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The Widdler - Squatly (Distinct Motive Remix)
The Widdler's deep dubstep before it got a chainsaw bolted on. Distinct Motive stretches the low end until the gaps become the hook.Read more . . . →Subscribe →Weekly digestOne email per week with the tracks worth your time. No spam, no Coldplay. -
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longstoryshort & Skybreak - WHIPLASH
Read more . . . →The drum fill that kicks off the second drop crams something like sixteen hits into a space most producers would fill with four, and that’s the exact moment “Whiplash” earns its name. Skybreak lives for this kind of hyper-detailed, faintly deranged sound design, and teaming with longstoryshort tightens it into something you can actually move to rather than only marvel at. It’s deep dubstep with a bad glitch habit, half-time weight down low and a top layer that stutters and skips like a scratched CD fighting for its life. The bass in the first drop has a wet, elastic snap...
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The Widdler - Echo Chamber (Ternion Sound Remix)
Read more . . . →Put this on in a car with decent speakers and watched the rear-view mirror physically buzz on the low notes. Ternion Sound do that to a track — they might be the most precise crew in deep dubstep right now, three people who treat sub-bass the way watchmakers treat gears. Their remix of “Echo Chamber” barely raises its voice and still clears a room’s worth of air with every hit. The original was already spacious; Ternion just widen the gaps between the sounds until the silence starts doing half the work. Every element gets room to ring out and decay...
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Buunshin - Luminous Body
Read more . . . →Buunshin keeps building tracks that sound like they were assembled out of glass. “Luminous Body” opens with these clean, almost fragile melodic tones and then the low end slides underneath so smoothly you don’t notice the floor’s gone until you’re already falling. This producer sits in that lane where dubstep and forward-facing sound design overlap, and the design work here is absurd — every bass note has its own texture, none of them muddying into each other. The drop at 1:35 doesn’t reach for maximum weight, it reaches for precision, a bassline that folds in on itself like origami. That...
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Axel Boy - Maxxin
Read more . . . →The bassline in “Maxxin” moves like it’s made of tar, slow and thick and pulling everything down with it. Axel Boy works in that deep dubstep pocket where the tempo stays patient and the weight does all the talking, and this is a masterclass in saying more with less. There’s barely anything in the arrangement: a hypnotic bass figure, sparse percussion, a bit of space echo, and that’s deliberately the entire point. The drop doesn’t announce itself with a big buildup, it just arrives, and it lands heavier for the lack of ceremony. Listen at 1:20 for the way a...
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Cartridge & Hypho - Feng Shui
Read more . . . →The sub on Feng Shui doesn’t drop so much as settle into the floor and refuse to leave. This is the deep, patient end of dubstep: no screaming mid-range, no festival-sized theatrics, just a bassline that moves like something big turning over in its sleep. Cartridge and Hypho both come out of the UK 140 scene where restraint is the whole flex, and this is a masterclass in saying less. There are maybe four elements in the entire track and every one of them is load-bearing. I put it on in the car and the door panels started buzzing at...
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Don Jamal & Crastinate - Have To Know
Read more . . . →DDD187 from Deep Dark & Dangerous and the catalog number alone tells you what you’re getting. Don Jamal and Crastinate doing deep dubstep that’s more concerned with weight than chaos — the kind of release you put on when you want to feel the room shake without the headache. More like this Don Jamal - Breaking Through Don Jamal - Do You Think Syxx - Executor VIP
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Don Jamal - Breaking Through
Read more . . . →The solo cut from the same DDD187 release and it hits differently without the Crastinate collab context — more stripped back, still heavy. Don Jamal clearly had a lot to say this release and “Breaking Through” is the more direct version of it. More like this Don Jamal & Crastinate - Have To Know Don Jamal - Do You Think Sub Basics - Walk & Skank / Forward
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Wraz - Memories of Caladan
Wraz building a Dune-themed LP and Memories of Caladan sounds exactly like what it's named after — deep, slow, weighted like something large overhead.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogWhat if your laundry was also a personality? -
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CØNTRA - Six Four
CØNTRA on Deep Dark & Dangerous with that low, lumbering sub weight that makes deep dubstep work. DDD183 knows how to find artists who get it.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.
