don't think arctic's been mentioned in this thread yet so i'll post this here
madness
i've been reviewing stuff in that vibe for a French website, hoping to help the sound spread a bit here..
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:42 am
by garethom
Kid Smpl remix of Shook by Arctic is one of my tunes of the year.
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:45 am
by exfox
garethom wrote:Kid Smpl remix of Shook by Arctic is one of my tunes of the year.
also - the toyc ep that's coming out on crazylegs is wicked. bloom remix
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:50 am
by garethom
The only worry I have with this scene, which you'll remember was dubbed by an expert as Post-Disclosure Blackdown-House, is that Keysound straight smashed it right at the beginning with This Is How We Roll. It's so sick, it's still pretty much the best set of tunes those producers have put out.
Don't want this to die a quick death if people keep trying to perfectly recreate those vibes.
Hard to explain, and I don't think I'm doing a very good job Basically, imagine if The Roots Of Dubstep CD came out in 2003 and everyone just used that as a template rather than an influence...
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 8:56 am
by exfox
yeah i can see what you mean. i thought more of this is how we roll as a manifesto than anything else though (starting with "new wave" - which says it all - then showing the diversity of that vibe, from darker stuff to e.m.m.a.'s more melodic tracks) so i don't think that's happening.. hopefully!
if you take like mumdance's twist and turns mixtape, it just seems to keep exploring new directions.
(speaking of which, i really hope his "truth" tune with mao sees release soon... this one's massive)
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:12 am
by blackdown
garethom wrote:The only worry I have with this scene, which you'll remember was dubbed by an expert as Post-Disclosure Blackdown-House, is that Keysound straight smashed it right at the beginning with This Is How We Roll. It's so sick, it's still pretty much the best set of tunes those producers have put out.
Personally I just see that comp as, amongst other things, as a starting point for multiple interesting directions. You can already see how E.m.m.a.'s gone from "Peridot" to expand into "Blue Gardens". My hope for this cluster of producers is that they each expand and grow their sound outwards while still keeping a connection to the others. That's when it gets really interesting...
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:23 am
by garethom
Yeah, my point was really that I love the CD, and the producers on it, I just don't want the genre-defining release to be right near the relative start of its life. Feel like this scene has a lot of legs to be honest, was always gutted that post-garage/pre-dubstep period (Horsepower, El-B, Big Apple, etc.) never lasted longer, with this sound, it's the first time since I've heard music that gave me those same sort of vibes, amalgamations of a tonne of sounds, grime, dubstep, jungle, techno, whatever.
Basically, keep it going everyone. Feel like loads of the bods could put out really promising albums.
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:33 am
by exfox
garethom wrote:Feel like loads of the bods could put out really promising albums.
amen to that
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:38 am
by Harkat
Imagine how sick an Epoch & Visionist collab would be.
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 9:56 am
by Phigure
same goes for an epoch + beneath tune
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:25 am
by blackdown
for the record, i think people mostly make their best work when they work by themselves and go in their own direction for as far as they can, unless people know each other really well first (this matters when in the studio), but i dont want to dampen anyone's enthusiasm!
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:34 am
by swerver
blackdown wrote:for the record, i think people mostly make their best work when they work by themselves and go in their own direction for as far as they can, unless people know each other really well first (this matters when in the studio), but i dont want to dampen anyone's enthusiasm!
True, but Hydraulics shows what can happen when two people get on the same wavelength, bounce ideas off eachother and maybe a bit of healthy competition between eachother (that's what I imagine this collab was about anyway). That tune is a real classic.
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:36 am
by garethom
Did you know the vocals on Hydraulics are by Jessie Ware?
Re: 130 thread
Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2013 10:44 am
by swerver
garethom wrote:Did you know the vocals on Hydraulics are by Jessie Ware?
lol, no I didn't, you mean the actual "hydraulics" bits?