All my homies hate skrillex video essay about the history of dubstep, with list of tracks
This is a great documentary about the history of dubstep.
Despite being a casual electronic music fan, I didn’t know most of this stuff. Also, I’ve been listening to [[ Burial musician ]] for a decade and had no idea he was considered dubstep. (I’m terrible at recognizing music genres, though.)
This documentary is great because it’s one part memory, one part analysis, one part music history.
It talks a lot about how dubstep originally felt like gritty, realistic music that reflected a reality of [[ London ]] and life in the [[ United Kingdom ]] that most people didn’t want to admit. Lots of imagery of walking through city streets at night.
That imagery made me think about psychogeography and [[ Guy Debord ]]’s [[ derive ]]. I’ve always connected electronic music specifically with that sort of thing. To me, it feels like my place-memories are “embedded” into electronic music more so than other music. Like there are specific electronic tracks that make me think of walking around a place at night, standing on the subway, etc.
There’s always been a sense of the liminal and liminality in electronic music for me, and this documentary really added to that sense and mythos to me.
Also, there’s a great quote from the video that I need to dig back up again from a [[ Mark Fisher ]] interview with . . . someone (Burial, I think). That felt particularly psychogeographic.
List of tracks mentioned: 00:03 Menta - Snake Charmer 00:46 Skrillex - Ruffneck 00:53 Peverelist - Roll with the punches (Harmonimix bootleg) 01:24 Lenkemz - Entro (p) 01:38 Freestyle Fellowship - Hot Potato 01:57 Capone - Three Drops 02:11 Starkey - Prism 03:24 Mala - Sinners 04:33 Coki - Red Eye 04:45 Skream - Tapped 05:00 Mala - Miracles 06:03 The Bug ft Flowdan - Jahwar (Loefah remix) 06:40 Skream - Midnight Request Line 07:30 Coki - Tortured 07:37 Skream - Dutch Flowers (Rusko remix) 08:15 Coki - Ruff Lovin 09:12 Excerpt from Youngsta - Forward Live Vol 01 [2004] 09:48 Lovestation - Teardrops 11:12 Skream - I (Loefah remix) 12:29 Mala - Hunter 13:10 Benny Ill - Fat Larry’s Skank (Kode9 remix) 13:51 Kode9 - 9 Samurai 14:18 Mala - Anti-War Dub 15:00 Calenda - Forever 15:20 Burial - Archangel 16:20 Burial - Shell of Light 16:28 Burial - Fostercare 16:38 Burial - Homeless 17:04 Burial - Stolen Dog 19:29 Skrillex - Cinema 19:54 Plastician - Still Tippin 20:35 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches 22:34 Digital Mystikz - Haunted 23:18 Rusko - Hammertime 23:28 Rusko - 2 N A Q 23:50 Becoming Real - Jen’s Clock 24:20 Zomby - Kaliko 24:43 Zomby - Strange Fruit 24:48 Zomby - With Lazers 24:50 Piece of Shh - Diablo Riddim (Zomby’s Acid) 24:51 Zomby - Little Miss Naughty 25:00 Ikonika - Please 25:10 Becoming Real - Fast Motion 25:22 Von D ft Phe Phe - Show Me 25:27 Phaeleh - Afterglow 25:28 Clouds - Protecting Hands Pt 2 25:53 Shackleton - In the Void 26:12 Untold - Stop What You’re Doing 26:19 Untold - Anaconda 26:30 James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof 27:02 Joker - Gully Brook Lane 27:36 Joker - Retro Racer 27:39 Joker - TRON 27:43 Joker & Rustie - Play Doe 27:57 Gemmy - Bk 2 the Future 28:07 Guido - Mad Sax 28:14 Ghost Mutt - Thoroughbred 28:32 Joker - Purple City 29:12 Coki - Goblin 30:30 Sorrow - Voynich 31:43 Kahn & Neek - Soundboy Obliterator (send for Visionist) 32:01 Crissy Criss - Soap Dodger 32:41 Coki - Spongebob 34:14 Jakes - 3kout 34:53 Laroux - In For the Kill (Skrillex remix) 35:21 Caspa - Louder VIP 35:48 Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites 35:54 Excision - The Paradox 35:57 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know 36:22 Doctor P - Sweet Shop 36:37 The Others - Africa VIP 36:53 Skrillex - Right In 37:10 Coki - Voodoo Dolls 37:58 Mala - Eyez 38:23 Wiley - Ice Pole Remix 38:41 Wiley - King of Grime 38:57 Mr Virgo - Hyponotic 2 39:15 Noah D - Seeeriousss 40:10 Sukh Knight - Diesel Not Petrol 40:38 Jakes - Titan 41:23 Peverelist - Junktion (Shed remix) 42:26 Darkstar - Aidy’s Girl is a Computer 43:38 Caspa - My Pet Monster 44:05 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know 44:18 Starkey - Time Traveller 46:50 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches (Harmonimix bootleg) 48:14 Goli & Ashburner - If I 51:56 16bit - Shallow
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