“A pinch of EDM, a little bit of brittleness, a little bit of dream synths, too Dubstep and trap - definitely alarm, blue light, steam and: Dub"This is how label manager Nicolai describes the new album from Robo Bass HiFi:"King Size Dub Special“(Select Cuts). And I have to say: he's damn right there. Robo Bass HiFi is the Major Lazer of the Dub. He dedicated himself to his last album "Nu School of Planet Dub“The remix (which in the end was nothing more than a reinvention of the original), that's how he creates on the King Size Dub Special again “from Scratch”, has every freedom and knows how to use it. There is really no shortage of ideas, beats and sounds. Anyone who thinks it's bad would even speak of overproduction here. I have nothing against good ideas, but on the other hand I also love it when bass and space come together. And of the latter, the work that could almost be described as hectic could use the most. Strongly pulsating beats, breaks in abundance and innumerable layers of sounds stacked on top of each other - not exactly the recipe of Dubright? I'm not sure whether Marcus Kammann (the person behind the Robo) has not become the victim of his own programmatic claim to break the conventions of the genre as brutally as possible. The slightly less wild, more structured tracks in the second half of the album show that less might have been more here. But maybe I'm just getting old.
13 responses to “Robo Bass HiFi: King Size Dub Special "
Hahahahaha ... .. but now you can be prepared for something. Actually, I'm in a really good mood right now, because my vacation has been BINGO for 10 minutes.
I hope the poor boy is not reading anything from what I will probably write now.
I'll admit I'm biased at Robo Bass Hifi now. I expect mostly emotional junk. Exceptions confirm this sad rule.
Certain positive slip-ups are here within the 2 min. Audio sample destroyed.
NO! NO! NO! You are not getting too old! The comparison with Major Lazer doesn't get to the point enough. Skrillex (gag) it could be even more in my opinion. Or any other cold-feeling music career changer with a mouse click or a mouse click.
I don't even understand how this sounds at KING SIZE DUB could land. Where else is there DUB ? This is very brutal pounding. Radiates zero sovereignty, cell phone as a sound source is completely sufficient, as it doesn't sound better on any box. Far too high shrill tones that make for a balanced Dubcompletely counteracting feeling. For the most part in the rhythm of a cardiac arrhythmia and not in the human range of the HeartBeat rhythm. I don't even know who came up with this unrythmic fidgeting first. With reggae and DUB it has nothing to do anyway. The sound of the drums can only be tolerated by the hearing impaired. People, people, what went wrong. How can you endure this handymucke. Are these the new listening habits?!? Ever heard of GROOVE? No no ... .. it has to crack and it should sound choppy, then it's cool or what?!?
"Tings ain't cool anymore! Now does Babylon have them too Dubniche outwitted. Becomes Dub killed by your own people? If over this the muck "KING SIZE DUB“Above it, it feels like brainwashing. True to the motto, as has always been the case in political trickery. It is as if a certain someone is serious and with a big inner grin
claims "no one has any intention of building a wall". Or, more recently, an old Ottoman claims that it serves only democracy if freelance journalists, judges and scholars are locked up in prison without any specific charge. The bad thing is that there seem to be loads of people who believe him and support him. I would be on a par with these people if I believed the Robo Dubstep hifi anything DUB might have to do.
No, you are definitely not too old! You were just born in a time when good music was practically invented. Back then you weren't looking for new music, you just made it! The constant search for new things makes people sick in the head. And then, of course, they like something fried because it's new.
I don't know what's going on here but I can't get rid of the feeling that Babylon is already us DubFans tried to make an x for a u. Not with me, I have too much experience for that.
Well, I hope I've at least halfway conveyed my dislike of trying to fool myself into an x for a u.
Why do all these lateral entrants want the DUB so change? If you DUB the way he sucks, why bother with it at all. Why should their pathological mixture of EDM / Bratzrock / Dreamsynthy / dubstep and trap now all at once DUB be called ?!? It stinks to the heavens, it's so lazy. Maybe I already have paranoia but I suspect behind it a method to finally defeat the good.
It may be that I've come across like an overly arrogant a ... hole. But I have to tell you, as reggae and DubFan, I stand above worldly things. I've listened to so much great music in the last 40 years that you just can't influence me with your pathetic attempts to create something new as easily as a teen.
Nothing against teenagers - I used to be one myself - but teenagers are very easy to influence because they have little or no experience.
Robo Bas Hifi ………………… .. - 5 points (there is nothing to see of stars there).
Please do not put this text too much on the gold scale. I wrote here from my gut. In order to emphasize my feelings, I sometimes exaggerated badly.
I may have already come out as paranoid, but with this music I get cardiac arrhythmias and that affects my mind.
Brutalize me with Music! Brutalize me with DUB !!! Don't kill me with dubsteptrapedmbratzo ...
