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jungle vs dubstep vs grime
 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2007-06-27 05:48 [#02097520]
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which one are you in favour of?
what do you think why dubstep and grime are so much more
popular nowdays than jungle? can they help jungle get more
recognition?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 05:54 [#02097521]
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Jungle is the best ever. Theres hardly any jungle nights any
more :(. I think dubstep and grime are more popular now
simply because theyre 'cool' and 'fresh' and 'new' and
'funky'. Kids are fickle and dance music has a lot of
posturing and posing around it. Dubstep and grime have
managed to be taken up by all the 13-17 year olds who love
to make out their hot shit. Jungles just had its day.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 05:54 [#02097522]
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theyre


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2007-06-27 05:57 [#02097523]
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well, imho dubstep and grime will share the same fate as
d&b.
it will be edgy for a couple of years but after that it will
become formulatic crap. it already is actually.
look at the things that are released in d&b today. and go
back to the year 2000. No progression whatsoever.

Dubstep is quite young. but look at the amount of releases.
it's huge. Every dubstep track that is made also gets
released.
you can have a 2 note bassline go on for 5 minutes and
boomkat will still call it "ESSENTIAL".

I am talking about the "pure" dubstep though. people like
milanese do interesting things with it.

even snares is doing dubstep appearantly.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 05:59 [#02097524]
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I agree with you about the progression of dub step and it
heading in a similar direction to drum and bass. It seems
almost like a certainty with the output that is being
churned out at the moment.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2007-06-27 05:59 [#02097525]
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but is it going to be as influental as jungle was? can
electronic scene get something out of dubstep? i don't think
so and that's one big difference compared to jungle.


 

offline isnieZot from pooptown (Belgium) on 2007-06-27 05:59 [#02097526]
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i do like some dubstep. but imho it's very overrated. it's
more about the production of your bass (ie how heavy can I
get it), then it is about the music itself: melody,
composition (which allot of dubstep simply doesn't have).


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 06:08 [#02097528]
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I think theres very little to gain from dubstep as, like
isnieZot theres not much to it in the first place. Perhaps
if someone out there can develop the formula and produce
something that is actually vital listening then the rest of
the community will follow but it seems unlikely from a genre
that is pretty much one big pissing contest.


 

offline swears from junk sleep on 2007-06-27 06:09 [#02097530]
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I'm sure people in 1993 were saying "There's no electrofunk
nights anymore, it's just all this trendy jungle shit."


 

offline trentee from Berlin (Germany) on 2007-06-27 06:09 [#02097531]
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I like dubstep. In a year we'll see Madonna recording
dubstep-influenced record. Our Queen of Re-Invention! You'll
see... :D

Uhm, anyone of you guys heard about "ravestep"? What is it?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 06:10 [#02097532]
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Youre probably right. I suppose its just a natural
progression. I'm sure the people who love dubstep are seeing
something in it that im missing.


 

offline tolstoyed from the ocean on 2007-06-27 06:11 [#02097533]
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are you saying there's still hope we may get something
interesting out of dubstep?


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 06:12 [#02097534]
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ravestep mix. I havent listened to it though.


 

offline Indeksical from Phobiazero Damage Control (United Kingdom) on 2007-06-27 06:33 [#02097536]
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20 minutes in and it seems pretty bland.


 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-06-27 06:33 [#02097537]
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the circus starts again. its just about digging the good
things untill they get old and boring.


 

offline fat bastard on 2007-06-27 06:39 [#02097539]
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They're all wank. No depth, rushed together, music for
chavs.
They all recycle the same samples over and over again the
people who make it must be dick heads.



 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-06-27 06:44 [#02097540]
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you are a fat bastard.


 

offline trentee from Berlin (Germany) on 2007-06-27 06:54 [#02097541]
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cool avatar.


 

offline trentee from Berlin (Germany) on 2007-06-27 06:58 [#02097542]
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lame imho.


 

offline fat bastard on 2007-06-27 07:34 [#02097549]
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simple music for simple people


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-06-27 07:41 [#02097551]
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Dubstep wins. I like it more than I ever liked DnB/Jungle
(although there was a time I really liked that too).


 

offline cuntychuck from Copenhagen (Denmark) on 2007-06-27 08:58 [#02097576]
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which is exactly why we want to know this other genius music
that you have up your sleeves.


 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2007-06-27 09:15 [#02097579]
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The best music is CLASSIC ROCK. Everyone who likes other
music needs a punch in the head.

