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All these commentaries and opinions about dubstep come from another era - from a time where there really was an underground and an overground. When content was scarce and we didn't have the internet to access new cultural memes and music at the click of a button - from a time when you had to know people who know the people doing it, and seek it out at secretive gatherings, or select club nights, and know the right record shops to go to and who to ask for. Then, when a certain critical mass was reached and the mass media picked up on something - house, garage, techno, dnb, rave culture, etc etc, and a thousand fractured facets thereof, that thing was considered 'dead', declared as such and the cycle continued.
Now, no such clear boundary exists. I've been yakking drivel about this sort of thing since the 80s, and I like a lot of dubstep - it's better than the shit kids had access to in the last 30 years - it's got some energy and an obvious dna right back to proper black music. It's simple and accessable to understand and produce, and can absorb and blend almost every other flavor of dance music. It has turned on millions of kids to produce, and some wicked talents will be producing genuinely original sounds in a short time because of their exposure to dubstep. It doesn't do to be snobbish about where you think it's gone and cite the 'original vibe' of it all, lamenting that there's popular work being done in a leafy Seattle gated community in the genre rather than a little-known Lambeth warehouse, that's just parochial and small-minded despite protestations to the contrary. It aint like it was - you can't own a scene for long enough before it's everywhere, there'll be no new acid house, it's all moving too quickly to cook long enough in one place. What dubstep has done is highlight the blurring of boundaries between groups in society - geographical, age, talent, background. It's truly the first genre to have grown up on the internet for better or worse.- LOL.. no underground. pfft.. there is always the underground. regardless of genre, era or age group.autoflavour
- Right. but there is instant, global access to it.mikotondria3
- i've seen some pretty amazing and talented people dancing to dubstepscarabin
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- "parochial".
Pretentious git.mikotondria3