Too much dubstep!!!

[buzzingtalk]

sunshine super vibes are wicked, i get em when the sun rises through my window

I WANT THEM BACK THOUGH

[casiokerry]

My thoughts on the dubstep at Glade are as follows....

1. Some of the dubstep I heard was boring, cheesy crap. But there was some amazing stuff, too.
2. I agree that a whole day of Dubstep on a sunday is not very good for Breaksday, but I also think the Breaksday should stop just playing new school breaks all the time. It's just soooooooo boring in that tent. I can't believe the breaks crew were complaining about Meat Katie's set, cos they had the gumption to play something other than formulaic new school electro breaks. FFS.
3. I though Overkill was massively better this year, through having a greater mixture of stuff. I agree there was a bit too much Dubstep, but there was also some amazing electro and techno which is usually sidelined in favour of breakcore.
4. While Dubstep has taken off in some towns, eg Bristol, it doesn't have a big enough following to have its own stage, IMO. I honestly think a Dubstep/DnB/Hiphop stage might be the way forward for the Glade. Or they should make the Breaksday more eclectic, allowing Japanese/German Broken Beats, Good Dubstep, Maybe even Grime and Hip hop, Jungle, Ragga.....

[digital.atmosphere]

what dubstep producers were at glade this year?

[ouzodave]

What's Dubstep? Maybe i should reach for my eartrumpet and trumpet at the same time

[shakyjane]

Breaksday should stop just playing new school breaks all the time

are you kidding? Okay so, I went in first on the Friday for Peter Paul and whoever was after him (lady waks and klaus hill never showed up) - and they played about 5 breaks tunes between them.

I go in later, I get Noisia, phat as, but erm, about 1/2 dnb.

I go in later and I get the plumps, erm, playing half a set of electro house.

I go in the next day - pretty sure Flore was on in the morning, and that was dnb for what I saw.

And then Drummatic Twins, pretty sure their 2nd or 3rd tune was 4 to the floor and I buggered off, same with Stanton Warriors.

Now I'm looking at the lineup, and I'd hazard a guess that Elite Force, Rico Tubbs, Andrea Lai and Madox played about 3 breaks tunes each, probably more for elite force.

Then a whole sunday of Dubstep.

So who did that leave for me? Beat Assassins - who were awesome. Deekline & Jay Cunning I got too frustrated with the sound and left (besides losing more & more respect for deekline). Ben & Lex from what I saw played breaks. Quest & Ken Mac & Aquasky (although I missed em apart from 5 mins of Quest, was sounding good tho). Ctrl Z were awesome too.

I say they need more breaks tells so much about a scene when the artists are not playin the music. I have enough decent breaks to play for a whole weekend, so perhaps next year they should just bill me.

[nonvio]

maybe to much dubstep indeed...but we don't get this style in Belgium, so no prob for me actually
dj distance did the trick for me but indeed too much basic dubstep tunes from some artists
Shame...

[uberland]

I honestly have trouble understanding what dubstep is. Sorry maybe I am slow.

Anyone remember when the NME and the people who churn out never ending dance compilations invented "speed garage" in the 90's? No. It's house. It always was house. I still hate it and re-labelling it won't change that.

[buzzingtalk]

in that case then, dubstep is garage without the added 2step feel. but theres no dub! INFURIATING FLASE ADVERTISING

if your lucky some clever producer adds in a rodigan sample and calls it DUBstep but NO if i put a roddy sample in something it does not make it DUB

/rant over

but yes. dubstep is pretty much garage but with a ketamine bassline instead of an orange hooch mc hyping you up.

[leah]

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[hutchy]

nah I wouldn't have said there was too much.

I dubstep and personally would have liked to see a bit more, BUT I think there was a healthy balance struck between all styles of music. It's always going to be hard to please everyone.

All the dubstep was on during the day, I can't think of any dubstep artist that played after 6pm. There was plenty of time for 'havin it' after that, and besides- you *can* do just fine to dubstep if you open your ears and mind a bit.

I would love to see a dub/dubstep/grime/bassline/hip hop tent but it's never going to happen at Glade really is it? especially with them already down sizing. Besides, I'd never leave that one tent!

I really hope there's dubstep on the Sunday again next year as psychadelic dubstep sunday has become something of a tradition for me.

[Sperge]

You've no idea how spoiled you are at Glade until you go to something like the Big Chill which had plenty of late night venues (a huge dance tent plus the Rizla stage and several smaller places). It was hard to understand exactly what they were trying to do on the dance front. Even some of the trance and hard house kids that we chatted to thought the dance music billing was shite.

Thank heaven the ID Spiral managed to get a few decent DJs in.

[Beatmonkey]

Thats why I spend my hard earned cash going to glade not the big chill. Doesn't mean I'm not gonna shout scream and genraly throw my toys out've the pram in an attempt to make it even more biased towards music I like though.

[baldmosher]

the Rizla stage

I take it this was in a tent and you weren't allowed to smoke?

[Sperge]

the Rizla stage

I take it this was in a tent and you weren't allowed to smoke?

It was mostly open air - I doubt Rizla would be stupid enough to sponsor a stage where nobody could smoke.

They did have some quite decent tunes from time to time at that stage - but just when you thought it was getting good, they'd start blowing it with some handbag crap.

[ouzodave]

the Rizla stage

I take it this was in a tent and you weren't allowed to smoke?