to be fair, caspa din push toasty, s&d etc via storming. didn’t he have a radio show too? i remember some sick mixes from him
some guys moved on with the times and found success like caspa, distance, hotflush. toasty moved on to, with cold blooded (which is my favourite toasty dub tune ever, sounds like fucking skull disco grime or smth) and on something/you’re special but those were like 2 records in 3 years then disappeared. s&d broke up then one guy started releasing some dark halfstep stuff but didn’t get too much attention. slt mob released an album a few years ago; don’t think anyone cared and dudes who got into dubstep around that time probably haven’t even heard of them.
One of my all time favourite releases is on Storming, Toasty’s Guesswork. You know I don’t think I know Cold Blooded, will have a hunt! He’s made a couple of bangers not too long ago (last year)( and I spoke to him this year and he said he was still writing, just not much.
S&D went separate ways and I think it was Prior who was a close mate of Caspa? I know he followed him around a fair bit.
Did not know about the SLT album, I think it was only Bandit by the end though wasn’t it? Q Gritty hadn’t been in it for a long time (I think). Again will have a listen, but I fear if it ain’t that oingy boingy vibe of Stopper and Tinji, that it’s going to miss the mark.
Yeah listened to the album this afternoon, not into it. Emperor is decent tho.
I do remember that toasty tune now I listened to it, wasn’t into it myself but does remind of the new one metal:
Scarecrow! Was it Liquid Demon? That was an actual fucking roller. Protocol X was another one in that camp that got some hype but kinda disappeared when Breakstep went away, screwing about that as he was a g.
i think urban graffiti was probably the last label to do breakstep
in my mind i think breakstep had more on an influence on american dubstep. i mean the pre/early brostep days. like early rottun n stuff. probably cause those guys also came from dnb/neuro/breaks and used similar sounds, and it just translated better.
i specifically remember some wu-tang remix album that had almost all the american bros and some uk guys that were still active after breakstep/breaks (scuba, j da flex, baobinga etc)
Nah, the amount of people saying they hoped Vex’d would play in the DMZ thread suggests most people here rate breakstep. When Chef dropped Search & Destroy - Food Chain at that Skream XOYO night it was so out of the blue and went down a storm
Was a good article and I’ve met way more safe people than not through the years. I felt the problem was the scene stopped evolving musical around the dungeon time. Some of the best up and coming producers that really pushed the envelope both stylistically and technically got bypassed. Made the scene go dry and uninteresting imo.
That guy who set up Barefiles was Deapoh, right? I remember him like 3 years ago when I watched the Bassweight documentary (arguably my first step into dubstep). Shame he disappeared.
I’m presuming you asked me a question @wilson. For me 3rdeye is still one of the most original and highly under rated producers. Krytikal again is one of those guys, he makes awesome music but never quite got the support, good to hear him banging tunes out again. Then you had people like clouds, smashing the dub wise sound ages ago and being much more inventive than the add reverb and bait sample guys.
It all got swallowed up by so much generic music that never went anywhere,