BassNectar.....best dj in the US???

[jsills]

Someone fucking feel me on this Pleez.

seen this man spin 6 times and every time he tops the last. pure audiophile, last night he droped the pixies, a wu tang instramental, an mf doom verse, a missy elliot track, and countless other shit that i cant remember off the top. i get the feeling the UK aint feeling the bassnect, at least from what i can tell. but this mans live show is ridiculous, flawless mixes, unreal track selection, tempo changes, style changes, fucking dude mixes video.

I cant be the only one who feels this way.

no one can hold a candle to his live sets, period.

Can i get a witness???

[pikeymobile]

I adore his mixes and production, but have trouble finding people who've even heard of him around here. I'd kill to see him live, I've heard it's pretty awe inspiring.

[dukefan6842@gmail.com]

I adore his mixes and production, but have trouble finding people who've even heard of him around here. I'd kill to see him live, I've heard it's pretty awe inspiring.

Saw him live last saturday, can vouch for that. Unreal set, dropped 'when i look at you', 'ghosts nero remix', his 'cozza frenzy', all those tunes absolutely exploded plus he's quite the entertainer...

going to see him again next month on the second stretch of his tour.

[loopdigrrr]

his tempo changes and track selection are out of this world. plus he makes some of the thickest roughest bass sounds i've ever heard. saw him play a couple times this summer. he played a midnight timeslot then a sunrise set that morning.
mindblown

[jsills]

ohhhh i forgot about stage presence. dude dances harder than the whole crowd. i was stomping so hard on the balcony that everyone on it started stomping in unison. shit was ILL.

[Pistonsbeneath]

dj/rupture for me

[iriegirl]

i would leave my husband for lorin in a hearbeat! the man is abso-freakin-lutely AMAZING! and he only gets better and better!

[1017_duck]

facepalm

[airtight]

No. He's def not the best in the US. He is good though.

[jsills]

Whos the best???

im after the truth here people

never seen dj/rupture, will def check for him tho. whats good with him?

[djrodan]

bassnectar is the truth

go see him whenever possible, there is a 0% chance of you being disappointed

[seckle]

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whats up with DUBSTEP!?
a discussion forum recently wondered what was up with all the dubstep. i found it an odd, but timely question.

i am reposting the original post, and then my response, for anyone curious on one of the many aspects of my musical interests:



ORIGINAL POST:

I saw Bassnectar at Sonic Bloom in Winter Park ,CO last month.. and I was sad to hear the set was mostly dubstep (editors note: out of 90 minutes, it was about 45 minutes). My heart sank and I waited for the next DJ to come on... after trying hard to dance but being unable to really feel any magic in it. Just boom, boom, gloomm, vrooom, boom.

I remember the same feeling when drum-and-bass started getting played in the chill rooms of rave parties, rather than ambient or trip-hop. Some people were like "wow!" and other people think it's just inferior, more urban, lower vibration music.

Yeah, I know Lorin plays all types of tunes (I've heard The Cure, Shpongle remixes, swing, hip hop) and over the years he's had wicked taste....but I definitely dig the faster, cleaner breakbeat sound much, much more than dubstep and glitch shizit. I find it easier to dance, too.

What do you think? What are your feelings on dubstep sets at the peak slot of parties?




RESPONSE FROM BASSNECTAR LABS:



hi!


im glad you brought this up

first off, i hate current dubstep. its monotonous, dreary, boring, dead, bad vibe wankoff.

