Something like Burial meets James Blake with the R&B sensibilities of Disclosure (I think these brothers have the best name in electronic music)

This is one slick, well-produced track. There’s something kind of Old School Brian McKnight-y about this song. 

H/T to Britticism for the lead.

Source SoundCloud / Maths Time Joy

“I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers— who I can’t even be bothered naming— have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there’s this macho-ism being reflected in the sounds and the way the music makes you feel. And to me, that is a million miles away from where dubstep started. It’s a million miles away from the ethos of it. It’s been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that’s not really necessary. And I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women. I find that whole side of things to be pretty frustrating, because that is a direct misrepresentation of the sound as far as I’m concerned.”

James Blake on American style “Brostep” dubstep.

Two Things:

1) I saw James Blake last night and was totally blown away. I was not at all prepared for how much influence/similarity his work live would have with Burial and Trentemoller. A colleague described his sound as Bon Iver meets Burial which I thought was pretty accurate. 

2) I hate “brostep” with unbridled passion. There is nothing redeeming about it. It’s the musical eviqualent of the worst of American stereotypes: excessive, unsophisticated and completely oblivious to its musical genealogy. Brostep acts like it’s sui generis, which it absolutely is not. It’s the Franzia of electronic music.