Me and my friends were at a Kiss reunion concert and we saw
this guy who wasn't ROCKING OUT so we fucking punched him in
the head. Fucked him up good. *slams fist into palm*


 

offline Brisk from selling smack at the orphanage on 2007-06-27 09:38 [#02097586]
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Every genre spawns another. Jungle wasn't born overnight. It
was the result of people getting pissed off at old skool
hardcore becoming cheesy, with producers trying to aim for a
darker sound. It is clear that it was influenced from
everything from rave, hip-hop, dub, reggae, breaks etc...

Dubstep is just another route taken. The difference is, I
don't think there are many roads after it. It is doing well
and I enjoy quite a few of the releases, but the people who
keep it raw and original (skream, burial, dm etc...) are far
outweighed by generic artists pushing the same old shite.

Jungle progressed into DNB, which then slipped into the
coffee shop abyss. As dubstep becomes more popular, it will
no doubt suffer the same fate. Johnny Average needs things
accessible and watered down. In its current state, dubstep
is just too rough. But give it a few years and the coffee
shops will have their way.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-06-27 09:48 [#02097595]
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In its current state, dubstep
is just too rough. But give it a few years and the coffee
shops will have their way.


Various Productions? :)

I like it, but it is quite coffee table.


 

offline fat bastard on 2007-06-27 10:00 [#02097601]
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I have nothing up my sleeve but I do think the said genres
are completely without talent. Why drag the same samples out
again. Haven't we seen enough reggae/dub variants? Woo lets
use the same breaks and old school cuts but slow it down a
bit and call it dubstep.


 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-06-27 10:12 [#02097616]
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Sounds like you've heard a few bad tracks and are
generalising on the back of them. Most of the good dubstep
tracks don't contain samples that have been used much (if at
all) before and very few actually use cut up breaks (they
drum lines are usually written from scratch with single hit
samples). A fair bit of dubstep doesn't even sound
particularly dubby and sounds more like minimal techno than
dub.


 

offline fat bastard on 2007-06-27 10:19 [#02097619]
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When I listen to the tectonic plates album all I think of is
vauxhall corsa's, chavs, burbury clad cunts and general low
intelligence.

I can see them on the dancefloor with their caps & XL
tracksuits smoking their joints swaying like a bunch of
utter pricks.



 

offline belb from mmmmmmhhhhzzzz!!! on 2007-06-27 10:23 [#02097620]
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If you mean dubstep getting weighed down with all the
formulaic bukem-lite stuff, bad jazzy tinkling and "world
music" etc then i dunno, there’s a lot of cheese about
already (think caspa - cockney flute, fair bit of l-wiz’s
stuff) but as long as it’s underpinned by something deep
and nasty enough i’ll probably like it. Can’t exactly
see dubstep being played in wine bars… most tracks sound
like wank with no low end - why would anyone start making
watered-down subless tracks? I mean it’s built for big,
big systems, half the effort is getting that bass weight
sounding right, it’d just be a contradiction in terms…

Fair point about it being a bit of a dead end, though – it
already takes so many influences from elsewhere, kind of
hard to see where it could go from here. Will be a slow
process, i guess. I think a lot of the dark 2-steppy stuff
from a few years back sounds more “futuristic” anyway if
that doesn’t sound too stupid.

Jungle went to shit when the 90% of producers started
ignoring bass, imo. Fuck you, pendulum.



 

offline Ceri JC from Jefferson City (United States) on 2007-06-27 10:37 [#02097632]
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Jungle went to shit when the 90% of producers started
ignoring bass, imo. Fuck you, pendulum.


Ha ha, so true: 'Drum and midrange mono synth masquerading
as bass'.


 

offline bryce_berny from chronno (Canada) on 2007-06-27 13:55 [#02097730]
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jungle music always changes with new crops of producers that
come up, look at guys like limewax, fanu, macc etc
also, it's variation becomes more precise as more is being
done

it's definitely not all the same, although the differences
aren't as readily apparent to some listeners. all music that
requires a certain amount of knowledge about the genre has
this problem.

there are some staples to the genre, breakbeats, bass... but
there are instruments in any genre, listen carefully


 

offline Sido Dyas from a computer on 2007-06-27 14:09 [#02097732]
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Well said .

New producers like Prode (tech ) Phace (neuro) Current Value
(breakcore) keep changing the game up.
If you have a bit of interest in digging further you'l see
the genre isn't dead at all.

As for dubstep goes i really do hope it does evolve into
something great .Right now it bores the hell out of me.
I agree with Belb that the older steppier stuff is way
cooler.


 


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