This is the 2000 th post on Satanical Bots Ritual. time to look at the past. The blog started at October 2008 and will continue to deliver Dark brutal electronic music who don’t give a fuck about what other people says. We’re loud dark and proud of it
I’ve been sick and broke in the last fews week so i had less time for the blog. Will try to give it some love now.
I want also to announce the creation of my own label called Kakophreniq. It will be be dubcore crossbreed focused but you just don’t know. i like to produce lots of different style so perhaps trap is coming who know….
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i just realize i wait way too long between the last episode. to be apologies this one will be full of heavy heavy tunages….
Evol Intent – Middle Of the Night
Label Evol Intent Recordings EILP001
Release Year2008
This song is the perfect romantic melodic darkstep. I remember when i heard first on club. it’s was so catchy yet so dark and powerfull. the breakbeat madness and the distorded reece are pure techstep madness. but the vocal is soft, mellow and delicate. As far as i know it’s rawthang who push this style of really dark catchy melodic techstep. I think Evol Intent just nails this style though. There is no much track of this kind now… it’s the shame cause it work well on the dancefloor. Stuff now are pushed to the threshold of madness (wich i really like though) or soft and cheesy as hell.
This kind of track is all about contrast. The vocal hook is soft and romantic, mellow yet dark and the breakbeat and reece are rough hard and industrial but the sum is more then is part because it give a apocalyptic melancholic tune who work so well on the dancefloor.
This tune is legend… just legend !!! so pay attention because it kind of a big part of the history of dark drum’n'bass.
this is the first real crossbreed track. Everything is huge in this tune. the intro is perfectly crafted with dark and delicate dark orchestra. Then the tunage alternate between hardcore kick and reece/breakbeat darkstep madness. Dj Hidden make something demented that is more then the sum of each part. Obviously you would tell breakbeat + Hardcore Kick = breakcore. The strenght of Dj Hidden track is to show a completly new take on this hard break stuff. Because time like this doesn’t sound at all like breakcore… it sound like … well … crossbreed. breakcore is punkish and raw it’s all about chaos. Time like this is hard as nails but also heavy and clean. It’s the deathmetal of electronic dance music. the crossbreed son of the two most demented music of the hardcore rave continuum : hardcore and drum’n'bass.
And take time to listen to the VIP. this is even more tormented and dark then the original. Killing sheep take age to release the VIP but the wait was so much worth it … a huge huge VIP that really hard something to the tune. Killing Sheep is also a really important label in the birth of Crossbreed. They have released lots of heavy tune that couldn’t be everywhere else at that time. There i don’t give a fuck about commerciality attitude has be so important in the creation of dark drum’n'bass as we know it. techstep was hard in fact lots of drum’n'bass at that time was a lot harder but the really hard stuff haven’t got any room…there was no darkstep/crossbreed scene at that time… Killing sheep is also a legendary label!
A legendary tunage on legendary label that make sense !!!
Resonant Evil – Troubleshoot
Label Renegade hardware RH051
Release year 2003
This track is the perfect exemple of techstep before the neurofunk/darkstep switch. techstep was the sound of the underground around 2000 like brostep is today. All the kids were fonds of techstep. I was part of it. It was everywhere : in action movies, in raves, in free parties, in club. It’s was the cutting edge of the hardcore rave continuum. like the kids do screwface on wooble these days we were screwfacing on hard reeces. the birth of techstep is related the label No U-Turn and techstep as the name implies melt elements of techno (in particular the reece bass) and jungle.
Later on Techstep return to the underground when label like Hospital push some kind of popstep sound, LTK bukem create deep liquid drum’n'bass and the popularity of drum’n'bass decline drasticly. Techstep was in fact much more important then just a sub sub genre. It invented something nu in the club. The club has always be an hedonistic way of having fun. But techstep was something else. It’s was some kind of mesmerizing paranoid apocalyptic way of having fun…. because time have changed. there is no age of love for us. We all do know it. hence the bad popularity of drum’n'bass seen as a bad boy music : too rough, too ruff, too dark. Nowadays Dnb has become “good fun” and nothing more…
Techstep wanted more. it wanted to push the limits of what you could dance for. It was serious music to have fun…the bpm increase from 160 to modern 175, the reece become more and more distorted. the drum keep being phatter, distorted and punchier. It’s over the top music. And the kids loved it like they love today the ugliest “dirtiest” wooble.
