shawn@trustmedia.tv


I've talked with Gary Hines many times about this project, he loves it...the more I learn about DubStep the more it seems the perfect fit for this song....

here is the "Cinematic Mix" uf UNITY that is the song I'll be creating a dubstep version of... 

http://www.trustmedia.tv/unity.html
- Shawn

That's a great track Shawn and being all one one chord and fairly straight forward makes it very pliable and could be bent in to many genres
but I can see it working really well in dub step.

For some reason it's all in D sharp minor. 
That should have been C sharp minor
   
Steve

Sounds like 128th beat repeats with vocorder for those sounds...

oops, done it again

bladetragic I watched "Centipede"...very cool link

Shawn get hold of some classic Dub like King Tubby and stuff like that, take out the skanking and make the bassline go 'wubwubwubwub' instead, take out the one drop or rocksteady beat and put in some Garage beat instead after reducing the tempo by 50% and then stretching it to fit.

You'll be exactly in the right ball-park.

If you want to be more appealing on that side of the pond listen to some 'Skrillex' records for production techniques, whilst being classed more as 'Brostep' it seems to be more popular outside of the sweaty London clubs who seem to favour more massive 'subs'.

Interesting thread.

Years ago when rap was new, a guy walked into the studio with pages of rhymes and wanted me to write and create all the backing tracks.  I told him that if I were going to compose the music, I wanted to split writer credits, which freaked him out.  We ended up working something out: I created some LinnDrum beats and did a little synthesizer work based on his ideas and just treated it as a session player/engineering gig.

Skrillex

Jonbouy


Shawn get hold of some classic Dub like King Tubby and stuff like that, take out the skanking and make the bassline go 'wubwubwubwub' instead, take out the one drop or rocksteady beat and put in some Garage beat instead after reducing the tempo by 50% and then stretching it to fit.

You'll be exactly in the right ball-park.

If you want to be more appealing on that side of the pond listen to some 'Skrillex' records for production techniques, whilst being classed more as 'Brostep' it seems to be more popular outside of the sweaty London clubs who seem to favour more massive 'subs'.

Thanks for that Shrilex tip Jonbouy
Not heard him but I'm enjoying some iof his myspace choons. Could do with just a touch more wubwubwubwub for me though :)

Steve


Edit
Having said that I could quite soon get bored of it. Some great sounds and all that but a bit (a lot) over produced.

skrillex is kind of the mainstream posterboy for dubstep even though the more traditionalist factions would debate whether his music is dubstep or simply cheezy electronic dance music with exaggerated wobbly, growling bass gimmick. Like most debates when an underground music form goes mainstream and evolves for the sake of commercial viability, the answer probably lies somewhere between. There is certainly a huge difference between pioneers like Digital Mystiks, Loefah and other old names and the likes of Skrillex and Flux Pavillion. i guess all things evolve.

Cheers Dub
I'd go with the traditionalists argument frankly, the cheesy dance and disco elements could come right down in the mix 

Steve

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Cheers Dub
I'd go with the traditionalists argument frankly, the cheesy dance and disco elements could come right down in the mix 

Steve

For my own listening, i would agree, but i can see both sides of the equation.  New genres tend to evolve at a rapid rate befor4e there is an established standard. Classic Rock sounds nothing like rock of the 50's or metal yet they are all accepted as rock.  I'm sure purists had a thing to say about that at first. A little Wayne song has very little in common with Rapper's delight and are both somehow rap.  If dubstep had remained as sparsely produced tests of the limits of sub-woofers, composed of 90% bass with a snare on the third note and the occasional movie sample, it would still be enjoyed almost exclusively by stoned British guys.  

I like seeing new forms mutate, even if that mutation is not my personal cup of tea. Skrillex himself has stated in an interview how awesome it is that he can make a career out of something that would have once been dismissed as noise.  As for me, give me some benga or Skream.