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Thursday 1 October 2009

Dubstep is one word you fucking morons

It is now a widely accepted fact that what has become 'Dubstep' now rests in commercial venues blasting out mid-range, 150bpm ear-fodder for grinning space-wasters waiting for the next drop (they never have to wait long, there's a drop at least every 30 seconds) so they can shout 'FILTHY!!!' like it's a good thing. Don't get me wrong, I love a bit of ridiculousness as much as the next guy, but there is nothing good about this stuff.

For example the following tune would probably get a rewind in your average night billed as 'Dub Step' (notice the gap between the words; no names mentioned, though a hint would be that I think the guy is a moron, but I was recently invited to a night billed as this. I don't think it's too elitist to state that if someone doesn't care enough to bother to learn that Dubstep is one word then they shouldn't promote the aforementioned music).





It sounds like a pig squealing.


So yeah, another quite generic rant, but actually I think this is a very positive thing for the music. In recent months we have seen those originally attracted to Dubstep for it's space, progression and bassweight jump ship after playing Dubstep meant exactly what I've stated above. From this we have the rise of Funky, the Dillaism of Wonky and further progression into Future Garage and House, not forgetting the pioneer Djs such as Oneman,, Blackdown, Ben UFO, Bok Bok and Ben UFO amongst others blending all the aforementioned styles together and being perfectly selective about the Dubstep they play, limiting it to the cream of releases and cutting out anything dull, using maybe releases from Hyperdub, Keysound or Hessle Audio along with emerging sub-genres. Therefore rather than the too often heard torrent of 'Dubstep is dead' or it becoming something so awful that it resembles nothing of the original groundbreaking force it once was, we see it becoming an umbrella term for innovative, amazing Bass music. Kode 9 was once quoted as saying Dubstep is a huge Sub and anything over the top, and this is a sentiment very relevant to 2009, with genre boundaries blurring in a way which makes 2009 a very exciting time to be in music, despite the hoards of Filth dullards.

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