What do u guys think of dubstep?
Not starting a war here, just intrested in knowing wat u guys think of dubstep, and what r some of ur favourite tracks?
Too lazy to google that deadhorse gif…
Its a style of music that i only like to hear in small doses. Played at the right time and it can have a massive effect on the energy during a set but i dont want to hear more than 3 or 4 songs usually because the 2 step tempo is actually more fatiguing to dance to. Favourite tacks, none really, it all seems to be disposable to me. I don’t listen to it often but i havent heard or come across anyone with a diffinitive dubstep ‘timeless’ track that everyone knows will always listen to in the future. There are some old school house records that still hold their own today, i can’t see dubstep achieving that at the moment.
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Most of it’s terrible, it can be used occasionally, it should never be played as a normal genre blah blah blah so on and so forth. Please delete this tired thread.
Wat about old school dunstep tracks? Like benga, skream, and some of ruskos old tracks? Wat dubstep is not ur genre, wat would u say is ur prefered genre?
I hate it and can’t stand all the little idiots at my school who listen to it.
The issue is that the average punter doesn’t know who any of those guys are. They think that all dubstep is just wrarrrbbb-woop-woop-srabbbabb-wrammmmmmm etc etc…
I’ve never caught a thread like this, so all of the whining in posts before me can go cry somewhere else. Besides… you either like talking about it, or you crave the attention that posting gives you to cradle your fragile ego and it helps make you feel important. If you didn’t, you’d just move along without acknowledging the thread if it really bothered you or you didn’t care. Now that I’m finished calling you guys on your whiny BS…
16b441khz pretty much summed up how I feel. It’s an amazing seasoning to harder/edgier 4x4 sets when peppered in here and there. On it’s own? To me it has the same problem that hindered Drum and Bass from more commercial success, but even worse. It relies heavily on the same sounds to make the majority of it’s music. Heavy distorted bass, wobbles, and high pitched synth. I like it by itself, but most of it really uses the same thing just in different melodies and patterns.
The problem is most kids classify all dance music as dubstep. And don’t know the difference between different genres of dance music.
That is an issue, but y should thay effect the way we listen to music? As one of the previous comments stated..“i cant stand all the little idiots that listen to it”… i mean is that really a valid reason not to like a certain type of music? Just because there are kids out there thay cant explore more then the beatport top 10 shouldnt ruin a genre
the reason i said that aryanh is because like i said in my previous post some kids cannot distinguish the difference between dubstep, electro house, house, techno. So yes they are idiots for thinking that dubstep is every genre in dance music
And also the sound of dubstep has become so generic that all the big dubstep artists sound the same there is no creativity anymore in dubstep.
Had to be done .. 
I prefer house, progressive house, techno, trance and even j-pop over this new fangled stuff, but you asked for an opinion 
That is unfortunately true in some cases, but if u look around and actually listen around u will find that there are tracks out there that r unique and dark. For example, there is a youtube channel called GetDarker, u may have heard of that record label (http://www.youtube.com/user/getdarker/videos) and they have 1-5 hour dark, underground mixes that r really good
If you are right my life is a lie! Is dubstep 2 step ??? I thought dnb was 2 step.
And effect of energy during a set ?
Some of my friends never let me put on some music because they think my music is too chill or just plain boring.
And I shall be one of the first in this tread to try and come up with a timeless dubstep tune.
A classic in the genre itself, regards from dubstep OG skream:
And the track that made the made the mainstream media such as radio notice the genre:
The percussion only comes blasting in halfway in the song btw.
EDIT: Don’t you dare listen to this with laptop speakers, if you want to experience these fine pieces of music as they were intended to you HAVE TO listen to this with studio monitors or a big fat sub with some speakers or headphones that can reach 20Hz.
Ughhh so here we go again… This is how this conversation ALWAYS GOES:
Most of the seasoned DJs believe dubstep can be used in a set, but should never be played as a genre. Some of them usually pick it apart and explain why in musical terms, some of them are just not very good at discussing it, and spout stupid shit. The seasoned DJs seem to be about half-and-half about older dubstep. Half think the older stuff is just too slow and boring, and half have perfect respect for it. A lot of older DJs actually play that stuff for some reason.
Most of the kids who haven’t been playing long got INTO the scene because of dubstep and electrohouse in the first place, whether they want to admit it to themselves or not. They tend to defend it without as much musical knowledge to back it up, largely claiming the “everyone likes what they like, if you don’t like it, leave the room” argument. They also tend to spout stuff about older dubstep like Benga and Skream being more legitimate. They also, pretty often link to youtube videos and say “look at this example of not terrible recent dubstep”, despite personally playing the worst dubstep ever the rest of the time.
And that’s how this always goes.
If you care about where this viewpoint comes from, I used to be on the side of the younger crowd who think dubstep is good in an EDM context. I used to take part in a lot of these arguments on the ignorant kid side, before I hit that click moment of understanding how EDM works, and why dubstep is NOT set up to be banger music. I started playing at events about six months before dubstep started to blow up in america. Played stuff like Rusko, Caspa, Skream and Bassnectar’s dubstep. Then dubstep started to blow up, I played the new stuff as it came out, like Flux Pavillion, Dodge & Fuski, Calvertron etc. Then I started to get out of dubstep about a year later, as the “filth” shit like Boregore caught on. Then I more or less completely dropped it as the filth shit died away and it became the horrible distorted robot noises we know today.
I payed attention to the shit that was said by people who know music better than I do, and listened to the stuff they told me I’d like better. Now I play Drum n Bass and Glitch Hop mainly, and some of the dancier house genres. Yes I still like the dubstep I used to play when it was super bouncy and melodic, but I’ve realized even that’s still not good for the events I play at, because it’s too slow and not-conducive to all-night partying. I now very occasionally will do an dubstep drop using like an older flux pavillion or calvertron track or something, then transition out after one verse, but that’s about it. I end up doing it maybe once out in every two or three sets. I constantly complain about kids my age spinning hour sets of dubstep, be it older stuff they think they’ll get cred for, or new banger stuff that I think is about the worst EDM ever made.
I now attempt all the time to explain to dubstep kids my age that I went through the same phase, and try to help them get out of it faster than I did.