“Sorry, but this board is currently unavailable. Please try again later.” Met die boodschap opent ’s werelds grootste forum over dubstep momenteel zijn deuren. De reden hiervoor is de 3e verjaardag van de online community, wat gek genoeg gevierd wordt met “And oh yes, we’re also closing the forum. Indefinitely.”
Tekenen aan de muur als antwoord op een eerder gestelde vraag? Verre van, want dubstepforum.com claimt gewoon nog keihard door te gaan met een feest op 14 november én een uitstekende verjaardagsmix van BunZer0. Trek je eigen conclusies, maar check vooral de 30 prachtplaten. Weet ondertussen iemand wat er écht aan de hand is?
Download BunZer0 – Dubstepforum.com 3rd Birthday Mix (mp3)
Tracklist:
01. 16bit – Lazy Town
02. The Widdler – PositiveVibes
03. Phaeleh – Cheki Deep
04. Fused Forces – For The Biters
05. XI – Light FM
06. J.Sparrow – Sniven
07. Hyetal and Sines – Secrets
08. Jus Wan – Twilight
09. Myrkur – Skttrbrain
10. Simon/off – That Night
11. Janner – Synthetik
12. Not In My Name – Blunted
13. DFRNT – Aftermath
14. k3bee – Dark Whisper
15. Fiberous Oxide – Return To The Sea
16. Low Density Matter – Transparency
17. 3rd Eye – Irish Wind
18. Izc – Arcticdawn
19. Superisk – Eve Takada (Wascal Mix)
20. Marlinspike – Bongo Rocka
21. Threnody – No Imagination
22. Saviour – Squarefootage VIP
23. HxdB and Cure – Spill The Beans
24. Reflux – Who Built The Lion
25. Hd4000 – Fake Rekkid
26. Blackmass Plastics – Time To Quit
27. Loetech – Liters (12th Planet Rmx)
28. Kion – Room Modes
29. Pure Phase – Napoleonic Complex
30. Vibezin – Touch And Go
dubstep…. op de feestjes staan er alleen maar mensen die zelf ook dubstep trachten te maken. oh en natuurlijk wat journalisten omdat t zo hip is, uit london enzo. In London zelf is dubstep al 5 jaar geleden dood verklaart, met burial als toepasselijke naam die nog door de BBC ge hyped wordt, en met zijn 1995 sound de hele bedroom-producer comunity een sprankje hoop geeft.
toch stiekem even luisteren
en zo is het..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioy4x8DgPhU
Fijn om te weten dat in klein stedelijk nederland er nog gewoon ge-dubstepped wordt. Wellicht ga ik naar verkeerde feesten, maar in London en Brighton is de scene wel aardig passé. Tijd voor afrobeat!
Ja, Burial was het einde, in alle opzichten. De beste dubstepplaat van 2007 was geen dubstep meer. Een teken aan de wand.
Veel ’typische’ dubstep platen kom ik niet tegen (wobbles, etc) in deze mix, maar ik vindt hem prachtig.
En of iets passe is of niet interesseert me eigenlijk geen hol 🙂
Mee eens, goeie mix en niet typisch dubstep!
En jawel, het forum is weer open, inclusief veel filosofie van de koude grond.
Like the empty space before a drop, the past few days were a dramatic pause for deliberate effect. Reactions have been mixed; positive and negative, public and private, opportunistic and confused. An indefinite timeframe of downtime was specified, yet interpreted by some as final. The questioning call of ‘why?’ has resounded. We obviously left the finality of it all a little open-ended: for a while we didn’t know how long and we didn’t want people to know. This wasn’t an especially pragmatic move. It was one to instigate a response.
Birthdays are a good time to take stock, evaluate your life and think about the direction you’re going in. Closing the forum for a few days has allowed us all to do this. This was the main point of the closure. It was a unanimous decision but all the moderators had their own reasons for going ahead with it as well. We felt the need to do it. Everyone has had the chance to think about what the forum means to them, which we think is a good thing. What if it was the end?
In all honesty, we were getting a headache from the constant noise, so we hit pause in an attempt to try and make people realize what is important to them. Perhaps we failed. Perhaps not. Ending it for good would have been an interesting move but this was never going to be permanent as it’s far better to continue, forging the best environment we can for this music to be discussed and disseminated.
The value of any forum is determined by its users. This was always the strength of this forum in the past and perhaps now it is its weakness. This is both a matter of scale and success. Like the sound, ‘The Community’ has mutated and fragmented and is an entirely different entity today than it was in 2005. This is fine of course; this wasn’t an attempt to change this. This wasn’t a wheel up to try and take things back. We didn’t think it would return things to how they were in the forum’s infancy. It wasn’t an elitist move. Yes, we would like more decorum and less idiocy but we know this is the internet; a place where currency is information which flows continuously often at the expense of quality. We paused the flow. It was a moment to reflect. All the moderators have and we hope you have too.
We realise that DSF is the online nucleus of the scene and to many away from the more established geographical hubs of the sound, the lifeblood of it. We know it is valued and we just want it to be the best possible place it can be for our users. This forum would not exist without the music or its users. But our users; DJs, producers, promoters and fans are able to shape it by their actions. 3 years in and it’s hard to think that this forum has been anything less that catalytic in the music’s development. Not specifically its existence but its function; what it has facilitated and what it has fostered – this international community.
So welcome back, make what you will of the past few days and if you haven’t already, please download the BunZer0 3rd birthday mix and remember we’re all here because of the music.
(via http://forum.dubstep.nl/forum/viewtopic.php?p=46430#46430)