Drumstep

[bRRRz]

holy crap!

[christophera]

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[christophera]

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[mole]

J One. those tunes are sick. does anyone ever think that drumstep is just hip-hop with a dubstep/brostep bassline n a couple of amens thrown in? Apart from J-One cos his beats are SICK!!

[L4im]

Here is a mix i made, of the following drumstep tracks:

3 Doors Down- Kryptonite (23 Remix)
‎3rd Degree - Danger Time
Art vs Science Magic Fountain (Royalston Remix)
Bar 9 - Midnight (FukDub Remix)
Big Tymers - Still Fly (Wick-it Remix)
Breaknoise - Funk Master
Chase & Status ft. Delilah - Time (TOTEM Remix)
Chrispy - She Like That (Quartus Saul Remix)
Danny Byrd ft. Netsky - Tonight (Cutline Remix)
Datsik & Excision - Invaders (le'Dev & Atomic Remix)

Drumstep Mix 2011 Episode One - Mixed by LAIM

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J One. those tunes are sick. does anyone ever think that drumstep is just hip-hop with a dubstep/brostep bassline n a couple of amens thrown in?

tempo wise, yeah, you could say that. but afaik, the point is more about the approach to producing it..
"drumstep" is about putting drum n bass in halftime so that you could mix with dnb. so since dnb resides at about 160-180, its half-time alter-ego is a halfstep beat that stomps along at around 80-90

whereas traditional hiphop beats are constructed at around 80-90 and weren't designed to mix with dnb (although you certainly can). so the feel comes across much differently. it sounds less like double its tempo.

in the same way that dubstep grew out of half-time garage. it wasn't built at 70 bpm to be a slow hip hop beat. That is more like dirty south/crunk, as well as plenty of other hip hop/soul/rnb built in the 70-ish bpm range. dubstep is built at 140ish and approaches the half-time vibe from a different direction. Scientifically there's no difference but you can hear the difference in the feel vs. something built at 70. including dub reggae, which sometimes dips as low as 60ish

so its much more about what direction and style you are headed out of, rather than what you're headed into (imho)