quoted 6 lines Yeah, I liked the 'South London Boroughs' EP too. Burial was introduced to> Yeah, I liked the 'South London Boroughs' EP too. Burial was introduced to
> me as the dubstep artist most likely to appeal to "you Basic Channel/Rhythm
> &Sound types". And in the same breath characterised as "not really
> out-and-out dubstep". I guess that's why I find him the most intriguing of
> the acts I've heard. Same with Boxcutter. They're drawing from the template
> and cutting it with other genre substances.
The Burial album arrived on my doormat this morning, and the initial impression is that it really is fantastic. I love the way that as well as having some distance from dubstep and its ancestors, garage, jungle and hardcore, he's got a really deep understanding of them - something that's normally missing from 'genre but not really genre' records.
I'll give Boxcutter a bit more of a listen, but I've not been too impressed with what I've heard so far - he seems to go a bit maximalist and lose that incredible meditative atmospheric sparseness - sort of like a Rothko painting made out of bass - that makes dubstep so unique and exciting. At the moment, 'cutting dubstep with other genre substances' seems a bit like watering it down. Unless you're Burial, in which case you can get away with murder because you're gifted.
Apparently he'd never heard anything like Basic Channel until Kode 9 played them to him, though - he just arrived at a similar sound directly from garage.
David
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