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- Miguex0
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dont you mean
- 23kon0
This thread is tedious and shite and needs a .......
- 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.
- Dillinger0
Its all sooo Michael Jackson
- prophetone0
the making of a weetabix dubstep
- quit goofing off dan! lolprophetone
- that little girl looks like she's doing the David Brent dance from the OfficeBaskerviIle
- oey0
I went to see this Skrillex concert last November, and it was very good. Whatever that means...but it was really fucking good.
Before that one, the last I went to was Skream and Benga, like 3 years ago, and that is fucking dubstep. And it was fucking awesome.
By that time I also went to see The Bug, needless to say that it was fucking intense.Now, I see some similarities and the links between the music Skrillex does and the music from the other artists I mentioned, but I think it's different style of music.
I can't see the Jamaican side in Skrillex's music...hahahaha!
- oey0
Dubstep? Sure I like it. But today it sounds so different...
- autoflavour0
i like music, regardless.
now or then, if its authentic it wins.
mainstream or underground.knowing where music has come from isnt necessarily a precursor to having good taste in music.
however the notion that the underground movement, in any genre has died, clearly speaks to the lack of exposure the person saying it has to actual underground culture.
its not an us and them thing.. its appreciating and understanding, regardless of genre, regardless of era and regardless what its called, good music can be found in abundance in nearly every city..
clique'a, genre hating and segmentation of music appreciation limits the viewpoint of the person putting forward these ideals, and ultimately leads to a less experienced interaction with music as a whole.
- I'll more precisely say that the nature of the overground to the underground is radically different than it was 20 yrs ago.mikotondria3
- There is no sharp cutoff anymore. There skrillibix at one end and people in small groups making music in bedrooms at the other, putting it on the web.mikotondria3
- the other. The distance between them is a click, a call, an email. 10 minutes from one end to the other.mikotondria3
- What also has changed is the apolitical nature of it all. Underground music now is literally as subversive asmikotondria3
- weetabix.mikotondria3
- clearly you have no understanding or relation to current underground movements.autoflavour
- zoozoo0
I liked grime textures as well as dubstep wobbles.
- Miguex0
truth is, dubstep exploted very quickly, at some point it was an underground 'cult' like following genre from south london that was in between 138 and 42bpm with emphasis on grooves, bass/subs and dub. People around the world started to listen and suddenly a new sub-genre started to emerge (I won't name it, to avoid side discussions) some people claim that this new more popular sub-genre that did not emphasize neither bass or dub, but instead screeching mid range eclectic melodies. Some say this new subgenre started in the US, but the truth is some of the (maybe now forgotten pioneers from england were producing it too).
Now this new sub genre became more popular than dubstep and a vast majority of people call it that, and quickly name producers from this new style as 'dubstep producers' or even 'dubstep pioneers', completely ignoring the cult like movement where it came from.
Everyone hates on this one guy, as if he was the walmart of the genre, but at the same time, he is the most consumed, celebrated and must see artist at any big electronic festival.
Now, those who were into 'dubstep' back when it was something else, call that style 'bass music' just as a way to differentiate what they listen to with this new sub-genre that is now recognized as the only sound of the genre.
And that is my point of view, as objectively as I can write it.
- mg330
Check this out, and then this comment:
http://yaleherald.com/featured/d…
"Dear Vlad,
My question is, when you woke up in the morning, what gave you the right, just because you sat in intro Psych (with the other 400 of us), to assume that you can make sweeping generalizations about music. Dubstep is popular, not because it allows its fans to act trendier-than-thou, but because it’s one of the most exiting musical movements to emerge in years. Although you may only listen to Indie Pop, with pretty harmonies and worn out chord changes, some of us like our music to kick a little bit. As your counterpart pointed out, Dub step is incredibly intricately arranged which allows for repeat listens and advanced musicianship. Furthermore, your claim that you can’t dance to dubstep is simply not true. Go to a nightclub, go to Philly, Dub Step is everywhere and people are....wait for it...dancing.
Your article assumes that, because you lack the capacity to appreciate a genre, people must only like it for show.
Your a fool,
Sincerely,
Jake Backer and anyone else who likes Dub Step"- exiting musical movement? sounds like someone ate some bad curry
autoflavour - i find the connection between the skrillabix and the food analogy compelling..autoflavour
- i dont hate skrillexautoflavour
- exiting musical movement? sounds like someone ate some bad curry
- chossy0
This product will make you dance infront of your friends, whom were previously watching you eat.
- 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
- autoflavour0
you know what I learned during all of this..
people like things
- 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
- 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
