Melodic Wonkster

Waerism: “Melodic Wonkster”

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The wobbly “wub wub” has become so commonplace that it often makes dubstep a caricature of itself. It’s novelty is gone and the methods of creating it are easy to find. But maybe this is a good thing and will force those who want to stand out to progress. This new mix is an exploration into melodic wobbles – not just melodic dubstep, mind you, but a focus on that wonkiness. There’s a lot of other interesting routes that dubstep can take other than this. Wobbles can take on new design forms, for example, or they can play the background while other instrumentation creates the composition or atmosphere. A focus on the rhythmic elements is another area. This is just one route we’d like to see more of. Also, we’re aware of the whole Wonky thing. We take wonk in this post to just mean wobble. Some of these dubs are fully realized songs, others are raw melodic wobble. Some are long solos, and others thread multiple wobbly melodies together.

Dumbsteppaz — “The Shogun of Harlem (Sho ‘Nuff)”
Cardopusher — “Milk Thistle”
Geochelone — “Evil”
Stenchman — “Puking Over”
Sa Bat Machines — “Sylvia”
Ed Solo — “Sludge”
Kether — “Goblinz”
Eops — “Softly Softly”
DJ Dore — “Snowcone”
Pacheko — “Bimbo”
Drop The Lime — “We Are The Future”
D-Code and Chan 1 — “Glitterstep (Sub Swara RMX)”
Thark — “Smooth Killer”

Cover painting by Then One