Saturday Mixcast: Cal – Summer of Dubstep 2011
Article by
Cal
Jun 11, 2011
Genre: Dubstep
Category: DJ Mix, Saturday Mixcast
Artists: DJ Cal
With as controversial as dubstep can be these days, I definitely thought more than twice about doing this mix at all. Without a doubt, the biggest AND most controversial article I’ve ever written was on dubstep. If you follow dubstep discussions on reddit, youtube, or any of the major forums or blogs you’ll know that the arguments and insults come hard and fast. Invariably, if what you like is accessible and popular you can count on someone telling you that its brostep/hoestep, garbage, not as good “as the stuff that was being made when THEY got in to dubstep”, or that what you like isn’t even dubstep.
So I’ve been thinking about it for ages and ages, but never really got around to it until now because I could make the excuse that all my steady gigs are for house music. Fact of the matter is, I am just listening to a lot of dubstep right now and I needed to get this mix out. My goal for the mix was to have a few different “feels”: some club stuff that you can skank to, some midtempo shit you can drive to, and some downtempo stuff that requires only that you nod your head.
You guys lemme know what you think. SPEAKERS ON BLAST!
DJ Cal – Summer of Dubstep 2011 by salacioussound
FYI you can download directly from this player, or stream it – whatever your preference is!
Tracklist:
Feed Me – Strange Behaviour ft. Tasha Baxter
Bare & Datsik – King Kong
Flux Pavilion – Bass Cannon
Doctor P – Big Boss
DJ Fresh – Louder (Flux Pavilion and Doctor P Remix)
Foreign Beggars – Still Getting It ft. Skrillex
Nero – Me & You
Cassius – I <3 Remix)
Slick mix big boss!
well, i know what im going to be listening to for the next hour
ya man this is great! listening to this right now in prep for tonight!
fantastic, just fantastic!
Hey man siiiiick mix!! Any way to download the tracks individually? I have no idea where to find this stuff and iTunes isn’t exactly showing any of these bad boys.
Straight up one of the best sets I’ve heard this winter
(NZ)
man great tracks! I’ve listened to this 4 times now. Thanks for posting!
Drop da sik beatz
Who cares what genre it is classified as!!!! Itz dope music period!!! NIce mix
i know its probably not supposed to, but this actually relaxes me…
Awesome mix. And DJ Fell, I feel you on that.
some serious names on this mix
good selection! definitely made my afternoon…
Hey, I thought someone should pass this thought a long. The stuff you post rocks.
I agree, there are plenty of people that will argue, “Well my dubstep was cooler blah blah blah” and all that jazz.
Well an old friend of mine, who is now quite well established even though he’s been making his living playing indie rock for the last 15+ years had the best response I’ve ever heard to that conversation. He explains it like this … “Its not that this other stuff is bad, it just doesn’t work for me”.
What you are posting is what works for you. And that’s great. You should do what you like. And if the other stuff doesn’t work for you? So be it. No need to be hating. Just be straight up. “This is the shit that works for me. If you like it… cool, if not, whatever. No harm no foul.”
Keep kicking the tunes. The shit rocks and makes my snowboarding season epic, regardless of the weather.
Thank you for the really lovely comment dude! Couldn’t have said it better myself!
Dirty. Epic. Goodness.
F*cking AMAZING
Wicked playlist. Definetely my summer soundtrack
Hey Cal, love the mix, heard it a few times now – do you mix in key on some/most of this mate?
luvvin it!
Sean
@SeanJ Thanks mate! And nah, with dubstep the mixes are shorter and punchier so I don’t worry about key as much as I do with house music. With house I’m basically always in key.
This mix gets better every time I listen to it:P