EPMD - proto dubstep?

donruba · Post by **donruba** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:04 am

I was listening to a fav old record of mine this morning, EPMD's debut album Strictly Business, and it just struck me how much the track I always liked best from the album, "Get Off The Bandwagon" sounds like pure halfstep murdah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anAKdiIf8Q

An instrumental of that tune, with the bass turned up a notch and the tempo slowed down a bit maybe, I would just love that.

So yeah, I've been into dubstep since 1988. When did you n00bs get on the bandwagon? Oh, 2006? 2004? Please...

spiro · Post by **spiro** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:19 pm

how about schooly D ? BDP ? EPMD! Just Ice . . .
and some of the old electro joints is much of the same vibe . . .

but the original dubstep DON has to be Kool Keith . . .
bass driven spaced out beats from 83-2008 ?!!

anyway a legend . . .

and yes off-course i'v been dropping get of the bandwagon, but i can't claim to have done it since 88 . . .

trailofthedead · Post by **trailofthedead** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:21 pm

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Ip5WHITpQ

donruba · Post by **donruba** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:58 pm

trailofthedead wrote:http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Ip5WHITpQ

Yeah, big Kool Keith tune! Although personally I still feel that the EPMD tune is more amazingly dubstep sounding.

Especially considered that EPMD's "Get off the bandwagon" is produced 1988. The Kool Keith tune is produced 2001. It was made after trip hop, after all kinds of experimentation when it comes to fusing hip hop with dance music had already been made.

donruba · Post by **donruba** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:01 pm

spiro wrote:how about schooly D ? BDP ? EPMD! Just Ice . . .
and some of the old electro joints is much of the same vibe . . .

Examples? Links? Would love to hear some more old, dubsteppy hiphop

trailofthedead · Post by **trailofthedead** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:11 pm

everything is 100% dubstep

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iQhh4Xs8R ... re=related

spiro · Post by **spiro** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:14 pm

check out the intro on this tape . . .
megablast

and an old tape . . . quite dodgy mixing though . . .
itsademo.mp3

jah wobble · Post by **jah wobble** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:21 pm

donruba wrote: hip hop with dance music

hiphop was dance music.

rev · Post by **rev** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:42 pm

then what about the electrostuff that preceded it? Kraftwerk, Zapp and so on? and what about all the 80's digital dancehall?
I don't think a slow beat and heavy bass alone, qualifies as 'dubstep'.

but there is no doubt in, that the same production techniques are used again, and again making it clear that producers get inspired by the old stuff they love.

chimpo · Post by **chimpo** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:52 pm

donruba wrote:I was listening to a fav old record of mine this morning, EPMD's debut album Strictly Business, and it just struck me how much the track I always liked best from the album, "Get Off The Bandwagon" sounds like pure halfstep murdah!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4anAKdiIf8Q

An instrumental of that tune, with the bass turned up a notch and the tempo slowed down a bit maybe, I would just love that.

So yeah, I've been into dubstep since 1988. When did you n00bs get on the bandwagon? Oh, 2006? 2004? Please...

sick. it does sound bare like dubstep. someone should chop n screw it

EPMD are dutty. i used to be called dj rampage at school cuz of that old track by them and LL. and other shit dj names. lol.

skrewface · Post by **skrewface** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:01 pm

If you're an old hiphop head then this is probably amongst many other electro influenced tracks the reason to why we love Dubstep so much

juliun_c90 · Post by **juliun_c90** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:18 pm

ha ha. i haven't heard this tune for a long time.

proto dubstep? well those pretty straight beats, semi-tone variation bassline and especially the title...

yeah there's a message there i think!

lwiz · Post by **lwiz** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:27 pm

respect to Erick and Parrish making Dollars

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:18 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESe446Wojk

tony k · Post by **tony k** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:56 am

matty g
compound one
loefah
6blocc

all remind me of hip hop.

eshscramble · Post by **eshscramble** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:17 am

i'm sure everyone knows this already, but for those who don't...

mr oizo - flat beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6Ewqx3PMs

reprezent

tacospheros · Post by **tacospheros** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:21 pm

eshscramble wrote:i'm sure everyone knows this already, but for those who don't...

mr oizo - flat beat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kv6Ewqx3PMs

reprezent

ive been on a mr oizo kick recently , some durrty beats

analog worms attack - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTF7Kag_o-c

monday massacre - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQZPfhidBaE

M-SEQ (check the breakdown @ 2:10 , so gangster) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-EcasIakX4

jah wobble · Post by **jah wobble** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:42 pm

rekorder wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESe446Wojk

exactly.

tony k · Post by **tony k** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 11:03 pm

shaolin worm attack:

http://www.spliffhuxtable.com/2007/06/3 ... rm-attack/

moujah · Post by **moujah** » Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:06 am

rekorder wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JESe446Wojk

absolutely. so what's all the buzz now? dubstep would be around 20 years ago if there was the technology to make it

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