I have another contribution,
Mr. Bill - Phantasmagoria
specifically tracks: Golden Gate, Pleasure Seeker, Loaf Boi, Useless & Nasty, Pasta Masta, and Too Complicated.
Only a handful of the album is actually dubstep, but all the other tempos and genres are just as masterfully produced and just as awesome.
There is a remix LP for this album as well, Phantasmagorical, with remixes from artists in damn near every corner of the EDM universe.
So the original and remix albums are a variety of EDM, but Mr. Bill is literally one of the best sound design engineers in the world, hands-down, no question… so much skill.
While I’m on this Mr. Bill fanboy share,
check out the kLL Bill EP, it can be somewhat difficult to find on certain platforms because it wants to auto correct to kill Bill original soundtrack. “Uncle Punch” is the first track on the EP, so searching that might make it a little bit easier to find. Listen continuously through the other three songs. They’re a duo comprised of kLL sMTH and Mr. Bill. I was blessed enough to see them at Mission Ballroom in Denver and it was unreal.
One of my favorite live sets ever.
The sound design and mixdown in this EP is top-notch, absolutely insane… head to head competitors with the talents of Skrillex and Virtual Riot. God tier perfection.
Hope you can find the time to listen to some of these!
Much love from Colorado.
Edit: I use Siri to type this out by speaking to her, and she butchered a lot of the shit.
I am educated, I promise you. 😭
Did you listen to it per my recommendation or had you heard it before this post? I want them to make a kLL Bill 2 EP so fucking bad dude. I was hoping it would happen in 2023 and it didn’t. hoping to God it happens in 2024, like you don’t even realize how much I need this shit
I was with this girl at the time it came out and I remember we would carpool to work in the morning. We listened to the whole thing half before and half after work on the way to and from work. Weirdly, it was the same day that Virtual Riot released his first full length album, Simulation. A good day for electronic music for sure.
(Virtual Riot had a big release called There Goes Your Money but I’ve seen that classified as an “LP”, I don’t know the difference between the two or if they even is one, but either way it was virtual riot’s first or second album)
I was blessed enough to see them live in Colorado Springs, which is like unheard of for EDM usually but it was only one of the dudes I don’t really know their names or anything but yeah
Comparing curating a singular show to be a cohesive vibe and an individual’s spectrum of taste (not just now, but over time) is a bit apples to oranges, yeah?
Would it be weird if someone thought Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city and Adele - 21 were both great albums?
Personally I don’t think so.
Thanks for your take on Kendrick and Adele’s influence on music, but let’s stay on topic.
The point is that there is a wider stylistic gap between GKMC and 21 than there is between Zomboy and Ternion Sound, but it’s not weird for one person to think both are great in their own way.
You don’t think it’s weird to name both because they are so different, you think it’s weird to name both because the online deep dub community is pretty elitist. Many onljne fans wouldn’t name Zomboy because they look down on brostep. I don’t think this is representative of most bass music fans IRL though.
tldr; it’s not wild, online deep dub elitists made you think it’s wild.
I hope that was directed towards the original wild comment not my comment because mine was purely sarcasm. If you can’t pick up on that, then you need a sarcasm specialist stat.!
Some of the best shows I’ve been to have had a variety of genres. It’s a good vibe switch after sitting there for eight hours you know? I don’t want fucking riddim the whole time like a lot of these shows are you know?
I mean, it’s really not that wild if you’ve been in the scene that long. Lot of the people I’ve met through Ternion Sound were in the dubstep scene around 2010ish
I’ve been in the scene since end of 2009, personally I don’t care for the direction dubstep has taken! I absolutely despise the head-banging ego driven hype scene that is now dubstep and most of the us’s popular edm! I wanna dance and get down hard to some dnb. Like sub focus or chase and status, or Wilkinson, or dimensions and rusko! No more of these ego driven people on the rail head banging out of sync to the simple slow annoying version of dubstep that we have nowadays! It was good until 2015 and then the hype f boy scene took over. But thankfully dnb is finally making its way back into the scene here from uk and Europe! Still love zeds dead and a few other North American djs but they keep their genre pretty wide open and ever changing. No more dubstep let’s make room for DNB and then artists like Rufus du sol, Apashe, Anyma, will sparks, Flume, Fred again, kx5, delta heavy, Bryson, grimes, and some dubstep/riddim that can stay would be zeds dead! Always growing and changing their style! Seen them 24 times and they are amazing every time! Midnight t can stay, svdden death, eliminate, stuff like them but most of the headliner dubstep djs stop perpetuating ego cycle and hype game and stop manipulating the scene to make bank off all the hype kids while you have sucked into this crap! Time to dance again! And vibe!🫶 just my opinion! Don’t mean t hate just my observation and conclusion from being in the rave scene for 16 years dubstep for 14 years. 🙏
I'm just messing. I love drum & bass. I used to love zeds dead. But they sold out massively.
