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Step into Drumstep

Drumstep? Sorry, what? Heres the math:

Step 1. Imagine Drum and Bass at its normal tempo

Step 2. Halve that tempo

Step 3. Add some subtle Dubstep

Step 4. Out comes Drumstep

Since Dubstep went viral and more importantly mainstream for the first time in the Top Charts, it’s opened decks for many exciting new sounds. Drumstep is the first and biggest movement to come from this history bass-in-the-making.  

Whether you love it or hate it, Drumstep is becoming the new Drum and Bass. Bringing the die-hard Drum and Bass fans out of their shells and into a new world of music. Converting people all over the world, specifically the younger generation are going crazy for it from Europe to the United States. Not only is this changing history, but bringing new opportunities to artists supporting this new movement. 

Okay, so it has been around for quite a while; but this decade everything changes. Now Drumstep has its own pigeon-hole, it’s naturally going to develop more and more. Take Goldie for example ‘The King of Drum & bass’, his very own sound engineer Jim Heist, formally known as Heist, a Drum and Bass Music Producer and a supporter of the latest Drumstep movement. I caught up with Heist and this is what he had to say “Drumstep for me is still D&B, but just at half the tempo that everyone is used to, therefor making it seem different. Over the last couple of years, I myself have contributed to the Drumstep movement with tracks like ‘I need Killers’ and my remix of Document one’s ‘Forgive Me’ which have been really popular and are often talked about to me by my fans and supporters. Drumstep may seem new, but producers like Amit and Matrix had actually been making half time D&B long before the Drumstep name had even been thought up. 

I think that with the massive impact of Dubstep over the last few years is how Drumstep came about and its an interesting concept that often catches people of guard, making them think that the track that they’re listening to is Dubstep when in fact it’s faster - which is what Drumstep is. It’s not until you try to mix a Drumstep track with a Dubstep track that people realise they’re different. I think there’s a love and hate thing that goes on with the name Drumstep. Some DJs are quite comfortable with the name tag of it, whereas others hate it and think it should really just be called D&B still, so not to create yet another sub Genre of the already very segregated D&B scene.”

The new rage for Drumstep means current Drum and Bass artists are having to step up the plate. I spoke to the co-founder of Hospital Records who is responsible for some of Hospital’s biggest anthems,  London Elektricity to see if this was the case. ”I did love the first few Drumstep tunes to emerge but the last 6 months has seen so many generic copy cat tunes that to be honest I’ve had enough of it as a genre, and it’s getting on my nerves as much as dubstep is! All about real Drum and Bass for me at the moment”. For myself, Drum and Bass can only get better. But what exactly does the future hold for Drumstep?

This genre still has so much time to evolve, with routes that haven’t even been explored yet! I’m certainly influenced by this new genre of music, which holds exciting paths to new sounds! So hold on to your vinyls, because Drum step is about to make history 175 BPM. Or is it? 

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One door closes, another opens

Even though all that hard work went to a pretty crappy grade (let me be honest), I’ve learn’t so much from it. My half hour Radio Documentary was looking at Religion and the changes in today’s society, at the time I had so much enthusiasm and determination to get this right that I looked at the bigger picture, missing out all the small details like timing and the point I was trying to put accross as a producer. However, after a Bridget Jones film and a lot of easter eggs devoured I can only learn from these silly mistakes and hope that it makes me more adventurous in my topics of talk. So, I got e-mailing around for some voluntary work which I will not only enjoy and perfect as time goes by, but put my real skills to the test. I’ve always done well with my English Literature and Language and my passion for music is just beyond you can imagine. I’ve put these two together and with a big kick up the backside and a massive inspiration from Zoey Howe, I feel ready to take this on more than ever.

Hooray! I’m now writing and coming up with new ideas for features for I Like Music online magazine! Exciting stuff, so what will be my first feature? Drum Step, of course. All post’s will also be published here, feel free to drop me any ideas you’d like me to endevour and write about! 

I’m very excited. Watch this space!