The Escapist's opinion on 'Dubstep'?
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Umm... it sounds like club music. Why would anyone willingly listen to club music if they're not in a club?WINDOWCLEAN2 said:
as i said in a similar thread; dubstep sits somewhere in the middleground of the electronic music genre because alot of the material is not as aesthetically pleasing as other genres. But it can be very entertaining in small doses.
This weekend i enjoyed some of the popular dubstep/dub-influenced electro artists (Skrillex, Diplo among others) at the Berlin music week and it worked pretty well for me because it was a nice change of pace from the usual genres i'm going for (minimal, complextro and fidget)... but after some time (for example after a full set) the appeal of genre is fairly quickly exhausted for a while.
This weekend i enjoyed some of the popular dubstep/dub-influenced electro artists (Skrillex, Diplo among others) at the Berlin music week and it worked pretty well for me because it was a nice change of pace from the usual genres i'm going for (minimal, complextro and fidget)... but after some time (for example after a full set) the appeal of genre is fairly quickly exhausted for a while.
It's like any other genre - it has its good stuff, and it has its dreck.
The main thing to note about it is that its good moments are fantastic, and its dreck is typically unlistenable.
The main thing to note about it is that its good moments are fantastic, and its dreck is typically unlistenable.
I don't understand it. I'm open to more or less all types of music, but this is something I just don't get. Not my thing, but to each is own.
I'm from the UK, and have never heard of it before. Things take a while to get here, living in the arse end of mid-Wales...WINDOWCLEAN2 said:
I keep writing long paragraphs about this I'm not satisfied with, so I'll just sum it up by saying dubstep sounds like bad techno to me. I like techno, but I also have problems with most of it, and dubstep seems to take those bad elements of techno and run with them.
It's a pretty good. I was at L.E.D festival about a month or two back and that was fucking sick. Had a lot of big dubstep artists (including Skrillex, but I'm not that much of a fan of his music).
Finished with Deadmau5. Whilst he's not strictly dubstep, a lot of his more modern songs seem to be heading in the dubstep direction.
Finished with Deadmau5. Whilst he's not strictly dubstep, a lot of his more modern songs seem to be heading in the dubstep direction.
To me, it sounds like they gave a mixer to a drunk 6 year old with ADD and Dubstep is the end result.
It's the musical equivalent of a lobotomy.
Maybe i'm just getting old, maybe I just don't "get it". When my daughter listened to her dance type music I thought that was just noise, she listens to Dubstep it's not just noise. It's meaningless, painful noise.
It's the musical equivalent of a lobotomy.
Maybe i'm just getting old, maybe I just don't "get it". When my daughter listened to her dance type music I thought that was just noise, she listens to Dubstep it's not just noise. It's meaningless, painful noise.
I'm mildly picky about my dubstep, but I like Skrillex, I love Deadmau5' experimentation with it, and I'm a big fan of Pendulum's attempts and Chase & Status' stuff. But the big hitter is what Enter Shikari does with it, it's like adding chocolate sprinkles to a rock/trance ice cream.
Turn up your speakers. I'm half serious; the video's pretty quiet.
Turn up your speakers. I'm half serious; the video's pretty quiet.
I dont really mind some techno nd that in games but cannot stand the crap as music
(blues and rock forever
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(blues and rock forever
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