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I love his work and think he has a very unique style. I just cant get enough of his tunes! Borders on bro a bit but screw it, he's insane. Anyone else feel the same?

plus one. love his tunes, love his percussion, love his overall composition. the perfect crossover artists between bro and skilled lol.

This ^ such good percussion. i watched an interview and he said he samples things like pasta to get texture... genius!

From what I gather he gets a lot of shit on here and, looking over his back catalogue a lot of his earlier material is pretty bad. However, he's developed into a really deft producer with some really unique flourishes and great glitchy and catchy moments. I'm not too huge of a fan of Maksim but the EP preview just released by Inspected had a couple of tracks that sounded really exciting.

brostep

his first tunes on dubsaw were sick. haven't checked any of his stuff after though

This is certainly not brostep

jemstar industries wrote:From what I gather he gets a lot of shit on here and, looking over his back catalogue a lot of his earlier material is pretty bad. However, he's developed into a really deft producer with some really unique flourishes and great glitchy and catchy moments. I'm not too huge of a fan of Maksim but the EP preview just released by Inspected had a couple of tracks that sounded really exciting.

I liked his earlier tunes on Dubsaw and his Colours album not really into his new stuff

he showed potential with some tunes. But most of it is still bro.

I don't give a shit if he is bro, his tunes are killer most of the time.

this is a tune

bro in its purest form

Very skilled producer definitely, think he's restricted his style when he signed to Inspected though
used to listen to him years ago and thought he was one of the most creative if not the most in his scene
basically telling a story with his tracks especially in 'Colours' on Gradient Audio...

This is what fuks me off about music "fashion" in general (other than the obvious point that it split an optimistic and diverse scene into for the large part two shitty sub genres one sounding like retarded camp hardcore cheese with a "supercringe" quality to it and the other halfstep psy-trance with the soul and rhythmn sucked out of it) - that a top quality musician/producer is wrote off on the basis of tunes of his u don't like rather than tunes u might seriously like but probably won't ever listen to or will write off b4 you've even heard on the basis of their other work. Bearing in mind that most producers out there are quite obviously none musicians who struggle with concepts like harmony, chord progressions and arpeggios etc (which contrary to what some tone deaf "experts" on here will try to tell u is actually the stuff that makes music interesting to listen to) hearing a producer of Culprate's calibre is a breathe of fresh air whatever he chooses to write - that's not to say I like all his tunes far from it but the skill that has gone into them shines through and that's rare so I suspect one who writes off everything he does off as 'bro' smacks more of that person being into their chosen genre of music as a fashion/image statement rather than them actually knowing fuk all about music or production. I've played some Culprate tunes to a few chinstrokers who profess their hatred of brostep and they loved them not realising who they were listening to

Whatever their shelf life I like some of his bangers from best part of a year ago and earlier as they were more unique to him than some of the more recent OWSLA poor mans Skrillex style remixes/tunes (not everything but a good chunk of what ive heard recently)- not having a pop by saying that its just that Skrillex won that arms race and no-one else trying obviously to sound like him is ever going to do it as good/bad (delete one according to taste) as the man himself whereas Culprate's own brand of filth had a far more interesting style to it imo HOWEVER its the leftfield tunes of his like Tentacle, Two and Green Urban Rainforest that are my favs and most interesting to listen to though obviously they are less "safe" to play to certain crowds.

I could say similar things about a number of very talented producers some of whom at one point were probably quite centre ground in their taste and could probably have gone in a different direction at some point in their career if they had been shown interest by different labels or producers/radio djs etc - its slightly annoying knowing that if some of these 'bro' producers had released their deeper output under aliases on 'approved' labels and done a bit more of it u lot would probably be giving them praise on here as next big thing yet the fact they wrote some music u didn't like means they get slated probably without those tunes even getting a listen.

Personally I am far more interested to hear the rarity of a 'bro' producer writing a good deep tune than someone who does that kind of music all the time write the same again and im willing to allow music turds from any producer who writes a tune I like as its hard enough to find good music these days aint it?

rob sparx wrote:Bearing in mind that most producers out there are quite obviously none musicians who struggle with concepts like harmony, chord progressions and arpeggios etc (which contrary to what some tone deaf "experts" on here will try to tell u is actually the stuff that makes music interesting to listen to)

Wouldn't that objectively speaking make trance the best genre there is?

I actually quite like some of his tunes, even the wubby ones. Tentacle VIP is probably my fav.