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i LOVE me some halfstep wobble, don't get me wrong, but when you hear more than about 5 of those tunes in a row... and then if it happens a few nights in a row... yikes.

let's face it. it's overtown.

we need a new sound that makes everyone slap themselves in the forehead again.

i find switching the snares up every few tunes works, as does pointedly avoiding LFOs every now and then, but there must be a better way to switch it up without leaving the genre. dubstep needs to keep growing. i'm not talking about 'deep nappy techno' or 'dark funky house' or any of the other nonsense that people seem to gravitate to. every f00king genre become funky tek/house before long and i am REALLY hoping that we can collectively avoid that with dubstep.

anyone have any brilliant ideas that will stop dubstep from being absorbed into the irrelevant mush that is modern EDM?

i'm hoping that the new direction includes lots of melody, field recordings, an emphasis on live performance, and lots of session musicians in the studios but that's just me. changing the bpm from 70 would be nice too, i'm a HUGE fan of multi-bpm sets.

and i already know i'm a tnuc btw jus causin some shit cuz i've had a few on my way to modeselektor tonight.

EDIT:

i agreed with everything up until you said changing up the BPM.....

check out all the stuff coming out on the anti social label, it's proper sick addictive beats without being stupidly wobbly

breakstep!

let's all move away from the strictly halfstep and into a world of more choppage, more twisted, and dare i say it, slightly busier beats

setspeed wrote:breakstep!

let's all move away from the strictly halfstep and into a world of more choppage, more twisted, and dare i say it, slightly busier beats

THIS!

i think 'dubstep' is well past the wobble and any arguments about such. if i were a science man, i could break it down to a hell of a lot of envelopes being used on notes and it'd be game over, no lfo to filter cutoff, no extreme amount of wobble, juss some good ol' technique.

i was told a LONG time ago that a 'dj's job is to get as many girls on the dancefloor as possible' and I don't believe the 'mantra' has changed much

dz wrote:i was told a LONG time ago that a 'dj's job is to get as many girls on the dancefloor as possible' and I don't believe the 'mantra' has changed much

Yeh, no girls no party unless you're enjoying the sausage fest

halfstep wobble will never stop being good!
If loefah released some of the dubs he wrote 3 years ago i would definatly buy them! But as long as if within those parameters people experiment theres no problem. Take like kripytic minds there stuff is half step wobble i guess but its quite different to the stuff being made 3 years ago. Keep experimenting, but just end a good thing cause it's been used before.

Two things.

Firstly, you can't just get a few people together and go, "let's move the sound from this to this." Its an organic process. And will only be shaped by the producers making the music and, to an extent, the crowd's reaction both in the dances and in terms of what people buy/play.

Secondly, its quite difficult to define what dubstep actually is. But I think Kode9 came closest when he suggested that it was music with an emphasis on the sub-bass and that stayed around 140bpm. Start fucking about with the bpm too much (give or take a few minor changes either way) and what are you left with?

I used to be into dubstep but now I'm purely Wonk 'n' Wobble.

QUARTERSTEP WOBBLE

Ill Gates wrote:emphasis on live performance, and lots of session musicians in the studios

dear god no. did you forget how shit d'n'b got when it went all "intelligent"?

all about 4 to the floor dubstep!! 140 bpm go hard or go home.

put a donk on it.

OMFGLOLZERS DUBSTEPS IN "NEW WOBBLE TOPIC" SHOCKER> HOW WILL THE PUBLIC DEAL WITH THIS AMEIZIN NU DEVELOPMENTZZZ? 111111111 l333t

hee hee, yaay, people took the bait!

i definitely agree with dubstep being a lot more abstract a concept than it would seem at first, and i am very excited to see where it goes. and yes, i agree you can't just get a bunch of people together and say 'what's next' but hey, i am just some dude drunkenly posting on a messageboard after all

all i'm saying is that we should keep it interesting... shit gets boring/played quick these days.

lots of love

d

bassbeyondreason wrote:QUARTERSTEP WOBBLE

this

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