So, I'm into some dubstep. I really enjoy Ikonika, Skream, Eskmo, James Blake, Burial, etc. etc.

A lot of my female friends are into more of the "poppier" stuff (I guess you would say?) like Rusko, Skrillex, Bassnectar..

So I went to a Skrillex show with them a few weeks ago and I gotta say..I had a blast.

I guess what I'm trying to say in this pointless rant is I just like to fucking dance.

Met a girl at work a few days ago who is into skrillex AND basnectar.. strange.. been meaning to check out...

Dancing is fucking great. I dislike Skrillex and Bassnectar though, but I like me some heavy-hitting dubstep (not too much, but it can be very, very fun). Dubstep rules.

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It's nothing amazing musically. It's just kinda fun, I guess.

I can't help liking this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw

I don't have a vast knowledge of dubstep, but I hear a lot of dubstep loyalists call Skrillex and the like "brostep" hahaha

exit records' mosaic vol one compilation really features some of the finest electronic works in recent years. fascinating sounds. i'm in love with that autonomic thing

also, i've been getting a lot into jungle as of late. my favorite track is definitely valley of the shadows by origin unknown, those synths are awesome. but most of what i've heard is great. this "speed of sound" album by origin unknown and related artists is bliss. the 15 years of metalheadz compilation that was released 2 years ago is solid as well, though it covers a broader panel of sounds..

Hey it´s the SYRFOX AWSOME MONOLOGUE THREAD

2562's new album, fever, is unbelievable. his best work for sure - and i loved his two previous records -. it's only made up of samples from disco records circa 1979, yet does not sound like anything remotely disco; awesomeness.

that hotflush comp "back and 4th" is out and about

i need to get this one. tracklist looks amaaaazing. have you heard hotflush's first compilation, "space and time"? this one was great too. though i think this new one will blow it away..

btw, what exacly is Jungle?
Recommend some good artists.. ;)

it is the style that dominated uk underground electronic music around 94-96 (if i'm not mistaken). basically, it derives from uk old school hardcore and evolved into drum&bass. i'd describe it as more organic than d&b... sampled, timestretched beats around 160-170BPM, a lot of bass but not much else - bits of synths here and there -. my description might not be super accurate, but you have to take into consideration the fact that i was only 5 when this music first came out :) so it's hard to have perfect knowledge of this kind of scenes when you try and get into it 10 or 15 years later. though jungle is quite well documented, as opposed to uk garage for instance.

i'd recommend checking out those two records i mentioned earlier on... origin unknown's speed of sound and 15 years of metalheadz (but especially speed of sound), they both are great.

Alright, cool mate!
Thanks, I'll check em out :)

here's a SCB (scuba) podcast http://www.xlr8r.com/podcast/2011/04/scb

thanks!

the new factmag podcast by oneman b2b jamie xx is quite fun.

recent favorites of mine:

egyptrixx - bible eyes: finally got it and it is incredible, just what i was waiting for. aquatic house, sounds fantastic. great great great

faltydl - you stand uncertain: wasn't too sure about this one at first but finally i love it too, sounds great. brazil's the only track i'm still not crazy about. "it's all good" induces shivers

2562 - fever: impressed me, by far his best work. unlike those two previous records i was not really waiting for it eagerly but i was 100% wrong, really innovative and great electronic music.

albums i'm most looking forward to hear/get right now:

kode9 & the spaceape - black sun
instra:mental - resolution 653
v/a - back & 4th (hotflush recordings)
v/a - 116 & rising (hessle audio)

also, i now have heard and own all the rinse mix cds, and they're all worth it, though some are better obviously: oneman's rinse 11 remains my favorite. rinse 01 by geeneus, rinse 02 by skream, rinse 07 by spyro, rinse 08 by alexander nut, rinse 10 by marcus nasty and rinse 12 by kismet are also favorites. but they're all good really, even rinse 05 by paleface - bassline mix, and i'm not too found about bassline myself -.
really looking forward to rinse 14 by youngsta, which should be amazing.

I recently heard a pretty good act called Bio-puppet.
anyone else heard?

Ihavetostopfallinginlovewithgirlswhodigdubstep.

will have to check it out, listened to a few excerpts on soundcloud yesterday and it seemed quite okay. do you like distance, vex'd and milanese? i think you'd like them if you like that kind of dubstep.


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i forgot to mention the new fabriclive by pearson sound aka ramadanman, which is great as well. nice tracklist, tight mixing (burial - pirates into die barbie musik kollektiv - junk into girl unit - irl is unreal), good sounds, huge bass. love it. also waiting for fabriclive 57 by jackmaster, a quick look at the tracklist will tell you how good this will be:


01. The Fantastic Aleems - Release Yourself
02. Inner City - Big Fun (Magic Juan Remix)
03. Gregor Salto - Classic Beat Tool
04. Model 500 - Night Drive (Thru-Babylon)
05. Kim English - Nite Life (Retail Club Mix)
06. Anthony Shakir - Plugged In
07. Martyn - Alldayallnight
07. Geiom feat. Terrible Shock - 2 4 6
08. Doug Willis - Dougswana (Audiowhores Beats)
09. Jook 10 - Emotions
10. Larry Heard presents Mr. White - The Sun Can't Compare
11. Addison Groove - Make Um Bounce
12. SBTRKT & Sinden - Seekwal
13. Splack Pack - Shake That Ass Bitch
14. Mad Mike featuring Davina - Don't You Want It
15. Sia - Little Man (Wookie Remix)
16. CLS - Can You Feel It? (In House Dub)
17. DJ Deeon - The Freaks
18. The Outlander - Vamp
19. Splack Pack - Scrub Da Ground
20. Underground Resistance - Jupiter Jazz
21. Thomas Bangalter - What To Do
22. Fix - Flash
23. Hudson Mohawke - Fuse
24. Machinedrum - La Bomba
25. DJ Funk - Pussy Ride
26. AFX - VBS.Redlof.B
27. Skepta - Doin' It Again
28. Radiohead - Idioteque

i wish my girlfriend was into dubstep :D

damn fox you always knock it out of the park with your posts. I have so much shit to check out.

