Why Isn't Drumstep MORE Out There?

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Why Isn't Drumstep MORE Out There?
Posted on: 19.07.2012 by Delilah Obst
This is something I don't understand,It's at a faster BPM....you get all the effects and sounds you would hear from a regular 140bpm track.....yet some producers have YET to pick up on it? I enjoy it due to its weird crossover with hip-hop

.....Here is my first Drumstep attempt
-EK

http://soundcloud.com/electrokiid/suavemente-electro-kiid-2012
Shonda Soulier
26.07.2012
Originally Posted by Tommi Bass
Drumstep is so yestadays gay. Romatic Techno is where its at mixed in with some mumbojumbo breaks.
Win!
Nereida Jasnoch
22.07.2012
Originally Posted by Ed Paris
koan sound are pretty dope. back in 08/09 they produced pretty filthy dubstep tunes and since then developed their style into the more funkier and slower side of bass music.
I saw koan sound live and man their mixing was in beast mode, they we 're really on top of things, cutting it up left and right but really guys I have yet to hear a set funkier than inspector dubplate 's one. Now that just had funk oozing out of it all over man.
Madelene Witek
21.07.2012		Err, it is big, but it's just been lopped together with Modern dubstep.

My buddy Matt (xKore) just remixed Falling Down, and that is a great example of some good Drumstep IMO, very good feel to the tune.

Originally Posted by streetStreet
Figures new track The Brink is sick
Awesome track. But that's just dubstep with a double time section, not Drumstep.
Matt Kane
21.07.2012
Originally Posted by Patch
There's a surprise - they're from Bristol. We got the monopoly on drums n' funk down here!
koan sound are pretty dope. back in 08/09 they produced pretty filthy dubstep tunes and since then developed their style into the more funkier and slower side of bass music.
Evelyn Navarijo
21.07.2012		Personally, I don't like Drumstep much, it's all the annoying bits of Brostep combined with all the annoying bits of "nu-Dnb".

Originally Posted by Patch
[Personal note: I really like the synth programming/sounds that come out of Dubstep/Drumstep. My problem is:- Dubstep doesn't have enough snares - and Drumstep has TOO BLOODY MANY!!! I look forward to the next incarnation - Funkstep. Where PROPER breaks are used for the drums, and there are not ANY of those stupid drum fills/builds! ]
Ever listened to some of the "Purple" stuff? Like Joker and whatnot.
Matt Kane
21.07.2012
Originally Posted by Patch
[Personal note: I really like the synth programming/sounds that come out of Dubstep/Drumstep. My problem is:- Dubstep doesn't have enough snares - and Drumstep has TOO BLOODY MANY!!! I look forward to the next incarnation - Funkstep. Where PROPER breaks are used for the drums, and there are not ANY of those stupid drum fills/builds! ]
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Neoma Balzen
20.07.2012
Originally Posted by Bassline Brine
Dieselboy also drops some pretty good stuff on the drumstep lines, as human/subhuman have always been pushing that hard east coast american sound.
Dieselboy's wake the dead mix is incredible.

http://soundcloud.com/dieselboy/dieselboy-wake-the-dead
Shonda Soulier
26.07.2012
Originally Posted by Tommi Bass
Drumstep is so yestadays gay. Romatic Techno is where its at mixed in with some mumbojumbo breaks.
Win!
Germaine Bernadin
26.07.2012		Drumstep is so yestadays gay. Romatic Techno is where its at mixed in with some mumbojumbo breaks.
Delilah Obst
26.07.2012		Like For Example...The type of "Drumstep" I make now,do you believe more djs will pick up on this flow?


http://soundcloud.com/electrokiid/electro-kiid-dome-drop
Tesha Freudenstein
22.07.2012		what kind of question is that?
Nereida Jasnoch
22.07.2012		Now to answer OP's question, you see you gotta look at it this way:

There's thing called mazout (for dutch speaking belgians) diesel (for germans) and broadway (for english speaking folks) and it's a drink that's one part beer and one part cola.

