“Shocked and Saddened by this ... if you saw ANYTHING AT ALL do the right thing & contact Chicago PD"
“Follow DJ Premier, Mark Ronson, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method as they remix, recreate and re-imagine five traditional styles of music. From the classical perfection of the Berklee Symphony Orchestra to the bayou jams of New Orleans jazz, our five distinctive DJs collaborate with some of today’s biggest musicians to discover how our musical past is influencing the future”That paragraph makes slightly nauseous as well. Hey producers, get over your self.
"The Dub Mechanics, a South London based duo who Dj & produce Dub, Dubstep and various other genres of music."As exclusive and mysterious as this dub is, it's actually nothing compared to it's gnarly roar. This tune is devastation and mega-death. It's the gamma bomb rage virus that triggers a zombie apocalypse. Barking rabid robot dogs commanded by lord Darkseid that will devour you and all you're little twilight raver buddies. A whirlwind of comic book violence and crappy metaphors. In otherwords, sick. For that it earns my top spot on the list.
This normally not a political blog, and I apologize if this conflicts with any of views our new contributor Mike might have, but I have to get this out there.
Video analysis by blogger Matt Kresling: "Footage from the Occupy Oakland protest, October 25th, 2011. After protesters ran to the aid of a badly-injured person, Oakland Police deliberately lobbed a flash grenade into the crowd. Whatever you think of the Occupy movement, police behavior of this kind is criminal and should be prosecuted."This is fucked up for sure. IMO it's only going to get worse. And if that happens, people need to get their shit together and send a bit more of unified message. Otherwise this movement isn't going to amount to anything, just general discontent with corporations, tax inequalities, campaign finance and student debt. Violence and bloodshed like this isn't worth a message of general discontent, because then nothing, will change. It's too vague. There's a lot that's fucked up, but let's try get at least one thing accomplished. My top 3 issues in order of importance are: 1. Repeal Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy. 2. Prosecute Wall St. financial criminals. 3. Close Corporate tax loopholes. What are issues do you have? Remember my friends, United We Stand. Now is the time to focus. Be safe out there.
BTW here's an update for those of you concerned with the victim:
Veteran For Peace member Scott Olsen, a Marine Corps veteran twice deployed to Iraq, is in hospital now in stable but serious condition with a fractured skull, struck by a police projectile fired into a crowd in downtown Oakland, California in the early morning hours of today.http://www.veteransforpeace.org/news_detail.php?idx=123
*UPDATE* Apparently there is a planned general strike and day of action for Nov. 2 in Oakland. Good luck you brave souls, let's hope someone can get their shit together enough to get a solid point across. More info can be found here: http://www.occupyoakland.org/2011/10/general-strike-mass-day-of-action/ *UPDATE2* Cleaned up some of my fucking typos.
And the last part of the press conference was even more insightful. “Well you know; I’m always over here,” Mr Mosely said to the question, ‘What do you think of the UK music scene?’ before continuing with a very debatable statement. “The UK scene… they’re always telling me that I started it. You have Dub-bass…” As he said that, George Lamb of T4 and son of Larry Lamb fame, interjected with ‘Dubstep?’ and Tim schooled him. “Yeah, dubstep but I call it dub-bass [as the room laugh]. It’s the bass that drives the music. It’s funny cos they went back to some of my old music that really created that sound and just, instead of going fast, they went slow with more bass. To me, I like it but they call it dubstep. I like how they dance to it now, it’s cool.”
Right now I'm a bit rinsed out on the noise-step, battle droid diarrhea. I'm going to rightfully catch a lot of heat for this. I know I was pretty enthusuastic about the experimental aggro nature of producers pushing the dubstep sound to the outer limits of it's breaking point, and I still support that. However, I feel like Dubstep is going thru it's '98 tech-step phase, and is danger of drowning in a glut of derivative homogenized noise-step.
It makes perfect sense, of course, that Dubstep would go through some of the same growing pains as Drum N Bass. As speed garage took over in popularity in '98 DNB took a dark underground turn with Bad Company leading the charge with "The Nine", followed by Dom&Roland, Ram Trilogy, Ed Rush & Optical and all the rest. That was the year I actually really got into full-on into DNB, mostly because of the tech-step tear-outs actually. I'm sure Dubstep will go through a similar swelling of the ranks as all this metal noise-step attracts new recruits. In that respects it's not a bad thing that there more people involved. The real danger lies further down the road. I think if you examine how close DNB really came to be being snuffed out and losing it's soul to the darkness, when girls fled the scene in droves, and the macho-nerd take-over began, you'll see how much it really hurt DNB. Arguably, it took nearly 5 years to recover from '98 techstep. Quite frankly i don't want to see Dubstep go through the same mistakes as DNB, although it most likely will. It's like warning your little brother not to drink too much too fast even though you know he just will not listen to you and end up puking anyways. I'm just not going to let it get on my shoes, or mop it up.
Dubstep is growing and mutating so exponentially fast, that newcomer producers are being influenced by the current flavor of the month, and just churning out tunes with the same sound palette, same wobbled change-ups every 8 bars, and same noise sputtering, and halting special effects and edits. It's regurgitation of 3rd generation imitations. What was once the unique sound of Excision, Datsik, Claw, NumberNin6 and Borgore, is literally the same sound of 40 other producers. Don't get me wrong I don't have a problem with originators, just the hordes imitators (even though Borgore would like to take claim for ruining dubstep). While this cycle of monkey-see monkey-do production has been happening since the inception of dubstep (and dance music for that matter), with the help of the internet and websites like Soundcloud, it has never been so fast and widespread. As this sound becomes more prevalent you can expect some of the same things that happened to DNB during it's dark years: Homogenized sound, more aggro dance, girls leaving the club, elitist snobbery, and a resentment of OG Dubstep producers and DJs against newcomers. All I can do at this point is sort of climb on the backlash band wagon and say my piece on this here blog. I'm late to party on this. I didn't give a rats ass when everyone was slagging wobble on Dubstep Forum. Nor did I bat an eye-lash at the derisive "Brostep" label, which I actually thought was really funny. But now it's time to stand shoulder to shoulder with the rest of my fellow dubstep crumudgeons, and yell at all you noisey-producers "Get Off My Lawn!!!". And stop smoking crack while you are at it. My ears are freaking tired and need quite the rest after only a half of a night at WMC (it was about all I could stomach). So please, deep, heavy, dubby and groovy DJs and producers, send me your stuff to blog up...