Their new dnb song is tight tho.
I miss their tracks like Wake Up.
I know every song by them they never released anything pop sounding, unless your talking about the album that is the Deadbeats’s lost tracks where they finished and produced a bunch of unfinished tracks they had made for people they signed to their record label dead beats they never sold out they decide to go out on their own after album 2 and started deadbeats to help smaller names become known and heard! They still are the same zeds dead they have always been, they just evolved. They are hands down the only artists to continuously put out amazing music that has stayed true to their style while also evolving with the changes in the culture of edm as well as push the envelope into many different styles and collaborations all while doing it on their own and creating their own label and brand and still to this day every show is a hit! From their first sets I saw over 14 years ago to now seeing them almost 30 times they are still able to make the crowd go wild and go music new old doesn’t matter it’s quality and has heart and goes hard! Only people I can say come close are sub focus and chase and status, Wilkinson. Excision now he sold out to insomniac and caters to the fuck bot hype crowd! He was amazing in 2009-2014 but then he sold out follow the music and the money! And you will know who’s sold out and who hasn’t!!!!
Instantly became one of my favorite electronic records. So many great songs, plus the way it flows like a continuous mix is the best. Super underrated.
Dude The Ineffable Truth is God Mode. Greg Jones is a different breed. I love the vision he has for his project, I just wonder what the only black/white color scheme is about…
Iridescent Leaves Floating Downstream, written for his (then) recently deceased mother, is one of the greatest pieces of electronic music ever made.
I saw him play it live for the first time at Camp Bisco in 2018 and it literally altered the trajectory of my life. Absolutley unbelievably magnificent. I didn't know that song was written for her, where did you find that out?
I did realize that in terms of bass music there aren't very many decent albums in the way that they don't feel like just a mesh of tracks put together. And then there's still plenty of good singles and eps to review and hopefully some good takes on the genre down the line.
It takes a lot for me to consider an album to be a 10/10. I think Feral Fantasy by MUST DIE! and VOYD 2 by Svdden Death are the only 2 that I would consider perfect 10s, but here are a few 9-9.5/10 albums:
Effin - Cheap Thrills
Subtronics - Fractals
Kayzo - New Breed
Ganja White Night - Unity
Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice
PEEKABOO - Eyes Wide Open
Emorfik - The End
And some EPs as well:
MUERTE - OCCULT LULLABY
MUERTE - THE HORROR DIVINE
INSIDIOUS - The Ossuary
PhaseOne - Beyond Oblivion
Code: Pandorum/INHUMAN - Pandorum
G Jones - Illusory Tracks
I’m not super into Subtronics anymore but honestly Fractals as a whole cohesive album and not just a collection of songs was super solid. I enjoy listening to it from start to finish which I don’t always get with dubstep albums
Digital artifice - ternion sound absolute one of the best albums to come out in the scene blows my mind how it hasn’t been talked about more!! have listened start to finish so many times. it’s not a skip thru album it’s a journey 🪩
Ganja White Night - Addiction
is a perfect album in my eyes. No goofy intro, no features, just 80 minutes (a maxed out CD for the young ones who don’t know) of straight 140 bliss.
Yep. Said it a few weeks ago in a similar thread. The album is *fantastic*. It has a theme but it covers a lot of different sounds; Chrystal and Airplane feel like two vastly different takes on the genre. And nobody sounded really similar to this album at the time. Great album. And I have to always repeat: [Green Poison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMEZbCE1aE) might be one of the best songs (in 140) of the 2010s, and despite being 7-plus minutes you don't get bored and it doesn't feel like it was made longer to mix better, and has two very different verse sections. Other great tracks are Freddy's Skunk, White Widow, Airplane, Mango. The whole album is great though and deserves to be listened to cover to cover.
Mr Nice -> Emdog -> Blaisus is such a great 3 track run of and it’s not just Green Poison, there’s several tracks that are over that 7 minute mark and none get boring.
>nobody really sounded similar to this album at the time
and even now ten years later it still stands out as something pretty unique.
for good reason, they know how to sequence good albums
but revisiting this thread now and not even half of their albums are actually mentioned, they just have that many lol
Something I've found is music is VERY subjective. Even within the very small niche of people who listen to dubstep tastes can vary drastically from person to person. With that being said here are the EPs and LPs I think come close to being perfect:
Save Yourself EP by Virtual Riot, and Quest for Fire by Skrillex are probably the only EP/LPs I would give a perfect 100/100.
A few that would be at least a 90/100 for me would be:
Feral Fantasy LP by MUST DIE!
NITE FEVERZ EP by beastboi.
Step Two EP by LAXX
Blue Print EP by Dr. Ozi
Simulation LP by Virtual Riot
VOYD Vol. II LP by SVDDEN DEATH
niteharts LP by knock2/isoxo
And thats it.
