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Name-calling? Cool. Moving right along, here are a few favourites of mine lately. Nice atmospheres, garage-y rhythms and warm bass. Boxcutter - Silver Birch Solstice Martyn - Hear Me

Hrm, it's mostly tagged as house etc. I listened to the Zelda remix but wasn't impressed. Excessive wobble is excessive. Yes indeed! Gotta love James Blake! You might also like the other stuff on the Hessle and Hemlock labels. Judging from the 'wubwubwub' comments, it seems like most people here have been exposed to more American/Canadian dubstep (like Datsik and Excision). The excessive mid-range wobble ain't my cup of tea. My regular club night tends towards stuff like and , as well as a healthy dose of jungle/drum & bass, juke and techno.

I should probably get around to finishing more of these games, eh! (Only one I've completed is Wind Waker )

The genre tags are all house etc Any tune in particular we should listen to? Yes! James Blake and the Hessle, Hemlock and R&S labels are where it's at for the more garage-y stuff. From all the 'wubwub' comments, I get the feeling that people have mostly been exposed to American and Canadian dubstep. Personally, I find the excessive mid-range wobble to be grating. If I were on the dancefloor and the DJ dropped a Datsik or Excision track, I'd walk right off... In terms of dubstep, my regular club night tends towards stuff like and this. (Though there's also good coverage of drum & bass/jungle, juke and techno)

So I'm wondering to what degree this UK dance music has penetrated the userbase of OCR? Discussion on DJs, producers, labels, releases, etc goes here, I guess! A little history for those who may be as yet unaware of the style... Dubstep is a form of electronic dance music that originated in the UK (specifically London) around 2002. Throughout the early-mid 90s, jungle had been the prevailing underground dance music genre, but as it gradually became more regimented and developed into what is now known as 'drum & bass', UK garage began to gain popularity. UK garage (derived from American garage music which started in New York in the 1980s) was often played at jungle raves in the second room, providing party-goers with a more chilled-out alternative; 'something that the ladies could dance to'. Towards the turn of the millennium, UK garage began a trend away from the 'girl-next-door' vocal samples and rolling beats and towards a darker ambience, drawing inspiration from grime. Artists such as Oris Jay, Steve Gurley, Zed Bias and El-B were amongst the most forward-thinking UK garage producers making this new, darker, sound. Soon other producers started picking up on this new sound, and dubstep was born. The regular dubstep club night FWD>> started soon after, with tracks played by Hatcha, Youngsta, Kode9, Skream, Benga, Horsepower Productions and others. By about 2005, dubstep had gained significant popularity. Its core style had deviated from the garage rhythms somewhat, yet maintained emphasis on sub-bass (bass below 90Hz), dark atmosphere and a tempo of approximately 140bpm. BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs became an unlikely figure in the dubstep movement, featuring top grime and dubstep producers on her show. Since 2006, the genre has gained more popularity and has, since 2008, partly broken down away from its dark atmosphere and split into an innumerable series of variations and styles, all loosely described by the term 'dubstep'. A few tracks in somewhat chronological order... El-B - Buck & Bury Skream - Midnight Request Line - the first big track to cross over to the UK mainstream Pinch - Qawwali Joker - Digidesign

Quite a good interpretation of the source melody. I liked the use of legato instead of staccato - very nice. Unfortunately as far as dubstep is concerned, it doesn't bring anything special to the table; the LFO bass is mundane and the drums in the breakdown are robotic.

Humanoid - Global 1989 techno/acid house ftw.

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