Europeons, explain dubstep to a simple man

[Phoenix Dark]

 

[Vizzys]

[Joe Molotov]

[Great Rumbler]

This is dubstep:

[Vizzys]

[Vizzys]

[Huff]

Its the new hot college music that people do lots of drugs to

[Phoenix Dark]

So it's basically the sound of distinguished mentally-challenged fellows fucking. Ok

[recursivelyenumerable]

I still have no idea what dubstep is, still beats dealing with borked TFS merges though

[Positive Touch]

push a washing machine down a flight of stairs and put a beat to it

dubstep

[Great Rumbler]

This thread needs some good electronic music:

[etiolate]

so its ravers trying to get all thug?

[Mr. Gundam]

The lack of tiesto in this thread of concerning.

[Positive Touch]

so its ravers trying to get all thug?

sounds more like ravers going all heavy metal to my untrained ears

[MrAngryFace]

I havent really listened to much- a few of my friends do but they seem to mostly use to as background noise while working

[Momo]

Most purely synthesized music is trash

[Robo]

Boy, what an astute observation.

[Momo]

Boy, what an astute observation.

Real Talk, it's more of a sound engineers game than an artists game. <- There is some over lap there hence me saying most.

[T-Short]

Most purely synthesized music is trash

Weak troll must try harder

Anyway. This is dubstep, too



and this

[Momo]

I got both of you to reply, my goals were achieved.

anyway not a fan of dubstep, but quite like this

[Fifstar]

I'm no expert on dubstep, but basically the current dubstep wave is pretty different from where it started out. The beats are similar in rhythm, but the basslines changed from deep and subby, stuff that you can barely hear on laptop speakers to those high, overdriven, modulated and aggressive basslines ("Brostep"). It's origins are deeply rooted in the UK scene. Some english producers started to do these more aggressive basslines (Rusko for example) and things got turned up to 11 by american producers (like Skrillex or Nero).

It started with stuff like this






Got more aggressive



And then developed into the current wave like Skrillex.



The original dubstep wasn't very popular in  europe outside of the UK, however, the brostep sound is also very popular now in Europe, especially with a younger crowd, from 16 - 25. Basically dubstep went UK -> USA -> Europe/Rest of the world.

To me the current dubstep sound is electronic music for people that don't normally listen/dance to electronic music, but I'm a bit of a snob.

[Chinner]

i prefer deep house. haven't really heard much dubstep i like.

[tiesto]

The lack of tiesto in this thread of concerning.

Haha yeah I just didn't see the thread yet. I'm not big on dubstep at all, it's fun to listen to every now and then but like Chinner I much prefer deep house as well. I'll have to go through this thread again when I'm not at work and check out all the links...

But it's seriously amazing how popular electronic music in the states is nowadays. When I first started getting into the genre, people would give me the weirdest look when I told them I listened to house.

[Huff]

The lack of tiesto in this thread of concerning.

isn't tiesto not really dubstep?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

This is dubstep:

[Hock]

Basically if you don't like doing drugs you won't like dubstep, that's all there is to it.

I can buy that, I feel like that's the case for a lot of niche music genres.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

:notsureifserious

Skrillex is the most hated musician in the world right now, and a punchline that will live on long after his music is justly forgotten.

[Chinner]

how do you even dance to dubstep anyway?

[Robo]

[tiesto]

:notsureifserious

Skrillex is the most hated musician in the world right now, and a punchline that will live on long after his music is justly forgotten.

Really? Even in terms of electronic music, I think deadmau5 (deservedly) gets more hate than Skrillex. Since deadmau5 is much more of a jackass to people. From what I've seen, Skrillex mostly gets hate for being the figurehead of an obnoxious genre of music (brostep).

[Howard Alan Treesong]

deadmau5 deserves it more for sure, but more people know who Skrillex is

if you want to make a joke about a mediocre electronic musician in your CBS comedy you'll pick Skrillex

[Trent Dole]

I tried listening to some Deadmau5 and his music is utterly unremarkable in every way. Just generic techno. Think he got over due to wearing a stupid mask on his head. Glad to see some proper dubby stuff got posted here, the eerie atmospheric burial/digital mysticks(sp?) type stuff is fuckin' awesome, the wub wub shit is lame. It's not like bending and distorting pieces of a track is a new thing. Here's a nice old example that isn't as bassy but still the same thing:

Why this is considered to be a new idea by anyone is baffling to me. Think it's due to a lot of the kids digging this wub wub stuff not knowing shit about the genre and being a bunch of nubs.

