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.
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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-
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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.