Does Dubstep need humanising?? real vocals etc

[nousd]

I am wary of vocals, they're prone to deliver cliched thoughts, conformist self-censorship and cultural irrelevancies...
perhaps samples, if they meld & become rumbling prostelizations for jostling steppas.

[dub boy]

I really like vocal dubstep personally and think dubstep really needs it. The techy cold direction so much dubstep has gone down bores me stupid

There's lots of excellent vocal dubstep around .... notably tunes off the Pinch album, Cotti, The Bug, various Coki refixes, Alicia, Tears, Various Production stuff, that Dark Angel Untold remix... and the US mc's like Juakali, Jah Dan, 77Klash, Uncle Sam all work really well on dubstep.

Y'know to me the dubstep i like is ROOTS music, and roots is just as suited to vocal styles as to dub styles

More vocals please!

[gwa]

Im new here.. but I thought this would be a good first post..

I don't usually put vocals in dubstep tracks but feel sometimes it helps the listener identify with the music easier.

But all in all I guess it depends on the track and the vocalist.


I have been producing some vocal dubstep lately. And would appreciate some feedback.

check it.

http://myspace.com/kingsdubstep

very electro and bleepy, sounding good tho. let it ride outs heavy

[bjackman]

goldie - inner city life is a pretty respectable tune [i don't like it personally but i can see why people do]

but look what the Digital Soundboy crew did to DNB, now all i see is people in Jack Wills clothes playing Shy FX on their 4th iPod [the old ones just aren't fashionable any more] while they're waiting for daddy to pick them up from school in his BMW

just the same, Under the Dancing Feet and Round the World Girls are sick, but imagine if it went too far and dubstep got killed like DNB.. i'd have to get into techno. oh actually looks like Justice are set to kill that too [gotta admit though, i duno shit about techno i'm just bein grumpy]

dammn.

[nousd]

vocals have become the way to commercialize ds.

[test_recordings]

I didn't think about it like that... All the poppy numbers don't have any proper dubwise twisting to obscure them in anyway, either.. There is one good track that sounds like really wet progressive house, goes "Trying... to find you..." or something like that, was quite big last year or year before

[arktrix45hz]

Cannot be arsed to trawl through three pages, but surely its already humanised in terms of quantisation, velocity levels on drum hits etc?

[antipode]

dunno about "humanizing" but if LVs new stuff falls under that category, sign me up

[test_recordings]

Cannot be arsed to trawl through three pages, but surely its already humanised in terms of quantisation, velocity levels on drum hits etc?

Good stuff is like already like that if it uses samples from other other recorded tracks, pre-mastered musicianship and everything

[leeany]

what about the The Bug album ? and Kode9 & Spaceape ?