Musical styles develop, meander through the musical landscape, absorb musical and generally cultural influences, change the direction of technical innovations, become mainstream, become narrow streams or, often, even dry up completely. Dub has changed since its invention in the late 1960s. The leap into Europe and the development of the UK brought about an important realignment.Dub. Since then it has been Dub has become an international style and has increased enormously in its diversity. But if you tried to identify a general trend, it always failed. The genre is too pluralistic. But now I dare to hypothesize that the flow of the... Dub is getting closer and closer to the current of electronic music. Yes, yes, I know, Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus already did it in the 1990s Dub and techno have merged, but what was an exception back then now seems to be increasing in volume and frequency. I expressly mean not Dub Techno, what pure techno Dub-effects, but the counterpart on the reggae side: Dub with techno appeal. Purists will of course reject this out of hand, but I believe there is interesting potential here. The Frenchman Masamune (who apparently named himself after a famous Japanese swordsmith of the 13th century) explores this with his album “Mirage” (ODGPROD) carefully. He does this cleverly by exploring familiar electronic territory with track 1 Dub starts and then slowly moves towards techno, where it finally arrives at track 4 - only to take the curve to drum & bass at track 5. This makes sense and is also fun. If you're not afraid, you should take this short introduction to techno Dub and beyond that, definitely listen to it.
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Masamune: Mirage
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"Fear eats up the soul"
Nope, I don't have to be afraid of that. If there's something that scares me, it's the possible fact that in the future only one kind of music will be made and "the right music" will only be rarely or not produced at all for cost reasons or something else. I also really like, or rather liked, a variety of techno and I have seen TechnoTunes with various ones at various “raves”. DubI encountered effects that sent me into ecstasy more than 20 years ago. I then met real techno freaks for whom my taste in techno was already mainstream again and who wanted to convince me of “minimal techno”.
But they had no chance. For me, minimalism in techno is a waste of time. In the Dub However, “minimalism” can seem gigantic to me when Biass and Drum once again convey the vibes uncompromisingly and create the usual magical groove. For me, this has a lot more variety than these bass drums, which are very stoically based on “cumputer numerical control”. There are no tension-generating drum patterns, with offbeat-generating intermediate hits on the various toms in the drum set, which then twitchily ensure a temporary release of the tension, only to then build up the tension again with a few skillful accents before it then trigger new brain twitches again. I like it when it twitches ;-)
Here at “Mirage” nothing makes me twitch. The focus is too much on the stomping and there isn't enough happening around it. Things are particularly bad with “Faces.” At least that's how I feel that all the "instruments" here "play" almost the same thing, probably around the bouncing "Dub“Not to overwhelm the fan base. I admit that there is still something to be said for it Dubtent or wherever everyone joins in this stoic stomp and celebrates their enthusiasm for it together. I could easily join in for half an hour, but then I would need a little more variety with a little more enthusiasm for the wide range of playing styles DubMusic.
However, with “Demons” I still have a “Dub“Found a tune that I would like to take with me in my StappaDubI'm taking over the list because there are a few "noises" floating around the stoic Steppa Beat that have a really good "inna me brain" effect on me. And the spherical vocals also provide me with the necessary psychedelic basic feeling, which I like DubI always have to feel music, otherwise it's not good for me. Of course, this doesn't always have to be done through vocals. Main thing "Dubbing Dubbing Psycho
Thriller, Music Killer”……..
I think this stoic SteppaDub too unimaginative with techno appeal. There needs to be a lot more “hiss and puff” and a lot more techno-typical sound loops (I don’t know what else to call it) “built” around it so that I can have more enthusiasm for it. In short, more upliftment! So it “stomps” me down too much and I feel oppressed. I almost completely missed this upliftment with Rhythm and Sound. The music came across as too dark for me. Led to depression rather than “happiness.” Mind you, with me. Maybe I'm too close to the psychological abyss and others still feel a certain joy in it. “Someone” is in such a good mood that even rhythm and sound can't bring his mood down. Well, a few DubI found tunes for myself at Thythm and Sound.
Worst with these stoic SteppaDubs and especially here with “Mirage” and with techno as a whole, I think
“Dem can’t play Biass!!!” ……………………………… lemmi