Dubstep will eventually die out and lose popularity, like drum and bass did. House will always be the top electronic genre and the crossover elements, like the wobbles, will stay in house production. 128bpm will never die.
That’s because 128bpm is so easy to dance to! I personally love crossover genres. For instance, I like drumstep (85-89bpm if gridded at halftime) a lot more than dubstep because it’s more fast paced. I also like complextro because it has some really intense drops but maintains the ease of dance-ability inherent to electro and house.
When I hear the names of cross over genres — I don’t even know what they are called: Glitchbrostepelectrofunkcore I think to myself. WTF is that and who listens to that shit.
Im with the guy up top who said most of that stuff will eventually die out and you’ll here hints of it as you do now because it’s a trend.
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its good to see both sides of the people (pros / cons)
i personally think hybrid genres are refreshing if done correctly
personally i think it doesnt matter, if it sounds good then it sounds good, even if its electrotrancestepdrumminimaldutch whatever, if they used the right ingridients to bake a cake and it somehow tastes good, then yes why not haha
great track. the genre is called darkcore, which is technically a d’n’b subgenre, but it overlaps with hardcore. fascinating little detail in my opinion, because when you hear tracks like what you posted you can actually tell how the two genres blend. otherwise darkcore is mainly much faster, more discordant gabber.
and guys, how about this for an example of a cross over, eh?
i did and excuse me if i´m wrong but doubt that dnb was played in the “mainstream” venues back in the 90s. so it´s popularity is still and maybe more present like back then.
i know several old skool dnb djs over here who hates drumstep and claims that drumstep is not dnb, i mean i understand the purist point of view but i think as long as it sounds good theres no need to hate right?
i like it to play tracks which have parts where a completely different music-style is used for drops, breaks and things like this.
and that can be anything that makes fun, parts of some funkey music of the 1930’s or charlie chaplin style filmmusic or country or some kind of folk-music or even dubstep, anything funny ^^
It’s absolutely still relevant within the scene, and I would imagine it has a lot more staying-power than dubstep will.
I think there was a lot more exposure for DnB in the mid-late 90’s. I know plenty of people who listened to LTJ and Goldie that weren’t necessarily EDM enthusiasts. It doesn’t seem that there are any casual drum and bass fans these days.
