Poll: Dubstep, how do YOU feel about it?

[Kurt Cristal]

You mean the real dubstep?

No, of course you don't. You mean that WUBWUBWWUBWUWBUWDASOHUDFVUFIFV shit that is just 20 year old Drum and Bass slowed down by 100% with all the creativity removed.

Yeah, it sucks.

When you say "real" dubstep, are you talking about the old-school stuff like Caspa? Because well, it was good, but sometimes it was pretty damn boring too.

 

[Ljs1121]

Meh. I don't hate it, but I don't love it either. Quite a few of my friends are into it, so I do listen on occasion, but nothing has jumped out to change my mind yet.

I do like DjEphixa's Zelda remixes, though.

 

[II2]

I'm not sure what people would classify this as, but it's good:


Psystep? Dubpsy? Chillbient? Dumb genres names...

It's got enough wub and drums to be grouped, but is acutally great music on it's own merit, without needing to be labelled.

I don't mind straight dubstep, but it's kinda a reductive genre... it's overblown minimalism serves its sound but it doesn't leave much room for growth in iterations, as is evident in it's most popular and mainstream avenues.

I'm not sure if there's a way to say this without sounding like a wanker, but I think dubstep has basically run it's course from the UK underground to viral internet popularity to Californian megastardom, refining the formula along the way. At this point it seems like the way forward is to hybridize aspects with other genres to synthesize something new. Then you'll have post-dubstep. /wank-talk

 

[Kurt Cristal]

There's only so much WHOOOOOO WHOOOOO WAAOHOHHHH I can handle, I was at a dubstep night at Fabric and I couldn't tell which songs were playing because all dubstep tracks are made in the same way;

30 seconds of metronome for the DJ to mix one track into the next
WHOOOHHHOOHWHWWHOWWOOHHOOOOOOO for 7 minutes
Rounding off with 30 seconds of Metronome for mixing purposes.


still, its better than Flo Rida.

I like Flux Pavillion, but some of their songs feel a bit too long, like they use to loop a couple too many times. They're like... the Daft Punk of dubstep I guess. Great tracks but also kind of redundant.

Also, I now wanna hear a dubstep remix of Flo Rida. Way to go.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I like it. Back when I was in highschool I was a typical I wannabe alternative kid. I listened to blink 182, sum 41 and linkinpark.(luckily my dad taught me the classics at the same time so I can claim to have great taste now without turning red). I liked alot of music but really didn't like hiphop and RnB (though i've learned to appreciate some of it now). However RnB and hiphop were so mainstream at the time, that I disliked almost all party music and music on the radio. Mostly because the music didn't pack punch.

Because the music didn't really pack a punch, the hip hop fans steered clear of everything that sounded a bit more like it did. Now Dubstep seems to sort of bring the two sounds together. If this is what's mainstream now, it means some harder rock can be appreciated more because Dubstep is lessening the gap.

I gotta say, of all my high school bands, I still listen to Linkin Park. Yeah, their new stuff is wicked different and kind of mellow, but after my ex dragged me to see them live, I found their new stuff far more interesting when I saw them performing it.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

My eldest daughter loves dubstep.

Although it made me show my age.

She was listening to it the other day and I shouted up for her to stop playing the same song it was annoying and she said she was on the third album.

Personally I think it sounds shit.

I get this all the time with any electronic music I play when someone else is unfamiliar with it. I'll be playing a DJ set, someone will ask me when the next song comes on, and then I depressingly reply that it's on track 6 already.

 

[laggyteabag]

I hate it, to me it is just noise, nothing more.

"It sounds like transformers having sex" -- Some guy

 

[neonsword13-ops]

It's... ok.

I really don't like most of it, but I have a couple favorites.

Here's some of 'em.

Spoiler

"Oh no, Brony Dubstep. I'm a disgrace to the dubstep culture! DX" /sarcasm

 

[FunKing]

I never got Midnight Request Line. There's some good rhythms going on but otherwise the lack of a real drop disappoints me.

