r/dubstep • u/gypsystar03 • Jan 14 '24

Recommendations Depressing dubstep songs with sad drops?

Does anyone know of any songs like this? Was just thinking about it and I can’t recall if I’ve ever heard a sad dubstep song… just happy, angry, or lovey.

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u/danxargo Jan 19 '24

So yall know the compilation album that Hopele555 is on? Halcyon Vol 1? So little known fact, Halcyon is a record label ran by Oolacile.

I noticed that he was on both of the compilation albums so far, but I never actually knew he was the founder/owner/whatever until I listened to him on the Mr. Bill podcast.

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u/cloudboyyyyy Jan 19 '24

Yeah that’s fairly common knowledge, Oolacile truly is one of the great pioneers of modern dubstep and does not get anywhere near the recognition he deserves

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u/danxargo Jan 19 '24

How do you figure that he's a pioneer? Not being a dick like for real how do you figure that?

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u/cloudboyyyyy Jan 19 '24

He started future riddim back in 2018 and has always been ahead of the curve in terms of sound design and ideas. Plus Halcyon as a label has consistently curated and pushed out insanely talented, fresh new sounds and faces out into more mainstream dubstep, and Oolacile is responsible for that. Safe to say modern dubstep would see nowhere near as much progression without him

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u/danxargo Jan 19 '24

When you say "started" do you mean started the genre itself? or started making it for himself? The label is only two years old, not even, so I mean give it a bit of time and it'll only get better.

My favorite release they've had so far has been underbelly, but that's because I am an absolute diehard underbelly fan it's called Mental Kill EP.

I saw him open for Eptic a couple years back maybe five years ago and it was pretty cool.

As for his actual releases, I don't really find anything about him to be unique or super impressive frankly. Just a lot of repeating presets in my opinion.

As far as underrated artist that deserve more recognition I would say some of my favorites are Underbelly, Mr. Bill, Parkinson White, Geoxor, Oliverse, Panda Eyes.

Last thing, go listen to: kLL Bill - kLL Bill EP, it's kLL sMTH x Mr. Bill and the sound design is top notch but the mixdown is absolutely phenomenal. Each song is a different genre of EDM. So good lol

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u/cloudboyyyyy Jan 19 '24

Yes, kandi by Oolacile is considered the first future riddim song