I dont really care for hardcore dubstep, but I like some of the remixes with a hint of dubstep in it. I am using my soundsystem for a small outdoor event with mostly drum & bass and dubstep saturday. this will be the first time I have set it up for just edm, and where I can play at any level I want. there should be about 75 people, I am bringing a total of six 18’s and some top speakers with two 15’s. two 10’s and two tweeters per side. hopefully it will be a night to remember.
I don’t mind a BIT of dubstep, but a lot of it is pretty crappy 
for most people it just sounds like noise.
Dubstep is still pretty promising for me. The basslines are fucking beautiful. But it just sounds like it’s a constant build up to an awesome drop that never happens!!!
I was literally on the edge of my seat (I was driving at the time) when this came on. I thought “when the drums kick in this is gonna blow my mind!!!”
Drums never kicked in, and my mind remained intact.
I’ve been introducted to dubstep in 2008-2009 can’t really remember, by a friend. By that time it wasn’t the “oldschool” groovy stuff it used to be anymore.
At first glance it seemed strange but intresting.
When i got into djing seriously, in 2010, Scary Monsters EP (sorry to bring Skrillex on top again, i know he’s not really a dubstep producter etc…) came out and i was DISGUSTED.
Later i listened more carefully and I was really found of the “new sounds”, things i’ve never heard before.
My tastes in dubstep/drumstep are the “brostep” as you call it Violent. But sometimes, it’s just too much, and i don’t like it.
My favorite genre is/was electro house (pretty underground not some glossy girly stuff like avicii etc), but was i love in dubstep, even if it’s less danceable in a way, is the swag it has.
Now i don’t know, really, i’m in a triangle between electro, dubstep and moombahcore. I’m floating around and can’t keep up with every release in 3 genres. Don’t know where this will bring me (as a listener, dj, and producer (learning phase atm)), only time will tell 
I think it has more to do with the hype than the music
I just don’t like the sound.
(troll mode on)
i hate dubstep because skrillex killed it!
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Music is about hype in a way.
You listen to a genre/track because
- You like the vibe
- It fits to your personality, and the image of you. (as a dark passenger or one you want to share/show the world)
Some people keep their tastes secret cause they are ashamed, and what they like to listen to is just bizarre regarding how they are behave/are dressed/do etc. (think about a manly biker having some bieber on his ipod, he won’t tell anyone that he likes it).
n°2 leads to regrouping with people with the same tastes, so you can get along with each other easier…
Music is so much more than volume/frequencies/sounds
People hate dubstep because a lot of people like it.
… And because it sounds really obnoxious. I like a lot of dubstep, but its a very harshly diverse genre - I absolutely love some tracks while others are downright painful to the point of being switched off immediately.
I LOVE dubstep.
I HATE what people think dubstep is.
Its not about the heaviest, sickest, dirtiest sound. Its not about ‘raving’.
Its not about partying hard
The 1 simple thing I hate about Dubstep… You play it, the dance floor empties in a few tunes!
Every time i’ve played out at a rave/party/club I’ve been asked by some “scene kiddy” to play some dubstep.
I play Breakbeat and sometimes pretty harsh breaks at that, the problem that I have found is that when you drop a few dubstep tunes back to back people seem to vanish from the dance floor in a matter of seconds, even when you play what they’ve asked for… even down to playing specific tracks that the people have asked for!
You can throw in one here and there, but I couldn’t stand a whole night of it.
Also Where’s the Bass in Dubstep? Surely it should take some bass from Dub but I find it all in the middle & tops a lot of the time, HORRIBLE…Where’s the bass gone ? ahhh woob waaa womp
Admitedly there are some nice chilled dubstep tunes, there just isn’t enough to keep me interested.
Scene kids hoooo
^ This
Dubstep was never about rocking out and partying, it’s about a dark room and a soundsystem that can literally shake you to your core.
These days it’s associated with the bastardised version that most people know but there are still people out there pushing the deeper vibes. Even a lot of the tearout stuff is really good but it’s so similar to the “brostep” sound that it just gets bunched together and people don’t even realise. There’s quite a difference between someone like Emalkay and someone like Doctor P even though they both push a more aggressive sound.
You cant really dance to dubstep and of course there is NO groove in it.
That’s why most people (including me) dont seem to get it.
To me it’s the bastard child of electro house and DnB.
I only hate bad dubstep.
Good dubstep’s got plenty of groove. And if we’re talking genesis, then electro house isn’t a genetic parent. Maybe an abusive guardian that tempted dubstep in off the dark streets with a packet of Werther’s original, then kept it and its groove tied up in the basement.
Amen. For me this picture sums it up:
Pic above pretty much answers OP question (outside of musical preference). Same deal when anything goes mainstream. Treehouse club invasion etc
Depends on where you play. In some places, try to spin tech house, and not only the dancefloor will empty, but the audience’s gonna throw some bottles at you
Won’t go for 30 minutes quoting everyone here and arguing, but you guys makes me laugh.
I guess it has to do with the age (most of you are (way) older than me) but stop acting like purists for once like if you were the messiah of music, and you were the choosen one to dict others what to listen to and to judge them.
Whether it’s about house, tech, techno, dubstep (oldschool), you got your tastes and you litterally spit on others if they are in some more aggressive genres.
I myself would make fun of guetta lovers or any shitty so-called “electro” producer. I’m in my own way a purist but to some degree.
You went to far in that, be more open minded.
It’s not because you can’t feel the groove in something that it doesn’t have some.
Honestly, i do think that i would feel asleep in the club if i was listening to the mixes of, roughly, 70% of the community.
Back on topic, there IS shitty dubstep, but some of the modern dubstep sounds really good.
/afk on this thread, don’t want to start a old vs young war in any way,
I’ll go bang my head to some aggressive tracks while you will keep spinning you background/elevator music.
Hope you got my point.
Many of us made this point. I, and many of us here, recognize that a lot of people don’t enjoy tech hiuse, or minimal, but the man asked a question looking for opinions, and he got opinions, which was the purpose of this thread. So you’ve gone and done the exact same thing for which you’ve chastised us for, because you didn’t like what we had to say about your headbanging hardcore tracks. Congratulations pot, I’m kettle.
The problem with dubstep is that it’s not country or western, therefor, it is not music.
I honestly don’t mind it in small doses but don’t think I could enjoy an entire night of just wub wub wub.
My biggest gripe with dubstep is that to me, what I’ve heard sounds nothing like what I do love, and that is dub reggae.