BBC Dubstep Documentary....Podcast!!!

citizen · Post by **citizen** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:46 pm

Great news Mary Anne.

You are a true ambassador for the sound. Can't wait to hear the documentary.

wascal · Post by **wascal** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:16 pm

Good stuff

eskmo / welder · Post by **eskmo / welder** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:31 pm

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:46 pm

Top work lady

watermelonman · Post by **watermelonman** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:49 pm

Looks good, chars

7" · Post by 7" » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:32 pm

good to see things moving fwd, this is definitely an important step to the scene.

little boh peep · Post by **little boh peep** » Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:37 pm

AlexNineBar wrote:He's a charmer that Bottrop.

He's a champion wind-up artist.

Big up Mary Anne!

struktur · Post by **struktur** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:42 am

oi oi, in the diary... no doubt will be locked.

Big up MAH

sines · Post by **sines** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:46 am

b0ttr0p · Post by **b0ttr0p** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:01 am

[quote="Djprojekts"]

MAH been Djing Dubstep before you was born! I think! lol

[quote]

Doubt it bruv.

I as born in a bus on the peace convoy. I was at Savernake Forest when it all kicked off, I was at Beltane 91 and 92, Villiag Idiot 91, Solstice 86-93, Castelmorton, Smeatharpe Airbase 92.

I went to Glastonbury when I was 3.

I made my first tune when I was 8.

Born on site.

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:53 am

i'm very much looking forward to checking each element of this project. i imagine it will serve not only as a gateway to dubstep for new ears, but also as a record of how the movement, the sound and the people have progressed for the heads that have been in this from the start.

please someone record this! i won't be able to listen live as i'll be sittin at my desk...

many thanks from the future!

nesslei · Post by **nesslei** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:54 am

B0TTR0P wrote: I went to Glastonbury when I was 3.

I made my first tune when I was 8.

Born on site.

surprised you're not deaf.

please stop bragging.

Horza · Post by **Horza** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:31 am

B0TTR0P wrote:Is you a DJ on Radio One or somefing....?

Thought they just played bare trance and house shit with Judge Jules and that Pete Tong bloke.

wha...?

me is well confused now.

Haha! Dude that msg was absolutely amazing haha!

Definitely tuning in for this!

ytee · Post by **ytee** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 3:44 pm

I wish I was born at a rave.

dubstep_warrior · Post by **dubstep_warrior** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:27 pm

i dont

datura · Post by **datura** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:14 pm

Thanks.

Now back to the topic..

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:15 pm

datura wrote:Thanks.

Now back to the topic..

Yes please.

b0ttr0p · Post by **b0ttr0p** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:51 pm

Okay, yeah back to the topic.

Dubstep The Documentary.

You know what it feels like to me?

It feels like this:

You got a bunch of peeps making ambient sounding tracks but rather than thin sounds and birds tweeting and totally rhythm free waffle you got an ambient sound with clunky, chunky beats splashed all over dem in a random type of way that is purposefully non rhythmical yet not so abstract it that it alienates the listener.

The vibe on all these tracks is similar to ambience but rather than all that lava lamp dreamy dreary pseudo hippie mid 90s non event shite - the atmosphere is meant to be sort of urban in a 'so bleak its beautiful man' type of way.

Empty factories at dawn. Fog on the river Thames.

That kind of thing.

Music too shut your eyes to.

So people are making tunez in dere bedrooms alone thinking no one else is making dis sound. Then a bunch of peeps link up and realise they are all making this similar sound - part of which is also due to the fact that it is now possible to make entire tunes on a Mac or PC using Logic or some shit and all that clunky outboard gear like Akai samplers and Juno keyboards is not essential. Man, you can make a tune just pushing a mouse about - you dont need a keyboard no more.

So these people start pushing there mice about and making this clunky slightly impenetrable but not totally abstract music and a scene of sorts is born.

But the scene isn't an innocent one even in its infancy - cos of so many scenes before it, it not only unintentionally emulates and mimics other sub genre scenes that spewed out of the 90s but also people are over aware of the way a scene goes - so the scene feels old and contrived even when it is meant to be innocent and pioneering.

Then this Radio One DJ, lets call her Mary, gets wind of this sound. She checks it out and likes it and, even though it aint really the freshest sound in the world, she decides to play some of it. She gets some big ups from her listeners and as she too realises the way these sub genre scenes rise and fall is aware that she actually caught wind of a musical sub genre fairly early on. So she decides to champion the sound cos, mate, that's what she wants to be known as. She aint no Tony Blackburn or Terry Wogan or that fat northern gobby prick (What's his name? The dude - fucking... I don't even know his name, the bloke on in the morning show...) Yeah, she wants to be taken as a serious DJ - a genre breaker, a sound definer, a pioneer, a passionate music breaker a la John Peel. (I dont doubt her passion for music in general by the way).

So she takes on the mantle of the sound which is now called. . . . Dubstep.

Due to being on Radio One the scene now is pretty much across the country - and a few club nights get put out. These club nights are comparatively tiny to the dnb and jungle nights of the mid 90s which in turn where comparitively tiny compared to the illegal and legal raves of the late 80s and early 90s.

By now a few music execs are sniffing about too - just like what happened in 1994/1995 to the drum and bass scene. Peeps getting signed up all over the place - although dubstep is still far smaller than jungle/dnb.

Then stuff gets released on majors - this means great distribution deals and marketing and PR departments that can get articles into magazines like I.D and Dazed And Confused all of which hype this new scene called Dubstep which aint even new cos people been making bedroom bass for about 15 years.

By now the original Dubstep heads is saying - it aint what it was man, the sound is all fucked, too commercial.

And then.....some one decides they wanna make a documentary on it and it is when the documentary full of talking heads banging on about 'da sound' is the sure sign that da scene has peaked and is about to wither.

Dont believe me? Go watch the docu on Jungle Raves in 1995 or acid house raves 1989.

Get ready for bust up people.

This is the 1st (and only) summer of dub.

The documentary is the death knell.

For whom the bell tolls....it tolls for thee!

sorry to be so cynical. but its da truth - and i guess it is better than no scenes at all so big ups Mary Hobbes etc

but please, dont take it so serious man.

anyone want there flooring done hit me up.

Im a carpet fitter.

Laterz.

bribkin · Post by **bribkin** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:02 pm

or someone is pissed cuz they're jealous they haven't achieved shit in their life and they haven't got anything better to than wank at the internet all day so they piss over other people's hard work to make themselves feel better.

stenchman · Post by **stenchman** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:51 pm

wicked stuff, bout time the scene got some peak time airing!!!!!!!!

BBC Dubstep Documentary....Podcast!!!

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