What up.
Dubstep moved from its dnb/garage/dubby roots to the metallic sounding bangers of 2007 and 2008. Some saw this as the end of a genre which at one time had the promise of saving dance music from its predictable formulas, foraying riddims and tempos into slower, syncopated, uncharted territory. These naysayers were wrong of course. Dance music always reinvents itself. The filthy dubstep coming out in the past couple of years was in part a response to the maxed out electro blasting in clubs next door. What's cool about dubstep is that it seems to have already moved on from '08. 2009 is all about breaking convention and bringing back the funk. It started off in January with the wonky reworking of Scuba's Twitch by Vex'd. Now, garage/dubstep/house/tech/breaks and everything in between is fair game to weave into a setlist, and the tracks coming out of this free for all bend the rules on all sides. One getting lots of hype is an unreleased anthem from Joy Orbison. The best way to get into this track is to listen to it in the context of Ben UFOs Hessle Audio promo mix (available here). It closes out the set, but is worth the wait.
Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo (mp3)
You can also find a lot of the music mentioned in this post at my sister blog here.
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