SubVibe - DarkHearted (HD)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu7hz91PTBo

This song just struck me as something quite true to the genre. Its just no frills DnB. They hail from (surprise surprise) the UK, where the scene is huge, and they're not horribly popular or anything. They just make stuff that really hits home as stuff that i think i would hear years ago before dubstep and drumstep and jump up and ALLL these other genres popping up. Don't get me wrong i'm fully into all that stuff, but its nice to have a throwback like this to kind of remind you where it all started.

Its real common to have clips from movies or things like that edited in instead of vocals to kind of set the tone of the song. You don't want to have singing, or vocals on top of the music but you still need something to add to it. Its real common with things like hardstyle and classic Dnb. Though you will see it with lots of other genres too. This particular one I've seen in another hardsyle song by headbanger and omar that uses this and other clips. That's another good one by the way, albeit really on the hardcore side, its called "Are U Afraid Of The Dark?"

Its the basic drum beat, the electronic melody you hear all over the place, and structure and builds that are nice.  Although this isn't to say all this makes the song boring, because far from it, there's definitely enough in this song to make it a hit. And there are parts throughout that peak your interest. They're a great team, i would definitely go see a show of theirs if given the chance. I was impressed with it, especially nowadays where you don't see a lot of medium to small time artists making songs that aren't what they think is "innovative" or something like that. They get some decent exposure too, which is awesome because i think everyone should hear songs like this so they understand where other artists are coming from when they start branching out.

Of course jungle is the other half of the oldies I'm referring to, but jungle has more reggae roots where this has electronic roots. They're both two halves of the same spectrum though.