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LIFE IS A DJ is planning on unleashing the best collection of core club artists in order to bring you, our participants, friends and family in Music, the cutting edge of new wave.
Call it what you may, but the eclectic electronic sounds that you are set to hear go beyond current genres and stereotypical type casts. LIFE IS A DJ events promise this only.
DUBSTEP
Dubstep music was one of the first genres of music to emerge in the 21st century, having developed right around the start of the new millennium. It was primarily influenced by the Grime and 2-Step scenes popular in the United Kingdom at the end of the 1990s and early 2000s and has also integrated elements of breakbeat and drum & bass music. The term ‘Dubstep’ first started to be used around the year 2002, by which time it had fully developed into its own genre of music and began to receive mainstream recognition.
Dubstep is predominately instrumental, though vocal samples are not uncommon. The rhythm loops and drum tracks used in Dubstep can give the impression of being slowed down, as if they were actually played at half the speed of other elements in the song. The bass line tends to be the focal part of any Dubstep track, with special attention given to processing and mixing sub bass frequencies (those below 100 Hz). As a rule of thumb, the tempo usually ranges from between 130 and 150 BPM.
The club “Forward>>,” located in London, was the first establishment to host a regular Dubstep event. The BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel was one of the first recognizable figures in the music industry to embrace the sounds of early Dubstep and was known to include Dubstep song in his radio sets in 2003 until his death in 2004. Other influential DJs and producers involved in the genre at the time included Skream, Benga and Plastician, to name a few. By 2005, Dubstep had grown from a local UK scene into a worldwide movement, with Dubstep events being held in the United States, Japan and elsewhere.
Currently, some of the biggest names in Dubstep today include Skream, Benga, Rusko and Boxcutter, all of whom are based out the United Kingdom. Influential Dubstep record labels include Planet Mu, Dub Police, Z Audio, Hotflush Recordings and Tectonic.
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DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Over a decade ago producing quality and professionally sounding mastered tracks meant expensive studio hardware, expensive computers that were custom built and even a mediocre set up could set you back thousands. Racks upon racks of machines like compressors, fx units, synthesizers, keyboards and analogue mixing desks were all the norm back then plugged into countless numbers of cables and not to mention the ring main and plug sockets needed to power them. So – how about in 2010?
The ‘Digital Revolution’ came along and made a big change in the whole process of making music, DJing and even the way in which music was sold. Physical sales in music saw a massive decline in vinyl and CD’s as music download stores sprang up all over the internet.
In the world of home recording, the whole process of making high quality professionally sounding music has become more affordable for most people who want to learn. The immense power of computers has meant that a lot of hardware can now be emulated through your music creation software or DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) and with software plug-ins which give the same kind of results. Does this mean hardware is dead? Not at all – Some studios still rely heavily on hardware units but these days digital and analogue work in tandem. Some engineers and producers still prefer the warm analogue sounds of their fx units over the digital sound and some will say that you still can’t beat hardware in terms of sound quality or putting the finish on a track within the mastering stage.
Of course you still need a good setup with decent audio monitors, a powerful computer, a decent screen and decent software but what is important today for the digital producer is the hardware used to tweak the virtual devices on screen. If you can’t physically tweak dials, knobs and faders with your hands – you’re changing these settings on screen with a mouse and one thing with this – musical expression and creativity really can go out of the window. Today there are a vast amount of MIDI controllers, keyboards and control surfaces out there which will do the job and are all designed to do different things. They all have the same thing in common which is that they don’t send or receive audio signals and the only information they send is Midi (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data. Midi Keyboards are be able to play on screen virtual studio instruments, Midi control surfaces act like a mixing desk giving full control over track and the software mixers and other performance controllers can be used for tweaking all different kinds of plugins and effects on the fly.
Recently we’ve seen a big increase of pro-audio manufacturers bringing out Midi equipment that’s able to work right out of the box with most common music software meaning users doesn’t have to sit and spend time mapping Midi commands to each fader and knob manually. With today’s technology and a recent increase in the number of performance controllers – producers and engineers can really unlock their full potential and freely express their music creativity.
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