Dubstep Concert w/ Rusko

A friend of mine talked me into going to a dubstep concert last night, and as the title implies, this concert featured Rusko (as well as Major Lazer, but I couldn't stick around for him due to work).

I had a great time and really got into the music. The opening acts were pretty cool too, but not nearly as engaging, which comes as little surprise to me.

I have to say, this being my first real encounter with the DubStep genre, the show probably single handedly turned me onto the style. Gritty bass, funky drums, and silly dancing.

tl;dr: I like dubstep now. Recommend me some bands if you're so inclined. :)

gah. I meant to go out to see this.

Did sleigh bells open up for them?

Yeah, they were pretty cool. I could have done without the singer-lady screaming, tho.

meh... Its kindof part of their appeal to me. They are a really noisy band, and dont even have any albums out. Their music is really just about trashing things.

As far as dubstep goes, I assume you want UK wobble basically. Check out Rottun Records (vaskit, Datsik, Excision, Downlink, good scary wobble). Dub Police, Southside Dubstars.

Caspa has a really similar sound to Rusko. I'm not a huge fan of ruskos wobble, but I really like how he treats percussion (if you watch his masterclass vids, they are really interesting).

Some other great wobble artists are : Reso, 16bit (they are really eclectic), Borgore, Chasing shadows, Sub Scape, Bar 9.

A personal favorite of mine is Ricorb, but they are quite small.

There is a ton of different flavors of dubstep, but most of those are pretty much along the rusko vein, if not a bit heavier at times.

I thought about going to that show when they stop by Chicago.

As mentioned before, you will probably like Bar 9, and Borgore.

You will probably also love Nero.

tomba, akira kiteshi, rafferti, toast, nosaj thing

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Check out Rottun Records

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Thanks for the suggestions.Borgore's pretty sweet, I've gotta say.

I love the metal influences in borgores tracks (drum breakdowns are amazing), but other than that his mid synths seem kind of... shallow. I'm not a big fan of the whole robot sound thing either, but when you put it through a big enough system, the bass takes over and you can lose yourself.

Nero is a lot smoother, but I find his songs are dissatisfying sometimes. They seem to lack an emotional "drop".

Vaski has greattt sci fi sound. 16bit is allllll over the place, from totally disgusting to nice and smooth.


If you want to check out the smooth stuff, look up burial. Its really nice.

There's also a Dubstep thread here somewhere.

yeah, its really big, and has a lot of good stuff posted, but its pretty far back.

I believe its called "recommend me some dubstep"

Search function should turn it up.

It already did. :)

when that show came through ATL someone got shot outside, some MCs or something. seriously disappoints me.

favorite dubstep artists atm: caski, underground soundz, coki, sukh knight, kromestar

Yeah... a friend of mine was at the ATL show... he told me about the shooting. Insane. He said the show was great though.

Major Lazer and Rusko are playing in Boston this Sunday. I want to go but I'm a bit of an old man - I've gotta work the next day at 7 am. Wish they were playing saturday :/

If you are looking for some Dubstep check out AC Slaters Attack of the Hams Tour and August 2009 mixes on his myspace page. He has a lot of great Dubstep and some Grime jammed into those mixes.

Hmm, Emalkay is good as is N-Type, Leofah, Distance, Burial (amazing sound that i seldom hear elsewhere), Digital Mystikz, The Others, Matty G, Tes La Rok, Benga.
The Bug (not all Dubstep but I saw him live last summer and it was GREAT! Played Dubstep with Reggae and the MC was good too, all packed into a small bar in Toronto :))

I DJ and promote at a club and we got RUSKO playing at our Dubstep night called DROP.

Its a 250 capacity room which is gonna be mental !!!!!!!!!!! :D
Wobble Wobble Wobble..:D

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...ow_ID=38569054

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There's also a Dubstep thread here somewhere.

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Yups, like sine143 already said. ;)

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Originally Posted by sine143

yeah, its really big, and has a lot of good stuff posted, but its pretty far back.

I believe its called "recommend me some dubstep"

Search function should turn it up.

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Excellenté!

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Originally Posted by Karlos Santos

I DJ and promote at a club and we got RUSKO playing at our Dubstep night called DROP.

Its a 250 capacity room which is gonna be mental !!!!!!!!!!! :D
Wobble Wobble Wobble..:D

http://music.myspace.com/index.cfm?f...ow_ID=38569054

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Wow! That's sick mate!

Coki, Skream, Benga, Loefah, Mala, Kromestar, Kode9 etc...

Caspa and Rusko kinda ruined dubstep in a way, just turned it into mainstream party music with a 140 bpm, now every body likes 'filth' which is just, well, horid...

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Originally Posted by JamesT

Coki, Skream, Benga, Loefah, Mala, Kromestar, Kode9 etc...

