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"Big dubstep article in this week's NME"
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:22 pm
by ramadanman
Apparently
Anyone got a copy / scan? May have to do some furtive reading in WH Smiths...
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:26 pm
by jamie
Could be the end of dubstep as we know it if NME jump on the bandwagon. There'll be stnuc in tight black jeans spazzing out to skream tracks inbetween the gossip and get cape, wear cape, die in gay discos all over the country
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:34 pm
by tronman
i'll scan at lunch.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:35 pm
by montrose
hahaha jamie. peace & love
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:51 pm
by jamie
Just spied this on blackdown's blog...
I recently got an email from Jamie Smith, formerly known as grime producer Dr Venom from the True Tiger Camp, now known as part of indie/grime band Hadouken, who Logan amusingly suggested could suck his ballbag recently. Jamie asked me if I'd answer some questions on the interaction between technology and grime/dubstep, and as everytime I answer a query like this, it detracts from my blog, I thought I'd share my answers here.
Then today, I get a call from the NME asking about a dubstep primer they're running, which has a Hadouken boxout as part of it. Apparently indie clubs are having "a dubstep hour". Eeek. Ah well, my primary gripe with the NME (and all the powerful rock press) is that they're so narrowly monocultural, so I won't complain when indie clubs embrace the bass.
I fucking hate hadouken purely for using that word and some retard explaining it in depth how they came to find it relating to their music or some crap. It's a sound effect. Off a game. Where either fireballs are sent from the hands or a physically impossible spinning uppercut is performed. Nothing to do with music. I'm not in a great mood today.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:00 pm
by paulie
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:51 pm
by ramadanman
ok i've read the article, and in all fairness, it's not that bad. seems quite accurate as well
it goes on a bit though about how some people in the klaxons and in this band called the macabees rate dubstep, so therefore so should nme readers. also, the tag line ' the best new music, first' is kinda missing the mark...maybe if this article had been a year ago.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 2:52 pm
by ufo over easy
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Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:32 pm
by metalboxproducts
That it i'm jumping ship. You can have you NME celebrated "urban" music. Im off to listen to some heavy Pergolesi or some Scarlatti. On second thoughts, I'm about to go to camden. I could just walk around with my DMZ t shirt gettin bare impressionable gash like "yeah im into dubstep. What you to?" " I make it, you can come back to mine and have a listen if you want".
WORD
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:45 pm
by jah pat
Oh dear.
I saw this earlier and it's been pissing me off all day......
It's hardly snobbishness, but having one page a lot of with bright colours and some shitty indie celebrity describing 'dubstep' is wank. Twats. Then having the nme awards a few pages later about ageing homophobe. jumping when they say so to their shockwaves and topman rock'n'roll skipping rope.......
Fuck it. Down the pub for me.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:45 pm
by Littlefoot
mate, my favourite type of music is proper emo, as in hardcorepunk emo.. if they fuck Dubstep half as much as they did the E word Ill be furious!
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:08 pm
by ikonika
Joe C wrote:mate, my favourite type of music is proper emo, as in hardcorepunk emo.. if they fuck Dubstep half as much as they did the E word Ill be furious!
i was there when that happened...still hurts
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:40 pm
by ruckspin
metalboxproducts wrote:I could just walk around with my DMZ t shirt gettin bare impressionable gash like "yeah im into dubstep. What you to?" " I make it, you can come back to mine and have a listen if you want".
WORD
yeah man.
i'm only in dubstep for the impressionable gash
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:51 pm
by corpsey
Fuck NME
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:46 pm
by slothrop
Yeah, but do we hate the NME because they don't give dubstep enough coverage or because they do give it coverage thereby causing dubstep nights to fill up with twats in tight jeans?
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:53 pm
by seckle
has anyone ever tried reading nme front to back in the last five years? i don't know what the big fuss is about.
10 years ago, it was a very different newspaper. these days that rag is pure crap.
find the old nme stuff , like this. real researched journalism.
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:48 pm
by james_knight
Hmm...
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:28 pm
by optimum
Who really cares? NME used to be ok ten years ago, doubt many nme readers are gonna really notice the piece
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:49 pm
by fubar
ohhh dear...
Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:59 pm
by scarecrow
I actually found a copy on a bus earlier on me way back from work. I have NEVER read NME, but.... what a load of bollocks.
It embodies everything I hate about commercialism, and journalism for that matter.