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Fearless Few Challenge # 29 (Time LImit: 5 Hours)
This is a cover for the 1991  hit song "Killer" by Seal.

Killer (FF29)

Few underground music scenes can claim to have had an impact on popular music to the same degree as dubstep. Mainstream music has widely co-opted hallmarks of the genre, like the half-tempo beat or the bass drop.

As a feedback cycle of popularity amplified dubstep’s abrasive aspects, the once-underground genre took place in the public consciousness as the musical equivalent of flashy, nervous Hollywood explosion FX-driven films — the well-known wobble bass patch, once the tool for creating a deep, low-end propulsive feel in a dubstep track, became the vehicle for shows of growling macho aggression.

All the while, though, the scene brimmed with promise and experimentation.

To this fan’s mind, if “2006 was the year dubstep broke out” [1] and 2009 was the year it began unraveling [2], then 2008 might well have been the year we entered its stylistic peak.

The innovators of the genre grew weary and eventually retreated to other musical styles and influences, where their exploratory instincts were better rewarded, but not without leaving a trail of defining releases on forward-thinking labels like Hessle Audio, Hotflush, Planet Mu or Tectonic.

With 2018 drawing to a close, I didn’t want to let the tenth anniversary of that fleeting moment of PEAK DUBSTEP pass without a challenge to pay it tribute.

So, for challenge #31 your goal is to...

Produce a track of any genre you’d like, but you must adopt one or more defining aspects of a dubstep track:

- a half-tempo feel (ie. real tempo is at 70, but beat moves at 140)
- a wobble bass line
- a bass drop

As usual, spend no more than three hours developing the track.

Submissions in by Sunday 16th December 23.59 GMT.

Not That Though - Fearless Few #31 (Peak Dubstep)

This is a cover I did a while back of one of my favorite songs by the band, Girls.

Lauren Marie (Girls Cover)

doing this 100% alone. under construction. Hooper Sweet (Michael Hooper)

Hooper Sweet

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