from beginning to end.

[dubfordessert]

what someone said about dubstep being singles driven is pretty salient imo... allstars vol 2 would probably be a better candidate than a lot of artist albums

i really loved Aerial for a while but now it just sounds like elevator music to me

In Fine Style is great but I don't really think it's representative of the genre, definitely as a primer to it though

I've always thought Burial was pretty self-contained as an artist and has always stood apart from the rest of things so I wouldn't say his albums either tbh

maybe Memories of the Future

Skream! is probably the only one for me realistically. drenched in grime and reggae and garage but also a totally unique sound. not definitive as such but then no single album could be.

[sixs]

one of us & can't sleep are both perfect albums. km's sound design is untouchable

has anyone mentioned margins music?

[5910]

Y'know, I thought this thread was supposed to look at individual albums, from artists within the Dubstep... movement, for lack of a better term, that could considered invaluable on the basis of their individual qualities & characteristics. Almost like a hall of fame of sorts.
As opposed to albums to add to a perhaps more general essentials list. Or what would be hoarded to show future... members of said movement, In which case I probably would suggest digging up a mix to figure out what the dubstep 'sound' was at any given time.
Regardless, anything I would've said has already been said...


On a sidenote

Isn't that post-Dubstep though?

You weren't serious were you?

[fractal]

has anyone mentioned margins music?

classic

[milesNL]

Listed on Discogs as 'album'..

[ninjiless]

Listed on Discogs as 'album'..

Well, it is; dmz calls it an LP anyway (Urban Ethics as well).

I would agree, though, Return II Space is really something special.

[ultraspatial]

Good call on Margins Music. That's the closest thing to an "essential dubstep album" imo, it kinda has a bit of everything.

But the way I view it is that there's loads of essential albums/comps, each one representing a side of dubstep; you can't really reduce it to just one artist. But if we were to make a list, I'd go for Margins Music, Skream! and maybe Underwater Dancehall. I love most of the stuff sugested, but I wouldn't call them representative for dubstep as a whole. Degenerate to me is more of a grime album than a dubstep one. Distance doesn't really sound like anyone else. The same goes for Burial and Headhunter. Memories Of The Future is its own entity, there's nothing that sounds like it. etc

[Pistonsbeneath]

[Friendly Editing]

Aw..I was gna say Degenerate...don't think there's many personally..but that one for me was what really got me into dubstep.

but if I had just listeneded to it in 2012 I'm not sure whether it's really an essential album. "memories of the future" and "one of us" had an album-feel and "aerial" was quite good. but besides that and baring this in mind

a proper album should be made for listening from start to finish, not just a collection of bangers

I would say that there are more essential mixes than essential albums in dubstep...

[ultraspatial]

toasty dubs >>> http://www.mediafire.com/?f7lsi1rwdme7769

[wubstep]

Thankyou sire!