I like some of the dubstep…and the trashy stuff…no.
It is as you say…youngsters like the HEAVY…HARD…FAST…BANGING…DISTORTING party. Its not like they are EDM connoisseurs at all. Its not like they have been through the stages of EDM development etc.
For them, If the party is off the hook…its literally off the hook.
I know from experience that I used to love the fast banging shit…but now in my old age…I am prefering the slower more structured beats…not just a track that will make me go nuts. I still like those tracks…but I am not so single tracked anymore.
It is definitely a youngster\noobie type thing.
Dubstep itself is just a formula of beats…the structure of the drums…
They will have the noisiest shit…running over a Dubstep beat…it will not last man…
I think the lines have blurred between all genres. Drum & Bass for instance sounds slightly unrecognizable by standards of years past. I still enjoy the genre greatly and honestly find more “playable” with so many dub and electro / progressive house elements in the fray as of recent.
As for the link . . . This happens with everything. The commercialization of scenes used to discourage me, but such is society. _____ scene usually decays, the people smart enough to profit do so, and after a few years the seemingly dead scene reemerges under a new name and slightly altered sound.
As I see it you have three options. (1) Join them (2) Fight them, not physically (3) Continue being honest to your own taste and have fun
Dubstep is a victim… Stop judging music based on the people who like it… If dubstep wasn’t popular with teenagers, nobody would hate it.
I’ve never seen a music argument as full of shit as the dubstep one. It’s always old ravers who have nothing else going in their lives, who’ve been a part of the rave scene since they were kids the SAME AGE as the kids they’re hating. If you genuinely dislike the sound of dubstep music, great… But don’t have disrespect for it…
I think both house music and trance music are probably the worst crap I’ve ever heard, but I don’t bitch about it… I let the people who like it, like it.
Also, do not simultaneously bitch about low attendance to your events, while bitching about dubstep bringing people into the scene.
Point of information. Brostep = Loud and OTT compared to the origins of dubstep. You can be that and be well produced. It’s not fair to write off an entire scene as ‘poorly produced’ just because you don’t like it.
If brostep wobble is the new dubstep can we come up with a new name for the stuff that Tectonic puts out? I don’t know what to say anymore when people ask - what kind of music is this?
Dubstep is SUB music, minimal and dark.
If you are classifying skrillex and nero as dubstep, and comparing them to what Dubstep is and is made up of, then they a terribly produced dubstep tunes.
sure call it something else and it can be considered well produced according to that vibe.
BUT you wouldn’t say a jazz influenced metal song, is a well produced jazz tune.
these produces are just using dubstep influences.. barely any to be honest.. just tempo, thats about it.
I wouldn’t classify a genre because its similar tempo.
I would call skrillex and nero electro house well before dubstep.
Not hearing any of the genres before and you took a dubstep tune, a brostep tune and a electro house tune.. and compared them..
Brostep and Electro House would sound A LOT more similar than dubstep and brostep.
Dubstep, in my opinion, is music for people who want to sound cool by liking “techno” music but dont really like dance music. If people want to listen to it thats fine, but hearing how “filthy” a song is becomes tiring after a while. I also find that dubstep ends up sounding the same after a while, becomes very boring. Styles like trance and house are so powerful to me because of the way they’re able to invoke emotion and feelings, dubstep sounds too mechanical, no emotion, just robotic bass wobble.
A friend of mine posted this on facebook and its videos like this that really make dubstep look lame to me, and honestly I cant wait until the fad dies out.
All dubstep sounds the same and trance doesn’t? I get what you’re saying about the emotions etc, but let’s face it reasonably well mixed trance music can sound like one long song lasting a couple of hours. There is a LOT of variation in dubstep. And it doesn’t all sound like skrillex.
and honestly, enter shikari blow no matter what style they’re playing. Reeeally not a screamo fan.
I wonder how long Dubstep will last in the mainstream. It shares a lot of fans with DnB and that’s been around in various forms for decades.
there’s a lot to it and a diverse amount of sounds that use the dubstep backbone.
right now electronic music has exploded in mainstream popularity, it’s very similar to what i saw in the late 90s. pop friendly electronic artist makes a hit and suddenly everyone wants to make electronic or electronic inspired pop hits with a similar sound. Big Beat was the Dubstep of the late 90s.
i’m sure a lot of the more experienced and older people during the 90s explosion had similar feelings about how the scene changed once it became mainstream and pop.
i remember hating Prodigy and Daft Punk because they were the most accessible of the bunch, with songs like “Around the World” and “Firestarter” getting play at my grade 7 school dance. 10 years i look back and am just in awe that artists such as Prodigy and Daft punk were considered POP MUSIC.
i don’t think it’s a bad thing that there is a similar thing happening with electro and dubstep. the sub-genres of these styles that are most broad and accessible are never the most complex and brilliant examples of what’s possible with the genre. no argument there, but they do serve two purposes.
entertain people who wouldn’t hear that type of music in any other situation. not everyone is a music geek and some people only find songs from word of mouth, tv or radio.
they’re gateway genres for young people who have always liked the synthetic sounds but didn’t know where to look. they’ll become obsessed once they’ve found that sound and soon enough will be deep into all the genres, and probably djing and producing.
for the record, my gateway album was Mortal Kombat Movie Soundtrack - it doesn’t get much more broad/mainstream then a movie soundtrack!
that’s the one that really made me go “What is that energetic, future sound, that sound that only space robots could make, that sound that makes me want to have a damn good time!!!”
that sound was electronic dance music my friends. 14 years later and im still just as hooked as ever.
Its all a matter of perception and taste. To me trance is so heavily melodic that I can differentiate between trance songs in a set. Dubstep is much more minimalist and consists of a few essential elements found in near every song ( in my experience ) so to my ears it tends to all sound the same.
