“Personally, I prefer brostep to what they call ‘true dubstep’. In my opinion, true dubstep is thoroughly uninteresting, c-grade production,” Robinson told us. “I mean, of course there are exceptions – Skream and Benga are extremely talented – but I think there’s an enormous amount of pretence in the dubstep community. Because something is deliberate and uninteresting, it makes it superior to the more accessible stuff. I don’t buy that at all.”
He has somewhat of a point. There are tremendous amounts of crappy dubstep being released on a daily basis. Sometimes it takes listening to 75+ tracks on beatport to find one that I like to include in a set.
To me most of his “dubstep” tracks sound Electro. I’m a huge fan of many of his electro tracks and really hope he continues to make more electro tracks.
He did say it was his opinion and not really emphasizing that it means anything. I really wanna read the full interview. You know how stuff can be put out of context to spark troll wars. Thanks for posting this though.
He sounds sincere and doesn’t appear to be starting a troll fest:
"But Porter’s not denying he’s dabbled in the wubbs before. “I have a couple dubstep songs that are heavy and aggressive, and I don’t mean to knock the genre at all, but I think it became a little worn out. I mean, it’s been done so thoroughly, I think every aspect of hard dubstep has been explored.”
No trolling at all IMO. He paid some due respect, but pointed out something that has been painfully obvious to me for a while now, there is some friggen terrible dubstep out there. Don’t believe it? Just spend 5 minutes on soundcloud…
flavour of the month twat. No one will remember his name in 18 months time, I guess you need to milk your 15 minutes for all its worth with inflammatory comments in interviews…
I wouldn’t expect a 19 year old who just graduated High-school to be into Old School Dubstep that has lots of polyrythmic/dark/ambient tones.
Just as 12 year old’s listen to Justin Beiber, their musical tastes will change, or should I say “Mature” with age.
When I was younger I was into some pretty bad HardStyle (Straight up ridiculously crappy tunes), now I can’t stand it and have migrated to Deep Progressive House.
Seriously? I’m 19 and I love it to death. Was it really necessary to pull that bullshit age card?
I have to agree with previous posters though, he comes off as a bit pretentious in the interview, as if he’s trying too hard for a “holier-than-thou” appearance. Then again, Rusko did it to when he both laid claim to creating brostep and to being above it. It’s an annoying tendency among producers, from what I have read.
Now what I think is a lot more interesting and a lot trollsier are Porter Robinson’s political convictions, though I do not believe they are explicitly on the record.
revision: Then again i’m 19 in my second year of college.
I’m 28 and in college with a majority of 19 year old’s, the music they listen to is predominantly god-awful. But good music is in the “ear” of the beholder, so to each their own.
All’s I’m saying is I’m embarrassed by some of the music I used to listen to and can laugh about it now. Nickleback anyone?
Not if you produce shit. He produces a sound that is popular with kids at the moment. 18 months time the kids will like a different sound. There is a plethora of very talented producers out there with their own niche just waiting to hit it big. Are you saying that Porter Robinson is that good that he will be able to put together anything, including new future poluar sounds, and it will be killer? Pfft, give me a break. Flash. In. The. Pan.