"One day, Baby we'll be old" but this is not our time to die ………………… .. lemmi
Hey Lemmi, that's a statement! I think your opinion has become clear ;-) Just like me Dubheads who hang around here, you will not be alone.
“For me, the magic of is in limiting Dubs. Get by with less and essence musical resources. My goal is to sound as timeless as possible. I love a sound that was there years ago and that will still be there in tens of years. The current “zeitgeist sound” has a major disadvantage for me. It has a certain daily topicality, but also only a limited half-life. In the 80s, I also started with the concept of deconstruction and breaking-of-the-listening habits, prematurely (infected with On-U-Sound). But since this is now being done in all sorts of current music styles, I am now feeling a bit bored. Production has of course also become very easy thanks to the computer. This causes the results to become inflationary and lose their value. Meanwhile I prefer a quality sound again. There's a difference between a record like “Sgt. Peppers… ”and one programmed on the cell phone Dubstep. I prefer to focus on music than technology. "
So it has “THE DUBVISIONIST “once again in a nutshell!
The infection with On.U-Sound seems to be a Universal Positive Expansion of Consciousness that causes a person to see and feel things as they are.
I can understand his statement in every letter. The only thing that goes completely against the grain for me is that of “limiting”. For me, limitation has something to do with restriction. Any form of restriction is the opposite of DUB.
Hehe, as if I had to determine that alone ...
Can you still?
By the way, breaking listening habits didn't work with On.U - Sound either.
Let's just take the Voice Of Progress disc. It is neither Dub nor music in any form. This is just blatant crap !!! Starship Africa by Creation Rebel is honestly mostly crap. The cover is the best thing about it.
Pounding system from Dub Syndicate, in turn, is a real blueprint for DUB.
Listening habits are not broken, but increasingly satisfied. Listening habits are subject to certain natural laws. Rhythms, sounds, melodies and also tempos have to adapt to the laws of nature. Just as water will probably never flow uphill Dubnever step Dub be. Is somehow also logical. Because if it is Dub is, it is not Dubstep more.
Oh friends, I'm so sorry ....... I could go on all day and all weekend and the rest of my life DUB and swarming REGGAE.
I'm just a fan and fan comes from fanatics!
If the whole thing has gone to my head, I'm not even sorry.
By the way, I have a feeling that the ex-punks are the best Dub can do. They don't care too much about “Good Vibes” but have retained a certain form of aggressiveness. Doesn't mean that I am into aggressors, but as long as we submit to the monetary system and let ourselves be enslaved by the economy (this does not necessarily apply to us Germans) instead of just letting the economy satisfy our needs, as long as I feel in myself some form of aggression up to anger. And when I'm angry, I can't be given any “good vibes”.
That could be due to the time-honored "Punky Reggae Party".
I think Lee "Scratch" Perry is basically punk at heart, too. Just like me. Only that punk music just "sucks" ;-)
As I said, I could still ……….
but bye first …………………. lemmi
On the subject of listening habits: It is a question of mood, whether you just want to listen to music to feel comfortable, or whether you are looking for an intellectual challenge. Sometimes I feel like one thing, sometimes the other. So both are justified. The thing with listening habits has a catch: what for him Dub-Newbie can be completely crazy and against any convention is for the old Dub- Rabbits maybe yesterday's news. In other words: the listening habits are not uniform. The more you deal with a topic (music, wine, gourmet food ...), the more your senses refine and the more demanding you become. So it's not easy to say which music violates which listening habits. And certainly not whether it succeeded or not. Unfortunately - as the critic has to say ;-)
Hehe, I feel like a little boy, who always has to have objections.
I often compare music with culinary delights. And while we're at it I would like to take up the comparison again and say that if Dub the wine is then is Dubsteptrapedmbrazzo is vinegar. There is also wine vinegar, but so far everything that was made like wine and tastes like wine is still called wine. And it seems to me as if you don't pay much attention to it in music. Then there is the wine, which tastes like vinegar ………… What I just want to say is that things should be called the way they are. But somehow people like the word "Dub“As Mad Professor has put it before.
“Harmony as the goal of the world” ……………… .. lemmi
“Somehow people like the word DUB"
There could be something to it, see also "Dub Techno ”(a rather boring variety of minimal whose repetitive character is hardly broken by echoes).
I was also disappointed with the Robo Bass Hifi. Somehow I had expected something better with the name, a bit in the direction of Jahtari. I was already in the process of writing a slavery comment on it, but came to similar conclusions as Rene: maybe it's an old age thing. An aversion to (early) DubI don't actually have step, the Brostep things just leave me cold. Even when it was new everything was worn out quickly.
Recently I revived an old iPod (new battery) that hadn't been used for about six years. There are early Kromestar, Benga and Caspa & Rusko things on it, as well as the first Skrillex tracks. And as a highlight a compilation called "Dub Fresh Air ”that despite Dubstep bonds on some tracks are much more elevated than the Brostep shredder.
