Troels Folmann at 8dio asked me to make a demo for their new dubstep sample library. 8dio make fantastic virtual instruments; I’m a huge fan. A lot of the string work you hear on my tracks comes from their Adagio libraries. So, I figured, this is as good a time as any to try to make a dubstep track: an invitation, fresh sounds, and the genre is huge right now, but will fade soon. I actually much prefer the notion of “post-dubstep.” “Post-anything” allows one a certain genre-obliviousness – a perspective I find most fertile. So with dubstep, I figure: Let’s celebrate all the fun possibilities that the genre brought us – a new taste for wild synthesis, sound warping, insane low frequency techniques, and (imo) a bridge from the avant garde electronic music of yesteryear into popular culture. It has opened our ears. And deafened more than a few.
Now, I say, let’s breathe back some dynamics into this kind of music. Let’s create exquisite subtleties to complement the aurgasmic climaxes. After all, you really don’t get much bang for your back if it’s All Climax All The Time. I tried to invoke this sort of expanded dynamic range a bit with this track – while still staying within the genre as it exists now. I had fun making it. May it find its way to receptive ears…