yeah... its quite sad really, this whole squat/k/crustie bullshit is its own thing though as far as i care... they will take the elements they like from dubstep, in the same way they did with jungle>gabba, and turn it into their own thing hopefully... and fuck off. its funny but i do think that this whole laptop djing thing seems to go hand in hand with it, whenever i see a "laptop dubstep dj" its always in some horrible second room or shit free party... shame as there is room to do fascinating stuff with laptops and 138bpm - eg shackleton and kode 9.... its just the faceless hunched over the laptop like im actually doing something posing types that stink.
i think with dubstep , its impossible to generalize too much tho...
there are great djs like kode9 and appleblim , who have loads of swing in their sets, minimal housey influnces , grime elements , vocals and a generally positive attitude to new interesting directions. and rarely play wobblers... to me that is the direction im interested in; martyn, 2562 , headhunter, horsepower(when bi returns!), kodes, mala.... its totally the antithesis of *** ****** style rigor mortis mid range shite..... as many have already stated. its sad tho , i really remember with total clarity going onto boomkat or walking to bmsoho all the time in 2005 and finding nothing but grade A tunes.. yet day by day there is so much tripe... its really rare to find a good dstep 12"///last few months... martyn, peverelist/shackleton, globetrotting 12",spyro on the initiate pack ....are about all i've enjoyed really.
i've enjoyed forward a bit more recentley as they seem to alwasy book at least one interesting dj a week, three times out of four per month....
worst of all though is , i thought at the start of the year that the whole wobbler obssesion would blow over, but quite the opposite has happened......ugh..
* i find it very amusing to think that anyone would have beef with showers and decent trainers, but its true *