don't get me wrong, some cool textures and sounds but like that genre is pretty much defined by about 4 sounds courtesy of scrillex. I mean every song is just the same.
this isn't a hate it because it is popular. I have just never ever witnessed a genre that could be described with such limitations. The genre is pretty much about 4 types of sounds made from NI massive. And to be clear , i am talking about the new definition of the genre. Anyways, I spent a night at a club where I heard my first full on dubstep set and it was just so annoying. The novelty of the new sound palette isn't enough to make a genre interesting.
I mean I have stolen all the techniques I liked about and use it in different contexts but that genre is the worse case of copy cat , I have ever witnessed in EDM.
meriter
It's not just dubstep really, you can see this happening to all genres of EDM and in popular music and film. I made a post over here that kinda talks about this
Looney4Clooney
but i think dubstep takes the cake on this one, I mean everyone is using the same 4 patches on massive. I mean there are pretty much 2 artists and everything else is a poor copy cat version. I'm all about sharing knowledge but the way you can just youtube how to sound like scrillex tends to make the copy cats that much more prolific and annoying.
Kysora
I think the defining characteristics of dubstep are a bit too specific and hard to work with, it hasn't been popular for very long and nobody knows what the to do with those weird sounds. Maybe someone will eventually figure it out.
tehlord
I think the point is that everybody is using exactly the same sound in exactly the same way, as in the EXACT same presets. I think it is far worse in dubstep than most other genres in EDM as it hasn't really changed in the last year or so as far as I can tell.
I've been swatting up on it a bit lately as I'm a bit of a closet fan, but it seems that if you've heard Skrillex you've pretty much heard it all.
There's a bloke on Soundcloud called Torus who's a bit tasty, but still fairly samey.
Beatflux
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Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
I mean there are pretty much 2 artists and everything else is a poor copy cat version.
I've always thought that wobble sound was too syncopated to taken as a core sound. I like it best when its used sparingly like we see in Skrillex's complextro or when its sprinkled into the background of a pop track or whatever.
At least nobody has taken the hoover sound and made a genre out of it(as far as I know).
J.L.
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Originally posted by Beatflux
At least nobody has taken the hoover sound and made a genre out of it(as far as I know).
Well, if there is, it's not worth listening to =/
Beatflux
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Originally posted by J.L.
Well, if there is, it's not worth listening to =/
Hoovers + Wobbles + Risers = Risestep
Why compose something when you can a 32 bar riser to maintain interest? :P
DJRYAN™
I like dubstep from a dancing standpoint. In fact, I think its my new favorite genre to dance to besides, the DJ Chuckie style of Electro also played by Le Castle Vania, Aoki, and others. For starters, Dubstep has three different types of movements. You can bob with the snare, emphasizing the bass with different varirations of hand gestures, OR, and probably the most fun, you can double time the beat. We used to be able to do the same thing to Drum & Bass, but in reverse order. You could walk, even though the hi-hats told you to run, or you could run with how the beats and the drums made you move. The best part of dubstep is the BASS. Even though Skrillex and Rednek, effin suck, the most horirble Dubstep producers ever, Rusko, Nero, Excision, and others, bring up for their lack of talent by making very danceable tunes. I love dancing to Dubstep because there are so many ways to dance to it. The third and is just out right kicking. Moving your feet fast in a variety of different patterns making sure to accentuate the phrase. Dubstep is golden right now and it will be for awhile so JUST DANCE!!
pointPi
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Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I like dubstep from a dancing standpoint. In fact, I think its my new favorite genre to dance to besides, the DJ Chuckie style of Electro also played by Le Castle Vania, Aoki, and others. For starters, Dubstep has three different types of movements. You can bob with the snare, emphasizing the bass with different varirations of hand gestures, OR, and probably the most fun, you can double time the beat. We used to be able to do the same thing to Drum & Bass, but in reverse order. You could walk, even though the hi-hats told you to run, or you could run with how the beats and the drums made you move. The best part of dubstep is the BASS. Even though Skrillex and Rednek, effin suck, the most horirble Dubstep producers ever, Rusko, Nero, Excision, and others, bring up for their lack of talent by making very danceable tunes. I love dancing to Dubstep because there are so many ways to dance to it. The third and is just out right kicking. Moving your feet fast in a variety of different patterns making sure to accentuate the phrase. Dubstep is golden right now and it will be for awhile so JUST DANCE!!
Seriously, though, I personally think xKore is kind of the only artist in this particualr domain I really like.
Looney4Clooney
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Originally posted by DJRYAN™
I like dubstep from a dancing standpoint. In fact, I think its my new favorite genre to dance to besides, the DJ Chuckie style of Electro also played by Le Castle Vania, Aoki, and others. For starters, Dubstep has three different types of movements. You can bob with the snare, emphasizing the bass with different varirations of hand gestures, OR, and probably the most fun, you can double time the beat. We used to be able to do the same thing to Drum & Bass, but in reverse order. You could walk, even though the hi-hats told you to run, or you could run with how the beats and the drums made you move. The best part of dubstep is the BASS. Even though Skrillex and Rednek, effin suck, the most horirble Dubstep producers ever, Rusko, Nero, Excision, and others, bring up for their lack of talent by making very danceable tunes. I love dancing to Dubstep because there are so many ways to dance to it. The third and is just out right kicking. Moving your feet fast in a variety of different patterns making sure to accentuate the phrase. Dubstep is golden right now and it will be for awhile so JUST DANCE!!
i love how no matter your disposition for some reason I will assume has to do with fitting in for liking the flavour of the day, you always naturally gravitate towards the worst of what ever genre it so happens to be.
I"m sure it makes for great drugging / dancing but your barometer of production and the quality of said production needs a new battery. I suppose ala deadmau5, it is only natural that someone down with it would start hating skrillex at this point. But every single artist is ripping skrillex off who you could perhaps argue took much influence from noisia. No matter, every producer in the genre are taking their cues from these guys because they pretty much put this new version of dubstep on the map.
Anyways, keep up the cool dancing. I would love a video.
