Gonna use that in my next review I think. :]

Album Rating: 2.5

I am confident that its usage within the context of your review will be quite apt indeed.

lol.

No seriously, I keep a list of English words that sound exquisite (see?) in a written context. Gotta keep coming off as sophisticated.

Album Rating: 3.5

Clubroot is pretty much 100% dubstep though. There's a certain style that so many producers are doing right now. TBH I find a very large amount of it to be boring or just completely lacking in originality. Clubroot doesn't fall into that category which IMO is what makes him so great and why his latest album is so easy to get into and a near-classic. Same with Old Raves End. Too many producers just doing what their peers are doing at the moment.

Album Rating: 3.5

Clubroot makes more DnB tracks than dubstep these days, there just halftime so you can't really tell the difference until you see the bpm

agreed tmobro as always. old raves end in particular i think is a near classic and extremely unique

Album Rating: 3.5

"Clubroot makes more DnB tracks than dubstep these days, there just halftime so you can't really

tell the difference until you see the bpm"



That's crazy. Pretty sure Garrison and Demon Drum are the only two tracks that come close to half-

time dnb tempos. Pretty much everything else on the album is way closer to 140/70. Even those two

are still dubstep. I don't care if they're faster, they're drenched in the dubstep style and

aesthetic. If the only thing that makes you think a track is dnb is looking at the tempo, it's

probably not dnb.



Some people would argue that last bit, but no matter how you cut it clubroot does not make tracks

that are more dnb than dubstep.

Album Rating: 3.5

As I said halftime DnB so it has a dubstep feel, but this music is categorized by bpm, so not to sound like a snob but technically it is DnB

Album Rating: 3.5

Nah dude it doesn't make you sound like a snob, but I do disagree. I think it gets categorized by bpm a lot just because of the importance of DJs, but the actual style and sound of the music matters way more than the tempo when actually considering a genre. If someone sped a 128 bpm deep house track up to 140 bpm, is it suddenly a different genre? And either way it's still only 2 songs on a 12 track album that retain a dubstep style, so I can't really see calling III-MMXII dnb over dubstep even if you were to consider the faster tracks dnb.

Gotta agree with TMob here. Substance > superficial aestetics like BPM and whatnot.

Album Rating: 3.5

I see what you guys are saying, I'm just thinkin about it from a DJ standpoint but I defs agree with the points you've made.

Album Rating: 3.5

From a "DJ standpoint" Clubroot does not make drum & bass tracks. the only relationship is that he used to reference early darkside, just like Burial did on his self-titled

but this music is categorized by bpm,

Album Rating: 2.5

god I missed that

Album Rating: 3.5

An 85bpm track is not going in my dubstep crate, it's going to be in my DnB crate so I can mix it in accordingly with other tracks of the same tempo. All his music feels like dubstep yes, I was never trying to argue that, but tempo wise some of his tracks are a different story. The same way how Burial likes to work around the 65bpm realm but is still called dubstep

Album Rating: 3.5

Yes but if you're basing a genre solely on its tempo then you're not really paying attention to the the genre at all. Plus who wants to listen to a mix that sticks simply to the same bpm the whole way through? That's just going to be an exercise in boredom - mix it up or bore the dancefloor

^ Don't agree. The sounds and style of the music are what define a good set, not the variation in BPM.

Album Rating: 3.5

I just said that the tempo doesn't categorize the music, but it does in my DJ crates, what you smokin Dev I want some!



What makes a good mix is track selection, harmonic and seamless mixing, and proper eq'ing. There's plenty of DJ's who spin just 140 or just 170 that have kept me excited their entire set. But if mixes spanning multiple bpm's is your specialty whip one up and change my mind :]

Album Rating: 3.5

I just said that the tempo doesn't categorize the music,

but this music is categorized by bpm

Album Rating: 2.5

I mixed a 2 hour set of straight hardstyle last night it went HAM you two would have both loved it

Sounds horrible