Coalition of Resistance - dubstep is the music of choice?

[Promise One]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/pa ... _-_br.html

[Promise One]

Big ups to Plastician for this reply to the article.

60. At 8:54pm on 10 Dec 2010, Plastician wrote:
Mr Mason, I've no time to comment in full yet as I am running late for a gig (a dubstep gig).

However, where dubstep has anything to do with this I have no idea. Before you try to tag what is clearly an ugly protest to what is, ultimately a musical movement without any prejudice or violence, you should perhaps know yourself what dubstep music sounds like.

Your clips, and all of the clips I have seen on the BBC website from this protest have contained no dubstep music whatsoever.

I also find the way in which this article has attempted to put the protesters into "class" brackets - defending the upper class as the quiet side of the protest whilst tarnishing the middle and lower class as the troublesome dubstep element of the protest quite shocking.

But please, before you write your controversial headlines which are clearly going to only amount to bad press for the musical genre I played a part in building from it's foundations, at least take time to KNOW what dubstep music even sounds like.

I was employed to present a dubstep radio show on BBC Radio 1 for 18 months. If anyone knows what dubstep sounds like, it would almost certainly be me.

Yours Sincerely

Chris Reed
P.K.A. Plastician

[plastician]

I spend more time defending myself and dubstep and grime on the Internet than I do actually making music. I need to stop getting sucked in.

[Demon]

I spend more time defending myself and dubstep and grime on the Internet than I do actually making music. I need to stop getting sucked in.

na chris, you speek big words, the scene whether it be grime or dubstep needs to have spokesman like you to set guys like that straight, mind you... id rather hear more beets

[mIrReN]

I spend more time defending myself and dubstep and grime on the Internet than I do actually making music. I need to stop getting sucked in.

na chris, you speek big words, the scene whether it be grime or dubstep needs to have spokesman like you to set guys like that straight, mind you... id rather hear more beets

"who dressed a lot more like the older brothers of the dubsteppers." Do we have a dress code in dubstep?

[skanky beats]

gotta say, dubstep is pretty relevant as both protests i went too there was dubstep being played everywhere! even heard anti war dub get played

[Pistonsbeneath]

maybe i was dim but i didnt get the vibe that the guy writing the article was doing it to slate dubstep

if anything he was saying to me at least that dubstep isnt just a middle class thing

[hedmuk]

Yours Sincerely

Chris Reed
P.K.A. Plastician

Unrelated, but is it significant that you've signed off as 'Previously Known As'? Or have I missed something?

[hellfire machina]

p.k.a = publicly known as





The media attempted the same tactic back in the very early rave/acid house days, they tried to associate the culture with as much negativity as possible. It just means it's getting that popular that it's becoming threatening to the control mechanisms installed by the establishment.

The internet didn't exist in the way it does now so we didn't really have a voice. It's a bit different now though hehehe


Chris - your a badman, bigup!

[HamsterHam]

I spend more time defending myself and dubstep and grime on the Internet than I do actually making music. I need to stop getting sucked in.

na chris, you speek big words, the scene whether it be grime or dubstep needs to have spokesman like you to set guys like that straight, mind you... id rather hear more beets

I agree.

I am glad that you do speak up!

[Coppola]

I was in the video of the horses charging!
This is shitty journalism too. Especially since the music they were playing in the video was funky not even dubstep...