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oh my
uhh. oh
this is. hmm.
this has somewhat russled my jimmies

Me too: Subwoofers are loud.


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This is what I like about dubstep. This part is why I can't stop listening to it:

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"Aliens sent us a message. We mistook it as music and called it dubstep." -yt comment

Dubstep:
One person: Dubstep isn't music.
Another person: How can you say that, Dubsteps awesome.
Another person: I wonder if can you write that for classical instruments...... (no jokes on this one, actually heard that)

My view:
It's fine, I like it, but only in small doses. (chillstep and liquid dubstep are my favourite sub-genres)

Oh, and:
Dubstep: Darth Vader on a motorcycle



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it's a person....of people.....

oh dubstep is awesome, i listen to a lot of Skrillex.
(dubstep-vs-brostep ★■◆●-storm in 5...4...3...)
i just found the video, well to be honest: Nightmarish
like a strong Ayahuasca trip*.
It's weird to be confronted with this type of imagery in an action movie.

As a kid i had nightmares after watching this innoculous episode.
[youtube]p0LFXbxmGVY[/youtube]
A steady and constant stream of Enterprise ships from alternate universes kept teleporting into existence, apparently without end.

A character on the episode wrote:"The rate of quantum incursions is increasing exponentially. At this rate, the sector will be completely filled with Enterprises within three days."

The implications for the universe... no escape... the inevitable REAL crushing death to every lifeform in the universe from an exponential infinite influx of matter. Claustrophobic nightmare fuel.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*it's no wonder such concepts are part of their religious iconography. Abiet not unusual i guess, hell the book of Revelations can be seen as quite the trip-log.
Apparently i should surrender to this, these horrifying viscious circle inner demons, to grow spiritually. eeeuuuugghhh
(woa transcendental DBB post)

Yeah, it's good, but I wouldn't want to write it. It tends to be too ambient -- I like songs with more of a lead voice (living or instrument voice ). And when it comes to more ambient stuff I like Drum'n'Bass better.
Which is why I'm so annoyed that Photek switched from DnB to Dubstep....

roid wrote:oh dubstep is awesome, i listen to a lot of Skrillex.

Too high-pitched for me Like this one tho:

[youtube]2cXDgFwE13g[/youtube]

roid wrote:i just found the video, well to be honest: Nightmarish
like a strong Ayahuasca trip*.
It's weird to be confronted with this type of imagery in an action movie.

Thought it was hilarious. Check out the extended clips:

[youtube]MNrUPsPkFBI[/youtube]

Here's the whole thing, all 3hrs of it

[youtube]ISeb19AIjac[/youtube]

Dubstep: it's what all the cool kids are listening to lately. I'm quite happy to not be cool.

Sirius wrote:Dubstep: it's what all the cool kids are listening to lately. I'm quite happy to not be cool.

This is why I was trying hard not to like it... It's a new kind of pop music. But it sounds like two robots having sex while, while exploding, as they vomit chunks of electrically charged debris, if it's done correctly.

I mean, I hate, HATE, soft dubstep.

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x2 skrillex, but only it's really nasty/dirty. His soft stuff makes me want to "kill everybody in the world".

Isaac wrote:...it sounds like two robots having sex while, while exploding, as they vomit chunks of electrically charged debris, if it's done correctly.

Maybe you should listen to it in Descent then .

Some of my skrillex favs, all off same album. i figure it's mostly his older harder stuff?
If you're in a hurry to preview it: Cat Rats drops to a hook almost instantly, ----------------- SlatsSlatsSlats hooks at around 1:18, ---------------------- and Scream&Shout starts around 0:38
[youtube]gvx5QM8nrZA[/youtube] [youtube]PE3IslWaB4E[/youtube] [youtube]eITHkRAf8sE[/youtube]

(Mind you, i don't mind his other stuff. I tend to just blast the discography on headphones as a good on/off switch for my ears. Brownian noise recordings often just don't cut it.)

roid wrote:(Mind you, i don't mind his other stuff. I tend to just blast the discography on headphones as a good on/off switch for my ears. Brownian noise recordings often just don't cut it.)

This is just a joke but you might like it
[youtube]Cd-RbeEwdFg[/youtube]
Top comment : "This is the best video on Youtube."

I bet lots of videos have that for their top comment.

/annoying

I cued this up at point I think really hits what I like in dubstep. Lovely! @12m26s in, but it should automatically take you there.

Enjoy!

I can't say I really get this genre. All I get out of it is WUBWUBWUB and not much else.

i hope you're running it through a decent sound system.
(edit: oops, decent not descent)

roid wrote:i hope you're running it through a descent sound system.

It's a Descent 2 sound system!!!!

I've never heard of this genre before, but I like the track from the original post. I think it could easily pose as a D3 Merc track.

i once heard someone suggest a hypothesis of why old people generally don't like young people's music: it's because the human ear changes as it ages, gradually becomming deaf to certain frequencies. And it just so happens that those frequencies are important to that music, and it's difficult to understand these types of music if you can't hear those frequencies.
Interesting hypothesis eh? Anyway that's why i suggest a decent sound system, who knows what qualia you're missing out on Topgun?

