Pendulum - Slam (Hardsteppers Breaks VIP)

[twentyHz]

http://www.hardsteppers.ca/media/slam%20VIP.mp3

Montreal boys The Hardsteppers on the re-rub.

-s

[sh4un]

meh, doesnt even compare to the original
breakfastaz shood do a breaks mix

[-evil-duerr-]

the dead ancestors of Pendulum are rolling in their graves.

[Bevvy Swift]

yea im not too sure how i feel about that. i guess it would be great if it was original, and we didnt know what the real slam sounded like, but breaks remixes of dnb tracks rarely compare imo. breaks just dont have the same energy that dnb does.

[Lenny]

not feelin it either.

[Akeel]

i like it!

it'll do well on the floors too

[C_squared]

It's not bad. Some of the leads are a bit overkill, but I'm sure it will sound fuller on a bigger system. This would go off with a large crowd.

[sh4un]

Originally Posted by Cheez

yea im not too sure how i feel about that. i guess it would be great if it was original, and we didnt know what the real slam sounded like, but breaks remixes of dnb tracks rarely compare imo. breaks just dont have the same energy that dnb does.

not true @ all

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by sh4un

not true @ all

to be more specific, a tune that i recognise @ say, 180 bpm, wouldnt sound quite complete @ 140 bpm.

[C_squared]

Originally Posted by Cheez

to be more specific, a tune that i recognise @ say, 180 bpm, wouldnt sound quite complete @ 140 bpm.

Very True... Most dnb tunes that have been rmx to breakbeats just lack most of the time. There was that Dillinja- Twist em out breaks rmx out there that sounded like absolute ass. I'm still feeling this hardsteppers re-rub tho.

[twentyHz]

Originally Posted by C_squared

There was that Dillinja- Twist em out breaks rmx out there that sounded like absolute ass.

Hehehe.... yeah I have that. Terry Hooligan passed it along on CDR a few summers ago. Aquasky did it, and it apparently pissed Dillinja off so it never came out on wax.
I remember dropping it to a packed house at Lotus for one of our twentyHz shows. The peeps loved it, but yeah its wank.

-s

[sNyx]

Originally Posted by Cheez

to be more specific, a tune that i recognise @ say, 180 bpm, wouldnt sound quite complete @ 140 bpm.

this was an excellent port!
I love and listen to dnb as much as the next but unless your heartless for breakbeats then you too should appreciate. the bpm does not made/break a well produced song.
what your saying is everything slowed down lacks but sped up is generally better?

[Akeel]

i disagree with bevan, take that aquasky boot of twist em out for example, people recognize the hook and love it even though its slowed down 20bpm...this will be the same way.

[C_squared]

Originally Posted by Akeel

i disagree with bevan, take that aquasky boot of twist em out for example, people recognize the hook and love it even though its slowed down 20bpm...this will be the same way.

The reason why this hardesteppers rmx works very well at breaks tempo IMO, is because its a primarily a rmx of the intro to Slam which is half tempo to dnb and all the melodies for that part were written for that tempo, as oppose to Twist em out where the melody was written with a 170bmp in mind. I litteraly cringed when I heard twist em out rmx sounded like the dj didn't know what he was doing...sorry Soda.

I think what Bevan is trying to say is that some dnb rmxs into breaks lose that intensity when written at a slower tempo.

[Lenny]

Do people react well? yes. Is it good? Soda put it best... it's WANK!
Doesn't matter if it's coming from DnB hip hop , house, whatever, a shitty remix is a shitty remix (same goes for bootlegs). But whatever gets em goin though right?

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by (LJF)

Do people react well? yes. Is it good? Soda put it best... it's WANK!
Doesn't matter if it's coming from DnB hip hop , house, whatever, a shitty remix is a shitty remix (same goes for bootlegs). But whatever gets em goin though right?

amen. just cause a crowd of drunk/high people will enjoy it, doesnt mean its quality at all. i guess im just verrrry picky when it comes to breaks

[Bevvy Swift]

Originally Posted by Akeel

i disagree with bevan, take that aquasky boot of twist em out for example, people recognize the hook and love it even though its slowed down 20bpm...this will be the same way.

and that why it rubs me the wrong way. its just cashing in on the success of another track without actually improving anything. imo.

[ppcock]

if they took out everything that was related to slam.. this would be a great breaks track. Oh well. (oh my god i just got to the end.. What a shitty, shitty ending.) After the intro, the volume of the track goes higher. (CASH GRAB!)

[dj_soo]

the only thing good about slam is the intro. The rest of the track is pure cookie cutter uk banger shit.

[dj_soo]

that being said - not feeling the remix at all - hardsteppers have done much better work.

Someone should just make a hiphop remix at 85 bpm or something as all i ever play of that tune is the intro.

[decypher]

I think what people were trying to say about DNB tracks not sounding good as breaks is because the heads get so used to the intensity of a certain track then when they hear that same hook as a breaks track it just doesen't sound the same.

[dj_soo]

^ well part of it is that as a dnb head you're just used to hearing certain tunes at a certain tempo. And considering the fact that most of the tracks that are remixed for breaks are going to be super rinsed out anthems, chances if you're a head you're not going to take the new tempo. I felt the same way about the barcelona breaks remix... If it were some relatively unknown tune, the reaction probably wouldn't have been as strong. I have a few rather obscure dnb tracks that have breaks remixes on the flip and for some of those, I much prefer the breaks versions to the original dnb version.

I feel the same way for Zinc's Film. I loved the original breaks version to the extent that when the dnb remix came out like 6 months later, I totally didn't like it at all...

[ppcock]

as a guy that listens to pretty much everything.. That track is garbage.

[miSsy_chriSsy]

yah, i ain't really feelin' it.... *cough*fromage*cough*

[A-BOMB]

Originally Posted by ppcock

if they took out everything that was related to slam.. this would be a great breaks track. Oh well.

my thoughts too