O.G. dubstep was the 2 step stuff that ammunition and tempa and horsepower was pumping out years ago that had snare on the 2 and the 4 of every beat, and a super thick dripping vibe...one of those cuts is on freakbeats for beatfreaks.

when i first heard "the new" dubstep, i was like THATS NOT DUBSTEP! THATS DOOM METAL!!!! and it is...exact same tempo, exact same beat, same emphasis on slow, heavy, grinding crusher vibe

but even my deep affection for doom did not make me excited about dubstep, cuz i coudlnt stand the damn reverb overload, the uneventful meandering, the ridiculously obligatory SPOOKY vibe, the lack of musical originality, etc etc etc.

then i began finding ONE or TWO tracks that i was like... Well ill be a stuck pig in the back of a 67 dodge, this is fuckin GOOD.

and even so, i just used loops of it, and mashed it up with the buildups from played out breaks remixes (ala my Bongo Bong mashup... www.bassnectar.net/podcast) ((which combines Deekline's bongo mash with a nasty dubstep beat by Reso)


and then i was working on a polka remix (december 2006) and was like "well hellooooooooooooooo" to discover that the double time absurdity of bouncy polka can be applied to dubstep....140 bpm, not 70....and holy shit...all those ridiculous psy trance records i have that i can never play again with all the INCREDIBLE SICK sounds and samples and breakdowns...all that will fit right in too!!! WOW! and i started going apeshit.
making it, collecting it, hating 95% of it.


now it is a genre just like any that i am bored to tears by (electro house, glitch hop, etc) but would be a FOOOL to disregard completely because like anything, there are DIAMONDS in them there ruffs.

also how nice it is after the burnout on nubreaks to have a GENRE FOR SALE AGAIN!!!!!
any non DJ will not appreciate this, but there was a period from about 2003-2007 that i could NOT BUY RECORDS anymore because they all sucked furiously. now i can actually go online and spend 5 hours and find 3 or 4 seriously SICK tunes...and THAT IS FUN for a DJ!!!!


on to more exciting points:

taking the hard shuffle of 2step (which totally won me over in 2000, 2001...during the time of Float, Grampa Whams, Opalescent Egg, Rythm is, and the first real Bassnectar dancefloor tracks that WORKED at 130+ bpm) and hi passing the loop, putting the snare ONLY on the 3 (the MAIN snare) and either a breakbeat kick pattern or EVEN A 4-4 kick pattern, as long as the accent is on the 3,

FOLKS>>>>>> IT PRODUCES ONE OF THE MOST FUNNEST EVER DANCES KNOWN TO HUMANKIND.... an almost sideways undulation of insane bouncing, and spring-board hopping, an exultory jiggle, THE BEST HANDSWAT EVER, and a pulse that pounds with abandon and DOUBLE TIME ENERGY

so yes, 99.9% of dubstep at 70....slyt my wrists.

50% of dubstep at 140....HELL YES!!!! it BUMPUMPS!!!

i dont know if there are any copies of that Bassnectar track Art Of Revolution floating around...(i hope not, it will be out in octoboer or so) but that is what i mean....and that doesnt even have the shuffle. add that hard shuffle, and yu have some Rusko shit.

and anyone who can hear Cockney Thug (minus the lamer than lame vocal samples which i instantly removed) and not happily bounce around.... i dont know what to tell you.


next time you hear GOOD dubstep....try bouncing double time. stick your hand up high...straight arm and let it kind of lead you like a sail.
count:
"one. two. THREE!!!! four. one. two. THREE!!! four."
and if you really cannot feel it, then suspend judgement until the next time we cross paths, i will show you what i mean.



lastly, and least important, but i wanted to address: sonic bloom.
i was SO HAPPILY AND INTENTIONALLY mixing heavy amounts of dubstep.
because for once in my life i wanted to do yet another style of mixing, opposite from what i usually do these days (which is constantly bounce genres and grind the tempos like a roller coaster) and go back to how i used to mix when i spun psy trance....seamless, flowing mix of one genre.

