I talked previously about what at that time i’ve called Brokencore. I named this way the nu sound that was emerging: trying to blur line between industrial hardcore and darkstep. I will now call it Crossbreed because it’s the name people stick. there is no use to stay on a name that nobody is using. in fact it’s not the name it’s the music. let’s call it Crossbreed because everybody use this name
So what’s about crossbreed ?
There is more and more people liking this stuff, more and more producer producing it. i think we now should think where we want to push it. In fact even if we don’t want, i think we have to. why ? because Crossbreed is so harsh for a lot of dnb head it’s not drum’n'bass anymore. Darkstep allready had a special place in the drum’n'bass scene being mostly played into hard parties and not your regular jumpup/electrostep that is the mainstream dnb sound. I don’t say to diss this jump up sound it’s just not what i do like. each to his one…
This lead to me to this : Crossbreed need a dedicated scene. We need to build a nu scene around this sound, keeping it fresh and full of creativity. We should try to push parties with mostly or only darkstep/crossbreed/hardcore line up (perhaps it’s not possible everywhere dunno). We should spread the knowledge about this sound.
One point that we should take account also is to try to take better of each sound crossbreed is made of.
One thing that i really like with industrial Hardcore is that it fill the whole spectrum of bpm from 120 bpm doomcore to 240 bpm. speedcore. it’s definetely something we should try to push. I feel it can make parties even more interesting. there is allready some 160 bpm like Igneon System – Fuck God.
The very harsh dubstep sound of Balkansky, Loop Stepwalker, Niveau Zéro or Brainpain could also fit into this low bpm harsh industrial dark as fuck music. it would be cool if we see more 140/160 bpm track in this range to crossbreedize warmup.
On the other hand well produced hard 220 bpm stuff would be nice so we can end the party to full blasting stuff. (this way we could mix crossbreed stuff with UK hardcore stuff that share a same spirit). T
he problem of different bpm is that the first who do it are a bit alone and we need lot’s of tunes in the same bpm so djs can make set with them
One thing i think we should keep is the rythmic creativity of darkstep. Darkstep always had experimental tune with really complex rythm. I hope the crossbreed stuff could mix with this and not means bringing back only to 2 step (with hardcore kickdrum). Complex rythm is so nice and if mixed well could blast the dancefloor.
I hope also we see more live set. nowadays with ableton live or elektron octatrack we can bring full audio quality live pa. This mean we can have far better sounding live pa than in the past. hope we see more of this kind of act as it brings a lots more creativity to the dancefloor. I’m not dissing dj set. Live pa is just another level of control on the sound be in it the composition, in the way the bpm evolve and so on… Hope we see more of these
My last point also could be to stress the spirit of crossbreed. What’s crossbreeding about ?
Is it about putting breakbeat into hardcore drum pattern ? no way it’s not ground breaking Producer or Hellfish does it like years ago. So what really define crossbreed and what make it work on the floor ?
It’s the openmindness of it and the way it bring a nu way to crossfertilize both hardcore and darkstep. This is this spirit of creativity we should keep. if you take Lowroller, Dj Hidden and Switch Technique each of them produce crossbreed but they don’t produce stuff that sound the same. In fact this is why crossbreed is great.
It’s not a formula : just a blank canvas of angry loud harsh dark dance music. and we should try to keep it that way. So let’s hybridize more and more with every thing from rythmic noise, dark ambiant, frenchcore, uk hardcore, dark brostep, death metal and so on… the sky is the limit
Just remind it’s just my point of view not the final God word of wisdom but it’s there so we discuss were we (the producer/dj/party people) want the crossbreed goes
THE FUTUR IS CROSSBREED
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January 31, 2012
Categories: Food for Thought . Tags: Crossbreed . Author: dead by silence . Comments: 4 Comments