What have I missed? Music wise…
Been out the game since february this year (work commitments) and I’ve been asked to do a few nights soon, so can anyone point the best new indie/electro tracks or remixes of them, bootlegs/mashups?
I really should have kept my ear to the floor but it was nice just to not have to for a bit
as it’s only been a few months, prob just carry on where you left off? don’t think any major changes have occurred?
but then i don’t watch blogs/reviews/charts/anything that would sway what music i buy. that way i buy purely on my own preference
Tiesto’s not dead.
^ this so much
Seriously, you havent heard… Oh wow… the hot new Genre is…
Who am i kidding… fuck all has changed except there are now 8 Million Lady Gaga remixes rather that 4 Million.
If id venture anything for the UK id say the D&B has made a little bit of a return to the High Street Clubs. Generally cus people are shit-bored of Dubstep remixes of everthing.
And… is it me or are Breaks (as in Breakbeat, Plumps, Elite Force etc not real Old school Breakbeat) making a little bit of a return???
yay less dub-step more dnb =D Knew that fad would end sooner or later 
Yeah dont think too much has changed to be honest but then again i guess it depends where you are from too lol
But yeah i think dubstep has been raped and pillaged as much as i love some of the styles i think too much of something is well too much lol 
Imo, Dubstep needs to go back to being stuff like this classic:
no more wobbles.. please for the love of bass
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this.
wobbley electro and dubstep is so 2008-2009
there’s been a pretty noticeable backlash against Rottun Records this year too, i think it’s safe to say that 2010 has marked the end of brostep’s cool factor. the only people still obsessed with that sound are scene newbs and people with poor taste.
don’t get me wrong a little bit of it in small doses is alright, but it isn’t “next level” anymore by a long shot. if you want to sound fresh, avoid that shit at all costs imo.
personally i’ve started walking away from the blogosphere big time this year, i’ve been having more fun just discovering music through record labels and just getting my fingers dirty with digging for a sound that suits me, cutting out the middle man (blogs). There’s a lot of new blood lately in IDM/Glitch Hop, Trip Hop, Breaks and Drum&Bass which has pulled me away from the house/techno genres which dominated my attention last year.
I think 2011 is going to mark a serious return of broken beats popularity which we saw fade away a bit after 2006 in favor of the new house/techno subgenres like electro.
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If Drum & Bass becomes popular music (I’m not talking top 40’s popular)… I dunno, I think part of me would die. On the one hand it would mean I could probably get a bunch of gigs easily, I love mixing Drum & Bass… but on the other hand then all the hipsters would get into it and ruin it, then they start thinking they know everything about the genre… first they took some of my style (I love my plaid lumberjack shirts, so warm…) and now they’re gonna take my music?! Where do we draw the line with these damn Hipsters!!!
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As for the wobbles? Nothing wrong with a wee bit of wobble, but I agree with you, a lot of it is just becoming excessive.
dnb was really popular in the dance music scene at one point. minus the hipsters, it attracted the same type of people that dubstep does now… basically a big sausage party consisting of all the boys that like noisey music they think will scare all the yuppies away.
hipsters are no more ridiculous than candy-kids and junglists from back when dnb was still really in. my opinion is anyone who is 21+ and still attaches themselves to some type of highschool label is some sad shit lol. that whole sticking to one scene and making it your identity is total kids stuff.
Nice one chaps, that’s a sigh of relief 
things are looking that way, Lot49 have pumped a fair few releases out lately.
Ahhh… how many times I have heard this in my illustrious career. This will ALWAYS be the case with any scene that gains any speck of credibility unfortunately mate. In they pop and suck all of the life out of it until it has been replicated and watered down on every facet of popular culture (Dubstep the new case in point, at least in the UK anyway) and then everyone forgets about it for a few years then there’s a massive resurgence and boom, repeat from step one. The cyclical nature of, well, most things I suppose?
I really hope Breakbeat comes back, loved all those lot, Plumps, Meat Katie, Rene Pilgrim, Stantons, Freestylers, DJ Friendly, Ali B, Evil Nine…the list goes on. Obviously some new blood would be good although I have a sneaky suspicion that you may be seeing some wobble with Breakbeat if it resurges?
Polka remixes are the new Dubstep.
evil nine have put some housey stuff out lately, plumps have done a couple of remixes and released a few things this year. think the stantons have done something that sounds like everything else they make. and i’m sure the freestylers are still about somewhere working on another ‘clown step’ classic
Yeah I bought the evil nine album with the Zombies all over it, pretty poo to be fair, took it back and got something else, really didn’t get on it but the remixes I had heard were ok.
Plumps did that Hightops tunes which was good, haven’t heard anything recently though?
Freestylers are mental, always put a smile on the face. They were at a mates party in Exeter after they played a gig down there and they were just up for getting battered, well funny!!!
I rather like a good polka tune.
Gotta agreed there.
Kinda learnt that a lil late too!