What did you make before? Or, what else do you make?

[two oh one]

It seems that people are from fairly diverse musical backgrounds here, so I thought it might be interesting to see where different people are coming from.



Let's see what people are making other than Dubstep. Or what they made before Dubstep.

Here's some of my stuff:

Bleed is TB303 abuse. Kinda slowed down Acid Techno, down at an EBM pace with more of an Industrial/Aggrotech stomp to it. It's fairly brutal and the kids like it. I still need to dig out the silver box for a Dubstep track.

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Music/Bleed.mp3

Machine Test is part of a series of mechanical Techno tracks I've been working on forever. They're made up of real machinery samples that I record out in the field. This series is where Machine Phase was born from.

http://homepage.mac.com/misterboo/.Musi ... estOne.mp3

I guess I still favour production to be rough and dirty and under produced rather than clean and pristine. I spent way too much time listening to Throbbing Gristle and Cab Voltaire and love that sound.

[oceanzen]

I've recently been to a couple of Dubstep nights and am absolutely in love. My non Dubstep trax are on myspace- they're kinda
- Glitch, Chill, Breakcore, trip hop, Electronica type tunes.

Link is in my sig

I like the sense of atmosphere in Machine test one- then that tune really gets banging !

[emcee child]

hip hop, dnb.

finishing a concept album atm.. should be out in the summer.

[gravious]

Used to make: Drum and Bass, ambient electronic stuff, dunno what to call it really! (Would like to do more of this, but never seem to have the time)

Still make a bit of random grimier stuff as well, but not much of it is up to scratch yet.

[sch_pr]

last few years, i've been successively in those style:
Old School Jungle, Newschool Breaks, UKG

deejaying for 9 years now, i've just began making beats
Dubstep gave me that envy

[ikonika]

use to make my very own version of hip-hop listen here

http://www.myspace.com/killkip

[janner]

@ two oh one: nice thread idea

used to make all sorts of stuff... downtempo, dnb, breaks, and hybrids thereof

once upon a time i even had a tune released on moving shadow

a couple of examples of productions in other genres (click to stream)

downtempo
Advanced

d'n'b
Man Come Man Go

breaks
Busted for Nothing

[two oh one]

Cheers for the links!

oceanzen - Liking the glitch, mate.

Unreachable thought and Existence are nice. I love things that seem to verge on chaos and feel like they're going to fall over but never do. Like Punk drumming.

Cheers- I've got to get Test one finished some day.

ikonika - Some of that production sounds like the stuff coming out of Germany. Has a distinctive sound.


Janner - Liking Man Come Man Go and particularly Busted. Moving shadow, eh? Loved that label back in the day.

[ikonika]

i dunno if its just me...but i find making dubstep beats soooo much harder than that of hip-hop

[sneer]

i make hip hop too!

http://www.myspace.com/omhctihcire

[psycho cop]

started with harsh noise/power electronics/experimental anything

got nanoloop and started making chiptune/8-bit

now, well i don't even think i make what could be called "dubstep"

well... maybe

[blk plague]

i used to make hip hop in an electronic ambient aggressive sample based kanye west sort of way-then i discovered true bass.

you can get a taste at:

www.myspace.com/neurologists

i used to do a lot of work with these dudes. i actually have a hip hop compilation album coming out under my label with some of my production on there. stay tuned for details and future shameless plugs.

[ballistics]

I used to be a jazz piano player!
I have made some dnb as well (and still do...)

[vonboyage]

Started off making grime type tracks.

Then alternative..

Now its Dubstepple/Alt.

[__________]

primarily weird silly tunes, i dunno what genre some of the shit i make is. i do attempt some serious dnb and hip hop tunes though. im looking to focus on dubstep now, recently discovered it and it seems like a nicely diverse genre that i want in on

[crash fistfight]

Good to check out what everyones making, some excellent stuff being written.

Ambient electronica, and the odd electro track when I come up with a nice jumping melody. Never put any of my stuff on the net though, just pure personal use. Might do one day, get some opinions.

[metalboxproducts]

d&b, techno, house, electro, and things

There's a few of me techno bits on one of my subfm shows from jan 07 check the archives.

[deadly_habit]

dnb, idm, breakcore, gabber, hard techno, ambient, downtempo, hip hop

[metalboxproducts]

audio

http://archive.subfm.com/Metalbox01Feb07SubFM.mp3

track list

http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=14447

[echo wanderer]

Over the years:

Played in punk,2 Tone style ska,Deathrock/Deathpunk/Batcave-y/Goth,Experimental Noise,and dark Shoegaze/4AD style bands.(Still do it,just by myself. )

Later began to experiment with Ambient Dub using Casios,tapes,two stereo systems,guitar,bass,popcorn tins,ocarinas,Tupperware,scratched up CDs,chopsticks,and LOADS of effects.

Got my first computer about 7 years ago and began to use it as another instrument,thus doing more electronica.I do a lot of IDM,Glitch,Experimental DnB,Dub,Digidub,Dubstep,Deep Dub House,Electro,a very wee bit of Progressive House,Noise,Ambient,a little Downtempo, some Hip Hop,Trip Hop,and Industrial.

And I am also guilty of doing a bit of Acid and Techno...