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What do u guys think of dubstep? Posted on: 24.07.2012 by Dorothy Glove Not starting a war here, just intrested in knowing wat u guys believe of dubstep, and what r some of ur favourite tracks? | |
| Celine Surico 25.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by BFLY
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| Lawana Spratlen 25.07.2012 | Dubstep as it is known today is for Americans/Teenagers/People with no taste |
| Salvatore Husley 26.07.2012 | Ed has a bigger heart than I do. I enjoy dubstep very much but not the brostep side. Dubstep definitely has it's own feet to stand on. It has a great history and large catalogue of classic tunes. If you heard it played all evening
on a great sound system where you can feel the sub then you are going to experience it like you never have before. But if you're not into it then fair play. Just don't be taking a shit on it because you don't like. Because I can guarantee I could take a shit on your favorite genre. I love the percussion on a lot of the old tracks. Love the dark garage years. Even love the experimental tracks. It just seems like a niche thing nowadays . A lot more people are into brostep. It just drives me nuts when people degrade dubstep saying it's not a genre or bullshit like that. |
| Matt Kane 25.07.2012 | i |
| Brenna Welbes 25.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by AryanH
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| Evelyn Navarijo 25.07.2012 | I love Dubstep, and I really don't understand people who claim "it's not a genre", or that "it shouldn't be exclusive in a set". There's a fairly big Dubstep scene out there, throwing evening s playing nothing but Dubstep, and have done so since 2005. To claim "it doesn't work" seems silly, obviously it does. |
| Freida Leash 25.07.2012 | I like dubstep, it really captured my ear a couple of years ago, turned me on to grime which I missed out on because I didn't like UK Garage that it seemed to rise from the ashes. I mostly play Drum and Bass and downtempo, there is a sweet spot for dubstep to live in that space too, especially the more ethereal tunes. Sometimes I get a wild hair and play an hour or so of just dubstep. Mostly my ears can't take it that long, and my library isn't deep enough to put together a great set, after all I shop for other stuff first. There are people that I enjoy hearing them play an extended set of it, but like a great Happy Hardcore DJ it is probably because I enjoy what that DJ is doing with the tracks more than I like the songs, even when I dig what they are playing. |
| Nedra Fresneda 25.07.2012 | Don't quote them, usually we delete those messages too to remove the links. Otherwise you are helping them endure |
| Bunny Sockel 25.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by zestoi
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| Chasidy Heckenbach 25.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by MYE
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| Bunny Sockel 25.07.2012 | spammer has been reported go die in a hole |
| Dorie Scelzo 25.07.2012 | While I usually don't weigh in on these threads, I felt like it toevening
because I feel like shit and can't sleep. And believeing about music calms me. My honest opinion of dubstep is that it's incredibly formulaic music based on a really interesting groove that is awesome in the right context. The "problem" with dubstep is that the context it works in just isn't a genre. It just isn't. Either there's not enough to go on or there aren't enough good musicians |
| Celine Surico 25.07.2012 | I like dubstep, but it's the next gen one, post-step, things from UK, dreamstep -- XLR8R is an excellent resource, Mary Ann Dobb's podcasts, too. The generic dubstep has become somewhat stagnated with the same middle section wobbly productions, it was fun in the beginning but that style is wearing thin. |
| Dorothy Glove 24.07.2012 | Well.....it looks like i have made a mistake making this thread....lets all just go back to listening wat we like to listen to, whether its dubstep, trance, lounge, or the sound of the homeless guy humming for money. |
| Darren Teboe 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by MyUsername
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| Noriko Lebowitz 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by MyUsername
this picture i'm posting is extremely unneeded but I'm going to post it because it makes me laugh. |
| Eloy Kiepke 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by MyUsername
Oh you're adorable. |
| Nereida Jasnoch 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by Saurus
That was rather personal... Instead of on topic. I could be real butthurt, I could defend myself and argue. But no I'm going to shut down my laptop and take my drunken ass and go to sleep. Not because I don't have a comeback. But because your post also made me tired of discussion. |
| Eloy Kiepke 24.07.2012 | Ughhh so here we go again.... This is how this conversation ALWAYS GOES: Most of the seasoned DJs believe dubstep can be used in a set, but should never be played as a genre. Some of them usually pick it apart and explain why in musical terms, some of them are just not very good at discussing it, and spout stupid shit. The seasoned DJs seem to be about half-and-half about older dubstep. Half believe the older stuff is just too slow and boring, and half have perfect respect for it. A lot of older DJs actually play that stuff for some reason. Most of the kids who haven't been playing long got INTO the scene because of dubstep and electrohouse in the first place, whether they want to admit it to themselves or not. They tend to defend it without as much musical knowledge to back it up, largely claiming the "everyone likes what they like, if you don't like it, leave the room" argument. They also tend to spout stuff about older dubstep like Benga and Skream being more legitimate. They also, pretty often link to youtube videos and say "look at this example of not terrible recent dubstep", despite personally playing the worst dubstep ever the rest of the time. And that's how this always goes. If you care about where this viewpoint