Why is he just standing there screaming into the microphone if he really has to poop that bad?
Lira
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Originally posted by netroM
brostep
I still don't understand the difference between brostep and dubstep. Not that I care, because I now listen to both genres anyway.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those people who claim there's good dubstep and bad dubstep. Both sound like Darth Vader snoring inside the digestive tract of a cholera-stricken Optimus Prime, but that's exactly why I wub it.
Marcus Summers
Haven't been in a country that has any up to date music lately.
When I got back to the west, I heard things by Skrillex and BENNY BENASSI (Of all people)
God, dubstep is so ing awful. It's noise. It's utter e! I'm glad I have allies against this watered down trash!
Boris Torres
Music
OrangestO
Melodic.
SYSTEM-J
Energetic.
WittyHandle
If anything, it's energetic. Just horribly misplaced energy.
SYSTEM-J
How is it energetic? It's all in half time. 70bpm is not energetic.
Alex
Good.
Lira
quote:
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
How is it energetic? It's all in half time. 70bpm is not energetic.
It's probably something to do with the ways the tunes are produced: despite the beat giving the impression that the tunes are around 70 BPM, they are produced twice that speed, so it feels like much more happens in every beat (that's why Beatport and even dubstep producers themselves say the tunes are around 140 BPM). Makes sense because, instead of having - as usual - four semiquavers filling every beat, it feels like you have eight demisemiquavers wreaking havoc at every single beat. Take Downlink's "Ignition", for example:
Right after the drop, the bass wobbles 8 times between the first kick and the first snare thanks to the LFOs. If you like dubstep (not your case, so you've got to trust me on this one :D), it makes the tune much more energetic than usual. And it's not just the bass - the same goes for the stuttered vocals in Torqux's "Relentless":
They are sliced equally eight times between the first kick and the first snare - sure, it makes perfect sense to say they're eight demisemiquavers played in succession. However, given the history of electronic music, it's also natural to assume the producer just filled a bunch of quarter notes and halved the speed of the beat... and that makes the music much busier than usual. I mean, do you really think I'd like dubstep if it didn't satisfy my hyperactive needs? I hated it in the beginning precisely because I thought it was too damn slow!
Sorry for the clumsy English. Although I know music theory (was one semester short of graduating in Brasilia's Conservatory), I've never had to talk about it in English.
ripped
tripe
SYSTEM-J
quote:
Originally posted by Lira
It's probably something to do with the ways the tunes are produced: despite the beat giving the impression that the tunes are around 70 BPM, they are produced twice that speed, so it feels like much more happens in every beat (that's why Beatport and even dubstep producers themselves say the tunes are around 140 BPM).
Yeah, like I said - it's all in halftime. It just totally lacks any energy on a dancefloor, and the tracks you've posted are totally typical of that. You don't dance to that rapid wobble, everyone just does a moronic slow-mo skank to dubstep. I don't mind hearing some of it in a club but more than 15-20 minutes and it just terminally ruins the energy levels. As a DJ I find it totally impossible to build any energy when playing dubstep.
I do like a lot of dubstep, but strictly as listening music, because it doesn't have any energy to it. The skittery, paranoid rhythms and massive bass can be very effective and atmospheric, but honestly it just ing sucks to dance to in 99% of cases. And most of the interesting producers have fled from it because they don't want to associate with brostep wobble .
