I was first introduced to dub music by the mixer we used to use for the rock band I played in back in my youth. He would always EQ the front of house using Black Uhuru or similar & while we were busy trying to be the Velvet Underground-lite or something, my psyche & low end aesthetics were rapidly evolving… Since then I became an obsessive collector of everything by such geniuses as Scientist, King Tubby, Augustus Pablo etc…
Accordingly a decade or so later its fantastic to see the rise of dubstep, a genre related but not subservient to its origins… But as with any genre, to borrow a phrase, “many are called but few are chosen’ so heres half a dozen tunes that have been making the red warning light on my subwoofer flash…
The Bug – Poison Dart
Burial – Broken Home
Toasty – Angel
Kode 9 – 9 samurai
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Elemental – Deep Under
Elemental – Deep Under
Please comment me any recomendations! I tune into Mary Anne Hobbes BBC One show regularly (via newmixes) on the hunt for new tunes.. ditto for scoping out bare files and dubstepforum and blackdownsoundboy
I think all of the track of Burial, are very good.
You can listen the last CD of Dub Police, on bleep.com
Example > http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=DP010 for the track Girl From Codeine City
thanks Benoit!
two other tracks I’ve been thoroughly enjoying (although neither of them are what I vaguely imagine dubstep is) are:
Forever by Conquest (an EP release shared with Dub Police)
http://www.bleep.com/current_item.php?id=DP015_DM-01
and this one by Pulshar
http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=103740
the A-side “ECHOSPACE : Nospheratu (Echospace Reduction)”
is lovely Rhythm & Sound dub territory – oishii!
some of the stuff COKI has done is a bit less deep and quite bonkers (listen to he tune ‘spongebob’ for an example of the lunacy of his filtering abilities), but this is a great tune:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rNStVlJWy88
and the quintessential dubstep tune: midnight request line by SKREAM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7W_yi6uFtn4
They along with Benga and Loefah have really pushed the limits of where bass can go. Quite it’s own territory, really.