Atheory wrote:@hydrogen- no not really. check its wikipage or google some of the bigger artists....its not necessarily minimal and its more jazzy than dubby.
i wouldn't have categorised steevios music as broken beat myself, but i'm not the best at genre seperation. anything that has a guitar in it is "rock music" in my eyes.
i can see how you wouldnt mate, i suppose it depends which tracks youre listening to. several of the tracks on the records i mentioned were written after seeing bugz in the attic about 5 or 6 years ago, and i was excited by the rhythms they were using. i wasnt at all into the rapping and MC'ing, just the syncopated rhythms.
when the first record came out it was being sold as dubstep by phonica. at the time dubstep was an embryonic genre and it hadnt quite fully crystallised into what we call dubstep now.
the thing is whatever anyone else thinks or wants to call it, it was written as a minimal broken beat album, i subtracted the elements of brokenbeat that didnt work for me.
i think theres now a case for saying that some dubstep is 'minimal brokenbeat' regardless of the lack of jazz influence and the fact that its supposedly dub influenced, it's definitely rhythmically similar, but you could also say that dubstep is just slow, dark drum and bass without the snare patterns, the style of the modulated basslines is lifted directly from dark D&B.
thats the great thing about music, everyones interpretations are different, and the more mixing and matching of ideas the better as far as i'm concerned.
its strict adherance to genres that stagnates music.
