Well, according to Martin Clark, at any rate.
It’s no thing to me over here so far away from those east London trends, considering funky house is basically the standard here in Sydney. But several years later and dubstep is starting to gain ground in Sydney, as Seb Chan said in his review of the new-old Tempa compilation (which will hopefully go some distance to reigniting the brilliance of these records here in Australia). With people like Eli and Scott (about to be relaunched) pushing the sound here in Sydney and Frosty in Brisbane, people are getting their heads around the rhythms…reminds me of the first hit of drum’n'bass here, without the hugeness of rave culture to shift it into full focus. Still, it’s awesome to hear these tracks again – such an insanely interesting musical movement.
I want to go to FWD>>, I’ve been telling all my friends heading to London to go to Plastic People for ages now, but none have. Though Lorna, who does the show after me on FBI, went a few weeks ago and said it was pretty much the best club in existence.
Hey, we saw you on the way down to canberra – you were busted coz you were wearing an elefant traks top and a helmet for your vesper that was adorned with a Gross Motor sticker :D
I really reckon dubstep is kind of taking off because it sounds almost, but not entirely, compleletely unlike the stuff you first played me and called it ‘dubstep’, which i laughed at you for.
Comment by Ali-scare — September 4, 2006 @ 6:50 am
Oh you and your wind-ups. This new Tempa compilation is all of those records I was playing back then. Then again, if you got El-B, pierced his lip and strung a dog chain through it and led him through the streets, possibly with some black hair dye and maybe a t-shirt that said something like The Get Up Scooter you’d probably be feeling his lop-sided funkiness a whole lot more.
Comment by calico — September 4, 2006 @ 7:45 am
we’ve been to plastic people, twice.
it is quite easily awesome. the first time was a thursday for a FWD night, which went off. the second time was on a friday for a FWD, but stupid friends conspired against it.
that whole music scene seems on the way down over here though. the grime channel on sky is playing more rnb, and a lot of the grime producers are making a switch to that kind of sound. or so it seems. i’ve lost touch with a lot of music over here.
Comment by gravy — September 13, 2006 @ 7:59 pm
I think that’s the problem with music. It’s never as good as it used to be. I think dubstep died about five years ago when it was first played on the radio, when it stopped being about being underground. I reckon the best dubstep tune was the first one ever written and everything since has just been getting worse and worse. blah, blah, blah.
It was better when..? When you felt more important by just knowing about it. Now to feel important you need to known about before, when it when it was good and when nobody else knew.
Get a grip. Nostaligia is for the dead and the insecure.
Just shut up and dance.
Comment by nostalgicon — June 6, 2008 @ 5:23 am
Noone here’s arguing “it was better when” – music scenes shift and change, spikes appear, one peaks, another’s on the way out. That’s no reason not to remember great moments and what made them great, is it? Nostalgia’s just part of the human experience.
Comment by matt — July 4, 2008 @ 5:54 am