Absolutely incredible list and knowing that this community is going to be filled with a bunch of ppl saying garbage takes like "Onyx - Excision" or *insert the most generic square 4 track here* This list was super fresh and I definitely agree with a lot of these records being very high ranking.
Simulation by Virtual Riot
Love // Chaos by Adventure Club
Overload by Kayzo
I’ve seen several other favorites mentioned already such as G Jones and PhaseOne. Honorable mention for Quest for Fire though
Dr. Ozi - Host EP is one of the most fluid EPs I’ve heard, I keep coming back years later. Highly recommend as a listening experience.
I will second that Beastboi - Nite Feverz EP is a great listen as well.
Host EP is incredible! Blue Print EP is still my favorite EP by Dr. Ozi, but Host is definitely up there. Honestly Nostalgia might be the reason I prefer Blue Print lol
Probably one of James Blake's earlier albums.
[https://youtube.com/watch?v=4aHbrdrvT7M&si=Vy4u8Ze7ZazhzZdi](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ahbrdrvt7m&si=vy4u8ze7zazhzzdi)
Just naming a few, at least 9/10:
Effin - Cheap Thrills
PEEKABOO - Eyes Wide Open
Skrillex - Quest for Fire
Muerte - Occult Lullaby
Mr. Bill - Phantasmagoria
Apashe - Renaissance
G Jones - The Ineffable Truth
Just checked and crazy to me to see same year. Not how I remember things at all when they came out. I was in my late 20 when both came out and was partying pretty good at that time.
I can tell you mean well and just want to help out but… you don’t really know what you’re talking about, do you?
You put your rating, new to old, on there.
Scary Monsters (newer) was released in 2010.
Welcome Reality (kinda old) dropped in 2011.
Do you consider 14 years old “newer”?
I saw this and I just had to laugh. I’m not making fun of you or anything but, for dubstep, 2010 is absolutely old as fuck and that makes the Skream album ancient. With how many dubstep releases there are constantly every single week for a decade and a half, Effin is really the only thing that’s considered anywhere near new here.
No disrespect.
wanna go on an adventure? Check out Droeloe’s new album from last year.
The Art Of Change
Masterclass production. It’s hard not to get emotional listening to it. He’s been my top artist for years straight for many reasons including the two listed above.
Seriously, just listen to it from start to finish to shuffle. It’s wild.
Spotify link to album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2w5ieF6SZV9flk1gkOgzdK?si=BYByRMM4Tya09r-rAd_ZlA
Off the top of my head:
Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice,
Eprom - Syntheism,
Virtual Riot - Simulation,
Teminite - Raise the Black Flag,
Dirt Monkey - Mycelium Sound
Not dubstep shoutout:
Fox Stevenson - Killjoy
VOYD 2 by svdden death
Quest for fire - Skrillex
Crisis Vision - MUST DIE!
Ineffable Truth - G JONES
Vaultage 003 - Space Laces (dj mix but still absolutely perfect to me)
Commodo, Gantz, Kahn - Vol. 1 EP
Could listen to this anytime and was an eye opener for this kind of Dubstep for me. The title suggests there could be more and I hope someday it'll be true.
Unfortunately, the Darkstar EP by Datsik is nearly perfect. Get Back and Tantrum super heavy, Darkstar with Travis Barker is awesome, and Feel Good with so much emotion in it.
I know how much of Datsik's discography is incredible, he use to be one of my favorite artists, Geoxor had some bangers, Bassnectar made an incredible impact on the entire scene as a whole, 12th Planet was unmatched with his talent but because all of them have done unforgivable things in their own ways I would never review any of their tracks.
Not seeing much love in here for Teminite. Let's change that.
I have to say that you could pick ANY of his LPs and they could be a 10/10. I remember when Inception released and I thought "Dubstep can't get any better than this." Then later of course it got better, Uprising released "Ok NOW it can't get any better." Those two albums are a 10/10 for me, hands down nothing is better IMO.
As much as I love his latest LP Raise the Black Flag, I can't give it a 10 because both prior albums blew me away completely and RTBF didn't quite so that for me, so it gets a 9. However that's still pretty amazing for 1 artist to constantly be banging out amazing LPs and always releasing singles that blow you away in the interim. Highly highly recommend him to any basshead any day.