comes from, I used to be on the side of the younger crowd who believe dubstep is good in an EDM context. I used to take part in a lot of these arguments on the ignorant kid side, before I hit that *click* moment of understanding how EDM works, and why dubstep is NOT set up to be banger music. I started playing at events about six months before dubstep started to blow up in america. Played stuff like Rusko, Caspa, Skream and Bassnectar's dubstep. Then dubstep started to blow up, I played the new stuff as it came out, like Flux Pavillion, Dodge & Fuski, Calvertron etc. Then I started to get out of dubstep about a year later, as the "filth" shit like Boregore caught on. Then I more or less completely dropped it as the filth shit died away and it became the horrible distorted robot noises we know today. I payed attention to the shit that was said by people who know music better than I do, and listened to the stuff they told me I'd like better. Now I play Drum n Bass and Glitch Hop mainly, and some of the dancier house genres. Yes I still like the dubstep I used to play when it was super bouncy and melodic, but I've realized even that's still not good for the events I play at, because it's too slow and not-conducive to all-evening partying. I now very occasionally will do an dubstep drop using like an older flux pavillion or calvertron track or something, then transition out after one verse, but that's about it. I end up doing it maybe once out in every two or three sets. I constantly complain about kids my age spinning hour sets of dubstep, be it older stuff they believe they'll get cred for, or new banger stuff that I believe is about the worst EDM ever made. I now attempt all the time to explain to dubstep kids my age that I went through the same phase, and try to help them get out of it faster than I did. |
| Nereida Jasnoch 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by 16b441khz
And effect of energy during a set ? Some of my friends never let me put on some music because they believe my music is too chill or just plain boring. And I shall be one of the first in this tread to try and come up with a timeless dubstep tune. A classic in the genre itself, regards from dubstep OG skream: And the track that made the made the mainstream media such as radio notice the genre: The percussion only comes blasting in halfway in the song btw. EDIT: Don't you dare listen to this with laptop speakers, if you want to experience these fine pieces of music as they were intended to you HAVE TO listen to this with studio monitors or a big fat sub with some speakers or headphones that can reach 20Hz. |
| Nereida Jasnoch 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by AryanH
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| Dorothy Glove 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by MYE
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| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 | dubstep meme 2.jpegdubstep meme 3.jpeg |
| Rolanda Clodfelder 24.07.2012 | Had to be done .. I prefer house, progressive house, techno, trance and even j-pop over this new fangled stuff, but you asked for an opinion :P |
| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 | And also the sound of dubstep has become so generic that all the big dubstep artists sound the same there is no creativity anymore in dubstep. |
| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by AryanH
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| Dorothy Glove 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by rotebass
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| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 | The problem is most kids classify all dance music as dubstep. And don't know the difference between different genres of dance music. |
| Darren Teboe 24.07.2012 | I've never caught a thread like this, so all of the whining in posts before me can go cry somewhere else. Besides... you either like talking about it, or you crave the attention that posting gives you to cradle your fragile ego and it helps make you feel important. If you didn't, you'd just move along without acknowledging the thread if it really bothered you or you didn't care. Now that I'm finished calling you guys on your whiny BS... 16b441khz pretty much summed up how I feel. It's an amazing seasoning to harder/edgier 4x4 sets when peppered in here and there. On it's own? To me it has the same problem that hindered Drum and Bass from more commercial success, but even worse. It relies heavily on the same sounds to make the majority of it's music. Heavy distorted bass, wobbles, and high pitched synth. I like it by itself, but most of it really uses the same thing just in different melodies and patterns. |
| Lela Umanskaya 24.07.2012 |
Originally Posted by AryanH
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| Celine Surico 24.07.2012 | |
| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 | dubstep meme.jpeg |
| Bunny Sockel 24.07.2012 | I hate it and can't stand all the little idiots at my school who listen to it. |
| Dorothy Glove 24.07.2012 | Wat about old school dunstep tracks? Like benga, skream, and some of ruskos old tracks? Wat dubstep is not ur genre, wat would u say is ur prefered genre? |
| Eloy Kiepke 24.07.2012 | Most of it's terrible, it can be used occasionally, it should never be played as a normal genre blah blah blah so on and so forth. Please delete this tired thread. |
| Alyse Plantenga 24.07.2012 | Its a style of music that i only like to hear in small doses. Played at the right time and it can have a massive effect on the energy during a set but i dont want to hear more than 3 or 4 songs usually because the 2 step tempo is actually more fatiguing to dance to. Favourite tacks, none really, it all seems to be disposable to me. I don't listen to it often but i havent heard or come across anyone with a diffinitive dubstep 'timeless' track that everyone knows will always listen to in the future. There are some old school house records that still hold their own today, i can't see dubstep achieving that at the moment. 2c |
| Lela Umanskaya 24.07.2012 | Too lazy to google that deadhorse gif... |
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