Some are quite so timeless Dub But also not. I find the rumble bass of many recordings from before 1975 terrible pretty quickly.
I'm slowly getting old. What's wrong with brostep now? I've never heard the word before. Well, no problem, I'll google that. At least there are no false expectations aroused with the name or the description. Because I couldn't stand it if I went to a Roots Dub Reggae party only because of the "fraudulent labeling" dubstep is asked.
My favourite-DubBasically all of them appeared after 1975. What do you mean by “rumble bass”? Sound and / or bassline?
"Life, Love and Unity" ………………… lemmi
Brostep is probably the shrill, twisted version of the Dubstep, which practically nothing in terms of sound Dub has to do.
Rumbling bass ... hm, difficult. I will definitely not scold Jamaica's recording veterans for their technical capabilities, but listen to hooligan for example Dub by Coxsone Dodd /Dub Specialist and then “Far East Dub“By Black Uhuru. The former "rumbles".
Can of course also be due to a loveless digitization. Not only music with which hardly any money is made often suffers, and often the record sounds better (if it is reasonably preserved).
I don't have many records, unfortunately, I don't see it as a regular basis to spend moon prices for rare records. I prefer to support a year by buying a file (although the mastering of “Steamers A Bubble” is also marginal).
But even with the early Beatles albums (a friend has first presses that are really well received), which is really not underground, the sound of the CDs is somehow flat and lifeless. On the record, McCartney's bass is actually much livelier and downright grooves ...
Tonight the battery PA will be back on the road :)
so long ^^
High, I'm back in the country.
Thanks for your answer Ropp Auff.
Yes, I don't actually pay the moon prices for some vinyl records either. But I've already caught myself buying discs that I've only ever had on cassette for a little more money as “Black Magic Plastic”.
I even bought Steamers A Bubble as a 7 ″. Bad sound, like almost all Jamaica pressings, but I found the tune just too good to only listen to on YouTube. Unfortunately, JAH 9 is not really my thing yet. I have a whole CD of her but apart from “New Name” I don't like it at all. Too much emphasis is placed on her voice and the sound of the music falls by the wayside.
What the heck, most people hear everything that's on the radio anyway. Most of the time, they don't even notice whether it's the music or advertising that is annoying them. Most annoying
me that they are not annoyed at all. The main thing is that there are noises coming from the loudspeaker ......
We (or I) need both. Very good music with a very good sound. Unfortunately we are only a small minority. The music industry produces for the mobile phone and the Jamaican producers openly admit that they don't even bother with sound, because their music only plays two or three times on the mobile phone and then something new has to be produced.
Mmmmmmmh, I am just realizing that all the fresh Atlantic air was not enough to take away my frustration with general human development.
I have to go again ……………………. lemmi
Funny with "Steamers A Bubble": I had heard the thing on Soundcloud and blamed the sound inadequacies on the low constant bit rate (128kbit / s) and bad encoding.
The iTunes purchase only sounds slightly better "on top".
I then chased it through a multiband compressor and played around a few times. That works better with dynamic recordings than with something like that, but at least the sound is now closer to what I had hoped for from the purchase, and it fits better into my set.
I don't like everything about Jah9, but the voice and how it emphasizes it has a lot of character and recognition value. Riddims and texts just vary.
Last weekend ("Bass Addicts do it outside" in Cologne-Nord) that was again clearly noticeable with the Jamaica-7 ″, digitally played music came out of the horns with more thump :)
With the word “multiband compressor” you have sent me on a daring track again. But that already becomes too scientific for me when reading it. This is probably about my own productions and for me as an end consumer that would be too time-consuming. I also read there that the producer wanted to push the vocals “really” forward and that's where the fun ends for me. I want the vocals to be quiet and not so intrusive and most people seem to want it the other way around. That turned out to be stupid for me. Raging Fyah makes great riddims, great music and the vocals would also be ok if the equalizer wasn't set to penetrating blaring. I can't hear Raging Fyah because of that. I am unbearable.
Speaking of unbearable…. I once watched Bass Addicts on YouTube. There is, among other things, a set of over two hours to be heard. No Dub, No Music, every little bass but not a single bassline. No offbeat, instead rock roll drum beat and no beat at all. I hope these are not the ones you had fun with on the weekend ;-) ……. In any case, none of this has anything to do with the music that I've been enthusiastic about all my life.
Greetings from the ROOTS DUB REGGAE Addict……………. lemmi
The name is probably quite generic. This crew is meant: https://www.facebook.com/Bass-Addicts-Soundsystem-680470132044843
And there was roots to steppas on the plate, plus live singing - and recorder: D
Ah, now yes!
Very nice that something like that still exists. I am always amazed by these pit towers. Although everything is self-made, the parts look highly professional. With my boxes you can clearly see that I built them myself….
It doesn't matter, the main thing is that it grooves ………………. lemmi