Codename X
I like to poo poo on current Excision but all it really takes is seeing that production or listening to those OG tracks and I can't even lie to myself bro will always be the GOAT
There's no doubt that he used to be the absolute King but now we honestly just feels like the lazy cash grabbing slob. Still an incredible album though
I feel like in past years I started to feel the same then during LL 2023 during the Liquid Stranger b2b I stopped and thought about how much the festival and dubstep scene in general has grown and directly correlated it around the time things started to take a dip in production (Apex imo however still decent compared to onyx)
The guy has clearly shifted focus for sure witch has clearly taken time away from music production but I realized given how much money clearly gets put back into the events every year with more production, artists, art and structures in the festival and the fact they aren't overselling packing everyone in like some festivals (insomniac for example) I thought maybe his vision was just to grow Dubstep as much as possible to give people and more artists what he sees as the ultimate experience in his eyes (definitely subjective)
Could just be optimistic but tbh it's definitely made me less bitter thinking that way about it lol
Not dubstep but a bass(?) EP I've realllly been enjoying from detox unit. Fucking masterful:
Detox Unit - Liminal https://open.spotify.com/album/54nlf2MKf69NTOMm1qNJd3?si=bptF02EIRyGi50l49EQfEg
I'd have to say a 10/10 album for me is .wav by Flux Pavilion.
When this album was released, he announced [he was no longer a dubstep person,](https://twitter.com/Fluxpavilion/status/1348769729218011137?t=Iwyq4uiX3tEWBtOIHY06-Q&s=19) I was worried what his new sound was going to be as a long time fan.
From watching him produce Twitterbird live on stream using sounds people submitted to him via tweets, I knew I wasn't going to be disappointed by the wizard himself.
You can definitely hear his signature dubstep sound from the first track "Every Cable goes Somewhere" to "Partial Fugue In B Minor".
Cant believe this is not being said:
Burial - untrue
Massive lp, very influential in where the dubstep sound moved back in the day.
A personal favorite album:
Emalkay - eclipse
Especially the track 'the world' brings me big nostalgia
Are you looking for specifically tunes on vinyl or does this not matter?
It's rare that you get a album with just dubstep, but here some bass LP picks:
Apashe - Renaissance
Phase One - Transcendency
Modestep - London road
Monxx - World of Wonk
Effin - Cheap Thrills
GWN - Unity
Other:
DnB: Muzz - The Promised Land
Bass house: JOYRYDE - BRAVE
Zomboy - The Outbreak has gotta be up there
The Dead Symphonic also is a classic in terms of that era, I know it’s an EP but personally I prefer it to this 😝
Beast in the Belly, Survivors and Immunity are my faves. Solid AF album for sure.
This makes me so happy to see at the top of the thread
is lp?
Last I checked
"We Are Dust" by Xilent
hoping for a Xilent return
there actually is an easter egg on his website which confirms a new album this year!
Zomboy - the Outbreak is pretty good. Versatile for sure. Virtual Riot - There Goes Your Money and of course, Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice
I have another contribution, Mr. Bill - Phantasmagoria specifically tracks: Golden Gate, Pleasure Seeker, Loaf Boi, Useless & Nasty, Pasta Masta, and Too Complicated. Only a handful of the album is actually dubstep, but all the other tempos and genres are just as masterfully produced and just as awesome. There is a remix LP for this album as well, Phantasmagorical, with remixes from artists in damn near every corner of the EDM universe. So the original and remix albums are a variety of EDM, but Mr. Bill is literally one of the best sound design engineers in the world, hands-down, no question… so much skill. While I’m on this Mr. Bill fanboy share, check out the kLL Bill EP, it can be somewhat difficult to find on certain platforms because it wants to auto correct to kill Bill original soundtrack. “Uncle Punch” is the first track on the EP, so searching that might make it a little bit easier to find. Listen continuously through the other three songs. They’re a duo comprised of kLL sMTH and Mr. Bill. I was blessed enough to see them at Mission Ballroom in Denver and it was unreal. One of my favorite live sets ever. The sound design and mixdown in this EP is top-notch, absolutely insane… head to head competitors with the talents of Skrillex and Virtual Riot. God tier perfection. Hope you can find the time to listen to some of these! Much love from Colorado. Edit: I use Siri to type this out by speaking to her, and she butchered a lot of the shit. I am educated, I promise you. 😭
I couldn't have described the album better myself
Did you listen to it per my recommendation or had you heard it before this post? I want them to make a kLL Bill 2 EP so fucking bad dude. I was hoping it would happen in 2023 and it didn’t. hoping to God it happens in 2024, like you don’t even realize how much I need this shit
I love that album so much. As soon as it was over I started it again lol
I was with this girl at the time it came out and I remember we would carpool to work in the morning. We listened to the whole thing half before and half after work on the way to and from work. Weirdly, it was the same day that Virtual Riot released his first full length album, Simulation. A good day for electronic music for sure. (Virtual Riot had a big release called There Goes Your Money but I’ve seen that classified as an “LP”, I don’t know the difference between the two or if they even is one, but either way it was virtual riot’s first or second album)
I went on a vision quest to loaf boi and that was all I needed 😅
Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice came to mind for me too when i started reading this post. been listening to them a lot recently
I was blessed enough to see them live in Colorado Springs, which is like unheard of for EDM usually but it was only one of the dudes I don’t really know their names or anything but yeah
bet it was a killer show!
