DJ Haegen - Friday Five: Drumstep Edition
DJ Haegen, Drum n' Bass, Drumstep, Dubstep, Trends
Drumstep. Yeah, its a thing.
Guess it’s about time for a new “-step” to emerge. If you haven’t heard the rumblings, Drumstep is to Drum N Bass what Dubstep is to Breaks - heavy and half-time. Drumstep is enough of a production style that it has registered on the Beatport charts as a theme, and it’s listed on Wikipedia as a subgenre of Drum n’ bass, but it’s hard to know whether it is unique enough to take hold and grow into a defined style. While Dubstep’s 65-70bpm plod felt at least sort of original (if not obnoxiously so to some), Drumstep hovers higher in the 85-95bpm range, which puts it a lot closer to Hip-Hop in head nod-ability.
I decided to explore it a bit to make up my own mind, and the result is this here podcast. Even though at the moment a lot of Drumstep tracks sound to me like good ol’ DnB songs that got stuck in a breakdown, we do love our labels here in EDM-land so we might as well just stop quibbling over names and enjoy bangin’ tracks right?
Right.
Friday Five - 5.13.2011 - Drumstep Edition by Hægen
Tracklist:
1. Tinie Tempah - Wonderman ft. Ellie Goulding (Bare Noize remix)
2. Beastie Boys - Watcha Want (StickBubbly remix)
3. Stephen Jacobs - Blind Dreams
4. Discosynthetique - Feelings of Disbelief (Farace’s Believe in Drumstep remix)
5. Plan B - Love Goes Down (Doctor P remix)
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I’m still not sure how I feel about drumstep; some songs really appeal to me, others not so much. I enjoyed your five offerings quite a bit however, thanks for sharing
thanks! yeah it’s like i was saying in the post - as a whole i am not sold on the style, but it wasn’t too hard to find a few great tracks. i feel that is true for most styles. there are very few things that are just unequivocally awful.
I’ll just say: WORD.
i likes the beastie boys track. veerrrrry nice.
Nice. I much prefer it to Dubstep, mostly because D’n'B at half time still lands us in a comfortable head-bobbing BPM.
Also, Sonic the Hedgehog sample at 16:54.
Hey jdamage
It all bout “Let me barrow that shirt….Lol ▬♫▬
@Cor - holy cow, great catch. BOING!