Culture The Rise of Dubstep Dubstep, a type of electronic music that involves coiled, generally looped productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, has become insanely popular in internet music and the indie music scene. It originated in London in the late '9os, but never made it into an American production studio until around 2003 when it was picked up by music magazines such as The Wire and Pitchfork Media. Eventually, the music ar rangements enveloped most genres, including heavy metal, classical, rap, techno, etc. Once these "dub" techniques were picked up among emerging musicians here in Amer ica, many of them preferred to remix already popular music instead of mixing their own. Cf.ow T4i4.! 4a Hat 1144 a Allow me to reintroduce myself...my name is HOV...err Matt Haubach and I've been asked to make everyone fatter, water at the mouth, fall in love...etc...you get the picture. I can cook, and I love to do it. If you see me in the REDC (err. Burke) HOLLER, i'll always trade food for beer...So for my initial installment... Difficulty * ** Ingredients • 1 white onion • 1 bag o' shredded carrots •6(or so) red skin taters • 1 apple • 1 celery stalk • 1 package sliced mushroom •beef stock/gravy' • 1 tsp. cinnamon •butter • 1/4 ground beef ( I use 93/7, but it's up to you...also use as much as you want) • I sirloin(cubed) • 1 pastry square •parsley ( To taste, and to dress the dish) •salt(2 tsp.) •black pepper (4 tsp.) •2 tsp. brown sugar With Thanksgiving on the way, this is fairly standard Irish/ English fare that would go well with any traditional meal. The devil is in the details, but with all cooking, it is always up to interpretation. The difficulty is the patience with the pas try, other than that, this classic pub dish and can be cooked as such. Enjoy! Er&P. WASH EVERYTHING! (get the point?) Separate: Apples, 1/2 onion, 1 tater, 1/2 celery (Spiced meat pie) everything else (Sheppard's pie) Dice onions, celery, carrots, taters, and apple. (In their re spective piles) Leave the mushrooms sliced Thaw the pastry square! Cooking Mashed Red Skin Potatoes Remember that one red skin you set aside...don't use it. Otherwise boil the rest of them. When they get soft...mash, and add butter and just a little bit of milk. Sheppard's Pie Saute (in oil) onions, celery, carrots, mushrooms...first to soften..then add ground beef, black pepper and salt. When the beef is 2/3 cooked lower heat, add the beef gravy and let simmer for 15 mins. Place all items in oven safe bowl, spread the mashed taters evenly over it, and broil for ten min utes (or until the taters brown). Sprinkle parsley Spiced Meat Pie Saute (in oil) apple, onion, celery, and diced tater first to soften, then add the cubed sirloin. Once the cubed sirloin is 2/3 cooked add 1 tbs. butter, cinnamon, brown sugar, lower heat and let simmer for ten minutes. Stretch out pastry square to semi-fit this mixture, place mixture on half the square and fold the square over. Bake at 375 for 8-10 minutes or until crisp, flaky and brown. That's it...enjoy! NATE CARTER showcase editor The Pies That Bind Us Songs like "Rude Boy" by Rihanna, "Fireflies" by Owl City, "Where is my Mind" by the Pix ies, and "Knights of Cydonia" by Muse were all remixed in dubstep, and you can find all of them online, which is where most of the dub step musicians originally have made names for themselves. However, a few musicians made names for themselves by creating their own material. Mt. Eden Dubstep is one artist that became huge in just a few days on you tube, mixing African beats with bass drops and occasional vocals to create their most heard track, "Sierra Leone". Most of the pro ductions are widely instrumental with some being interspersed with generally repetitive vocal clips, but others decide to write songs over their "dubbing" as in Laid Black's Jamai can stylings. Other original mixers, as opposed to remix- Behrend Writer Kathy Reich Goes Viral Author Kathy Reich is the creator behind the famous Bones series featuring Temperance Brennan, one of TV's most popu lar scientists. For years readers and viewers alike have been swept into the thrilling drama and they are no less excited about her new work Virals. The novel, to be released this month, follows Brennan's niece Tory, a self-described "Sci-phile" whose character and mannerisms should remind readers of her famous aunt. Her voice is mature, she is a genius, and she is fully capable of carrying out her goals - the hope of rescuing dogs from an unscrupulous research lab and the subsequent infection from a mutant canine virus. She's focused and determined to follow the clues all the way to the killers. ers, include Datsik, Flux Pavillion, Chasing Shadows, Flying Lotus, Jakwob, and Rusko. Essentially, dub is a playground world for DJs, where previously their productions were limited to certain mixing tables, the technol ogy involved in producing these tables is ever expanding. This leads to the creation of im mense mixing tables to the point where a DJ could potentially be surrounded on all sides by an array of switches, turntables, overlay levers, etc. Some people say it's your system that makes you a better dub musician, but that can be disproven just like a guitarist playing on a beat-up acoustic with missing strings. The potential for amazing music still re mains, but needs to be discovered. A few indie musicians are picking up the dub trade as well. One artist in particular, Sufjan Stevens, seemed to have come out of improv hits the RACHEL MERCALDO The novel should attract any fan of the Bones series, as both male and females often enjoy the genre of paranormal mystery thriller. Though the novel is officially published for teens, the characters do not allow for enough teen drama to draw away from the core storyline. Geniuses in young adult fiction usually follow along the stereotype of "far too mature to be young" - "fourteen going on forty" types. The subject matter of the book will focus more on the thrilling adventure then on who is dat ing who and what an awful class first period English is. Kathy Reich's writing style is incredibly in tune with the desires of the reader, and I would recommend Virals to any one who loves her previous work. To those who may be shying away from a writing style for a younger audience, or for those who love the "paranormal" or just plain creepy stuff, this novel is perfectly thrilling read. staff writer nowhere with his knowledge of tech overlays. His music used to be very folk inspired and simple, his new album The Age of Adz pur sues. dub stylings that he mixed all himself. His carefree, often balladic lyricism doesn't falter from this new style though. None of the tracks really come off as being singles, how ever, whir ; seemi to be the consensus among dub musicians. All of the songs on the album sort of meld together as a whole piece. "Too Much," ` 4 l Walked," and the 25-minute two part track "Impossible Soul", feature Stevens exhibiting a ballad-like narrative amidst pro gressive dubstep. Having possibly heard of Sufjan before, whether through Pitchfork or another part of the indie/folk community, don't be discouraged by his new sound.
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