ProjectHarp

Hello all,

Just got this through the email a while ago. Biggup to the folks at !MPACT* for running a sleek and sexy little events and 'bass-filled' promotion blog for Antwerp. If you're ever in Antwerp area, or need to know who's still out there touring Europe (lots of acts pass through Belgium) check this site out.

http://www.m-pact.eu/

Biggup guys!

Had to put this up due to the response I got elsewhere. Vaski's lost his mind!!!! Track is mental!!

cheers

This is the newest smash to come out from Datsik. Has less of that over-done wobble. Track sticks to the earlier stuff he did on Acid Crunk

Full version isn't out yet. So no dirpz :(

keep your eyes peeled for Instra:mental 'End Credits' (NONPLUSLTD001). it's just been released today and is sounding incredible. Lock yourself a copy.

Look them up at Non Plus Records

Interpol (bleh), Mark Ronson, Die Antwoord and films by Spike Jonze

2pm-2am on June 26th @ Milk Studios 450 West 15th st.

http://8bc.org/music/little-scale/Biometrics/

It's been forever since I've gone through the 8bc for new chip tracks. Keep it locked here for some good chiptune to come. I haven't forgotten!!!!!

This year I've changed my musical preferences around 360, 180 and then 90 degrees. Analogy aside, I've really gone into new music this year. Now that it is the start of June, it's been one year since I started listening to dubstep music. It's worth noting because for the past FOUR years I've been strictly a drum and bass head. This addiction led me to run an entire radio station just so I could make my own show, featuring nothing but drum and bass.

The show, Jungle B Eyrie, was a success. I had listeners from all around the world turning in weekly to hear the sounds of drum and bass. However, when I finished my first year of Jungle B Eyrie on AUP Radio, I felt like it needed more. I started looking for that new flavor of music that wasn't too far gone from drum and bass. Enter dubstep.

It all started in June 2009 when I heard Cloud 9 by Cluekid. An older track, a friend sent it to me over the interweb and from there, the simplicity and unique sound, tempo and style of the track made me reconsider dubstep. The track appealed to me because it included some really interesting sounds, notably the Mario mushroom. I looked up good tracks from Optimus Grime, Rusko, Caspa, Benga, Bar 9, 16bit, Datsik, etc.

By the end of Summer 2009 I heard the final convincing piece of evidence that would get me full on addicted to dubstep over all. In August I heard We Rock The Forest by Trolley Snatcha and it was unlike anything I had ever heard in my entire life. I had to include dubstep into Jungle B Eyrie and this new blog I was starting up. I scoured the web looking for Trolley Snatcha tracks, leading me to Doctor P, The Others, Joker, Kromestar, Datsik, Excision, and loads more. I knew from there on I had to go to shows, check out the scene and see exactly what it was about.

In early September, I checked a show in Seattle that had some local dubstep artists, I heard some sounds I hadn't heard before, and my buddies that went with weren't very into it. I needed to go to a show that made my arm hair shake (only good sound systems shake your arm hair).

In mid-October I went to a show on Batofar in Paris. The venue was an old tugboat gutted and turned into a club drydocked on the Seine. Aside from the smell of diesel fuel, the venue was legit. The music featured no biggies but still got to hear some massive dubstep that made the water bubble.

A few weeks after Batofar, I went to see N-Type, DJ Hype, and Chase & Status live at Elysee Montmartre. The show was incredible, DJ Hype was the best out of all the acts to go up. He mixed funky with some dubstep classics. Chase & Status absolutely bit it, doing some generic "Big Show" live act that all electronic acts are being forced to do by the industry because people are too dumb to respect electronic music production by itself and thus, big acts must perform live to show that they are real musicians. I left feeling bad for Chase & Status, but Hype and N-Type rocked it!

Mid-November came around and I had just picked up that Trolley Snatcha, Emalkay and the Others were going to be in Paris. I knew it had to be a night of debauched madness. I rounded up as many people as I could (only 4 people) and went out to GlazArt in the 20th arrondisement. The show was one of the best shows I had ever been to. The music so perfect and mixed with energy. Emalkay TORE IT UP, relicking When I Look At You, his classic at the time. Trolley Snatcha was drunk, emceeing over The Others' Alex Crawford. It was one of those nights where I felt a part of the music and the scene. I got to meet Trolley Snatcha and The Others that night. Snatcha was drunk off his face, he knew my name from Facebook and tried asking me questions about America. Crawford kept calling him a Cockney Farmer and they went back inside. It was exciting to meet one of the artists that started the whole binge for me, but in reality he was a dick. As Klute put as a song title, "Most People Are Dicks."

The Trolley Snatcha show was the last show I went to in Paris. During this time I had increased my dubstep writing on the blog and by now almost all of my songs on Jungle B Eyrie were dubstep. For me, drum and bass had served its purpose: keeping me close to grime and alternative UK electro in anticipation for dubstep to blow up.

By the start of 2010, dubstep was utterly dominating. Commercially viable, underground appeal, red hot were terms thrown around all over. Google's searches for dubstep dwarfed those for drum and bass. Dubstep = full takeover.

When I moved to New York, I was fearful of there not being any real grimey shit. I have always thought of the United States as backwards electronically. This is somewhat a myth but also parts of it are true. While there is an electronic scene for dubstep, drum and bass, house, fidget and funky, they all suck. House has the most viable scene, and it comes from the shittiest area of New York: Williamsburg, Brooklyn. I had to be much more particular of my shows because I didn't have a fixey and an ironic porn stache. Regardless of hipster bullshit. I went to see Nero on March 18th. Nobody showed up and I felt like dubstep was waning for me in NYC. Dave Gee spun well, but Nero didn't come on until too late, people had lost interest and by the time he went on there were only 30 people in the entire venue. I was furious. This was about to change.

March 26th I went to see the most amazing show of my entire life. I saw Caspa and Benga at Webster Hall. Caspa went on and smashed the entire house of 3,000 girls and boys. For a solid hour, I was trapped in the main room because I couldn't wait to hear the next track. He spun the newest shit, with some oldies. I knew that it was rare for me to see a show of this caliber (in NEW YORK nonetheless). But, I knew it wouldn't be until Summer that I might see another show that good.

During the time from March 26th to now, I've seen some quality acts. I saw Air and Massive Attack at Terminal 5. Those two shows were incredible (and incredibly expensive), and I recommend catching both these two live acts before they stop touring.

This Summer's going to be a real testing ground for dubstep music for me. I feel there's a lot of good dubstep out there, but so much of it is going straight to the bros out there and innovation within the genre is dwindling into the hands of but a few truly talented artists (Joker, Phaeleh, Kode 9, etc).

Here's to another good year of music.

MASSIVE TRACK




Tune

great tune out of Med School. got that good vibe.

no Tune due to dirpy being a crack addicted slampig right now