Talk:Dubstep/Archive 1

message: I have included links to the discographies for various labels on Discogs. Do you think this is appropriate?
Michael Ray 16:34, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discogs 

message: From Michael Wilson's dubstep article Bubble and Squeak in Artforum magazine, November 2006 (free registration required):
:Plotting the fractal trajectories of contemporary British dance music’s myriad subgenres is a task at once fascinating (at least to a certain geekish type) and forbidding. Clubland chronologies and genealogies are fiercely debated; local scenes burn brilliantly for a season before fading into obscurity or merging imperceptibly into their successors. The past is alluded to constantly—the nebulous designation “old-school” almost always implies a compliment—but all ears are on the next development, however subtly divergent from the last. An unintentionally comic illustration of this implosive complexity can be found on the popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia, where the music is recast as a web of pseudonymous individuals and collectives that obfuscates as much as it informs: “Dubstep is the name given to the largely South London–based dark two-step sounds that originally came out of productions by El-B (as part of both Groove Chronicles with Noodles and then the Ghost camp), Zed Bias (aka Phuturistix, Maddslinky, and more), and Steve Gurley in 1999–2000. . . . The key touch points of the early dubstep sound were Croydon’s now-defunct Big Apple shop and rejuvenated Big Apple records.” Got that?
Regards, High on a tree 04:44, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments about this article in ''Artforum'' 

message: this article lacks information on what dubstep actually sounds like. i'm adding a sentence regarding this (sub-bass, heavily syncopated/shuffled drums, reggae/movie samples); i'd encourage other    editors to flesh this out. Kaini 02:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  what is lacking 

message: This article is growing, but there are zero references as far as I can see - just a long list of internet radio stations in the external links.  Can someone please provide some correctly cited references, otherwise the article sort of lacks usefulness for a reader. Escaper7 15:36, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: excellent primer article on dubstep with a run through some key tracks. reference city, and a great article too. --Kaini 02:12, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: having revisited the article lately, there is an excellent amount of reference material in there; the more i reread it, the more i spot. worth ordering the backissue if you have an interest in the genre. --Kaini 01:34, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  new issue of [[The Wire (magazine)|the wire]] 

message: A feature story from Canada'a CBC News here: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/dub_style.html Sancho 22:02, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: aaah that's brilliant, cheers! - Zeibura (Talk) 05:18, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great reference 

message: good article in this month's wire. i'm gonna write an article on shackleton; the only problem is he doesn't consider himself a dubstep producer. so we can't call him one, can we? thoughts? --Kaini 17:33, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If the media calls him one then you could to some extent, but it might be worth noting that he disagrees with being given the label if you can reference it. - Zeibura (Talk) 17:49, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: that sounds like a reasonable compromise; in fairness, his entry point to the scene, like many others, was FWD>> --Kaini 17:59, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  skull disco, shackleton, appleblim