Zomby
As well as trying his hand at old-school rave on 2008’s Where Were You in 92? album, London producer Zomby also released some 8-bit dub-tech tunes on his One Foot Ahead of the Other and Zomby EPs from last year. The track that most excited me appeared on neither (I think). ‘Rumours and Revelations’ is one of those singular songs – a hypnotic ghostly synth line wrapped around a ghettotech-beat.
Zomby – Rumours and Revelations
Joy Orbison
AKA the name on everyone’s lips at the moment. Recently featured in the Sound of 2010 BBC poll. His productions are few so far but oh so sweet. They strike a chord between dub, electronica, ambient and techno without sounding like any particular genre.
Joker
Bristol’s finest dubstep producer Joker takes in parts of UK garage and US West Coast G-funk as well. He calls his music ‘purple’ as it is the colour he sees in his music, a phenomenon also known as synesthesia. In the last year, his remixes for The Heavy and Siman Mobile Disco along with three vinyl releases and his collaboration with Ginz (‘Purple City’) got him noticed. Joker is the one on this list I’m most anticipating in 2010.
Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker remix)
Guido
Another Bristolian producer, Guido blew me away last year with the track ‘Way You Make Me Feel’ on Punch Drunk which again has a lot more than just dubstep traits. Disco, straight-up electronica, glitch and soul.
Grab his recent FACT mix before it goes down (it’s due to).
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
Missing a lot….but missing essential stuffs….365 days is a lot to just speak about big names (sorry about being sincere, and sorry about ma englitch)
– Headhunter
– 2562
– Martyn
– Gaslamp Killer (u talked about Sam’….so……Missing GLK for sure)
– Untold
– Pangaea
– Eskmo
…….
am not gonna spoil that comment page
peace
GEIOM! Island Noise is a masterpiece.
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq83ORGzwI4 ]
DISTANCE. Skream rmx of Nightvision is still possibly the best of the best, IMO.
And in Ireland, Kaboogie have been killing it for the past while. Some fine dubstep over here – Major Grave, 16Hertz etc.
Major Grave aint !kaboogie?
check :
http://www.myspace.com/standarddublin
Obviously I left lots out.
It is a beginners guide after all :0
Ah yeah, of course. A great guide, I hasten to add! Touches on all flavours of dubstep, which is essential.
I would humbly like to add my personal favorites:
Rusko, Caspa and Cotti
I’ve had a dubstep obsession the last month or so but I find it hard to pay attention to any one artist for long, I keep skipping between tracks, not acts.
I find that Benga, Coki, Skream, Kode 9, Burial, etc all have great tunes but…not enough of them
If you just search for dubstep on youtube one of the first replies is this tune, which I can’t get enough of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy2TOdvr8QY
I’m also quite partial to this filth > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeR4j-KMEec
Nice and simple, Good job.
Nice, I like looking back over how the music has progressed. Great article on the last decade of Dubstep and it’s progression here http://bit.ly/7cU6fU
great list,
i’d totally the second the big ups for King Midas Sound and Mount Kimbie- total quality control in everything they’ve released so far. Martyn’s ‘Great Lengths’ and the first 2562 albums are well worth a listen too, even if they’re a little overlong. if there’s any Burial geeks out there- and I speak as one- there’s an interesting article on his music at http://tinyurl.com/ycgfuxg
That link goes to something completely unrelated
shit sorry niall! how the hell did that happen? damn you tinyurl… here’s the full address
http://rougesfoam.blogspot.com/2009/12/premature-burial-burial-pallbearer-vs.html
Quite like the first link, though. I’m getting me a dress.
@astonishingdodape Major grave is not part of the kaboogie thing
Hey, Lucy / Barbara / Joannah, your blog spamming is getting a little tiresome!
Stenchman – Stinkmix 3 – Salirophilia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIkQLmBk7rg
1. stenchintro
2. stenchman – gutfucker (vip)
3. lil wayne – a milli (stenchman rmx)
4. cardopusher – gibold
5. skream – aggyface
6. stenchman – licking the envelope
7. benny page – step out (vip)
8. eskmo – harmony
9. outkast – bombs over bagdad (stenchman rmx)
10. marchmellow – real simple
11. justice timberlake – wheres my starship
12. stenchman – cow story
13. emalkay – when i look at you
14. bar 9 – malicious tactics (vip)
15. suspect + switchdubs – rotary
16. flux pavillion – bad dj
17. the streets – blinded by the lights (nero remix)
18. skream – metalick
19. prodigy – breathe (numbernin6 rmx)
20. stenchman – vagitarian meal
21. unitz – the drop (vip)
22. burial – archangel (bootyleg)
23. mrk1 – talk to frank
24. stenchman – coceck
25. mia – galang (dz rmx)
26. stenchman – so beatnik
27. benny page + zero g – ruffneck
28. stenchman – sick bay
29. reso – beasts in the bassment
30. riz mc – radar (sukh knight rmx)
31. nas – made you look (stenchy rmx)
32. j@kes – justice
33. stenchman – distress signal (vip)
34. mark omen ft lupen crook – eyes wide shut
35. stenchman – everything
Just want to throw out a few more:
16bit, Borgore, Excision