Kode9 Quotes

• Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an audience that resonates with their music, whether local or globally.

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  Memories, Media, Culture

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

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  Foundation, Depth, Dubstep

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation. Hype becomes autonomous from its object and runs away with itself.

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  Running, Fashion, Hype

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.

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  War, Hot, Cold

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.

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  Country, War, Everyday

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.

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  Memories, Real, Taken

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.

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  Events, Labels, Magazines

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, which was a little like what dub was to reggae - the instrumental of a full vocal.The second was dub as a methodology, which, for me, is apparent in all dance music: manipulating sound to create impossible sonic spaces using reverb, echo and such. The third is the influence of the genre called dub. (It became a cliché actually, through sampling old Jamaican films and soundtracks, and adding vocal samples.)

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  Echoes, Space, Track

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

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  Culture, Development, Digital

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of using these moods and machines in creative, unintended ways.

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  Running, War, Creative

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.

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  Believe, Hype, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• A one-word book does appeal to me.

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  Book, Doe, Appeals

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

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  Apples, Sound, Bigs

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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• I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.

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  Issues, Dubstep, Culture

  "The VICE Oral History of Dubstep". www.vice.com. June 23, 2015.

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