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Dubstep

#21
I can completely understand why it appeals to the A.D.D. afflicted youth of today. Haha Kinda like listening to Super Mario Bros music on repeat sometimes to me.:-p

Interesting textures at times, but no sense of development compositionally for me as a listener, from the DUBSTEP I've been exposed to ( and I work in a town where 50% of the pop is 20-25, and DUBSTEP is the main genre played in the dance clubs here in Banff). I think like any genre, you get a few innovators, and then all the copycats dilute the given art form till it loses favour, and the kids abandon it like a toy a week after Xmas and move on. Funny thing is when I bring up the actual genre of original 'Dub' music, none of the kids I meet are even remotely familiar with any of the artists of that musical style at all. Pretty disposable music fad in the end. Guess I just don't see this genre having the relevancy of D and B for instance over time. Just my 2 cents......
 
#23
T Bassman said:
Funny thing is when I bring up the actual genre of original 'Dub' music, none of the kids I meet are even remotely familiar with any of the artists of that musical style at all.
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I heard the term dubstep before I heard the music. My curiosity was piqued but when I actually did get around to listening to some examples of the style all I could think was, "where's the reggae influence?".
 
#25
I'm a college student, and I decided a little while ago that I'm done with dubstep. Decent enough dance music, but for the purposes of actually listening to music, I'd rather listen to almost anything than what sounds like the soundtrack to robot porn.

Now that it's hit the mainstream, I'm crossing my fingers that it will provoke a hipster backlash that will get it out of my scene.
 
#27
T Bassman said:
Funny thing is when I bring up the actual genre of original 'Dub' music, none of the kids I meet are even remotely familiar with any of the artists of that musical style at all. Pretty disposable music fad in the end. Guess I just don't see this genre having the relevancy of D and B for instance over time. Just my 2 cents......
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I felt the same way, and I'm not hugely versed in Dub, just aspects of it. I have no idea where or how the name came for Dubstep.
 
#29
There's some good Dubstep out there, yet there's also bad Dubstep. I'll usually hear Dubstep playing at the beginning of the raves I go to, and it's generic but there are times when I actually enjoy it. Personally, I'm more of a Trance and DnB guy. Those two are my favorites out of the whole Electronic music genre.
 
#33
ksandvik said:
Dubstep has become pretty stagnated due to all the copycats with Ableton Live and Massive in their bedrooms and Soundcloud accounts trying to recreate the same sounds and patterns.
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Those are tools, just like a bass guitar, don't be silly.
It's what you do with them that counts.
Ableton live has been around longer than the genre known as dubstep.
 
#34
D.A.R.K. said:
Those are tools, just like a bass guitar, don't be silly.
It's what you do with them that counts.
Ableton live has been around longer than the genre known as dubstep.
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I agree, I've been using Ableton Live since the 2.1 days.

It's a typical combination, some young dude wants to hit big by getting Ableton Live and NI Massive and starts cranking out tracks each one sounding the same...

Now, think different, psychedelic dubstep, punkstep, soulstep, metalstep....
 
#35
ksandvik said:
I agree, I've been using Ableton Live since the 2.1 days.

It's a typical combination, some young dude wants to hit big by getting Ableton Live and NI Massive and starts cranking out tracks each one sounding the same...

Now, think different, psychedelic dubstep, punkstep, soulstep, metalstep....
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Welcome to the future.
Great music still stands out, but you've got to look a bit harder.
 
#36
I'm really digging this tune. No big drop, but great background music when I'm doing other things or chilling out.

Someone once said to me that British (rock) music is a lot less 'organised' than American music. Said person is really into British indie rock.

With dubstep, it seems to be the other way around. I had to put in some effort to recognize any kind of structure in Dub tracks by Skrillex.
The original, British Dubstep appeals most to me.
 
#38
One thing that has helped me in finding great music is taking a leap back- I try to only purchase vinyl.
It weeds out a lot of cookie cutter garbage due to the effort and expense it takes to create.
I was reading somewhere 3.6 million pieces of vinyl were sold in the usa last year- hardly a dying format.
Bass oriented music like dubstep really benefits from proper vinyl production imho.
 

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