Dubstep Cereal ad
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- Dillinger0
Its all sooo Michael Jackson
- MrT0
I don't think so many people would hate Skrillex if he didn't use a Mac.
- It's just a mac case.
It's a 386 in there.mikotondria3 - I find this discussion a lot like the Mac PC 'debate'...MrT
- You would say that.
You're a mac/pc user.
(delete as applicable)mikotondria3
- It's just a mac case.
- calculator0
wuup wuup wuup wuup, wob wob wob wob.
bhheeewww.
(and repeat).
- ukit20
I want some dubstep cereal
- Raniator0
When are people going to realise that dubstep is just drum and bass played a 50% speed.
And yeah, it's fucking shit.
- mg330
I love this:
James Blake vents about dubstep's "pissing competition"
http://www.inthemix.com.au/news/…
Just last week, incoming Stereosonic star Datsik mused to inthemix about the new generation of US producers who are taking dubstep on a divergent path from its UK origins.“When you talk to people from the UK, they say Canada and the US are all about noisy dubstep,” he said. “But I think that the only reason it’s like that is because Canada and the US haven’t really experienced good, deep dubstep on a big system. It was never introduced like that. So it’s really hard to get some of these big UK producers who started the genre over to the US, because kids have never heard of them.”
One Englishman who espouses that opinion of Stateside dubstep is DJ and crooner James Blake, whose sets plumb a moodier kind of bass music. In a recent interview with The Boston Phoenix, the usually reserved Blake seemed disturbed by the appetite in the States for big, brash, brostepping sounds.
“I think the dubstep that has come over to the US, and certain producers – who I can’t even be bothered naming – have definitely hit upon a sort of frat-boy market where there’s this macho-ism being reflected in the sounds and the way the music makes you feel,” Blake said.
“And to me, that is a million miles away from where dubstep started. It’s a million miles away from the ethos of it. It’s been influenced so much by electro and rave, into who can make the dirtiest, filthiest bass sound, almost like a pissing competition, and that’s not really necessary.
In Blake’s opinion, if you’re making frat-step, you’re only going to attract frat-boys. “I just think that largely that is not going to appeal to women. I find that whole side of things to be pretty frustrating, because that is a direct misrepresentation of the sound as far as I’m concerned.”
Is he taking the words out of your mouth, or are you siding with Skrillex and co. on this one? We just hope the guy isn’t including this masterful remix from Benny Benassi in his critique. You can read more about Benny’s finest hour in our ‘The worst dubstep remixes ever’ feature.
- +cmykprophetone
- Randomly listened to that song last night actually.mg33
- choonprophetone
- so perfect, he is right! just look at some of the dubstep we listen to from FMT and compare that to the commercial stuffHijoDMaite
- commercial stuff. it's way different!HijoDMaite
- mg330
I'm "friends" with a guy I went to high school with on Facebook, who constantly posts this kind of shitty music. He's also one of those people who wears nothing but those aggressive looking Affliction t-shirts, and posts pictures of him and his friends posing in high-end luxury cars they don't own and never will own. Three strikes bro, you're off my list.
- melq0
This is why I listen to black metal. You can't sell shit in corpse paint.
- scarabin0
don't hate on dubstep, hate on advertising.
- scarabin0
if you don't like the music, don't listen to it. making it a personal campaign to make sure everybody else hates it too is pretty ridiculous
- it doesn't show that you have better taste than anyone else, it just means you like to bitchscarabin
- bang on...well said! :]vivid
- I hear you scarabin... but hard to avoid when it's showing up in cereal commercials and McD's and whatever else.dopepope
- yeah that commercial is pretty horriblescarabin
- http://funcorner.eu/…autoflavour
- i think i'm just cranky this morning anyway, like i have room to talkscarabin
- smoke a bowl.. listen to some dubstep..autoflavour
- wordscarabin
- mikotondria30
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
- needs more thesaurusstepson
- "parochial".
Pretentious git.mikotondria3
- HijoDMaite0
My main beef with dubstep has always been that it's not real dancy, like upbeat dancy. I come from the House scene and we use to really dance. Either in a circle or with our girls at a club, but the energy was great and it was so fun to move.
When we walked in to the big room at a club or the trance room it kinda sucked because everyone would focus on the DJ and be squished up to the stage throwing their hands up and trying to dance with only a foot of space around you.
The house room or d&b room always had more room to dance and more air to breathe.
Seems the big dubstep shows I've been to have been all about bobbing your head up and down and raising your hand up and down to the drops.
If you do try and dance to it unless you know how to poplock you end up looking like the QWOP guy.
So I think this is why it has attracted so much of the "frat" or "macho" scene as Blake talks about. Because you can still get in to the vibe and don't feel like an idiot if you don't know how to dance. In the 90's if you couldn't dance then you would end up riding the wall and staring at people who did.
- lol at looking like the QWOP guy.neandersthal
- Right. It is supposed to be Dance music. The experience is about dancing and all the magic that comes with it. I used to...mikotondria3
- ..dance my fucking ass off for hours to techno, it changed my life, being so free and energetic and fucking good, if I say so. :Dmikotondria3
- hahascarabin
- autoflavour0
you know what I learned during all of this..
people like things
- scarabin0
what i like about dubstep is it seems like they've figured out exactly how to make people lose their frigging minds. that primal beat we've been dancing to for millenia has been tweaked and perfected, the whole thing sounds massive and intense, dramatic, it's like war in your ears, sonic drugs
yeah it has no real substance, no real message other than pleasure, but i'm okay with that. i can find those things in other forms of music rather than getting angry about it not having them.
but who cares, whatever.
*shrug*
- i wouldn't say they figured out how to make people lose their minds with dubstep. i would say it's been a process over the time of all electronic music.lvl_13