Well, I'm fully aware of the roots of the genre, though I really never liked dub or UK garage. Lucky for me, as there is basically zero in terms of a scene here for that. As such, I guess I just don't know much about it so I shouldn't pretend to be an expert.Jazoni89 said:It's a British genre that's been It's been "Americanized" so to say, and you know America has more of an influence in music nowadays than Britain anyway. That's why it's popular today, rather than back then.AC10 said:To me, when they do it, it just seems like they're jumping on a bandwagon.
Dubstep has existed, as it currently does, since around the year 2000, and I can't think of a single game that has had any in it prior to 2011. That's about a 12 year span for people to put dubstep in their soundtracks. I think it's just odd that, now that dubstep is suddenly popular it's magically the sound every game studio claims "fits" their games.
Let's just say I'm doubtful a single studio is putting it in their soundtracks to achieve a certain sound, and more just because it's cool and popular and they just want to appeal to what's seen as hip.
Also, the sound is much different from it's East London/Bristol roots. Obviously it still retains some of the sound (otherwise it wouldn't be called Dubstep), but most of it's Garage influence was gone, instead replace with an aggressive Dub style that has nothing to do with the core Dubstep sound. Now, I'm all for evolution in music, but not a evolution that totally destroys the spirit of a genre.
This is Dubstep, notice how different it is from the mainstream stuff. It's like a whole different genre.
The orginal Dubstep sound thrives on atmosphere, rather than a metric ton of obnoxious bass drops. Which makes it sad that not much of this style is being made anymore.
You're right though. It hasn't really existed in it's mainstream fashion, eat least exactly as a lot of the mainstream stuff is now, as it did in the past and it was wrong of me to claim that. Though we can see a lot of the evolution towards what people seem to be calling (unfortunately) "brostep" now with artists like DJ Hatcha. His stuff sounds worlds apart from what we have now, but the influences would be clear to a deaf man.
I guess it's a question of genre distinctions between dubstep, filthstep, etc. Electronic music seems to constantly struggle with that. For example, happy hardcore has evolved into something nearly unrecognizable from it's past (it's a sister genre to drum and bass) where it was, mainly, breakbeat. Even the 2000ish stuff with really bubblegummy sounds and chipmunk vocals (what is, to me, truly defining of the genre) have been basically given up in its modern incarnation.
Should we call modern dubstep, dubstep? Or is it far enough away in sound that it should be it's own genre at this point?
I know this is getting really far away from any semblance of topic, I just like talking about it