Wall of Mouths

MisterHoppy wrote:

You’re confusing Dub and Dubstep mate, and despite the name Dubstep didn’t evolve from dub, it’s (well was back in 98 when the term first came about) a sort of combination of the darker elements of drum and bass and 2-step (a form of garage (not garage rock though) which is even shitter than most garage) before it evolved into what you hear today, DUB on the other hand is the forerunner to remixes (in fact a lot of the early dub pioneers were soundsystem engineers, King Tubby was an electrician and soundsystem operator), it’s a subset of reggae and often involves just the rhythm section of a track (sometimes cut up and re-dubbed) with loops of other instruments and sometimes snippets of vocals dropped in and out with a heavy use of reverb , echo and delay. It quickly became very popular within reggae so you got bands and producers making dub albums without using a vocal track as the starting point (the fact Jamaica didn’t have any copyright laws at the time helped a lot initially).
Basically Reggae has always had very very deep and heavy bass, dub took this a bit further and that’s why dubstep with it’s heavy heavy basslines got dub in its name.

If I’m ever stuck in a music round in a pub quiz I’m getting hold of you!

It didn’t matter whereabouts they had the gags, it was always the tension between Rimmer and Lister that was funny. I think I saw the same documentary and they were discussing how they got a proper budget and went a bit crazy.

With regards to purchasing the box sets, when they first released them onto DVD (with the extras) you got a free Blue Midgit/Starbug etc. with some of them. Might be worth looking out for for when you want to recreate those scenes in your bedroom when you think nobody’s looking. Or is that just me?

I have the VHS collection from when they remastered it and when you put it together it makes a picture of Red Dwarf! How easily amused we were in the days before DVDs! I think I even spent a tenner on each one. I’ve seen them in the charity shops since!

Anything other than Series 7 and I’m happy. Although I don’t know, can they really capture those glory years now all the main characters are middle-aged Brit-com/soap stars?!
Fingers crossed…

I got the vinyl delivered on Saturday…love The Buzzing and Get Your Dead Hand Off My Shoulder. Yes, there are lots of different influences in there. Yes, play it on a decent sound system or you lose the bass. I wouldn’t suggest to play it in the car!
One of the things I love about T? is that they don’t just rehash the same formula time and time again.
Can’t wait hear some of the new stuff played live in April…roll on Leeds!

Oh, and I meant ‘hand’ btw…long day…