So techstep returns to the underground and split into two subgenre. the neurofunk who appear with Optical and Ed Rush ‘s work in Wormhole. Neurofunk push the complexity of modulation to new extreme. They also add science fiction sound design and nu level of production. But neurofunk is something totally new. It’s not dark and rough as techstep. As Noisia said it’s dirty but clean.
Darkstep evolve as the son of drumfunk and techstep. It’s keep the harsh reece of techstep and hard break but add the rythmical complexity of drumfunk. It take time to appear only pushed at the beginning by label like Freak or Outbreak. For me it’s the only part of the drum’n'bass that keep the spirit of techstep alive. Of course reece bass or breakbeat are common in dnb but the spirit of techstep to push thing to extreme is only alive in crossbreed/darkstep.
Anyway enough rambling listen to the tune and appreciate how drum’n'bass was good at that time. In the three producer of Resonant Evil only one still produce as far as i know (gareth) as the mighty Audio
I’ve started the blog on the 13th October 2008. So this means this blog is 4 years old
Lot’s of thing happened during this 4 years ….
Techno-dnb wich was fresh nearly die because most of the tracks were the same. But some labels still release quality techno-dnb. The main thing for me during this 4 years has been the birth of crossbreed leading me to open the blog also to industrial hardcore.
The scene has evolved for the better. Production level has raised a lot but there is still a lots of diversity. of course lots of crossbreed copycat because it’s fresh fun and the stuff everybody want to experiment with. Distortion is so cool and not so easy to handle .
Anyway this blog take me quite a fews time nearly every days. Some time i’m nearly leaving it alone with no update for some days but i always go back because this is the music i love and want to promote. And i’ve got quite a following with around 350 hit per days.It’s not big but not that small. I thing this blog it’s quite is quite usefull for a few people.
Anyway i’m not gonna give so stay tune for 4 more years of bass nightmare … ENJOY !!!
2011 have been a huge year for the darkside nation. That why we have compiled some of the best post of the year. just in case you miss them.
It also have been an huge year for this particular blog. Satanical Bots Ritual have grown a lot. there is now a lot more traffic around 350 hit per day which is not bad for such a hard and underground music style. we have now a facebook page and twitter one so you can spread by your one all the news and keep building the scene. We have also a podcast called Satanicast and lot more to come (but we can tell more for now
The end of the year is always a special time to party but also to bring back what have been new this year. 2011 has indeed been the year of brokencore. We have called here brokencore the new sound that try to melt industrial hardcore with darkstep. Brokencore is now a really important part of the scene bringing hardcore producer to work with broken rythm and darkstep producer to work with industrial distorsion. It’s something that’s great and dark and that work well on the dancefloor. you can also mix it with both darkstep and hardcore leading to more complex and interesting mix for dj and crowd.
In some ways brokencore is a good stuff for darkside nation but what could also destroy darkstep. I will try to explain myself. Darkstep is now at some kind of crossroad. There is a lot more people that like darkstep. Lots of hardcore head that like and listen to darkstep. In some way darkstep is a bit exposed to light and light could kill dark music. I see more and more people mixing darkstep with mainstream anthemish hardcore. More and more pop melodies into pounding hard beats. you can’t say that darkstep isn’t evolving. I’m not again change and in some way a more mainstream part of the darkstep scene is a good thing in the long run. But we all need to be really conscious about this change.
I’m not against melodies : Dj hidden or current value use melodies but challenging, complex, dark ones. I’m not against music a bit more mainstream. But what make darkstep interesting in the first place was (and mostly still is) that every producer has it own style. Limewax drums are not current value sound design that are not serious dark stuff of Dj Hidden. A bit more exposure is good but we got to keep a lot of place for experimentation and creativity. the problem is that the exposure deserve all the hard working and creative producers and not only a fews more popish one
But there is also some other new stuff that are cool. The Bass metal thing of Zardonic or Forbidden Society Recordings that melt metal and drum’n'bass seem to me something really innovative and fresh. Metal grunt or guitar riff share a lot of the aggressivity that darkside nation is about. A lot of darkside producer use to be metalhead and some like Peter Kurten still play in metal band. this could perhaps be the sound of 2012 (before the end of the world
I have chosen the post which have the most views and download on the blog but to give exposure to other less known producers feel free to post the mix and releases of the year in the comment
Anyway the end is near but don’t stop the party. Have fun, fellow darksider and Happy Nu Year
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