haha well, i've got nothing to do with it, blame it on the artists releasing so many great records. i myself begin to think it's all a conspiracy for them to get my money, cause i've spent hundreds of euros in records this year already.

in all seriousness i think you'd really enjoy 2562's new record i mentioned on the previous page. it's made with nothing but disco samples, yet sounds like nothing remotely disco, it's amazing.

I actually have that album, just haven't listened yet. Was a big fan of his other stuff though.

he's really ace. for some reason i needed some time to get into his works, but once you're there... it's really great. this new one is by far is best in my opinion though. "final frenzy" is an incredible track.

also, asp, since this is pretty much the "talk about great electronic music" thread now, you should check out (if you haven't done so already) anne james chaton's "événements 09", i think you'd like it. it's really experimental, weird electronic music. basically the guy collects various pieces of paper (train tickets, random bits of newspapers, bills, etc) on certain occasions (barack obama's inauguration, michael jackson's death). then he does a repetitive beat using only his voice recorded on a cheap microphone and looped throughout the whole track ("pop is dead pop is dead pop is dead pop is dead pop is dead pop is dead pop is dead the king of pop is dead") and reads those bits of paper on the top of it. it might not be as effective for you as 99% of it is in french, but hearing "0 0 8 3 78 94 820 8 4 A B Votre caissier s'appelle Le train n° 8346 Paris 948 U C L'investiture de Barack Obama", etc, certainly makes me feel quite paranoid. i saw him opening for the ex a few months ago and really enjoyed his performance, so i'm glad to see this come out. would be interested in knowing what you think. it's out on raster-noton... i find it really impressive.

cool, I'll check it out.

I actually was a huge fan of raster-norton for years, I downloaded or bought literally everything on the label. I mean, I'd sit through Alva Noto albums for 10 hours straight, you know. I dunno, I just kinda got burnt out, but ... hey now's as good a time as any to come back into the fold!

i need to get more into this label... besides snd and a few other things i know close to nothing that's out of it and that's a shame really. i ain't even ever listened to an album by alva noto properly. what would you recommend me?

It's a very very specific sound, one of the few labels which seems to only cater to a very small demographic (ERSTWHILE's almost-exclusively-EAI-related-discography is another example). But a few of my favs are the Ryoji Ikeda stuff (which not a lot of people have the tolerance/patience for but I love him), the Cyclo album from 2001, Aoki Takamasa's stuff, Mark Fell's "Multistability" (definitely my favorite album on that label), Mitchell Akiyama's "Temporary Music", obviously any of the Basinski stuff (though that's not really "Electronic" music of course), and Goem's "Stud Stim".

...yeah, looking at that list, every one of those albums sounds completely different, really, but they all kinda have that nice R-N feel that you find in many of the other releases.

will check these out, thanks. multistability has been on my computer for a while but i still need to listen to it.

oh it's GREAT. Mark FEll is really really great..

i haven't listened to it yet. but bass clef put up a free track and he's good
http://magicanddreams.wordpress.com/...ss-clef-track/


edit: it's not bad but not that good either

for some reason i'm not that into bass clef... maybe i just haven't listened to him enough though. i still really enjoy his shackleton remix.

also

finally got this on cd and it's awesome as expected. so is the new instra:mental - real innovative stuff on there as well, everything they've done over the course of the past few years was great but this is just as good, and it sounds really new -.

BUT the most amazing of them all is definitely that new kode9 & the spaceape record for me. it is simply stunning. otherman sounds otherwordly. the whole album maintains an impressive tension, it perfectly illustrates the concept of the record. i'm well impressed with this. spaceape is on point as always. i was expecting a lot, yet this managed to exceed my expectations... you all need to hear this.

kode9 & the spaceape live right now there: http://boilerroom.tv/live/

check this out and get lost

good taste man. may i add that blackdown's column on pitchfork is probably the only thing worth reading on that site.

great. didn't know that, thanks

i think this thread fits for D&B as well... it basically became the "cool electronic / bass music" thread. there has already been discussions about jungle on here for instance... so D&B wouldn't cause issues, especially since it's likely the same people that will be interested on here.

but yeah. D&B rules. i've discovered it this year too actually. are you into the autonomic sound that's being pushed forward by the likes of instra:mental and d-bridge? it's some of the most interesting music at the moment, i think.
rufige kru is effin nice.
d&b/jungle pre-1995 is probably my favorite part of the genre... stuff like origin unknown just blows my mind.

i should check predatorz, then, never heard about him/her/them.

thanks! getting it now.

i guess you have origin unknown's "speed of sound" compilation and metalheadz recent "15 years of metalheadz"? those are pretty easy to find and full of old, great jungle/d&b.

fairly related: do you know good uk garage artists? i wish i could get more into it but it's a badly documented scene, which makes finding good uk garage hard 10 years later... i only know of horsepower productions and el-b, and even them are already quite dubsteppish. so, if you got recommendations, i'd be more than glad to hear them...

did you do that comp yourself? i'm listening now and it's incredible.