Today we have a guest playlist from fatimagaye.tumblr.com. I approached her about making me a dubstep mix this morning and it was so good that I thought that I should share.
Dubstep is this subgenre of electronic music (not just a techno offshoot, sorry Trey, haha) that has these woozy beats, focused on the deep “sawing” bass in the low end (you’ll know it when you hear it).
- Ryan
The HARD Summer Tour is a dance tour that hit just 10 dates around the US and 2 in Canada. With Crystal Castles from Toronto headlining, they were backed up by UK DJs Rusko and Sinden, and Destructo, a DJ born in Washington, DC.
Sinden and Destructo, pictured above respectively, played “the warmup shit” of the night. Their basic setups were the same, a laptop and a bunch of boards to mess with the sounds. The beats sounded fresh and consistent for most of their sets. Me and Trey stayed on the balcony for the early part of the show. But actually getting down into the crowd lets the energy of the music and everyone dancing take hold of you.
You might not ever appreciate bass until you hear it pouring out of the monitors of a dance show like this. The whirring bass of dubstep is just something that has to be witnessed live. It was enough to distort the sound quality on every video that I tried to take during Rusko’s set (well, it’s probably that way for every digital camera not dedicated to HD audio). It was enough to even vibrate the hair on your skin.
Crystal Castles took down that long rectangular projector screen in the first picture, and it was nice to see them less guarded than their DJ openers. Lead singer Alice Glass brings the energy of punk rock to an electronic dance setting and it works perfectly. She crowd surfed basically all night as they played most of their hits from both of their same titled, self-titled albums.
Dance shows are fun to get into as long as you don’t stand around stiff the whole time and miss the objective to why you came to a dance show in the first place.
- Ryan
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No, I haven’t heard it. Admittedly not much of a drum and bass fan…that guy from Motion City Soundtrack said it best in “The Future Freaks Me Out.”
Now if this were a DUBSTEP mix, we might have been more appreciative. Haha. But continue to send us stuff Sierra. One day, I swear we’re gonna have a breakthrough. - Ryan
A little bit of dubstep for the morning. Wake the fuck up.
Rusko - Cockney Thug (Caspa Remix)
- Ryan
Skrillex, who you may remember as Sonny Moore, or “that dude who used to front From First to Last,” makes dubstep influenced by the French house sounds of Daft Punk and Justice. That sounds good just on paper, and I assure you, the results are more than amazing on his recordings.
Skrillex - Rock N’ Roll (Will Take You to the Mountain)
- Ryan
In preparation for the New Year’s festivities, I asked Ryan for some good dance music for a mix I was making - seeing as a buddy of mine was bringing a strobe light, I only found it necessary to prepare accordingly. However, although not surprisingly, my iPod was replaced after only 2 or 3 songs, but I still thought the playlist (entitled “Dancing Monkeys”) was very good:
So even though this song didn’t get played, it was one of my favorites my boy sent me that I included in the list, and I can’t say I don’t dance to it alone in my room
Flux Pavilion - I Cant Stop
-Shannon