i wanted to mix a consistent FLOW of music.
so i rocked 140 for like 45 minutes, then shifted down to 70 for one song, up to 85 and rocked it at 85 for another half hour

and i LOVED DOING IT

i had a special intention that night to do something different, and to leave dancers to their OWN devices, to fend for themselves, and get EXPERIMENTAL with dancing,....hoping people would figure out how to create DOUBLE TIME DANCE MOVES even if their ears tricked them and told them it was slow.... watch me if you are confused. was i dancing slow? no, i danced so hard that night i pulled a muscle in my back that is hurting to this day and which is causing me to need to stop typing right now

suffice it to say, if i did sonic bloom all over again i would do it EXACTLY like that. i play hundreds of sets a year (THAT IS AN EXAGGERATION, but it fucking feels like it and most of them are totally different themed, or have their own motif, or a special central point they orbit around, or a certain track that leads everything else, or is purposfully self-referencing, and much more complex than it might appear on the surface (which is one of the goals...to have the intentions be subliminal, behind the curtain) ...at this point if you have been with me for a while musically, you should just trust me. and enjoy it cuz next time around it very well may be totally different. and if yu expect it to be different, maybe it will be exactly the same, and then you will be nice and practiced. NO RULES. NO LIMITS>


suffice it to say

dubstep is here to stay. like most genres most of it is un-noteworthy, super overly masculine, uninventive, and locked into a series of ultra disapointing rules and needless limits. but SOME of it is GOOOD, and there are also good lessons that can be taken from it, and applied to other genres, so be thankful for this next step in music. as for me it is definitely by no means the most current "step" ....but that will have to be something you experience live


L

PS...in closing i would like to quote the ever witty Satsi who once said:

Dubstep is a lot like LSD: set and setting are of utmost importance, and it's not for everybody.

[jsills]

irie does your hubby know this about you???

i can see this dude pulling some chicks...girls go bonkers at his shows.

[1017_duck]

I knew someone would post that rant of his....

dude's a tnuc.

[jsills]

excellent this is wat i wanted. this thread is for the haters. i know peeps love dude. if you got hate in your heart let it out. you dont make emphatic statements like this if your not trying to attract debate.

[seckle]

excellent this is wat i wanted. this thread is for the haters. i know peeps love dude. if you got hate in your heart let it out. you dont make emphatic statements like this if your not trying to attract debate.

i thought he was the best DJ in america though? isn't that an emphatic statement?

[jsills]

that is my opinion, but i made the statement to attract debate. im bored as f*ck at work after 2 hours of sleep so i need some stimulations to keep me from crawling under my desk and sleeping.

[mimzy]

I knew someone would post that rant of his....

dude's a tnuc.

He does kind of come off like an insecure know-it-all there, doesn't he?

I love, absolutely fucking love, bassnectar's shows. I just got done seeing the guy 3 times in as many months. I recognized a couple tracks between sets (kid has remixes for days), but for the most part every set is completely fresh, and the guy understands crowd control. My first time seeing him was at a smallish outdoor festival in a major city, and he was the only remotely electronic act on the main stage. He came on right after pinback and right before some folk-rock guy, to give you a sense of the crowd. He warmed us up with some hip hop, midtempo breaks (including a well placed Nirvana remix), and by the 20 minute mark of a 1-hour set he had everybody in the first 10 feet of the crowd skankin like madmen to some rugged dubstep. That is hard to do, and he did it.

As other US DJ's go, the only one to really set me off was Pretty Lights, and the most... I guess "spiritual" set I ever saw was Amon Tobin (he spun all dubstep). The rest of my top 5 ain't US, though; gotta go to Caspa (a surprise cuz I don't dig his recorded stuff) and either N-Type (holy fuckin shit that man is a beast) or rusko, but I digress.

[evil madmen]

Honestly Im not that interested in bassnectar, I mean its ok but when people tell me the stuff I play sounds like him it kinda pisses me off.

[jsills]

never seen prettylights, but ive heard good things. hes on the wishlist.




i can see that pissing you off but could be more ignorance than anything else, hes popular so its probably the first dub artist that comes to mind for a lot of peeps. id say you remind me more of rusko.... just f'in with ya.
i fucks with rusko but i know peeps up on dsf got hate for that man.