another new one dubot’s been working on for a while.

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THIS IS BORING. READ IF YOU ARE A FAN OF MUSIC

Brostep is mainly a North American sound that is hard to describe if you aren’t aware of the real dubstep roots. Whenever I listen to music I like to figure out the original roots and try to expose it for what it is. For that reason, I am going to explain to everybody from my personal experience and from the best to my knowledge why the north american sound doesn’t sound like Dubstep.

2008, when I first started clubbing, Electro was finally breaking into mainstream. Everything was electro in clubs, you would hear electro, indie and just happy dancy music from justice. All the Australian music I was introduced to from one of my friends got me into electro, plus the mainstream MSTRKRFT (but knew of them since 2006 because of much music and DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979) ,”day n night”, Deadmau5 “Ghost’s n stuff”, even “I gotta feeling” and a lot of black eyed peas as retarded as it sounds got me into it. I was mainly into Indie music (HUGE IN CANADA) r&b and hip hop at the time which was big at the time but electro took me to a different level I was waiting for.

The sound in clubs in 2008/2009 (I guess still recently) was a deadmau5y, swedish house mafia sound seeing as the DJS (that I can only say in Calgary except for hifi and some limited clubs) were just mainly turning to beatport and big name DJs instead of searching out for their own. Having to hear this repetitive sound got my blood boiling and got me inspired to make it into a DJing scene; to expose the underground tracks that people wanted to fucking keep for themselves.

The whole bassis of Mainstream in north america is that people find something that sounds SIMILAR TO SOMETHING THAT ALREADY CAME OUT…so all the house/progressive fans did so in a way they didn’t notice because house isn’t played on mainstream radio UNLESS it has vocal and the artist is from Canada (but also known around the world).

The whole pinnacle of why I wanted to become a DJ was this reason. I started using hype machine and then hypem took me to a lot of blogs and the rest was history. I loved looking for music, the feeling of discovering music that hits me as much as it hits you is un explainable. 

then around late 2009 I guess electro slightly died down in Calgary and I guess after 2008/2009 shambala festival that club ravers went to, dubstep became a BIG BIG BIGGGGGGGG scene. Everything in calgary was changed to dubstep. I didn’t really get into it and was super super hestitant to listen to it because it was boring to me. It wasn’t until I heard it at hifi on a night they used to call orange crush WEDNESDAYS which played Indie rock (I didn’t even know changed into DUBSTEP wednesdays) with the bass on the speakers turned WAYY Up that I actually decided to give it a shot.

After 2010, I got heavily into it  after INNOCENCE by Nero came out and I was instantly addicted to Dubstep. I think there used to be a website called rub a dub dub and I tried to search for new dubstep music but I guess I just wasn’t to big into the scene at all so I only trusted (as horrible as it sounds) UKF dubstep.  Then around this time Brostep was moulding into something big in the west coast. Skrillex was just coming out and I was getting really into skrillex at the time.

I guess the reason why dubstep in north america sounds more heavy metal/wutanghiphop/screaming midrange is because we didn’t have the garage/grime/drum n bass dubstep is mainly based around. Most of Canadians listen to heavy metal, and rock music. We just aren’t rapper kind of people. I personally Liked bass because of rap music (What Brostep kind of take) but when I first heard dubstep in a club (which is extremely different than listening to it in your room) I have never experienced something that moved and vibrated your whole body. I was really addicted to that club experience. But  the only problem I had was the similar structure, same tempo, same dub sound, same expectation. I just didn’t like it.

It wasn’t until one of my friends who  was listening to rusko and a lot of dubstep mainstream tunes like jakwob, Nero, Rusko, skream, benga where I got into it. But I still was left unsatisfied with the  same structure. So I decided to make a side project to my project of JHNN called Dubot who is literaly the protaganist of this hypoCRT era (which will be explained after this album is released). It literally helped produce my album that I am still working on and take it to a level where it hits me in the face. 

I was always addicted to bass and dubstep was that breath of fresh air…I heard snoop dogg millionnaire (yes dubstep people I know ITS MAINSTREAM (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ) and was confused by the fact that the chase and status beat hit hard in a really really different way. I thought it was slow rap!

 I tried my hardest and done a lot of research to make it as garagish/grimey/drum n bassy as to my NORTH AMERICAN KNOWLEDGE WITH including the knowledge of pioneers like skream, benga, mala and etc. 

I’m still not heavily 110% interested in doing a dark dubstep  sound (or whatever the fuck you want to call it), I’m highly commmitted to my first goal of doing and hope that this project will continue to take my music for hypocrt to another level. 

Mainstream has a big impact in my life and Canadian life even though I or most people do not accept it the way they used to. Mainstream/word of mouth also has a big influence on the north american music industry and sadly enough we take what we have always listen to and put it into our music like how Brostep started. I am still not a faan of screech sounds, glitch hoppy retarded beats at underground clubs but I have to expose reasons for why we got the sounds and why I really hope that the fans of dubstep in CANADA take it to the next level and search HARD for music the way the pioneers searched for a different sound.

this article was inspired by radio 1’s story of dubstep. Thank you for reading.

If you want to listen to my shitty beats anyone who hasn’t listen to them yet…heres my soundcloud:

DUBOT

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animation © Greg Doble 2012 

yup something of a wolf gang video. it’s really cool these artist are from Calgary though they make a cartoon look like its on an HD camera. I love this technique.

(Source: vimeo.com, via jhnn)

new music from Dubot…A remix of a remix…taking on Jacques Greene - Another Girl (which samples Ciara’s Deuces remix). let me know what you think.

INTERSTATE ‘97
Out on Fogbank Records March 16th, 2012 this guy was originally from Calgary, Alberta

Beatdrop is taken place at SAIT POLYTECHNIC in The Gateway Campus bar from 8:00pm - 10:00pm. I’ve met many industry people at that bar and I find it almost a shame not to see any people who are willing to risk about 2 hours of their times to see  30 minute set. So This is another one message to Keep up support for local people in Calgary who take this craft seriously to be aware this is happening and it’s only $10 and to also take note of the fact that DJs actually took the effort to teach other DJs how to do their thing. 

For DJS, I would like to mention that you are welcome to play a 30 minute set as long as you have the $10. They have an all-in-one mixer as well as serato and I believe traktor. For further information check out Beatdrop.ca

SO IF ANYONE IS STILL INTERESTED PLEASE SHOW UP NEXT TUESDAY AND SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MUSIC!

CLICK THIS LINK TO JHNN’s event to actually learn more or click the website:   BEATDROP DJ SET

jhnn:

the networking tree has begun growing.

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