You must be one of these people.

lol that is a good Aphex Twin song.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

You ALWAYS need a Meh. option! That's what I feel for dubstep. I like one song but it as a genre is just more popular music. Popular music has always been generic mostly.

I never got Midnight Request Line. There's some good rhythms going on but otherwise the lack of a real drop disappoints me.

You must be one of these people.

Essentially, but with the superiority complex of one who can type in correct English.

In fairness, I grew up with happy hardcore and gabba influences so I'm more of a fan of the bass-heavy electro. I can appreciate the rhythm-based side of things for the quality but I'd much rather be stomping to something well-produced and with a great drop.

Eeeeeendless summer! Eeeeeeendless summer!
Paaaaaaaaaahty Peeeeeeeeeople!
Hoo boy. Could never really get into the happy stuff except as a gag track, but I like gabba and hardstyle here and there.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I liked Dubstep for a while but mostly preferred Liquid Dubstep, really smooth stuff with a nice underlying bass rhythm that takes the harsh edge off the wobbles. Mostly though, I prefer DnB (especially liquid, atmospheric and jungle) when it comes to Electronic, with a good mix of trance, house and a smidge of techno.

Lately I've started going off electronic which really only leaves the Rock and Metal that I've listened to for most of my life.

Didn't know there was a Liquid subgenre for Dubstep yet. I'll have to check it out, Liquid DnB is amazing.

 

[blackrave]

Dubstep? Naah.
Wubstep? HELL YEAH!!!

P.S. But actually I prefer DnB over Dubstep

 

[Kurt Cristal]

This.

MOTHER. OF. GOD.
-like button-

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I hate any kind of electronic music with few exceptions. Dubstep is the worst kind of electronic music there is. The Borderlands trailer with the dubstep soundtrack almost turned me off Borderlands 2 entirely.

No sir, "Splittercore" is the worst genre of electronic music. Go on, try to listen to FIFTEEN SECONDS of it. You can't.

 

[Don Savik]

The problem I have is how lazily most of it is thrown together. They take samples from songs that don't even fit with the mood of the song, and instead of TRY to incorporate it into the song they just go back and forth between the sample and the wubwubwub drops and it sounds awful. Why do they have to steal samples ALL the freaking time? Why can't they make their own? Its like a genre of music created from remixes on youtube essentially (I feel bad saying this because youtube remixes are really good sometimes).

Its also the only genre of music that I've seen were its fanbase wants to incorporate EVERYTHING into dubstep. Its like the MLP of music.

I love all kinds of electronic music, but dubstep is trying to hard without even knowing what its trying to do.

 

[Kurt Cristal]

If you went back to, like, the early eighties, and asked them what music would sound like in the distant future if we were all cyborgs, they might have imagined something like dubstep.

Wasn't 80s New Wave like Devo supposed to be the "music of the future"?

 

[Bvenged]

Where's the option that it's mostly shit? The odd good song shines through, and I'm talking about the odd once-a-year good song, and not made by Skrillex. It's a septic-tank of a music-industry, but yeah - dubstep's mostly shit.

 

[LordFish]

Yehh, its rubbish, although a lot of what people say "I LUV DUBSTEP yhBOI" It's not actually dubstep at all, just music with heavy bass.

 

[TheFunPolice]

All my friends completely adore it so I've been around it enough to know I completely hate it

Maybe it's because I just refuse to dance...So maybe music intended to be listened to in that way just doesn't appeal to me..

But I like my music to actually involve thought, you know? Dubstep just sounds like it could be made by any idiot -_-

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I don't like it. It just sounds like noise to me and I'm pretty open to music. I can listen to anything from Death Metal to Mozart but it just sounds like a dial up modem.

My friend is a dubstep DJ and links me tracks but it all just sounds terrible. I really don't understand it.