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im gonna throw out a fuck yeah for Sukh Knight's - Born Invincible 12" that mr franz put me up on. i didn't see it on here. so good

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anyone familiar with the rinse fm podcasts? i only listened to one and it was awful (i think some guy named a - plus)...but theres like 20. which ones are good?

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The live Kode9 from 6 months or so ago is a great one.

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dave quam wrote:i will 2nd zomby hes great. Spliff is pretty much my fav dubstep joint, or atleast the one I have listened to the most.
That's a good one, for sure. I think I like the tracks that sample actual dub or reggae. The original cut that he samples, One Spliff a Day by Billy Boyo (produced by Junjo, my favourite dancehall producer) is superb, especially the extended mix.

As for as songs about smoking, Check this one, http://www.sendspace.com/file/taonz4

I can't find any record on the internet of this tune on wax, but it's by Coki, who is part of the Digital Mystikz duo.
thanks for the tip on the billy boyo track, i've loved that for a while before spliff dub came out and never had a clue who the producer was

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dave quam wrote:anyone familiar with the rinse fm podcasts? i only listened to one and it was awful (i think some guy named a - plus)...but theres like 20. which ones are good?

i've found Rinse to be better for Funky podcasts, so far--since they have just about all the big'uns doing mixes for them (Perempay, Supa D, Ma1, Marcus Nasty).

as far as dubstep goes, maybe try out Plastician or N-Type? i see Youngsta has one in there right now (a little ways back)... might also be worth a go.

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dave quam wrote:anyone familiar with the rinse fm podcasts? i only listened to one and it was awful (i think some guy named a - plus)...but theres like 20. which ones are good?
I don't know about their podcasts, but I tend to just download radio sets recommended to me on grimeforum or dissensus. you'd probably enjoy radio rips of mary anne hobbs show on radio 1, she plays a lot of dubstep. Check our her hyperdub showcase
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dave quam wrote:anyone familiar with the rinse fm podcasts? i only listened to one and it was awful (i think some guy named a - plus)...but theres like 20. which ones are good?

i've found Rinse to be better for Funky podcasts, so far--since they have just about all the big'uns doing mixes for them (Perempay, Supa D, Ma1, Marcus Nasty).

as far as dubstep goes, maybe try out Plastician or N-Type? i see Youngsta has one in there right now (a little ways back)... might also be worth a go.
speaking of dissensus, they were just talking about plastician. he apparently thinks that the best route for grime production go is to copy the over the top wobbly dubstep you find on shit like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYlBohX2KLU
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afTUXQl3 ... re=related

which is dubstep that I can't really stand (except in small doses) but doesn't sound too bad in this set with tempz and rage going crazy over it:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?hjyivoyn2c3

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current favorites:

RSD - Corner Dub 12''
RSD - Kingfisher 12''
RSD - Jah Way 12''
Joker - Top Of The Game 12''
Tunnidge - Geddeon 12''
Sarantis - Meditate 12''
Tes La Rok - Bass 31 12''
Tes La Rok - Uprise 10''
Tes La Rok - Roll Out 12''
Gemmy - Bk 2 The Future 12''
Quest - Stand 12''
TRG - Everything We Stand For 12''

on the album tip, been re-rocking:

Goth-Trad - Mad Raver's Dance Floor
vegetable mind wrote:deadbeat
everything i've heard from him to date has been more in the 'dub techno' vein. any recommendations on his more dubstep-y stuff would be great, as he has a fairly sizeable back catalogue.
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further on the Rinse tip: i didn't mention Dusk and Blackdown, but of course their show is good. so is the transition show with LD and Chef that's been on lately. and same goes for Anti-Social.

other radio to check out would be the Ruffage and Bruk on SubFM. the fellows seem to be sharing shows a lot lately. the DJs are all interested in dubstep, funky, and various garage forms and bounce between the above at will.

as for recent dubstep faves:

2000F and J Kamata's You Don't Know What Love Is--sharing a 12" on Hyperdub with Joker's Digidesign this month (holy shit). this track is all awesome sunbleached vocoder and sour 80s synth strings--a great great pop song.

