I don’t really like the term “Post Dubstep” . No music genre should ever
be named post anything. To tell you the truth I’m a bit confused about what Post Dubstep is. I’ve
heard it used to describe various music styles that really shouldn’t be lumped together.
On the one hand we got things like
James Blake. He only gets a link because at the
very moment you read this … that song is being streamed 7,000,000 times.
It’s pretty genius. And so is Apparat.
If you don’t know about them ,by all means, make it 7,000,001 plays.
It’s just that I can’t help but trip over there tracks everywhere I go.
One of the other directions that I hear the term being used is what I think would be better called
“Deep Garage”. I have also seen Future Garage, Dark Garage, Ghost Garage.
I think all these names are annoying and would love to just call it all “electronic” or
even just “music”, but these days that’s a bit simplistic. I remember working in a record shop in the
early 90s and thinking that so much music was being produced because we would get boxes of releases
EVERY TUESDAY!!! … these days that would be .. every two seconds. There’s just to much of it to use blanket terms
anymore.

Deep Garage really is an
extension of what Burial has done for dubstep.
He went down to the roots and took it in a completely different direction.

Burial gets an actual youtube imbed because he single handedly forged a whole new genre as far as I’m concerned.
Which brings me to the meat of this post .. finally. Links to tracks that fall into this category.

-Deep Garage-

Sorrow
Lubilu

Check out all of Sorrows tracks … the atmosphere is topshelf.

Ghostek and Roof Light
Saboteur

Objekt
OBJEKT002B :: Unglued [CLIP]

OBJEKT001A :: The Goose That Got Away

Admin
Pink Gloves (Forthcoming On B.YRSLF division)

Kapture
At Night

Pump this one out of the biggest speakers you can find. If the systems big enough,
it’ll give your teeth a deep cleaning and make your intestines resistant to most poisons.

Thanks to Monkytek from Lo Dubs

I’m hooked. Free download.

Don’t have to say alot for this post. Dub mostly speaks for itself.
My list of links to nice, fat, steamy bass joints is long enough for a post!!!

Earlyworm – Crawling From the Roots

This one… yeah … really do I have to say anything ? No words really.

Michael Prophet – Youthman (Richie Phoe dubplate Re-edit)

Ital Food

Two from Richie Phoe … the Michael Prophet Re-edit . I could listen to this bass for days nonstop and love every minute

EGOLESS – Rainbow Dub ft. Irie FM (Precise master, 12″ forth. Lo Dubs)

And another Lo Dubs Classic

Got a few links for this one. The general theme is tracks that sound like they got little wet nasty bits flying off of them
in all directions. Like someone hit them with a powerdrill. Lot’s of loose ends whipping around .
It’s all fun until someone loses an eye
First Doshy out of Berlin
Hovatron – SuperSoaker (Doshy Remix) snippet

Doshy – Redworm

http://soundcloud.com/doshy/demokracy-wintermute-doshy-rmx/

Next Funckarma from the Eat Concrete label in the Netherlands
FUNCKARMA – CLINTER

Then Eprom from SF
Eprom – Pipe Dream EP

TWERKUL8 – (Starkey SUBFM Radio Rip)

This one is some serious hype footwork … although it’s a clip from Starkey’s SubFM radio show and has to much talking on it for me .
Eproms website…. links to free (or pay what you want) downloads
http://www.eprommusic.com/

I originally got turned on to the Chrome Kids because one of them (Kaptin) blogged my “60 Hertz” release on The Agriculture
That’s powerful praise because they produce scorchers.
This one is really old … but I’m posting it anyway cause even if I got tired of it a few months ago
it always comes back fresh
Stagga Vs Busta Rhymes – I Got Bass Remix

check out the other tracks here
http://soundcloud.com/kaptin

Initially this mix drew me in
LaZerDeLiCa (We r floating in Space) (March 2011)

A really good mix of psychedelica and lazerbass … “music husbandry” .. it’s the offspring of a giraffe and …
a tree shrew . Just the way I like it.
After checking out his soundcloud page I’m convinced that the name
is just a front for a 20 member team of researchers and technicians. That’s alot of mixes… in more styles then my lazy ass is going to list. My faves though .. the transnational dubstep series .. all 5 hours of it.
He also co-runs Generation Bass, which , to be honest , is what this little blog
could only dream of being half as good as. Check it out … I do and in fact did before I knew anything about DJ UMB.

damn, it´s been a while again since the last post….

actually this post isn´t about SUN RA even though he would be worth a post!
Instead we have here a 30 minute set from one of the most inspiring “bands” of the present recorded 2004 at the wertcher in belgium! yes, i´m talking about TORTOISE! check out this awesome gig and get lost in their unique combination of post rock, jazz, improvisation & whatever comes their way!
now, click the butten and enjoy their weird grooves!

today i want to introduce you to three guys who manage to combine really kickin rock music (hey… i´m not talking about nickelback i´m speaking of the real deal….) and class A dub music. guess bad brains come to your mind… but i´m talking about the guys who worked with mike patton and matisyahu (yeah, you remember that jewish reggae guy, people are raving about).

i´m talking about the dub trio…. i saw them live several times, and man i tell you those guys rawk! forget the nerd behind the computer… trying to do some half baked dub shit… here´s some kid´s really knowing how to handle a instrument, and having fun playing them….. it´s really a pleasure watching those guys playing live… so if you ever get the chance, don´t miss it

so here´s a video of “real wicked ways” recorded at pianos, nyc back in 2004….

the track appeared on their 2004 debut album “exploring the dangers of“, released on roir

enjoy!

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Car sound systems.
I remember seeing a big bass car system for the first time. It was the early 80s and it rolled by clearing a whole schoolyard. Basketball games, street hockey games. All of us, 10 to 20 years old, were jumping
down the middle of the street following this car in euphoric frenzy. If there were several hundred of us it would have been a full riot. Can’t remember the music. But it was pre-Rick Rubin 808 kick drum days. Something like Burundi Black but with lot’s of bass.
Safe to say alot of us were hooked that day, like a sonic meth.
There were more and more systems until in the late 90s, when I think, at the height of it all, Brooklyn was pretty much in constant vibration. You could keep track of a car cruising your neighborhood because you could hear the bass 4 blocks away. I loved it! Don’t really hear a lot of systems in the cities these days. The laws got wise to it. Although, I always get a kick when a tricked out car passes by me, here in Vienna, and they are blasting a Turkish Oud solo.
But to the point… these days a system proves it’s weight with something called “flexing”. How much the bass bends the panels of the car and more astoundingly the windows. Only video can really explain.
I want to get one of these when I grow up!!!!
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The second half of this one is sick. I didn’t know you could turn glass into liquid with bass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfvfAcdCAw&playnext_from=TL&videos=5xBZ60SOh88
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jj23ZPrkHc&playnext_from=TL&videos=iEgf4acrL2k
I even like the bass running through cheap video camera mics and sounding like your grinding them up in a tree shredder.
Then there is the hair tricks.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e96WIHhdJ8&playnext_from=TL&videos=DAbzJGrVdBE
And of course the occasional windshield replacement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQPcV9ssl14&playnext_from=TL&videos=fN7-MMSnXpQ
On a final note sometimes clubs have decibel meters on stage or in the DJ booth …. I used to like to push it to about 120 db and that is really loud. I think my ears are suffering for it these days. Those competition systems are producing 170 db . Enough to turn your brain into a milkshake.