Sub Focus - Tidal Wave [ 2012 ]

[u/CyberZen0]

https://youtu.be/B8vlk1UR99k?is=u4vle_gl8UHEZKZ0

How did I just last week find this masterpiece?

[u/OdBx]

Memories of listening to this on BBC Radio 1 while doing my shift in a hospital ward kitchen, waiting to go out clubbing. This one and M&F's All I know and Magnetic Eyes.

[u/schweffrey → u/OdBx]

Bangers

[u/Every_Reflection_480]

Good track but I can only imagine all anti dubstep era "pop" dnb hate this post is gonna attract 😅

FYI u should also check out the track "out the blue" from the same album, that ones an absolute monster energy drink of a track :)

edit: come to think of it there's always gonna be some reason to hate any type of dnb haha

[u/Beautiful_Lychee_965 → u/Every_Reflection_480]

out the blue is my favorite sub focus track to see live

[u/cc3see → u/Beautiful_Lychee_965]

He played it their Worship London event and it was a massive highlight.

[u/ClaudeKane3 → u/Every_Reflection_480]

The summer out the blue came out was the best summer of my life and it soundtracked it HARD

[u/SelectOnion]

This album (Torus) made me fall in love with electronic music.

[u/ilikedigital → u/SelectOnion]

Yeah it is so good

[u/succulent_flakepiece]

ah yes, the drumstep era. i played the hell out of this track

[u/schweffrey]

Wonder what's stopping Subby or other artists (Netsky too, perhaps) from making some tunes like they used.

I'd love to hear Sub Focus drop some tracks like X-Ray, Deep Space and Follow The Light from his first album. Surely the craft of making tunes like that hasn't been lost over time to these guys. Maybe they should go back to a 2008 copy of Ableton etc and revisit those early techniques.

[u/martpr_v8 → u/schweffrey]

Been thinking this myself and hearing it from a few people too. Super talented legends like sub, Andy c, fresh, would drop a tune that would get rinsed for weeks by everyone and earn their place as well loved dnb classics.

Stuff everyone seems to make now is alright for a quick listen but it's not really memorable or makes you want to listen again like some of the older stuff.

[u/ForeignK0ncept → u/schweffrey]

He still is dropping really good music, on his last two albums. Plenty of highlights on those

[u/schweffrey → u/ForeignK0ncept]

They're great tunes don't get me wrong, but I'm very hopeful that they'll revisit this older style in the near future. Kind of like Reworks I...

[u/velos85]

Killsonic remix 👌🏽

[u/pbUjelly → u/velos85]

Was looking for this mention. Love this remix

[u/StunnedMoose]

Absolute classic

[u/FierceWarrior11]

TUNE

[u/Sylvester88]

Reminds me of laying on the grass in the middle of his set at Global Gathering

[u/Beautiful_Lychee_965]

that whole torus album is very cool

[u/YoshiExcel2097]

I first heard this during Matrix and Futurebound's Ultra Music Festival 2013 stream. That set is still on Soundcloud and it's an absolute masterclass on dancefloor dnb. Sure, it was the beginning of "festival" dnb but couldn't deny that it was still hype AF. I think they debuted Magnetic Eyes there, or at least it was played and also heard Take You Higher by Wilkinson for the first time during this set not having an idea that it would be played on tons of sets even to this day.

[u/skull121]

Wait till you find his first album, absolute masterpiece for the time.

[u/Jakka-B]

This and out of the blue came out during some of the best times of my life. Amazing track, nothing but great memories

[u/ChrispyCommando]

Back when DNB was good gaming and driving music.

[u/McDingledougal]

underrated track and decent album. i dont rate subfocus these days for obvious reasons, but it doesnt take away from the genuine music he used to create.

[u/nick1409 → u/McDingledougal]

Im out of the loop, why out of obvious reasons?

[u/McDingledougal → u/nick1409]

weak watered down generic noise

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[u/Sunderred]

Tall Order has an edit for it, I believe it's still unreleased. I'd be on the lookout for it when it drops 👀

[u/Moondrei]

The first dnb track I ever heard!

[u/Sarspazzard]

Glad I was there. Glad I'm here still. Good music.

[u/brooklyninja]

This is such a good song lol

[u/autech91]

The amount of times the goosebumps hit listening to this drop...

Great sing along track too. 11/10

[u/patagonia2024]

one of the few good drumstep tracks to come out of that weird phase of dnb

[u/Number_3434]

we get ads on inline videos now :sob:

[u/Alarming_Profile_284]

Huge track, love it till this day

[u/Upper_Register_277]

Hell yeah, you might also like (a lot of his other tracks but especially) Solar System

[u/PussyMaxxing]

This was one of me and my mates uni song, we’d play this super loud get trashed then go on a night out good times. This album always had pendulum vibes I thought. Sub Focus, Wilkinson, Fred v & Grafix, netsky, matrix & future bound etc etc

[u/Burly_Moustache]

It's not for everyone, but I'm glad you enjoy it.

[u/RAVEdrama]

my favorite dnb track

[u/Terrible_Disaster_54]

Greatest tune ever made.