Bass-heavy Genres around 145-160
so.. i reignited my love with dnb thanks to this:
and now i want to throw in some dnb with my usual dubstep. i know of some good transition tunes between the two, but i don’t want to jump so fast between the two like that all the time. if anyone can suggest some good genres that kind of fit between dnb and dubstep with sound and tempo, it would be much appreciated
Actually I’ve found that breaks really mix well into Dubstep, but maybe it’s just me. A transition from Breaks to DnB isn’t that far off either. Not sure if that helps, but something to think on at least.
isn’t that sort of slowing down though? most all of the breaks in my collection are around 130’s. definitely mix well though for sure.
Breaks goes awesome into dubstep - dont play them at their original speed though speed them up to like 136 or 138. The key lock in Traktor keeps it sounding good, breaks gives the feel of a faster tune just because there is more going on.
But it you want tunes that are faster than dubstep then heres a few I have brought from beatport lately
Foolish Silence - Ooah
Bang That - An-ten-nae
Gett n Money - Ultrablack
Suprise - Shakes
Boombox - Bass Nectar
so basically you want styles that sit around 150.
big beat, hiphop, glitchhop / downtempo idm, some jump up/dnb, breakcore
A big plus 1 million for boombox. Especially the ILL.GATES remix…
Throw in some Psybreaks!
i dunno what type of dnb you are trying to ramp up to, but you could use some type of jump up song that shares a lot of dubstep with dubstep
I always think of this song as dubstep on crack
and this one
sounds great at around 140 bpm. What you can do, is drop into it, then ramp up in a breakdown.
while technically it is - breaks tracks sound way faster since theres almost twice as much snares in them. also they have the same breakbeats used in dnb, so it kinda fits. (i feel like dubstep is alot more 70bpm than its 140. i produce in 140 too, so mixing things together is easier).
as for genres: big beat is really the way to go as for speed and similar style. most stuff is somewhere between 100 and 160 bpm. check out bassnectar, rogue element or the prodigy. just what came to mind first.
if you’re not satisfied: produce tracks in that speed. some more dubsteppy some more drumnbassy. i know you can.
You can also look into the emerging subgenre of Dubstep, which is “drumstep”. I mean, I’m pretty against all the minor genre titles, but this works out pretty much to the exact point you may be going for to be honest.
I still feel mixing from dubstep to breaks to dnb works like a charm if you find the right combo of songs.
Another thing to consider as well, and it might not be a huge help, but I know a lot of people who are entering the Dubstep scene from Hip-Hop. So finding a couple good hip hop tunes with dirty basslines probably isn’t a bad transition either, but it is a whole other bag of worms.
This one is a bit faster, but sick as hell!
thanks for all the help guys, great tracks and recommendations. i guess i didn’t really think about how it’d be a lot easier to transition using the half-time BPM’s..140->160 takes a bit more time than 70->80..which has tripped me out a little on how that works, but whatever. drumstep you say? interesting…
side note: since i’ve been genre digging lately trying to find new bpm ranges, i was expecting a lot more from uk garage than what i found..i was severely disappointed..but then again i didn’t know what to expect.
Yeah, that song, Step On, by original sin is pretty much Drum Step. Interesting sounds. Its basically a spin off of Jump Up with better percussion Imo.
Drumstep, while I love it and everything that’s been coming out labeled as it, bothers me on some level.
Because all it is, to me, is Drum and Bass with serious Dubstep basslines. Which honestly I would just consider DnB, because I feel as though in EDM, the drums themselves really label the music genre more than anything.
But there are a lot of good transition tracks coming out recently as Dubstep seems to be having an overall effect on the rest of EDM that is coming out nowadays. A few years back you really didn’t hear the real heavy basslines, and it’s bridging between all sorts of genre’s nowadays.