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By: rupture

rupture — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:37:28 +0000

female mc = Lady Fury

By: lone wolf

lone wolf — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:49:00 +0000

can anyone id that female MC murrrrkin the beat at 3:55 in the roll deep vid?

By: Fortune Grey » Blog Archive » Deathstep

Fortune Grey » Blog Archive » Deathstep — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:23:24 +0000

[...] Rupture pulls together a few interesting strands on the current state of dubstep, quoting The Bug: Because for me the beauty of dubstep were the producers that I met in the beginning, the fact that they were influenced by a lot of different music; Kode 9, Mala, influenced by jungle, influenced by dub, influenced by classical music, soundtrack music. That’s brilliant, I could hear that on the tracks but now i think that there are new producers that are coming into dubstep and they only listen to dubstep and for me that’s when jungle became drum n bass, that was the problem then. [...]

By: chris

chris — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:01:03 +0000

i think dubstep has become a genre (ushering in the derivative productions that distinction encourages) not just because of journalists or market forces, but also because questions of genre seem very important to a scene trying to articulate its place in a bass canon, the act of articulation being driven by a kind of zealous evangelicism, the constant knowledge that i’ll want and need to explain this to someone. i find i can’t bear to listen to Mary Anne Hobbs for this reason. photography, the act of recording a scene (and maybe even legacy-building) is gets equal standing with producer interviews in the first clip.

the grime videos seem less keen to unversalise their own knowledge of their own position - It’s a given, I’m the baddest, I don’t need yr approval or engagement. of course, this makes them much more engaging.

By: Roo

Roo — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:15:54 +0000

Grime is personality-driven though, the joy of grime DVDs is navigating your way through who knows who, who’s associated with who’s being dissed etc. Dubstep, a largely instrumental scene, driven by faceless producers, can’t really hope to compete. I’ve seen some dancehall DVDs that feature no interviews whatsoever, just footage from clubs - maybe a dubstep DVD should follow that formula: what else is there in the dubstep ’scene’ that doesn’t happen on the dancefloor? (that isn’t a rhetorical question) Ultimately, you learn more about the early days of hip-hop from watching ‘WildStyle’ than any number of documentaries on the subject.

Kevin’s fears about dubstep going the way of drum n’bass are valid too - years ago, imitators of a new sound were always worth paying attention to because it was kids aping sounds they loved with limited means. Nowadays, pretty much anyone can download software that will allow you to ape Skream or Burial to a professional (and boring) degree - Venetian Snares’ new Sabbath Dubs 12″ illustrates just how easy it is to ape the style convincingly.