As someone who began listening to reggae and dub going on 30 years, I gravitate towards that sound wherever it pops up. I don't welcome people ossifying it into a genre though. One of the attractions of dubstep for me is the stuff that is informed by dub's sense of space.
But it's a shame that there's enough dubby techno coming out that Boomkat has a genre tag for it. The good stuff is getting swamped in a sea of mediocre 'me-too' tracks. Anyone can hook up a muffled kick, a minor chord on 2 & 4, and a 1/4 note triplet delay -- lord knows I've done it myself plenty of times. But why release tracks whose chief virtue is how successfully they recycle the work of others? On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Ravinder S Mann <rav.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Martin, > > re: dubstep producers : I really hope so as I like the sound of a > snare on the third kick but I hope they all dont get sucked into the > Berlin dubby style many seem to go down. There are some pretty > interesting bits out there eg Untold, Appleblim, Silkie and Sharkey. > > Ravinder. > > 2009/9/11 Martin Dust <mar...@dustscience.com>: >> >> On 10 Sep 2009, at 17:15, Ravinder S Mann wrote: >>> >>> Can techno capture the youth market ? >>> >> >> Does it want or even need to? Most kids here are into funky house, speed >> garage or various flavours of hard style, the other factor is there are no >> techno clubs to go to. >> >> I think we'll start to see a younger influx of producers soon or later via >> dubstep, once they get beyond the bass and just beats. >> >> m >> >> >
