NYC last friday, Hudson Mohawk, Kaspa & Benga

Hudson Mohawke was the opening set. He was awesome. Changing tempos, styles, basslines, etc.

Kaspa and Benga on the otherhand....so stale and shitty. Kaspa's ENTIRE set was the same.. a bassline, and then the same bassline pitched up a tiny bit higher looped after...for the entire f'ing set. And people were cheering like oh my god, here comes the massiveness. The production and performance were so 'called in', it was pathetic. I'm done with this shit. There's no way that Kaspa is actually proud of these tunes. Then Benga came on and it was the same exact shit. An atmospheric intro followed by more lazy basslines. Yet people were reacting like these guys were dropping the most epic guitar solos ever.

The dubstep scene makes the old jungle scene(filled with fake thugs)look attractive.

I wouldn't worry too much. Reach the right parties and it won't be full of 19 year olds in shutter shades brocking out after their first sniff of drugs. Might be tougher in New York than the UK though...

Yeah it's getting bigger in the US too (the dub scene). I was really hoping with emergence of producers like Untold, James Blake etc. That dubstep had finally turned a leaf and gotten mature, but with this 2nd wave of even less sophisticated music listeners (US doesn't have near the history with like electronic music as the UK) of dub step makes me worried. My main source for this is a few people from CA area I know going to dubstep shows and now some of my old friends from KY are like "woah, have you heard of dubstep? it's crazy!"

Yeah, it's blowing up here too and I live in Indiana!

It's just so fucking weird, it'd be like if I went to them and be like "Guys.. have you tried drinking? It's awesome!"

Flying Lotus came to Montreal last Thursday during his Cosmogramma tour. I was psyched until I learned Benga was going to be part of the event. Then I gave up on attending the concert notably because that would have become a cheesy dubstep night with an ignorant crowd and the tickets were 2-3 times more expensive than in the other cities solely because of Benga's appearance. Other reasons prevented me from seeing Flying Lotus, though.

  On 3/29/2010 at 12:05 AM, Glass Plate said:

Yeah it's getting bigger in the US too (the dub scene). I was really hoping with emergence of producers like Untold, James Blake etc. That dubstep had finally turned a leaf and gotten mature, but with this 2nd wave of even less sophisticated music listeners (US doesn't have near the history with like electronic music as the UK) of dub step makes me worried. My main source for this is a few people from CA area I know going to dubstep shows and now some of my old friends from KY are like "woah, have you heard of dubstep? it's crazy!"

get rid of those friends. they are the worst kind.

"Hey you know that band you told me about a couple of months ago? Well someone else suggested them to me recently, and they're actually really good. Can you give me their whole back catalogue?"