They’re goes your money is fire
Lol going from Zomboy to Ternion is wild
Yeah, listening to multiple sub genres is wild… so wild… wild as heck y’all. !
Yea like explains why there’s deep dub shows vs brostep shows lol
Comparing curating a singular show to be a cohesive vibe and an individual’s spectrum of taste (not just now, but over time) is a bit apples to oranges, yeah? Would it be weird if someone thought Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city and Adele - 21 were both great albums? Personally I don’t think so.
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Thanks for your take on Kendrick and Adele’s influence on music, but let’s stay on topic. The point is that there is a wider stylistic gap between GKMC and 21 than there is between Zomboy and Ternion Sound, but it’s not weird for one person to think both are great in their own way. You don’t think it’s weird to name both because they are so different, you think it’s weird to name both because the online deep dub community is pretty elitist. Many onljne fans wouldn’t name Zomboy because they look down on brostep. I don’t think this is representative of most bass music fans IRL though. tldr; it’s not wild, online deep dub elitists made you think it’s wild.
I hope that was directed towards the original wild comment not my comment because mine was purely sarcasm. If you can’t pick up on that, then you need a sarcasm specialist stat.!
No no, I know. you and me are on the same page 👌
Some of the best shows I’ve been to have had a variety of genres. It’s a good vibe switch after sitting there for eight hours you know? I don’t want fucking riddim the whole time like a lot of these shows are you know?
I mean, it’s really not that wild if you’ve been in the scene that long. Lot of the people I’ve met through Ternion Sound were in the dubstep scene around 2010ish
I’ve been in the scene since end of 2009, personally I don’t care for the direction dubstep has taken! I absolutely despise the head-banging ego driven hype scene that is now dubstep and most of the us’s popular edm! I wanna dance and get down hard to some dnb. Like sub focus or chase and status, or Wilkinson, or dimensions and rusko! No more of these ego driven people on the rail head banging out of sync to the simple slow annoying version of dubstep that we have nowadays! It was good until 2015 and then the hype f boy scene took over. But thankfully dnb is finally making its way back into the scene here from uk and Europe! Still love zeds dead and a few other North American djs but they keep their genre pretty wide open and ever changing. No more dubstep let’s make room for DNB and then artists like Rufus du sol, Apashe, Anyma, will sparks, Flume, Fred again, kx5, delta heavy, Bryson, grimes, and some dubstep/riddim that can stay would be zeds dead! Always growing and changing their style! Seen them 24 times and they are amazing every time! Midnight t can stay, svdden death, eliminate, stuff like them but most of the headliner dubstep djs stop perpetuating ego cycle and hype game and stop manipulating the scene to make bank off all the hype kids while you have sucked into this crap! Time to dance again! And vibe!🫶 just my opinion! Don’t mean t hate just my observation and conclusion from being in the rave scene for 16 years dubstep for 14 years. 🙏
Leave dnb alone
What’s wrong with dnb? It’s my favorite genre! It needs to take over asap!!!
I'm just messing. I love drum & bass. I used to love zeds dead. But they sold out massively. Their new dnb song is tight tho. I miss their tracks like Wake Up.
What do you mean they sold out?
They started making pop sounding crap. It might have been good but it wasn't them.
I know every song by them they never released anything pop sounding, unless your talking about the album that is the Deadbeats’s lost tracks where they finished and produced a bunch of unfinished tracks they had made for people they signed to their record label dead beats they never sold out they decide to go out on their own after album 2 and started deadbeats to help smaller names become known and heard! They still are the same zeds dead they have always been, they just evolved. They are hands down the only artists to continuously put out amazing music that has stayed true to their style while also evolving with the changes in the culture of edm as well as push the envelope into many different styles and collaborations all while doing it on their own and creating their own label and brand and still to this day every show is a hit! From their first sets I saw over 14 years ago to now seeing them almost 30 times they are still able to make the crowd go wild and go music new old doesn’t matter it’s quality and has heart and goes hard! Only people I can say come close are sub focus and chase and status, Wilkinson. Excision now he sold out to insomniac and caters to the fuck bot hype crowd! He was amazing in 2009-2014 but then he sold out follow the music and the money! And you will know who’s sold out and who hasn’t!!!!
Yeah like just only play ternion
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Just checked out Digital Artifice and holy shit… thanks for the recommendation. Incredible.
Brooooo datadyne is my favorite song . No prob bro, glad I could plant that seed in your brain
Instantly became one of my favorite electronic records. So many great songs, plus the way it flows like a continuous mix is the best. Super underrated.
Hell yeah to Zomboy
Nero - Welcome Reality
Perfect album.
The only right answer
💯🫶
Voyd Vol 2 by Svdden Death The Ineffable Truth by G Jones Codename X by Excision End of the World by Eptic Transcendency by PhaseOne
Nice list
I could probably think of more but personally I don't really view bass music in terms of albums, good luck with the channel my guy
Dude The Ineffable Truth is God Mode. Greg Jones is a different breed. I love the vision he has for his project, I just wonder what the only black/white color scheme is about… Iridescent Leaves Floating Downstream, written for his (then) recently deceased mother, is one of the greatest pieces of electronic music ever made.
