Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
Shit, just clocked the last Blackdown & Dusk tracklist. 'Harpy' on keysound?
Yeah Harpy. It's a bit of a tune though I say so myself! Challenging but heavy and some nice bits to it. On the flipside of Soundclash. Works great with Hollybrook park, bruza's doin' me, bigshot's glitch, solid state, defocused, gutter music etc so it's fairly well roadtested as a mix tool. Almost blends with Justin Timberlake's My Love. No idea where harpy came from, totally wrote itself.
£10bag to anyone who can mix Harpy and Soundclash together off vinyl!
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Sweetness like this sounds great alongside certain dubstep and wonky stuff.. Ayo technology, Lil Wayne's lollipop.. Rustie mixes up RnB instrumentals really well alongside his own sound, crunk etc in that BTS radio mix. Has his 'Bad science' got a mention yet? tune!
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bare BARE BONES
Bootleg of Zomby's 1UP & The Streets - Has It Come To This
if anyone's interested?
I knocked this up a while ago but haven't got round to putting it in a mix yet.
Zomby vs The Streets - Sound System Banger
if anyone's interested?
I knocked this up a while ago but haven't got round to putting it in a mix yet.
Zomby vs The Streets - Sound System Banger
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
That's the shit!
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
Oh yeah. For real. I mean I love that tune, he's my favourite modern male singer, but there's so much to be done with the combo of sweet with hard / sour.
Fuck. I know so little. Didn't know rustie did that. Sounds awesome. Blackdown calls it my post-timbaland tune, which is a huge compliment.
I've still got the mp3 lying around, happy to upload it if G. Angel is happy with that?
Yeah mixing rnb/rap tunes with dstep/whatever has been done a lot by Rusite, Hudmo, Ikonika et al for a while now. Really have to say big up to Rogue's Foam for that post, probably one of the best things I've read on a blog in a while. I showed it to Zomby and he loved it too
yea i got a mix Rustie did with loads of New R&B vocals over it...
got this Hudson Mowhawke tune sounds loads like timbo, was featured on the mary anne hobbs mix they did...comes in after the laffy taffy tune...big things.
do you know what's so shockingly refreshing about that amazing post: it talks, at the highest level, about the music.
as music crit gets up to the highest levels, i'm often left with the nagging feeling that the actual music - structures, tones, arrangements, developments - is getting left behind, such that the only currency of value is the cultural one.
an example of this is at the nuum conference when Luton's Exodus collective were held up as the pinnacle of jungle in the context of Thatcher's Britain. now fair play to them but you'd only put them at the absolute pinnacle of the jungle movement if you were looking for socio-political movements within musical cultures, not the musical cultures themselves.
wonky gets dismissed by many on cultural grounds. what my original 'wonky' article did was point to interesting musical elements, no more, no less. if the meta-genre has no interesting cultural aspects, well sorry but that doesn't mean it is of no value.
as music crit gets up to the highest levels, i'm often left with the nagging feeling that the actual music - structures, tones, arrangements, developments - is getting left behind, such that the only currency of value is the cultural one.
an example of this is at the nuum conference when Luton's Exodus collective were held up as the pinnacle of jungle in the context of Thatcher's Britain. now fair play to them but you'd only put them at the absolute pinnacle of the jungle movement if you were looking for socio-political movements within musical cultures, not the musical cultures themselves.
wonky gets dismissed by many on cultural grounds. what my original 'wonky' article did was point to interesting musical elements, no more, no less. if the meta-genre has no interesting cultural aspects, well sorry but that doesn't mean it is of no value.
Just to raise a point here, the uproar when you wrote that Wonky article ,blackdown, is abselutly ridiculous, & the cultural significance people try & tie into it makes me laugh... moar beatz plz x
edit** by the cultural significance, I dont mean music wise either, I mean the silly things like Ket, i know that simon reynolds article was meant to be a bit tounge in cheek (at least i hope) but seriously!!
edit** by the cultural significance, I dont mean music wise either, I mean the silly things like Ket, i know that simon reynolds article was meant to be a bit tounge in cheek (at least i hope) but seriously!!
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rouge's foam
a deadly secretion
nice to know the late nights paid off (so many times at 1am after uncovering yet another layer of complexity in Kaliko I'd be yelling "curse you Zomby you beautiful soundsmith!") but it's a real pleasure to talk about the music. 's good.
after about a week of constant wonkiness I put on Skream's 'Lightning' obnoxiously loud this morning. i guess you listen to classic dubstep for the bass and the cultural picture and wonky for the textures and rhythmic amazement. they're different games really, difficult to compare but both with a lot to offer.
after about a week of constant wonkiness I put on Skream's 'Lightning' obnoxiously loud this morning. i guess you listen to classic dubstep for the bass and the cultural picture and wonky for the textures and rhythmic amazement. they're different games really, difficult to compare but both with a lot to offer.
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
No Sunshine
I think this is the final version - I took this into a commercial studio to polish it off. Sounds great, just a bit too heavy.
www.grievousangel.net/GADubz/NoSunshineReEdit.mp3
I think this is the final version - I took this into a commercial studio to polish it off. Sounds great, just a bit too heavy.
www.grievousangel.net/GADubz/NoSunshineReEdit.mp3
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Beast of Burden
Lightning is a great record, I mixed it with electro-y and techy dubstep and it worked really well.
I suppose they are sort of different genres, but they work much better when you mix between them - halfstep to wonky to grime to wobble to r'n'b to grime to dubstep. When you do it right the different textures reinforce each other, much better than staying in one template, even if it's a really good one.
I suppose they are sort of different genres, but they work much better when you mix between them - halfstep to wonky to grime to wobble to r'n'b to grime to dubstep. When you do it right the different textures reinforce each other, much better than staying in one template, even if it's a really good one.
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Beast of Burden
I took half an hour last night to dip into it, I need to spend a full night reading it / listening to it all properly!