Please see the messaging that took place between Stenchman and myself
As I'm also a DJ, this made it easier to communicate with 'Stenchman' as I had been in contact with him before. This has benefited us towards our coursework as it made getting permission much quicker.
By working within the Dubstep genre, I looked at other songs and artists before deciding to pursue in proposing to Stenchman. My friend is in a band called 'illAudio' and they had created a song which has elements of dubstep in it called, 'Make Money'. This song had interested us as they use samples of George Bush and put them into a context whereby it puts him in a negative light. We also liked the way they merged various shots of political violence within the world which reflected their violent however progresive song. We enjoyed the track itself however we found that it would be complex to work with the song as it is very fast paced and doesnt contain much narrative.
You can view the video below for their track:
Another artist that we were considering was 'Twizzle'. He hit song 'sky diving' has recently been remixed by up and coming djs 'Green Money Productions' and they have produced a more upbeat remix of the track. The song was however too difficult to incorporate the track into the video as there are hardly any vocals in the song and the beat is too consistent which we didnt want. Below is the youtube video of the track.
Some parts of the dubstep genre merge into sub-genres like Grime, Reggae and House. The artist 'Funckarma' falls under some of these sub-genres. Their music video, shown below, is a very simple and minimalistic idea. The beat consists of mostly synth sounds and drums, this is reflected in their video which just consists of mostly graphics of different colours almost like strobe lighting. We hope that some of this simplicity and minimalism not only to be reflective within our music video, but also our digipak work and website homepage.
The video is show below:
The last song we looked at was 'Holy Land' by 'Dan Bowskill'. A great musician and a good friend of mine, Dan Bowskill is a talented reggae musician. Even though his music isn't really dubstep, we felt that we could work with him as his song 'holy land' has alot of vocals present and the main purpose of our music video was to incorporate not only imagery but also vocals. The track interested us as it is not usually common for a reggae artist to incorporate 'rap' into their tracks however Dan Bowskill has proved that both forms of music can mix very well. The rapper 'Black Reign' spoke about the real issues of society which isnt shown in the media such as poverty, gang violence and corrupt police which is stated as 'babylon' which is a derived term from Jamaican slang which is supposed to represent the cruelty that the township people recieved from the cruel and harsh police force. As a strong fan of Reggae music I loved the track however, we wanted to experiment more with the video and we didn't want to have too much vocals in it so we could have a range of shots. Below is the youtube video of the track.