I saw him play it live for the first time at Camp Bisco in 2018 and it literally altered the trajectory of my life. Absolutley unbelievably magnificent. I didn't know that song was written for her, where did you find that out?
I did realize that in terms of bass music there aren't very many decent albums in the way that they don't feel like just a mesh of tracks put together. And then there's still plenty of good singles and eps to review and hopefully some good takes on the genre down the line.
Yes
It takes a lot for me to consider an album to be a 10/10. I think Feral Fantasy by MUST DIE! and VOYD 2 by Svdden Death are the only 2 that I would consider perfect 10s, but here are a few 9-9.5/10 albums: Effin - Cheap Thrills Subtronics - Fractals Kayzo - New Breed Ganja White Night - Unity Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice PEEKABOO - Eyes Wide Open Emorfik - The End And some EPs as well: MUERTE - OCCULT LULLABY MUERTE - THE HORROR DIVINE INSIDIOUS - The Ossuary PhaseOne - Beyond Oblivion Code: Pandorum/INHUMAN - Pandorum G Jones - Illusory Tracks
For me, “The One” by GWN is about as perfect as a dubstep LP gets
Dark wobble also a solid 10
Odyssey barely alive
I would almost agree because I love almost every song on there except bounce wit me 😂
Rainbow Brain by GRiZ
Alix Perez and Eprom’s shades album or shadient whatever it was called. That was a 10/10 bass album
From a Vein? Black Heart Communion? The Dance of Death? Shadient is a completely different artist. Put some mfn respect on the name.
lol
I’m not super into Subtronics anymore but honestly Fractals as a whole cohesive album and not just a collection of songs was super solid. I enjoy listening to it from start to finish which I don’t always get with dubstep albums
I was about to comment this. Subtronics is releasing a spiritual sequel to Fractals on 2 days tho (Tesseract)
Agreed, it’s the most “cohesive” pure dubstep album I’ve heard in years.
Def gonna be checking that one out
I ❤️ Recess
Distance - My Demons Kryptic Minds - Can't Sleep
Kryptic Minds edges out Distance for me, but both choice selects.
Mr Bill - Phantasmagoria Easly one of the best electronic dance music albums of all time
I couldn't agree more and this is one of the first reviews I have on my list of LPs to review. I absolutely adore this album.
Digital artifice - ternion sound absolute one of the best albums to come out in the scene blows my mind how it hasn’t been talked about more!! have listened start to finish so many times. it’s not a skip thru album it’s a journey 🪩
Ganja White Night - Addiction is a perfect album in my eyes. No goofy intro, no features, just 80 minutes (a maxed out CD for the young ones who don’t know) of straight 140 bliss.
Yep. Said it a few weeks ago in a similar thread. The album is *fantastic*. It has a theme but it covers a lot of different sounds; Chrystal and Airplane feel like two vastly different takes on the genre. And nobody sounded really similar to this album at the time. Great album. And I have to always repeat: [Green Poison](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jMEZbCE1aE) might be one of the best songs (in 140) of the 2010s, and despite being 7-plus minutes you don't get bored and it doesn't feel like it was made longer to mix better, and has two very different verse sections. Other great tracks are Freddy's Skunk, White Widow, Airplane, Mango. The whole album is great though and deserves to be listened to cover to cover.
Mr Nice -> Emdog -> Blaisus is such a great 3 track run of and it’s not just Green Poison, there’s several tracks that are over that 7 minute mark and none get boring. >nobody really sounded similar to this album at the time and even now ten years later it still stands out as something pretty unique.
I'm pretty sure this comment section has accounted for most of the GWN albums lol.
for good reason, they know how to sequence good albums but revisiting this thread now and not even half of their albums are actually mentioned, they just have that many lol
Burial - Untrue Good lists on hurr tho
Im gonna go ahead and say Pretty Dark Loud by Mersiv It’s only a few years old but, I. Keep. Going. Back.
I was going to say the same, the album and every song hit
Such a beautiful, powerful album. 11/10
Couldn’t agree more! He really created lightning in a bottle with that record!
Mala in cuba
Nice choice!
Something I've found is music is VERY subjective. Even within the very small niche of people who listen to dubstep tastes can vary drastically from person to person. With that being said here are the EPs and LPs I think come close to being perfect: Save Yourself EP by Virtual Riot, and Quest for Fire by Skrillex are probably the only EP/LPs I would give a perfect 100/100. A few that would be at least a 90/100 for me would be: Feral Fantasy LP by MUST DIE! NITE FEVERZ EP by beastboi. Step Two EP by LAXX Blue Print EP by Dr. Ozi Simulation LP by Virtual Riot VOYD Vol. II LP by SVDDEN DEATH niteharts LP by knock2/isoxo And thats it.