That is exactly what drumstep is IMO, a mix of two things there is demand for, but the mix is definitely in less demand than the 2 things it's made up off.
Nereida Jasnoch
22.07.2012
Originally Posted by Ed Paris
koan sound are pretty dope. back in 08/09 they produced pretty filthy dubstep tunes and since then developed their style into the more funkier and slower side of bass music.
I saw koan sound live and man their mixing was in beast mode, they we 're really on top of things, cutting it up left and right but really guys I have yet to hear a set funkier than inspector dubplate 's one. Now that just had funk oozing out of it all over man.
Madelene Witek
21.07.2012		Err, it is big, but it's just been lopped together with Modern dubstep.

My buddy Matt (xKore) just remixed Falling Down, and that is a great example of some good Drumstep IMO, very good feel to the tune.

Originally Posted by streetStreet
Figures new track The Brink is sick
Awesome track. But that's just dubstep with a double time section, not Drumstep.
Reginia Tramble
21.07.2012		Figures new track The Brink is sick
Matt Kane
21.07.2012
Originally Posted by Patch
There's a surprise - they're from Bristol. We got the monopoly on drums n' funk down here!
koan sound are pretty dope. back in 08/09 they produced pretty filthy dubstep tunes and since then developed their style into the more funkier and slower side of bass music.
Brunilda Kora
21.07.2012		There's a surprise - they're from Bristol. We got the monopoly on drums n' funk down here!
Evelyn Navarijo
21.07.2012		Personally, I don't like Drumstep much, it's all the annoying bits of Brostep combined with all the annoying bits of "nu-Dnb".

Originally Posted by Patch
[Personal note: I really like the synth programming/sounds that come out of Dubstep/Drumstep. My problem is:- Dubstep doesn't have enough snares - and Drumstep has TOO BLOODY MANY!!! I look forward to the next incarnation - Funkstep. Where PROPER breaks are used for the drums, and there are not ANY of those stupid drum fills/builds! ]
Ever listened to some of the "Purple" stuff? Like Joker and whatnot.
Brunilda Kora
21.07.2012		Then I shall google them instantly!
Matt Kane
21.07.2012
Originally Posted by Patch
[Personal note: I really like the synth programming/sounds that come out of Dubstep/Drumstep. My problem is:- Dubstep doesn't have enough snares - and Drumstep has TOO BLOODY MANY!!! I look forward to the next incarnation - Funkstep. Where PROPER breaks are used for the drums, and there are not ANY of those stupid drum fills/builds! ]
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Brunilda Kora
21.07.2012		You have to have faith in your music. If you don't, how do you expect your crowd to have faith in you?

The problem is - so many young/new DJ's only want to play what is current, and what is popular. If we all thought like this NOTHING new/exciting would become popular. As a DJ, you have to be a leader, and if YOU love Drumstep, then YOU have to drag your crowd along for the ride, kicking and screaming if necessary.

If a genre that you like is not as popular as you hope it is, don't post on a community expecting things to change - post some fuckin' mixes of that genre and convince us that Drumstep IS the future. That way, when/if it does blow up - you'll be known as the Dj that brought it to the fore. You'll get credit for picking up on it early, and people WILL follow you.

You owe us a 1hr (minimum!) Drumstep mix.

[Personal note: I really like the synth programming/sounds that come out of Dubstep/Drumstep. My problem is:- Dubstep doesn't have enough snares - and Drumstep has TOO BLOODY MANY!!! I look forward to the next incarnation - Funkstep. Where PROPER breaks are used for the drums, and there are not ANY of those stupid drum fills/builds! ]
Ninfa Mazariegos
21.07.2012		I'm a huge fan of Figure

http://soundcloud.com/figure/figure-must-destroy-original
Reginia Tramble
20.07.2012		Flashbach by Savant is good shit.
Neoma Balzen
20.07.2012
Originally Posted by Bassline Brine
Dieselboy also drops some pretty good stuff on the drumstep lines, as human/subhuman have always been pushing that hard east coast american sound.
Dieselboy's wake the dead mix is incredible.

