skrillex review
the last paragraph just about sums up my point of view. the rest is just an entertaining read.
LOL @ the graphic!
amazing picture ahaha
reminds me of that thread a while ago
girls who look like skrillex some funny ass pics on here
DDDDDDDDD-DROP the bass.
+1 for brostep. Guilty pleasure I guess…? Can’t argue with some of those drops.
“Hey bro, you got any Skrillex? How about Deadmaufive?”
Yea the review isn’t wrong per se, but I’ve always had a problem with music reviewers in general. I could write NOVELS about how boring loopy tech house is but RA lives on that shit and while I’m not much of a ‘brostep’ fan I can at least understand why it’s popular.
Enough of this ‘preserving the scene’ and all this about it being perversion. ALL of EDM can be called musical perversion by classical musicians. It’s all perspective, if you wanna jump around to some saw waves with distortion at a 140 shuffle beat, go nuts. Life’s too short.
Although I kinda totally agree with this guys point, I don’t loath this harsh commercial take on dubstep, but it is a bastardised version of somthin much more complex.
As a full time journo myself, the writing does seem a little over cooked - “bathos” I mean how often does that word come up in the popular press!
This line however is on the money imo:
“it’s fun and well-produced rave fare—but this music does a dangerous disservice if it’s perceived as representative of ‘dubstep’ to an audience that has never come upon it before.”
also, sigh its finally time for a sig change.
I wish RA would change their text and background colours. Got serious stripy vision after reading that!
Thank you for the new signature lol.
we must remember that skrillex never pushed his music as dubstep. its the promoters and the labels that did. so “hardcore” dubstep fans need to stop hating on skrillex for pushing “dubstep” in a direction they dont like. i think people need to use the word “brostep” more. sure, it was meant pejoratively, but so was “the big bang theory”, and that clearly caught on. there’s definitely a market for both for the chilled dubstep end of things, as well as the aggro dubstep end of things. and as a regular to dubstep nights, a distinction needs to be made, because calling a night a “dubstep night” has become ambiguous.
Ha, yea man I was talking to a buddy recently and he asked me if I heard of Deadmaufive… to which I replied, why yes, yes I have… 
no, he just produced tracks at 140bpm with half time drums and heavy wobbling basslines and let people make up their own minds about what to call them
I don’t care what you call it. I quite like some of skrillex’s stuff. Sure, not all the time and you’ve got to pick the moment, but if people are going to forego listening to ALL other dubstep because they hear one or 2 farking heavy tracks that they don’t like, then more fool them.
Did you slap a little sense into him?
I murdered him.
LOL i dont get why people hate on Skrillex, he is probably not even trying to fall into Dubstep or Electro. He is probably doing what Deadmau5 does which is try to be category-less.
I think house heads need to stop trying to categorise every brand of the scene, just listen to what you like and dont listen to what you dont like 
Skrillex the producer: Meh, honestly his sound is TOO distinct. As in, once you’ve heard one song, the rest sound the same. All well and good I suppose but I could not see sitting through a concert of just skrillex unless I was rolling face and didn’t give a shit what was playing as long as it had base and some semblance of a melody. Which brings me on to my next point.
Skrillex the DJ: Another reason I would not sit through one of his concerts. He is an awful DJ. Just plain awful. He is half drunk and smokes butts the entire time, doesn’t really do much, and people eat that shit up. He’s a half-drunk bedroom controllerist who twists knobs and generally just fucks up his tracks by throwing in random fucking stutters and ridiculous effects and filters for no reason because he thinks it’s edgy and cool.
Anyway - the reason skrillex is so big is because of his wide appeal. He has hold-overs from his hardcore days and scene followings are very very cultish. These kids think Skrillex is mad indie and shit. Then he gets a lot of bros who listen to him while they snort coke they bought with money they took from their dads wallet or those just like to rage. It’s hard to get shitfaced drunk and have a college-type party to psy-trance and shit It’s not hard to understand why he has the appeal he does. Do I care that it isn’t “real” dubstep? No? I don’t even really have a problem with it, I just don’t listen to him much, if at all, because his music isn’t danceable to, it isn’t very original (since it all sounds the same) and overall it’s just not very interesting. The sound WAS cool when he first came out with it. It definitely didn’t sound like anything that came before it. Now it just sounds like Skrillex, and I mean that it the worst way possible.
haters gonna hate, huh? does your judgement come from watching youtube videos?
ive seen skrillex playing about a week ago and i was pleasently surprised that he actually could dj. clean transitions, big drops out of nowhere and a great track selection. i would call myself hard to satisfy when it comes to the technical point of djing and i was. even if that wasn’t true - he had the whole place jumping from beginning to end and that’s what good djing is all about.
if you like the music or not it’s up to you. i think there are way better producers out there, but bashing at stuff you don’t get or like doesn’t make any sense. i would have to bash at 90% of music in general and that would insult the taste of basicly the whole planet. that you don’t like music doesn’t make it bad music. top40 music is a form of art too, it appeals to billions of people - who am i to judge just because it sounds like crap to me?
if some of you guys hate skrillex so bad, because he’s got the monies and b*tches, i feel sorry for you. but there’s certainly way better ways of letting your anger out than hating on people on the internet. theres way worse too! if i’m jelous of something i would always try to find out what i have to do to achive the same instead of wasting my time with stupid anger.
if you’re mad because it’s not classical dubstep he’s making while representing the genres name - wake up, that happens to every genre. i dont feel like sean paul is what dancehall is about, pendulum for dnb or david guetta for electro. but that what comes into people minds, because they’re popular - everyday business.
the brostep thing will not work because that name sounds stupid. dubstep is a cool word and it has been taken by the mainstream. i’m sorry for you original dubheads!
Thought he was kinda lame live (0 dynamics), but Scatta ft. Foreign Beggars is dope. He has one sound, but he does that one sound very well.
(IMHO) >.>
word.