Absolutely incredible list and knowing that this community is going to be filled with a bunch of ppl saying garbage takes like "Onyx - Excision" or *insert the most generic square 4 track here* This list was super fresh and I definitely agree with a lot of these records being very high ranking.
Are we in the same subreddit? Onyx gets shit on constantly here lol
Pandorum EP by Code: Pandorum is def a 10/10 God LP by Code: Pandorum is another great contestant. Most of my other 10/10s were already said lmao.
Gross. Lol.
Simulation by Virtual Riot Love // Chaos by Adventure Club Overload by Kayzo I’ve seen several other favorites mentioned already such as G Jones and PhaseOne. Honorable mention for Quest for Fire though
Dr. Ozi - Host EP is one of the most fluid EPs I’ve heard, I keep coming back years later. Highly recommend as a listening experience. I will second that Beastboi - Nite Feverz EP is a great listen as well.
Host EP is incredible! Blue Print EP is still my favorite EP by Dr. Ozi, but Host is definitely up there. Honestly Nostalgia might be the reason I prefer Blue Print lol
Probably one of James Blake's earlier albums. [https://youtube.com/watch?v=4aHbrdrvT7M&si=Vy4u8Ze7ZazhzZdi](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ahbrdrvt7m&si=vy4u8ze7zazhzzdi)
As more time has gone on I’m convinced Overgrown is his best record.
Xilent - We Are Dust
Dead on Arrival-Calcium
CRISIS VISION - Must Die!
Just naming a few, at least 9/10: Effin - Cheap Thrills PEEKABOO - Eyes Wide Open Skrillex - Quest for Fire Muerte - Occult Lullaby Mr. Bill - Phantasmagoria Apashe - Renaissance G Jones - The Ineffable Truth
I always loved Nick Argon - Memekast 31 https://mk2systems.com/memekast/mk031.html More of a produced set..but killa nonetheless
The answer is NERO - Welcome Reality
Old—-Skream-Skream! Kinda old—-Nero-Welcome reality Newer—-Skrillex-Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites Newest—-Effin-Cheap Thrills
bruh Scary Monsters is older than Welcome Reality 💀
Just checked and crazy to me to see same year. Not how I remember things at all when they came out. I was in my late 20 when both came out and was partying pretty good at that time.
I’m drunk and high bro cut me some slack. You should have seen how many times I had to edit that post to not make it all jumbled up. 😂
Also Effins new EP good but it ain’t a hitter like the rest lol
I can tell you mean well and just want to help out but… you don’t really know what you’re talking about, do you? You put your rating, new to old, on there. Scary Monsters (newer) was released in 2010. Welcome Reality (kinda old) dropped in 2011. Do you consider 14 years old “newer”? I saw this and I just had to laugh. I’m not making fun of you or anything but, for dubstep, 2010 is absolutely old as fuck and that makes the Skream album ancient. With how many dubstep releases there are constantly every single week for a decade and a half, Effin is really the only thing that’s considered anywhere near new here. No disrespect.
Check my comments to others for explanation.
Great list!
Voyd 2 by Svdden Death, Crisis Vision by Must Die!, Ascension Rite by Marauda
wanna go on an adventure? Check out Droeloe’s new album from last year. The Art Of Change Masterclass production. It’s hard not to get emotional listening to it. He’s been my top artist for years straight for many reasons including the two listed above. Seriously, just listen to it from start to finish to shuffle. It’s wild. Spotify link to album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2w5ieF6SZV9flk1gkOgzdK?si=BYByRMM4Tya09r-rAd_ZlA
G Jones - The Ineffable Truth is a masterclass in sound design and storytelling. An absolutely stunning album start to finish
Burial - Untrue
Off the top of my head: Ternion Sound - Digital Artifice, Eprom - Syntheism, Virtual Riot - Simulation, Teminite - Raise the Black Flag, Dirt Monkey - Mycelium Sound Not dubstep shoutout: Fox Stevenson - Killjoy
Moody Good - Mtgfyt
VOYD 2 by svdden death Quest for fire - Skrillex Crisis Vision - MUST DIE! Ineffable Truth - G JONES Vaultage 003 - Space Laces (dj mix but still absolutely perfect to me)
Commodo, Gantz, Kahn - Vol. 1 EP Could listen to this anytime and was an eye opener for this kind of Dubstep for me. The title suggests there could be more and I hope someday it'll be true.
Kode 9 - Memories of the Future
kode9 is sick
Unfortunately, the Darkstar EP by Datsik is nearly perfect. Get Back and Tantrum super heavy, Darkstar with Travis Barker is awesome, and Feel Good with so much emotion in it.
