Drumstep

paolo

Mechanical phantoms
I like that better than most of the wobble/brostep/tearout stuff. Don't think I'd buy it though
 

Dr Awesome

Techsteppin'
Drumstep is actually quite an interesting phenomenon.
It's a genre that doesn't even exist. Like some sort of meme really...
 

joe.dfx

who knows...
Drumstep is actually quite an interesting phenomenon.
It's a genre that doesn't even exist. Like some sort of meme really...

not to mention it's really, really, really awful.

you don't see dBridge claiming he's invented a new genre, nor did Amit think he was doing something completely different 10 years ago (or Digital fwiw.)
 

Blackdown

nexKeysound
is this stuff different to breakbeat garage/breakstep? (If it sounds like Pendulum @ 140, I dont entirely want to have to listen to it to find out ;) )
 

SecondLine

Well-known member
it's kind of interesting if you see it as dubstep fulfilling it's 'hardcore-ifying' tendency to speed up.

Don't know if there was really a transitional phase between the two though or whether it was a calculated ruse so that tearout producers get to play all their old DnB in sets.

One of my best rave memories of this year is going nuts to Kanji Kinetic mashed off my teats on custard gannet so I shan't be knocking this stuff :)

p.s. that calibre track is surprisingly tasteful!
 

4linehaiku

Repetitive
Think this makes a lot more sense than most of the trad. wobble really. If your sole aim to bang it out as hard as possible why not do it at 170+bpm with loads of drums as well as the LFOs?
 

Phaedo

Well-known member
Think this makes a lot more sense than most of the trad. wobble really. If your sole aim to bang it out as hard as possible why not do it at 170+bpm with loads of drums as well as the LFOs?

Agree with you on that. Never really got why brostep has taken off so well considering the beats are so slow and sluggish. The idea of going mad and jumping around to it on pills seems quite odd. Telling also that those kind of producers have been moving more towards 150 bpm too.
 

bob effect

somnambulist
That Calibre track was class, any more stuff like that about i.e. without the annoying mid range-y bass like the other two tracks that were posted?
 

joe.dfx

who knows...
true.

that Calibre tune is just a DUB tune really (with more LFO). it's a cool song, but it goes no where. it's just the same loop for like 6 mins.

i think Rockwell does the half time thing really well. actually most of his output is really good.
 

bob effect

somnambulist
true.

that Calibre tune is just a DUB tune really (with more LFO). it's a cool song, but it goes no where. it's just the same loop for like 6 mins.

I come from a techno background, so this is actually something of a selling point :)

i think Rockwell does the half time thing really well. actually most of his output is really good.

Checking it out now, liking what I'm hearing so far.
 

joe.dfx

who knows...
haha yeah i get that ; )

check out asc, need for mirrors, genotype

basically everything on exit, non plus, autonomic, etc...
 

tyranny

Well-known member
can't stand the term drumstep tbh, basically invented by new school jumpup dnb heads who've seen their crowds decimated by the emergence of brostep.

loads of savage half time dnb around though... that calibre "steptoe" tune that was posted already does phenomenal things on a loud system.

also:




etc etc.
 

rubberdingyrapids

Well-known member
i use drumstep to include the autonomic sound and what d bridge and instramental were doing before they went electro, not just brostep gone mental. have i been getting it wrong? :mad:
 

tyranny

Well-known member
i use drumstep to include the autonomic sound and what d bridge and instramental were doing before they went electro, not just brostep gone mental. have i been getting it wrong? :mad:



Yes, but only mildly.

As I understand it the word "drumstep" only really came about when the screechy jumpup crowd started to feel threatened by screechy dubstep and wanted a word to put on flyers that sounded a bit like dubstep in the hope that playing stuff that as basically slightly faster dubstep would keep the bums on seats.

It's one of those words that I doubt anybody ever even thought of applying to an Amit record. The only places you ever seen to see it written down are in Grooverider interviews or written on Heist records, neither of which are exactly typical signifiers of any real musical merit in 2012, to put it mildly.


I'd call that stuff "halftime dnb" and have done since DJ Ron - "Zulu March" which nobody has ever bothered to stick on Youtube but which is one of those tunes that was about 7 years ahead of it's time that nobody else seems to remember.
 
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