well they probably were, at least at some point. this is not the first time they mentioned the dmz being at skull disco nights.
but i guess it didn’t fit in with their aesthetic
ye this gave me feels
really good article tbh
vice is good in their overseas coverage but shit for a lot of otther things… a lot of click bait like: Why using a spoon to cut off your dick is a good thing-Vice
who were the dnb DJs tryna court silkie and quest?
Excellent read and for the first time in ages a dubstep article thats offering some new insight and depth instead of the same old, same old.
Big up Lauren Martin on the transcribe, no doubt it took tiiiime
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dont you mean ‘dont forget the dub’ ?
i feel like thats what people who refer to dubstep but just produce noise should keep in mind…
also i think its really really good they stuck to only their sound, i wish more people would appreciate this sort of sound.
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The dmz crew?
vice is second to none
like if a fanzine became a mogul and didn’t change that much
those how to piss tutorials where worth all the indie baiting and hipsterism
yeah it’s annoying I reckon Vice is genuinely on of the most interesting investigative magazines there is. But the painful oh so ironic click bait stuff they churn out just ends with me never reading anything they publish. Which is a shame.
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me too neither, either
but then again they bring the donks
- that doc on that varg guy . . . so good lol
the thing where they really piss me off
is that their site does this local thing where they include artists from the same country as the ip, meaning they will present a danish rapper fx, in the same vein as say kendrick or whatevs
meaning you’ll have to trawl through shit that really has no grounds in the culture, but is only there via some underhand bigger label cuntitry
“It’s a great piece. But it shouldn’t be on Vice.”
Couple jellys inside
Big article tho always nice to hear from the horse’s mouths
yes
Wouldn’t really call the dmz sound under appreciated though
Unless you’re saying something else, in which case feel free to call me a speng
enjoyed the insights e.g.
Mala described as being into "broken dub house"
Youngsta ascribing big shift to DJZinc’s 138 Trek of 2000
Artwork being amazed watching Benny Ill produce Elephant Man
Kode 9 playing out with Actress in early noughties
according to Pokes, the Bristolian steppas brought unselfconscious dance to London ds nights
Shackleton an early adopter of head-in-the-bin
Pinch’s account of the 2nd Subloaded (on mushies)
Joe Nice’s account of the first time Haunted was heard…with 4 rewinds
Mala’s explanation of the vibe changing due to smoking bans: ds lost it’s dynamic to coke & pills with shortened attention spans needing a harsher, less-spacious* sound
*my interpretation
and I noticed Vice improve radically a year or so ago with well-researched articles altho it still prints some stupid try-hard pieces & it’s music reviews are useless.
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no i was just referring to people saying that they were close minded because they stuck dmzinternally to each other
yeah i couldn’t believe actress had been about that long, tho i don’t know all that much about the guy…
It’s so obvious now that it’s laid out like that. That sound was born from that environment, for that environment. So when that was taken away the outlet was gone, it had to adapt to the new or wither away. Now whenever the rare occasion comes along that it’s recreated, like System, it rears its head. Goes to show that that vibe is always bubbling away under the surface, just needs an outlet (and safe bouncers).
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On top of the smoking ban that was around the time mephedrone was being offered every corner you turned which didn’t help
i figured it was a natural consequence of the early dubstep sound, to get harder and more over the top, minimalism’s hard to do, as more people arrived in the scene more people wanted to just make the wheel up tear out bangers, and as more people get involved in the scene it’s more likely that those people don’t go to fwd to stand by the stacks, or have big subs/speakers at home so the deep sub stuff doesn’t make an impression where the midrange stuff would
but ye bring back smoking in the club imo i hate the constant surge in and out and always end up wasting time outside
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