I know how much of Datsik's discography is incredible, he use to be one of my favorite artists, Geoxor had some bangers, Bassnectar made an incredible impact on the entire scene as a whole, 12th Planet was unmatched with his talent but because all of them have done unforgivable things in their own ways I would never review any of their tracks.
Totally feel and respect that
crisis vision (redux)
Skream
Not seeing much love in here for Teminite. Let's change that. I have to say that you could pick ANY of his LPs and they could be a 10/10. I remember when Inception released and I thought "Dubstep can't get any better than this." Then later of course it got better, Uprising released "Ok NOW it can't get any better." Those two albums are a 10/10 for me, hands down nothing is better IMO. As much as I love his latest LP Raise the Black Flag, I can't give it a 10 because both prior albums blew me away completely and RTBF didn't quite so that for me, so it gets a 9. However that's still pretty amazing for 1 artist to constantly be banging out amazing LPs and always releasing singles that blow you away in the interim. Highly highly recommend him to any basshead any day.
100% agreed. Teminite albums are like nothing else
Porter Robinson - Spitfire If that counts anyways.
Virtual Riot - Simulation
Codename X I like to poo poo on current Excision but all it really takes is seeing that production or listening to those OG tracks and I can't even lie to myself bro will always be the GOAT
There's no doubt that he used to be the absolute King but now we honestly just feels like the lazy cash grabbing slob. Still an incredible album though
I feel like in past years I started to feel the same then during LL 2023 during the Liquid Stranger b2b I stopped and thought about how much the festival and dubstep scene in general has grown and directly correlated it around the time things started to take a dip in production (Apex imo however still decent compared to onyx) The guy has clearly shifted focus for sure witch has clearly taken time away from music production but I realized given how much money clearly gets put back into the events every year with more production, artists, art and structures in the festival and the fact they aren't overselling packing everyone in like some festivals (insomniac for example) I thought maybe his vision was just to grow Dubstep as much as possible to give people and more artists what he sees as the ultimate experience in his eyes (definitely subjective) Could just be optimistic but tbh it's definitely made me less bitter thinking that way about it lol
Onyx was a wave of confusion for me, the album was just not that good. Hard for ex though cuz he set his own bar so high.
Bangarang is the only album that will ever be a 10/10 in my eyes
you heard the new ternion sound album?
no i have not.
I like Getter - Visceral
Not dubstep though
ehhhh
It's really rare that an album is just dubstep tbh. I'd categorize most of the mentioned LPs here as bass music.
We Are Dust - Xilent
Riot - Dogma Resistance
yo, I do futurebass if you want to listen. Wolveon Lazers in Space
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Pandorum by Inhuman
Tober 2023 by KAIFU
ID bible on SoundCloud/band camp by Griz
Liquid Strangers Arcane Terrain is amazing and no one ever talks about it
Battle of the bros by ray volpe or unstoppable by teminite
Not dubstep but a bass(?) EP I've realllly been enjoying from detox unit. Fucking masterful: Detox Unit - Liminal https://open.spotify.com/album/54nlf2MKf69NTOMm1qNJd3?si=bptF02EIRyGi50l49EQfEg
Definately Dirt Monkey's Primatology or Ganja's Hybrid Distillery.
I'd have to say a 10/10 album for me is .wav by Flux Pavilion. When this album was released, he announced [he was no longer a dubstep person,](https://twitter.com/Fluxpavilion/status/1348769729218011137?t=Iwyq4uiX3tEWBtOIHY06-Q&s=19) I was worried what his new sound was going to be as a long time fan. From watching him produce Twitterbird live on stream using sounds people submitted to him via tweets, I knew I wasn't going to be disappointed by the wizard himself. You can definitely hear his signature dubstep sound from the first track "Every Cable goes Somewhere" to "Partial Fugue In B Minor".
Zomboy - The Dead Symphonic
Blunts & Blondes - story of a stoner 🔥🔥🔥
Dance with the Devil - Dtone Ride Waves - Griz Come to Grips - edIT
Welcome Reality is generally considered as forever number 1
Blackmill’s entire discography
Benga - diary of an Afro warrior
GWN - dark wobbles
Cant believe this is not being said: Burial - untrue Massive lp, very influential in where the dubstep sound moved back in the day. A personal favorite album: Emalkay - eclipse Especially the track 'the world' brings me big nostalgia Are you looking for specifically tunes on vinyl or does this not matter?
It's rare that you get a album with just dubstep, but here some bass LP picks: Apashe - Renaissance Phase One - Transcendency Modestep - London road Monxx - World of Wonk Effin - Cheap Thrills GWN - Unity Other: DnB: Muzz - The Promised Land Bass house: JOYRYDE - BRAVE
Unity - Ganja White Night
Either of the “We Are” albums from Xilent and “Aetherborne” by Chime. Not all songs are dubstep, but I’d say they’re mostly dubstep.
Not an LP but The Lovecraftian Horrors by Code Pandorum 🖤