Pre-Weekend Bangers Vol.5

Been on holiday with a lack of internet/any sort of contact with the world but i'm back and here are some tunes to start your weekend off.. 

- luketheduke! 

Osheaga's Best

I ended up loafting on my Osheaga's Most Anticipated as I came back after my first night out in Montreal and was obviously in no state for blogging but for those of you who were left in anticipation of who my top two were they were Justice at #2 and SBTRKT at #1. Now going back and ranking the top performances I would place different artists in different places and here is my top 5 from what I saw over the weekend (keep in mind this is completely my own opinion as there were many artists I didn't get to see)

#1 - SBTRKT
#2 - Madeon
#3 - Keys N Krates
#4 - Birdy Nam Nam/Adventure Club
#5 - Passion Pit/M83/Justice

Let me start off by saying that I found I enjoyed myself the most at the Picnique Electronique Stage this year (formerly the Sennheiser stage last year). The sound quality plus the fact that it was much smaller created for a more fun/intimate atmosphere. Out of my top 5 SBTRKT, Madeon, Adventure Club, and Birdy Nam Nam played at this stage with Keys N Krates on the Tree Stage, M83 on the Sennheiser (best stage for sound quality) and Passion Pit/Justice on the main stages.

I'll leave you with my favourite songs from the various sets/performances of these artists. First one up was Skrillex's remix of Birdy Nam Nam's banger "Goin' In"being the last song of their set everyone was going absolutely wild to it. SBTRKT dropped a new bass track 'Surely" which with the live drums got everyone jammin' and Madeon dropped the happiest nu disco tune of all time "Dancing With The DJ" by The Knocks. An old favourite Adventure Club tune of mine is their remix of the Foxes song 'Youth' really blows me away every time I hear it as it shows just how good AC is at taking more acoustic/folky songs and turning them into dubstep bangers. The last tune i've added in is from Keys N Krates sampling Otis Redding (made famous by Watch the Throne) their set was the last one I saw on the weekend and their live remixing absolutely blew me away (and they're from Toronto), I'll be hoping to catch them next time they're in T.O as their set was a whole new experience for me combining hip hop, electro, and dubstep into a single mix. Anyways I'll be sure to start posting more again but this concludes my Osheaga posts until next year, enjoy... 


Goin' In (Skrillex's Goin' Hard Remix) - Birdy Nam Nam

Surely - SBTRKT

Dancing With The DJ - The Knocks

Youth (Adventure Club Remix) - Foxes

Uncle Otis - Keys N Krates



- luketheduke!

Wub-Wub-Wednesday #1

Hello everyone, I have decided to dedicated one day of the week to dubstep. Dubstep has many different sub-genres and such and I will try to post as many different kinds of dubstep that I can. I will be posting the more original/old-school dubstep, the newer kind of "brostep" and new releases, enjoy.

Recommended to listen to all of these songs with either good headphones or speakers, for the full effect of bass lines and wobbles.

Old-School Dubstep

Midnight Request Line - Skream     -     This man is a legend on the dubstep scene, one of the most recognizable names in dubstep. This tune was released in 2005 one of the best dubstep tunes ever, with the crazy bass wobble.

Crunked Up - Benga     -     Benga happens to also be one of the original dubstep greats, awesome song with sick wobble/bass.

Jahova - Rusko     -     Rusko has also been around for a while on the dubstep scene, this is one of his older tracks.


Brostep/Crazy/Wild Dubstep

Mr.Big - Tim Ismag     -     This is the kind of dubstep I will be posting under this category, the newer dubstep has taken the wobble to a whole new level.

Cry Me a River - Borgore     -     I heard of Borgore around a year or two ago. This tune has a sick wobble but I still feel its under this category of dubstep. This song is probably Borgore's closest to an original dubstep track because it has that sick wobble. Love the bass wubs that come in at 0:35

Newly Discovered/New Released

Rise & Fall (KDrew Remix) - Adventure Club     -     Adventure Club is a sick dubstep duo out of Canada, Luke made an Osheaga post on them, and KDrew is an up and coming dubstep producer. Really like how this track has a combination of genres mixed into it. First minute is like trance then drum and bass comes in then the both are mixed, then it drops into dubstep.

Osheaga's Most Anticipated #24 - Adventure Club

Twice I have gone to nights featuring Adventure Club in the lineup in Montreal and both times I got there too late to see them so I will finally get my chance this year at Osheaga and i've heard the Montrealer dubstep kings put on an absolutely killer show. Remixing everyone from Flight Facilities to James Vincent McMorrow they're not so much Skrillex with their wobbles, they tend to add some chiller trance synth wobs a la Jakwob. This is the first electronic act to break the countdown and I hope you're excited as I am for them, enjoy... 

Crave You (Adventure Club Remix) - Flight Facilities

Do I See Color - Adventure Club

We Don't Eat (Adventure Club Remix) - James Vincent McMorrow

Collect Call (Adventure Club Remix) - Metric

Everything to Me (Adventure Club Remix) - LIPS

- luketheduke!