Jack, you're not into 2-step or dubstep or some of the other underground English dance genres, are you? They do use diva vocals -- including soul divas -- but I don't think the music is your thing.
Burial's 2007 album -- Untrue -- is jaw-droppingly good. It takes the up-tempo sounds of UK Garage-type music, scoops out the optimistic, dance-y content, and leaves a ghostly echo,filled with diva vocal snippets and the menacing sound of a city (Tr: London) after dark. Just amazing work.
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Craig
If you want me to enjoy it I have to understand it and I just don't get.
Where did it come from, who listens to it, what is the objective? Is it head music?
I like music that is very melodic or very harmonic and my uneducated inkling is that dubstep is akin to electronic trance music or something.
OK, the Jack Ed is long for jacked. Get it jack---ed jacked
But you can call me whatever you want. JUJ works nicely
just don't call me late for dinner
Grime and 2-step can be dance music. Dubstep can be, too, I suppose, but I consider it "head-music."
The star of the dubstep genre is Burial, e.g., Archangel and Unite.
This guide to electronic/dance music is helpful, albeit snarky.
YouTube clips for UK garage/grime/2-step:
Angie Stone -- Brotha (El-B Remix)
London Dodgers -- Down Down Bizznizz
Zed Bias -- In Your Mind
Want some more
OK that used to be called disco. But actually it was post disco club music
Yeah I like that Burial
So is there supposed to be a DJ slicing and dicing to keep the groove moving
Maybe not technically dubstep
but you know...
Next up: Dark Disco (e.g., the Italians Do It Better label) and Nu-Balearic (e.g., Studio). Gotta be tomorrow, tho. Nite, all.