NEW GENRE ALERT: PURPLE... 'SOUL MUSIC IS MAHOGANY, BASSLINES ARE YELLOW'... JOKER, GUIDO, AND GEMMY BRING SYNTH MELODIES AND WEIRD SOUL TO DUBSTEP...
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Guardian:
Today, three of the brightest hopes of the new Bristol sound are sitting in a beer garden, humming Sonic the Hedgehog and Street Fighter game themes, and downing cranberry sambucas. This is not how one imagines the future of British dance music. The three are 21-year-old Guy “Guido” Middleton, 23-year-old Jemal “Gemmy” Philips, and a third man, 20 years old, who leans in and gives his full name slowly and carefully to the dictaphone as “Joker… Joker”.
These three are making their names in the urban music world by bringing back one vital element that has been lost: tunes. “When I was growing up, I was into garage,” says Gemmy. “It had so many musical elements, and dubstep and grime lacked those incredible melodies – or, when they were there, people ignored them and focused on the aggression. Melodies are like memories to me – you hear a melody and you’ll be humming it all the way home. It sticks around in the way a bassline just won’t.”
Subject: Purple? New Dubstep Genre 
Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:04 am
