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And Finally
James Blake not a fan of US fratstep
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 30 September 2011
Generally operating at the more considered end of dubstep, James Blake has revealed (if you can call it a revelation) that he’s not a big fan of the more beefy, slightly brainless efforts to make dubstep that have been coming out of the US with increasing frequency of late.
Actually asked about the lack of women in dubstep, Blake told the Boston Phoenix recently: “The things that drew me to dubstep in the first place weren’t necessarily the kind of testosterone-driven environments that you got from say, late jungle or some of the drum n bass stuff that was happening after that. I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers – who I can’t even be bothered naming – have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there’s this macho-ism being reflected in the sounds and the way the music makes you feel”.
He continued: “To me, that is a million miles away from where dubstep started. It’s a million miles away from the ethos of it. It’s been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that’s not really necessary. And I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women. I find that whole side of things to be pretty frustrating, because that is a direct misrepresentation of the sound as far as I’m concerned”.
Read the full interview here.
