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Any good examples of dubstep with high-level music theory apparent? Maybe the use of complex scales or modes etc. So much of modern dubstep just centres around 1 or 2 notes making different weird noises which is good in its own way. However I wanted to know if there are any artists or songs where the writing is very technical, maybe using a wide range of notes and unusual chords. It doesn't have to sound the best, I just wanted some music like that to study.

There was a trained pianist making tunes a couple of years ago. It had nice progressions and melodies. I don't recall his nick or if he's still doing it, but try a search. I'll find his info when I'm off my mobile and post it.

check out kaiori breathe's music.

wormcode wrote:There was a trained pianist making tunes a couple of years ago. It had nice progressions and melodies. I don't recall his nick or if he's still doing it, but try a search. I'll find his info when I'm off my mobile and post it.

Gemini is a trained pianist, and his stuff is nice. Don't know if he's your guy, though.

early skream is pretty melodic , not sure if that's what your after.

blinkesko wrote:

wormcode wrote:There was a trained pianist making tunes a couple of years ago. It had nice progressions and melodies. I don't recall his nick or if he's still doing it, but try a search. I'll find his info when I'm off my mobile and post it.

Gemini is a trained pianist, and his stuff is nice. Don't know if he's your guy, though.

Yeah that's what I was going to say. Gemini's a trained pianist, but tbh, his stuff isn't that musically complex, mostly just typical chord patterns.

D1

D1 and Gravious are the 1st that come to mind

id say jokers resonably melodic, as well as cato, as far as dubstep goes anyway

if you go beyond dubstep you have guys like ochre, helios, arovane, plaid, ae, boc, andre estermann, plone, cylob, bola, isan, ashram, vali, current 93 etc

I don't want to sound arrogant, but if you want to listen to music with complex melodies, counter melodies, chords, key changes etc. listen to classical music. I know it may not be what your after but you can really benefit from it. Even jazz music is good for studying.

I like jazz more than classical many cases, when it comes to music theory

Phaeleh
Kaori Breathe
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Synkro (Mindset008 especially)

How could I forget Phaeleh! Definitely Phaeleh.

Love him or hate him, Feed me uses some pretty crazy melodies for a lot of his leads; much more melodically complex than your average tearout producer (not so much his drum and bass stuff, but his newer output for sure). Also, I don't particularly care for most of Deadmau5' music (and he's not a dubstep producer) but he really does use some complex chord progressions in some of his tracks. I know wolfgang gartner (once again not dubstep but still EDM) is classically trained and it shows in a lot of his tracks. A lot of producers nowadays just aren't classically trained, and it seems to show in their music (myself included-> I played trombone in orchestra for 7 years but aside from knowing how to read bass and tenor cleff, I'm not great at chord progressions or complex composition).

+1 to Deadmau5, some musically complex and innovative output from him for sure. Especially his older stuff.

Sun Ra

Brown & Gammon - Riddle Me This
Brown & Gammon - Blow My Mind
Brown & Gammon - Jurassic (Drop is sick)

I think brown & gammon is pretty good cuz they got catchy melodies/original sounding note-wise compared to a lot of artists...really different in general.

Porter Robinson - Unison(Knife Party Remix)

I think Knife Party is realllllllllllllllly good. Probably the best artist in my book as of right now.

Zomboy - Dirty Disco
There's a million things going on in this song. You can study this lol.

I could find some more ish. I dunno what you're exactly looking for though.

Blackmill dubstep, one of my favorite melodic dubstep producers. I could listen to his stuff for hours.

true master of the craft. enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAFjgpuWREM

skrillex..wether you like it or not