I used to laugh and make fun of dubstep, the name dubstep sounds dumb, then, I came across Skrillex, I think Adam Beyer mentioned Skrillex once as he was talking about a gig he did in Liverpool on his Drumcode radio show.
Any retard who says that Skrillex is not electronic music deserves to be hung, the kid is very talented, he came up with his own sound, songs like Kill Everybody and Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites are masterpieces.
I was thinking about seeing Skrillex in Helsinki, at Circus July 29th but mothaa is sold out!
Lews
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Originally posted by lukeache
Any retard who says that Skrillex is not electronic music deserves to be hung,
I do so love irony.
KilldaDJ
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Originally posted by RapidFire
there's dubstep and then there's noise that disguises itself as dubstep. big difference ;)
agreed.
the majority of dubstep is wobblecore.
no thx.
Sushipunk
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Originally posted by Lews
Like many genres there is some really good stuff and then a whole bunch of that is extremely popular.
^ Pretty much this.
There is some that I like, but way more that I don't.
The good stuff is pretty good though, albeit just sounding like stuff in the 90s that I would have just called "electronica".
I kind of miss the olden days, without all the genre crap :p
Now you kids had better get off my lawn!
*waves walking cane around*
SYSTEM-J
I've been wanting to do a full mix of dubstep/minimal drum 'n bass for a while now. The problem I have with this genre as a DJ is that it's very difficult to build up momentum. Even at dubstep parties, the energy levels tend to remain constant. Thus far I've only used dubstep when mixing it up with other genres, for this reason.
BlueSky
Dubstep is totally lame.
Sand Leaper
Got my fair share of dubstep in '06-'07 while studying in Guildford, when it had just started its ascent into the mainstream. DMZ's second birthday bash at Mass in Brixton and the few times I got to be at FWD were particular highlights. It's fascinating to look at this thread in retrospect now, and how little time it took for the sound to blow up from there.
Two years later or so, after Benga & Coki - Night had propelled dubstep fully into the limelight (a tune I always hated, even when it was getting battered on dubplate at parties I went to) it had more or less completely solidified its formula and position in the mainstream, and thus stopped being all that interesting. Unsurprisingly, the people I rated the most within the genre seemed to think the same, as almost all of them escaped to the fringes of the London-spectrum, towards house, techno, funky, just plain leftfield or some combination of them. Guys like Pangaea, Scuba, Ramadanman, Appleblim, Headhunter, Pinch and Kode9 have developed into something quite different from the dubstep core they all grew up in, which actually is more in the spirit of dubstep (subbass + space + whatever you feel like) than the formulaic halfstep/midrange chainsaw LFO-nonsense that passes for dubstep now.
netroM
I do enjoy some Hyperdub and Echodub stuff.
I have some friends who are more into brostep tho. Last party one of them had, I was subjected to a brostep "remix" of the Legend of Zelda Overworld theme.
Some of the Bassnectar stuff is pretty cool. Skrillex has a few as well.
Interestingly enough, Pretty Lights is experimenting with brostep, and this one is interesting:
jdat
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Originally posted by Aaron C.
Burial and most everything Hyperdub related. Other then that.....no.
yeah pretty much.
Add to this that most of the american stuff is utter garbage.
trancearoundwld
This video editing is priceless.
trancearoundwld
WTF?
pointPi
I find the name dubstep kind of misleading, because to me, dubstep is dub house with a breakbeat drum patterns rather than a 4/4 drum patterns.
I call this kind of music lfostep and I kind of dig it if I'm not expecting something else. But like System-J said, you can't make a good set out of dubstep tracks solely, since its structure reminds more of heavy metal than of disco.
Also, why does everyone keep calling lfostep dirty and filthy? It's in fact it's one of the cleanest and most sterile kinds of music out there due to its lack of muddy frequencies.