http://soundcloud.com/dieselboy/dieselboy-wake-the-dead
Lela Umanskaya
20.07.2012		I'd like to see something new come out of dubstep, the dubstep charts on BP are a snooze fest imo.
Celine Surico
20.07.2012		I do like dubstep but the current material available is so focused on the mid-part wobble-wobble-wobble so it becomes very monotonic to play set after set with the same kind of sound. Me believes dubstep will evolve (post-step et rest) and the material becomes more versatile so dubstep sets also become more interesting. As usually UK paves the way, listen to any of the Mary Ann Dobbs radio shows.
Ervin Calvery
20.07.2012
Originally Posted by djspinnaspin
...yet some producers have YET to pick up on it?
Haha. I'm not offended or anything, but that producers ought to be on top of trends in order to enable them to write at a faster tempo seems like a bizarre point of view to me.
Werner Bile
20.07.2012		I play a lot of drumstep and actually prefer it over 140 bpm dubstep. Check out dieselboy for a big name dj that regularly mixes a lot of it in his sets (played to predominantly dnb crowds).
Matt Kane
20.07.2012		imho, drumstep was "big" 2 years ago but it somehow gets really boring by some time. 2010 i was totally hokked on that stuff but somehow after 5-6 months everything sounded the same.
Corrin Penney
20.07.2012
Originally Posted by Bassline Brine
People love DnB. People love Dubstep. Generally, those two crowds have difficulty mixing together
Yup. I believe the underground can mix over the two and the overground can mix, but never over to under or under to over. That gets messy.

Because honestly, it's just DnB with half-time drums.
Nah. Case in point:



Now thats proper dnb with half time drums. Drumstep has more in common with commercial dubstep/electro than dnb. It lacks soul, passion and, in my opinion, credibility. It's merely the afterbirth of 'brostep' people are clinging onto because 'brostep' and electro house aren't 'cool' any more.

tbh, I cant wait for it to get popular so these jock's and bro's leave my dnb evening s to go and hi-five and fist pump in some other shit hole dive-bar.
Cole Maroto
19.07.2012		i went through a huge drumstep/dnb/dubstep phase a bit ago and you can check out my imaginary friends and stitching up monsters mixes on soundcloud if you would like to listen. i personally could not spin a set that was entirely drumstep or dnb so i love that i can add the half time feel more easily now that its more accessible. that was always my issue with dnb back in the day...the lack of good half times beats to break up the monotony for me. hive was one of the only guys who was doing it at the time, and some of ming and fs older stuff as well.
King Kunzmann
19.07.2012		first off, that track was crazy good, especially for a first attempt.

and i definitely agree that someone needs to do work and make some serious drumstep, you have the odd big name throwing a drumstep track out but nothing serious. I tend to drop it in when I feel like it and the kids i play parties for usually love it, if you can get the timing perfect and transition out of a hip hop track smoothly into a bass heavy drumstep track it definitely injects some energy into the crowd, even if they're not into drumstep they can feel the aggressive vibe
Audrey Pinda
19.07.2012		I believe just living in the same proximity as Terravita (as they are from Boston) has swayed me in the way of Drumstep. And I've heard good sets of it out on many occasions.

But it's tough. People love DnB. People love Dubstep. Generally, those two crowds have difficulty mixing together to a degree, because there's so many pricks in both :P I really really love good Drumstep, and I believe it's a nice way to change up a DnB set at times.

Because honestly, it's just DnB with half-time drums.

Dieselboy also drops some pretty good stuff on the drumstep lines, as human/subhuman have always been pushing that hard east coast american sound.

Anyhow, I fucking love it done right.
Freida Leash
19.07.2012		I believe it is coming around, but still hasn't really got a solid footing for me to want to try to play a set of it. I cant wait for it to start to splinter a little more so that a great set can be put together.

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