The HEAVIEST bassline EVER

woops

woops

is not like other people
woops said:
as for dub step im not Mr continuum face but even i can see this stuff is not as worthy successor to garage fun and iciness, drum n bass rush and melody, techno cyber future sounds, or ven actual dub

"heavy" bass, dead drums, white dreads, portentuous aesthetic, perfect storm of 5h1te
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the simultaneous emergence of dubstep & grime is like if prog aand punk had come out in the same year, i cant understand it at all
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
woops said:
not that i think we should stop playing this great game of course. here's my entry


horrible churning sound that squats in one place rumbling away even as the filter opens to send you hurtling and lurching into the next wide open space section of the chooooon and basically what dubstep could and should of been
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It was. all the grime boys loved the aggy wovbble dubstep when it come out, it even horrified Martin Clarke at the time but it perfectly made sense to actual north londoners like myself.
 
shakahislop

shakahislop

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thirdform said:
It was. all the grime boys loved the aggy wovbble dubstep when it come out, it even horrified Martin Clarke at the time but it perfectly made sense to actual north londoners like myself.
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who was it that spat on this? was it trim? i've heard this beat a million times but it had a vocal. can't find the answer easily online. i keep getting flashes of wiley's voice but that might be coz it sounds so much like an eski beat.

edit: oh it was on the second dizzee album. that's such a great album, i still put it on every now and then. get more out of it over the years too, all the paranoia and the way he's trying to rationalise his own jump out of being working class to himself
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
thirdform said:
It was. all the grime boys loved the aggy wovbble dubstep when it come out, it even horrified Martin Clarke at the time but it perfectly made sense to actual north londoners like myself.
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the rootsy end of dubstep was never interesting. It's not my fault this place backed the dubstep purists because they posted on here. This is why I am fundamentally against community building initiatives.



this is so obnoxious I'd never play it in my dj sets but its fascinating.
 
william_kent

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when I originally envisioned this thread I composed a story about how I "played out" on the "free party sound system" and I kicked off with a misjudged Kabaka Pyramid tune:


Kabaka Pyramid - King Kabaka
( troughs & peaks as @woops wisely said )

but then I dropped this


Dennis Brown & Damien Jr Gong featuring Nas - Promise Land

and the captive audience went wild, because room one must have been shit ( trojan sound system / earl sweatshirt? can't remember tbh, but venue was rammed, my mates on the guest list couldn't get in, they missed a treat...well, when I say "treat", i mean me )

but what I really wanted to play was the original version, recorded well before Aswad linked up with Gregory Isaacs' milliner ( hat maker )


Aswad & Dennis Brown - Promised Land

I did once play this out at an illegal rave, in the afternoon, and it did go down quite well...

heavy bass line
 
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william_kent

william_kent

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Corpsey said:
I think I've only heard this played out once, weirdly it was Rob Da Bank at Bestival and although the soundsystem wasn't particularly amazing this bassline absolutely boomed out

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only seen Rob Da Bank play once, and I walked out because he played a racist tune, but this is actually "OK"

not the heaviest bassline ever though, sorry to disappoint
 
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version

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"When I played Berlin in 2005, before the first Tectonic Plates had been released, I had Skream's 'Bahl Fwd' on dubplate. I played in this weird venue, which was set in a bank vault and still had a caged-off safety deposit box room and everything: very small, with very thick walls and a decent soundsystem. While I was DJing, Jammer and his crew passed through, and when someone got on the mic this weird shit started happening.

The bass would get ridiculous, and the mixer would be bouncing on the table like a glass. When I dropped 'Bahl Fwd', a pile of flyers went up into the air like confetti and I had to catch the mixer and hold it down. I thought we'd hit the resonant frequency of the room. I worked out that every time the MC was getting hype, they were standing in front of the speaker while the bass of the mic was on full; you got bass feedback through the mic sending the place so mad that you felt that you were being crushed. I thought I was going to die in that room. That tune is one of the heaviest dubstep tracks that's ever been cut, because he didn't have any EQ on the bass: full power, untouched bass."

-- Pinch

 
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