Chase & status are crossing over all kinds of music fans to their acessible brand of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass, in a similar way that Pendulum populized drum ‘n’ bass (albeit Chase & Status did it in a more listenable fashion). Their accessible, poppy brand of the two genres provides hooks, vocal samples and alot to be relished by the non-drum’n'basser. I suppose the Skream remix of La Roux was already introducing the genres to pop fans from all over. Over the last year now it’s become progressively clear that dubstep doesn’t have to be meditative and serious (a la Burial). Rusko’s been shredding dancefloors with his filthy dubstep bangers for some time (though I do perhaps draw the line when it comes to Rusko’s latest, ‘Woo Boost’ – poppy, populist dubstep of the worst kind).
By throwing in distincitve hooks and floor-filling combinations of d’n'b and dubstep, Chase & Status have gathered a mass following. There’s few dance fans who can’t instantly recognise the exotic echoes of ‘Eastern Jam’ or the grating warbling of ‘Saxon’ (even if its familiarity’s derived from radio play-outs) by now.
OH SNAP!! is Maryland’s genius hip-hop-electro genre-crosser who produced the brilliant (and genuinely witty, self-deprecating) ‘Bill Cosby Sweater’ and ‘Too Fat To Be A Hipster’. Ignore his modest proclamation as ‘your favourite mediocre whiteboy’. OH SNAP!! picks up the tempo of ‘Saxon’, with a ravey re-edit, chopped up, injecting some d’n'b, and abstracting a segment of the original’s dubstep bass, forging a more driving, continuous bassline. Perfectly packaged for the dancefloor:
Chase & Status have been frantically running around deleting all traces of bootlegs that they’ve taken a disliking to. At a recent show, Tomb Crew and Chase & Status shared the bill. Tomb Crew dropped their remix of Eastern Jam, ‘Western Jam’. But Chase and Status weren’t happy, and said if they hear it being played again they’ll eject the CD from the decks and snap it in half outright. And they’ve done a pretty good job of clearing all traces. Tomb Crew were forced to take it down from their myspace player, and any download links have all but disappeared (see beneath my
Pelski Chart post for some comments from Tomb Crew themselves). But here I have Jayou’s ‘Western Jam’, a filthy, fast-paced re-jigg. Jayou chucks a bit of everything in, switching between hyperactive drum’n'bass and wonky electro-dubstep:
Another name pushing the dirtier side of dubstep is Brighton’s very own High Rankin. He ripped up Trouble Vision back in December and has since released a string of defiled, noisey monsters. In Mixmag, Annie Mac described him as ‘dubstep for girls’ (this was meant to be some kind of compliment, clearly overlooking the fact that mixmag readership is predominantly male). But who cares what she thinks? This is filth. And for men.
Bonus:
We won’t mention ‘Snoop Dogg Millionaire’…
Chase & status are crossing over all kinds of music fans to their acessible brand of dubstep and drum ‘n’ bass, in a similar way that Pendulum populized drum ‘n’ bass (albeit Chase & Status did it in a more listenable fashion). Their accessible, poppy brand of the two genres provides hooks, vocal samples and alot to be relished by the non-drum’n'basser. I suppose the Skream remix of La Roux was already introducing the genres to pop fans from all over. Over the last year now it’s become progressively clear that dubstep doesn’t have to be meditative and serious (a la Burial). Rusko’s been shredding dancefloors with his filthy dubstep bangers for some time (though I do perhaps draw the line when it comes to Rusko’s latest, ‘Woo Boost’ – poppy, populist dubstep of the worst kind).
OH SNAP!! is Maryland’s genius hip-hop-electro genre-crosser who produced the brilliant (and genuinely witty, self-deprecating) ‘Bill Cosby Sweater’ and ‘Too Fat To Be A Hipster’. Ignore his modest proclamation as ‘your favourite mediocre whiteboy’. OH SNAP!! picks up the tempo of ‘Saxon’, with a ravey re-edit, chopped up, injecting some d’n'b, and abstracting a segment of the original’s dubstep bass, forging a more driving, continuous bassline. Perfectly packaged for the dancefloor:
