skrillex going down the "burial-road"

[ad357]

They should all just produce Electro-House....hell, that's what their Dubstep started sounding like anyway.

I don't care (or know) too much about future garage, just been into Burial for years, but I 100% agree with that.

[Zer0beet]

Why do I need to relax?
Do you love underground Future Garage? If so, would you like it if
it were compromised in such a way so that it appealed to the lowest common
denominator? No, I don't want masses of idiots thinking that Skrillex invented UKGarage.
I don't want thousands of Skrillex wannabes copying him, then adding shitty Pop Vocals,
Electro-House Stabs, and Mid-Range Bass to it.

Kats like Skrillex, Excision, and the like, need to stay the frak away from UKGarage.
They should all just produce Electro-House....hell, that's what their Dubstep started sounding like anyway.

Looks like someone is butt hurt over something they have have no control over. Relax an look at the bright side of things.

On another note yes dubstep is starting to sound a lot like electro house

[kooper1980]

Why do I need to relax?
Do you love underground Future Garage? If so, would you like it if
it were compromised in such a way so that it appealed to the lowest common
denominator? No, I don't want masses of idiots thinking that Skrillex invented UKGarage.
I don't want thousands of Skrillex wannabes copying him, then adding shitty Pop Vocals,
Electro-House Stabs, and Mid-Range Bass to it.

Kats like Skrillex, Excision, and the like, need to stay the frak away from UKGarage.
They should all just produce Electro-House....hell, that's what their Dubstep started sounding like anyway.

How is this going to affect your "scene" though? It would just spawn a new subgenre of future garage and new artists. Your super cool existing future garage artists will still exist and will still perform at various club nights just like they do now. Your worlds will co-exist side by side. Hell, you purists can one day get together an reminisce about how "they dont make future garage like they used to". Fuck the worst that could happen here is that some of the fans of this new future garage give your nights a chance and they actually get to like it! Get off your high horse dude. You dont own that genre that you are so protective of! Embrace it. Dont feel threatened by it.

[blackavenger]

It's obvious that we are going to have to agree to disagree.

[kooper1980]

It's obvious that we are going to have to agree to disagree.

Thats cool. Its ok to disagree. Doesnt mean I hate you. :-) In truth people should take a lesson from you. I think you handled that REALLY well!! :-)

Ive never listened to future garage before. Ive just done a search and it sounds interesting. Nice one for the introduction!!

[AllDay]

Skrillex is becomming like religion, you have the people that treat him like a saint, and others that want nothing to do with him.

[PeteWoods]

It sounds forced, Burials elements just sit, a few other great Future Garage producers do as well, they sound like they were meant to be woven together. this sounds like its thrown together.

that vocal sample is god awful. nice bassline though, drums are very idm-y, i like them, but for this style they might need to be a bit more swung.

[Sambo]

Lot of hate in this thread, blimey!

I've always respected Skrillex's production skills and always wondered what his music would be like if he branched out to something a bit more chilled, and now he's done it. Is the best song ever? No. Could you play this instead of his other songs in a club and satisfy everyone's Skrillex craving? Again, no. Yet the song is remarkably nice to have on whilst driving/doing menial tasks. Just out of interest, has anyone listened to the other two songs from the EP?

The Reason is a great song which has a good drop at 2 minutes in and has a really cool french house vibe to it, and Scary Bolly Dub is pretty typical Skrillex with a few of his new french house patches carried over... In fact just as Scary Bolly Dub finishes now, I realise he hasn't changed at all. It's just Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites redux, and then a bollywood sample... I have no idea. He probably just didn't want to alienate old fans completely.

I for one welcome Skrillex's experimenting. It's far too easy to just do what you do best and end up disappearing when your music isn't fashionable anymore. Also I can't recall many EDM artists who's debut release was their magnum opus, like Moby's Play or Daft Punk's Discovery; Both quite different from their previous efforts, but both widely regarded as some of the greatest albums ever released, consistently making it into the higher echelons of "Top X albums of all time" lists, so these recent changes in Skrillex's music don't surprise me.

I'm not saying this EP is that calibre, it's not even remotely near, but I expect Skrillex will soon drop something special, something he'll be remembered for. He has the skill and the momentum to do it, he'd be a fool not to.

[ad357]

People don't seem to get it. The complaint isn't Skrillex "changing direction", it's Skrillex blatantly ripping off a lesser known artist. It seems that anyone who likes Skrillex, or likes this new tune, completely ignores that point.

[enorjy]

Im not ashamed to say i been enjoying the shit out of fit, rip off or not