Caspa and Rusko kinda ruined dubstep in a way, just turned it into mainstream party music with a 140 bpm, now every body likes 'filth' which is just, well, horid...

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sounds like: "mimi it´s my dubstep i dare u everybodies to listen to my music!" no just joking ;)
but i have to say filthy dubstep is what get´s laid on the dance floor...mala, loefah and so are great, awsome. but i interlink those artists with clubs full of dreadlock guys smoking weed and slowly shaking their bodies to the beat. no offense mate

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Coki, Skream, Benga, Loefah, Mala, Kromestar, Kode9 etc...

Caspa and Rusko kinda ruined dubstep in a way, just turned it into mainstream party music with a 140 bpm, now every body likes 'filth' which is just, well, horid...

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^ The truth. Glad somebody else feels this way.

Caspa and Rusko are to Dubstep what Pendulum are to DNB. There's plenty of amazing dubstep artists that don't necessarily make spaced out spliff jams like Loefah and Skream. Peep some Trillbass or anything off the twenty twelve imprint. straight up solid darkness. None of that overwobbly nonesense.

Did a gig with Rusko a few months ago, bit of a weirdo... I do like his music alot, but he's a proper skaghead (found bent spoons in his hotel room..) - just by the by!

yeah.. more importantly his more about the groove, and he's really prolific - which has sort of ruined dubstep a bit - but then again for anything to come out of the deep underground, there needs to be some mainstream blow-off?

There are loads of different types of 140 2-step music though, and it all gets labelled as dubstep - i've never been a massive genre labels man anyway, but it is a far more vast scene than most people realise..

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Coki, Skream, Benga, Loefah, Mala, Kromestar, Kode9 etc...

Caspa and Rusko kinda ruined dubstep in a way, just turned it into mainstream party music with a 140 bpm, now every body likes 'filth' which is just, well, horid...

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Yeah dont you just hate it when a scene gets ruined by a big artist.

Fucking Beatles ruining the 60s and the Sex Pistols ruining Punk and shitty Nirvana ruining Grunge.

Come on, all music reaches a zenith and the mainstream grab a hold. Its cus lots of people like it. Its what happens.

If Rusko is not as good as he was when he was underground then im fine people slagging him but if hes just become big and famous cus hes good them its silly to backlash.

I wouldnt know if hes good now as opposed to way back cus i know jack-shit about Dubstep.

"wheres my mummy" Teehee,:D

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tomba, akira kiteshi, rafferti, toast, nosaj thing

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nosaj thing is dubstep?


this whole dubstep genre seems silly to me; not because i dont enjoy the music but because most of it just seems like instrumental hiphop/trip hop. you got artists like flying lotus who i enjoy, but then youve got these guys who make good music making inane interviews where these artists really believe theyre doing some shit thats never been done before and its like "this is nothing j dilla or massive attack werent doing 10 years ago"....
just seems like a loss on perspective and humility to try and call it a new genre.
i dont want to be negative, but it just seems a bit silly to call it a new genre when it seems like the main unifying theme is an obnoxious overuse of synth bass with an LFO assigned to pitch

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nosaj thing is dubstep?

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he does mostly glitchhop/idm, but he has done some dubstep tunes like aquarium.

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he does mostly glitchhop/idm, but he has done some dubstep tunes like aquarium.

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oh silly titles for stupid monkeys, its all just fun with electronics to me

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Yeah dont you just hate it when a scene gets ruined by a big artist.

Fucking Beatles ruining the 60s and the Sex Pistols ruining Punk and shitty Nirvana ruining Grunge.
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I agree, but tbh, Nirvana was an overrated hype. Just give me 'Alice in Chains' or 'Stone Temple Pilots' any day and I will gladly give a listen.

Only good thing coming from Nirvana is Dave Grohl getting sparks for Foo Fighters. :D


(By the way, this is starting to become a similar thread like the 'Drum&Bass is dead' one. )

Yeah but you get my point.

True that man! ;)

saw the same show in atlanta. someone got shot outside and my car got stuck in crime scene investigation the whole night, me and the lady had to take a 50$ cab home. its a pretty whack story why the guy got shot. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/man-...th-414012.html

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Check out Rottun Recordings with Subvert, Datsik, Excision, Downlink...

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+1 Keep an ear out for releases from Datsik's roomate Chaoshpere as well.
Plus Sean (Downlink) just moved from here in Prince George down into Jeff's (Excision) house with in Kelowna where construction of Rottun Recording's Studio has begun to take place.

I suspect in the next year with those four boys (Excision, Datsik, Downlink and Chaosphere) all residing in Kelowna and putting their talents into one studio we will see them absolutely destroy their previous works.

Cannot wait!

We put Datsik on at our Dubstep night a few weeks back.

Was a good nite.

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I was at the Rusko/Major Lazer show in Philly the other night and I thought he killed it. I had an awesome time when I saw him in Portland in december too.