kent williams wrote:
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?
It's a fair point Kent, good dub is very hard to do, understanding the
"space" is not easy, while the childish use of echo is very easy indeed.
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