[Fifstar]

I don't like Skrillex music, but I have to give him credit that he at least put his own spin on a certain sound, which is a thing you can't say about 99% of electronic music producers, be it 'real' or more pop oriented genres.

His legions of fans that act like he is EDM's personal jesus are crazy obnoxious tho.

[blame space]

warning on that last one.. you might want to turn down your sub. *HEAVY DROP* that doesn't messa round

[blame space]

how do you think skrillex felt reading those comments

[Trent Dole]

how do you think skrillex felt reading those comments

As far as kids saying "Where does it drop?" when I posted the Aphex Twin song on Facebook... I wouldn't say it's appalling, but it is weird to me. There are a couple things you have to realize. One: The people commenting on Facebook have opinions that are really loud and, a lot of times, those opinions are considered more than they need to be. There's a broader general audience. But the really opinionated people always want to defend or offend: "Fuck you, it's the fucking Aphex! Skrillex should never..." Then there's the other guy that's like, "Dude! There's no drops!" But I know every break and hit to "Flim" verbatim; I've listened to it more than any other song in my whole life.

Yeah. If we're posting the stupidest dubstep mixes we can my vote goes to this:

[Great Rumbler]

I like electronic music, but usually of the New Age/Ambient or 80's/chiptune variety. So, I basically only care about this tiny sliver of the entire genre.

[T-Short]

I like electronic music, but usually of the New Age/Ambient or 80's/chiptune variety. So, I basically only care about this tiny sliver of the entire genre.

Well then. On topic:

[chronovore]

I like early '90s techno, and I think I pretty much stopped there.

[TakingBackSunday]

chiptune rock

[Akala]

as noted, most of the popular stuff isn't really dubstep. brosteppp

I actually really like Skrillex. dude is a really talented producer and is killing it. huahua.
gamer ref omg

gamer ref omg wipeout

what tech prog is now lol


and deadmau5 actually has some really good stuff....he just has a lot of crap as well.

[Great Rumbler]

[Howard Alan Treesong]

the sickest drop:

[Great Rumbler]

Rob Hubbard

[tiesto]

Akala, I always considered tech prog stuff like this (aka, anything on the Bedrock label or in a Digweed set the last 5 years):

[tehjaybo]

Oh sorry, I was just trying to post real music.  You know, with instruments and stuff.

[Chinner]

seeing this dude tomorrow (not dubstep)

[Eric P]

Oh sorry, I was just trying to post real music.  You know, with instruments and stuff.

hilariously swing music wasn't considered "real music" when it debuted either.

so, irony?

[Vizzys]

synthesizers are instruments

[tiesto]

seeing this dude tomorrow (not dubstep)

Lucky bastard, "Can't Leave You" was my biggest track last year... where at?

[Chinner]

mint club in leeds. first time he's playing in leeds so it's going to be fucking rammed, which is a bit shit. you heard his essential mix from  a couple of months ago?

[Brehvolution]

[Fifstar]

seeing this dude tomorrow (not dubstep)

What Skrillex is to Dubstep is this guy to Deep House 

[Momo]

Oh sorry, I was just trying to post real music.  You know, with instruments and stuff.

I fucking love this, how did you know? 

[Chinner]

seeing this dude tomorrow (not dubstep)

What Skrillex is to Dubstep is this guy to Deep House 

i'm not sure i'd go to that extent but he's defo the 'in' at the moment like how jamie jones was last year.

[Fifstar]

Yeah I don't really mind him, his tracks always go down a threat and I really liked Falling. It's just that his formula got a bit stale after a while for me.

[Chinner]

yeah its understandable. danny daze is playing but i haven't really heard much of his stuff. apparently hes pretty decent.

[Fifstar]

Think this one was his biggest tune, similar style to Maceo.

[Chinner]

yeah i see what you mean. should be an interesting night, gonna be fucking packed though i know they're going to go over capacity.

[tiesto]

Think this one was his biggest tune, similar style to Maceo.

This one got a lot of play on Sirius XM actually. Very good song:



I will tell you, I'm addicted to these big rolling-bassline melodic/techy deep house tunes (Crosstown Rebels, Culprit, Hot Creations, etc), even if artists like Maceo Plex are everywhere at the moment. Definitely pushes all my buttons!

Chinner and Fifstar, let's hijack this thread and turn it into a deep/tech thread:











Some Polish deep/tech artists for you Borys: