Kuuso on 20/10/2011 at 12:16
Too early for this. There's lots of good stuff to come yet, Polinski's debut for example (31th of this month). This year I've been scouring lots of older d'n'b and other beats trying to build up a formidable library for DJin, so I'm sort of out of loop. Then again, I always seem to listen to more new music than the average joe anyways.
Sulphur on 20/10/2011 at 17:25
Yeah, I know. This isn't an official top 10 thread and stuff. I guess I should have appended a (so far) to the thread title. I still could, you know; but fuck that.
POST ABOUT DE MOOSIK ALREADY
henke, I shall listen to your list forthwith... or actually, as soon as Spotify decides that continents actually exist eastwards of Europe.
deth, post a fucking link. Yes, I am that lazy.
Zerker: interesting symphonic electro-pop melange there! The man almost sounds like he composed mods back in the day. There's a sort of tracker feel from that title track.
dema, this list was already metrosexual from the opening, if you paid attention to it. :erg: Didn't know Coldplay were due an album this year, I'll be keeping my ears perked even though I think the raspberry jam confection of Viiva La Vida was only partly successful. Industrial this time, eh? Interesting. We shall see.
SE: Stone Roses? Whoozit? Whatsit? (Yes, I am a poser. :()
Harvester on 20/10/2011 at 19:52
Quote Posted by Sulphur
Zerker: interesting symphonic electro-pop melange there! The man almost sounds like he composed mods back in the day. There's a sort of tracker feel from that title track.
He did compose mods back in the day. Among other things he wrote music for Unreal, UT99 and Deus Ex.
Muzman on 21/10/2011 at 07:51
I may not have liked it when it was cool, and it's been happening a bit longer than this year, but dubstep actually crossing over now (and I'm including its offshoots/tangents in fidget and the derisively named brostep) is a pretty big and interesting new development in dance and electronica. As revelatory in my books as Grunge was to pop and indie rock.
Whether its the broken rhythms, a-rhythmic wobbles, screechy synth drops all together or showing up separate in other genres it's an aural shot in the arm to world that's been cruising on hard house and hard trance for about ten years.
june gloom on 21/10/2011 at 10:27
I'd rather take the 10 years of hard house/trance. It may be a step backwards in comparison to some of the shit out of the 90s but it's still lightyears ahead of dubstep, which as far as I'm concerned is hipsters raping electronic music's corpse.
Muzman on 21/10/2011 at 15:43
Hipsters? Dubstep is totally working class.
Aja on 21/10/2011 at 16:07
Dubstep is a bro thing, not a hipster thing.
demagogue on 21/10/2011 at 16:40
These days I'm putting my Pandora station to Deep Beat a lot, which is jazzy downbeat house and some hiphop sensibility. A lot of the chords are jazzy like major7s & minor7s; really chill but driving beats. But it's getting influenced by dubstep (or whatever is in the air for most dance and electric music these days) with glitch and break beats and drops and low grungy bass & synths (things around before dubstep but it's packaged & branded them). I like those things, but dubstep itself hasn't done much for me. I like to listen to it like for a youtube video, but it's not like I leave that Deep Beat station on in the background all afternoon and chill with it.