also hopefully out on hyperdub some time: Aidy's Girl is a Computer by Darkstar. i get this song way more than last year's Darkstar 12 that everyone was losing their shit for last year.
here's some weird snippet, i wouldn't know how to describe those singing drums anyhow:
http://www.truthexplosion.com/news/news.php?id=4725

and yeah, Purple City from Joker and Ginz is great. i'm just a little tired of Joker coming up all the time.

been listening to a fair amount of older stuff recently.
some of the old DMZ Loefah 12"s are amazing... check out Root... super heavy and "pre-lapsarian wobble" heavy at that!
more on the rolling dark garage becoming dubstep side of things:
Horsepower Productions and other early tempa shit should not be missed. Benny Ill and DJ Dinesh' track London is prolly tops for me, a lot of really amazing breaks drum programming from that era, even if a lot of the stuff wouldn't be immediately recognizable as "dubstep" for someone coming in now and working backwards.

Martyn and Kode9 should both have lps dropping right away, so i'll probably be at this for a while yet.

http://smokelessfuels.blogspot.com/2008 ... d-mix.html

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I'm not sure if I completely grasp the definition of dubstep.
Does this qualify?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aW7NFSGklM

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i am the cheese wrote:I'm not sure if I completely grasp the definition of dubstep.
Does this qualify?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aW7NFSGklM
Yes, but takes more clues from the dancehall side than the tech side of dubstep. the bug's latest album, london zoo, is almost entirely more dancehall oriented tracks, done in a way which is not particularly good as far i can hear

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'london zoo' is awesome, though. more dancehall oriented than a lot of other stuff in the dubstep umbrella, but as far as i can tell that umbrella remains pretty ambiguous anyway.

'skeng' is probably the top track off the album and maybe the most dubsteppy

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been diggin this one

http://www.sendspace.com/file/4kzt7o

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I just heard DJG's "Bunker" 12" and gotta say its pretty fucking sweet

on the dreamy side and really dubbed out

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vegetable mind wrote:Yes, but takes more clues from the dancehall side than the tech side of dubstep. the bug's latest album, london zoo, is almost entirely more dancehall oriented tracks, done in a way which is not particularly good as far i can hear
I was totally underwhelmed by London Zoo. Nothing that really stands out beyond a few catchy choruses.

Looking forward to seeing The Bug at Primavera, though, and hopefully they'll crank the sound up. If Warrior Queen's with them then it'll be awesome, I'm sure.

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Gaendaal wrote:I was totally underwhelmed by London Zoo. Nothing that really stands out beyond a few catchy choruses.
im inclined to agree. i like almost everything he's done before that ive heard, more than that album. like pressure, dem a bomb we, fire, gun disease. i need to give it a few more listens before making my final judgement on it though.
Gaendaal wrote:Looking forward to seeing The Bug at Primavera, though, and hopefully they'll crank the sound up. If Warrior Queen's with them then it'll be awesome, I'm sure.
saw him in portland recently and was kinda underwhelmed. played a dj set, and then a set with warrior queen. for the dj set, there was no mixing, no tricky shit; just spinbacks for the transitions. man, that gets old. also played cotti+doctor's 'calm down' as one of the first tracks of his set, when the dj before him had played it near the end of his set; guess he'd been hiding out in the green room. given his behavior during the soundcheck, seemed like he wasnt having the best night, so i guess that's some excuse. the warrior queen set was pretty good though!
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joker - snake eater

shits pretty brazen

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mentioned in another thread but the Akira Kiteshi Pinball/NoGlitch Ep is amazing. I'm pretty new to the genre so I've only scratched the surface. I really do enjoy Skreams Midnight Request Line as well..I know it's apparently everywhere but I'm a newbie with this stuff. I picked up the Soul Jazz compilation Box of Dub which has some great tracks.

Checked out Pinch, Ital Tek, Zomby, and Shakleton thanks to this thread as well. Good stuff.

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classically trained

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For those that like the 'more dancehall end of the spectrum'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1BzRw5Vnv0

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