Example: This probably sounds boring without a subwoofer vibrating your table, and your person. But with it - it sounds so so sweet to me. (note: not dubstep)
[youtube]VieIzscIt30[/youtube]

I don't know. People tend to become deaf to higher frequencies as they age, but yet you're making a case for lower ones.

roid wrote:Interesting hypothesis eh? Anyway that's why i suggest a decent sound system, who knows what qualia you're missing out on Topgun?

This has nothing to do with frequencies...I just personally find little to no creative value in this sort of music. I'm not really a huge electronica fan in general; my preference lies with music that can be performed live, and the requisite creativity and spontaneity that allows. Rock, metal, jazz, blues, all that good stuff.

Top Gun wrote:

roid wrote:Interesting hypothesis eh? Anyway that's why i suggest a decent sound system, who knows what qualia you're missing out on Topgun?

This has nothing to do with frequencies...I just personally find little to no creative value in this sort of music. I'm not really a huge electronica fan in general; my preference lies with music that can be performed live, and the requisite creativity and spontaneity that allows. Rock, metal, jazz, blues, all that good stuff.

ok, "not an electronica fan" i can understand.
But to say that it can't be performed live is akin to saying that a guitarist can't perform live without guitar strings.
Funny sample at the end of a Skrillex song: "You have technicians here making noise. No one is a musician. They're not artists because nobody can play the guitar!". (funny coz he is infact also a guitarist)

Skrillex seems to rely mostly on PC run software for his sequencing though, he's never without his laptop. Abiet he uses a few external peripherals to help with controls, i've never seen him with a synth yet (i guess he doesn't use them live).
Performing with synths/sequencers/samplers etc (i'm not entirely sure what any of these things is called) live is mucho complex, but is routinely done we see it all the time. Surrounded with knobs and knobs, i dunno what most of them do.
Google Image Search: Chemical Brothers Live Setup

here's an interesting middle ground. She uses a laptop, vocoder, and loops (abiet themselves recorded during the song).
[youtube]dHk2lLaDzlM[/youtube]

edit: Wut.
[youtube]rvIpFYN-E6A[/youtube]

Sorry, I don't like dubstep. I tried to.

And I really, really tried. It's not my age because there is plenty of awesome new music out there. It's not because I don't like electronic music because I write electronic music. (I was the first one of my friends to use a computer for music back in the early 90's (and was teased incessantly for it too). I was a dance floor DJ for several years. I've seen the birth of dubstep and traced it back to the natural progression of UK drum and bass (there are hints of dubstep in UK breaks recordings from the late 80's, early 90's).

I tried, I really tried. But I think the thing that holds me back is the tempo/groove and some of the production (and I guess that's what makes most music of that style, haha). Regarding tempo/groove just doesn't do it for me (I never really liked reggae either, and only listen to it occasionally). And the production in dubstep, hmmmph. Some of it is "interesting," but I can't warm up to it and it all sounds the same. But...

Drum and bass suffered some of the same problems when it first started. It was all ragga with amen breaks for a long time before people started to explore. Drum and bass had a really good run with a lot of variety before the culture transformed into dubstep. I imagine dubstep will get better over the next couple years. And I don't hate all of it -- there are a few tracks that are totally bad ass. I just can't listen to it for hours like I could with other electronica.

This part, cued up to 3 minutes and 32 seconds, is probably my favorite so far:

Listening to segments of a few of these songs I think I am in a similar position to Top Gun but maybe for different reasons. Basically, I could stand this for background music (as long as it didn't get too distracting), but as with most electronica there's nothing aesthetically pleasing about it to me. It has some interesting ways to assault your head with bass - assuming you have a sound system that can hack that - but that isn't exactly the first thing I'm looking for in music (unless I were trying to annoy my neighbours).

roid wrote: here's an interesting middle ground. She uses a laptop, vocoder, and loops (abiet themselves recorded during the song).

Roid - Imojen's performance was just twelve different shades of wonderful. Thank you so much for the link - she just made new fan!

The Skrillex and DukedaGod vids had my jaw on the floor too. Epic sounds! Cheers!

As for the electronica / dubstep vs other music forms ...I don't make those distinctions myself, music is music. I personally have yet to find **any** genre of music where I universally hate everything. There are *many* artists that don't reach me personally with their art - but other artists in the same genre can leave me spell-bound

If the music was made by a soul trying to express itself with integrity, it usually reaches me on some level.

It's the music made by someone purely to pay the bills, or to jump on an already-moving bandwagon for the sake of it, that the ★■◆● that bores me stupid.

dubstep was pretty neat back in the day. Brings up memories of a place I regularly went to around 1997 or so

then skrillex came around and ruined it. it's too bad, really. I really dig "kill everybody".

talk about a small world. A youtuber i've subbed to for quite some time just uploaded this:

[youtube]5eZoOJbeOSk[/youtube]