My Artist Research

The song I have chosen to create a music video for is the Preditah remix of Disclosures 'Stimulation'. Being a dance song there is no meaning behind the music and there isnt even a official video I can analyse both for the original and remix. However we can talk about the song itself, the track itself is about 128 bpm which fits its UKG genre. UKG came about when Dj's such as EZ would speed up dub versions of songs to be played to the UK's Jungle audience back in the early/mid 90's. Preditah, in this remix, has a modern take on the 2 step garage with the sub bass and rolling snares. The track samples a cutting bass-line and samples parts of the original disclosure lyrics and holds the chorus later on in the middle of the track. The duration of the song is a little over 4 and a half minutes allowing time to build up and drop, however for my music video i'm going to cut the third drop off, as two will be plenty of time already.

          

When it comes to Preditah he is primarily a grime instrumental producer and a Dj so he doesnt have any of his own music videos. However, Preditah has produced instrumentals for many grime artists including London's BBK (Boy Better Know) . EDM is a genre where a majority of the time the songs wont have a music video and in-fact some choose to never make music videos as it diverges the listener from the music. Typically when a dance musician creates a video for a song, it will be cut away's of live performances from the artist and or the crowd / people dancing. Its not there to accompany the music but more to say 'come on you, get up and dance, this is what its about !'

The UK and any Garage music genre in general isn't a commercial genre, however more popular artists these days take influence and elements from garage and incorporate it in their own work. 2001 was the year which saw garage music slowly influence other genres such as grime or dub-step and disband into sub genres of it like funky and future garage. That year produced some of the most memorable garage tunes though like, The Streets ' Has it come to this?' or Pied Piper 'Do you really like it?'. This doesn't mean garage music has gone away at all, and currently garage pioneer Dj EZ has a Thursday slot on Kiss FM where he mixes the House, Bass-line and UKG genres from all decades showing that it is still a popular genre if you know where to look.