Dubstep: Why I don't like it

[The Man]

Well, Whenever I listen to dubstep, I always expect some climactic point within the song.. But it never comes..

[NoOneIsIllegal]

My brother told me he listened to dubstep and I called him a hipster and he was like "wat" and then I was like





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But yeah, dubstep sucks.

[Who?]

I'm not claiming to be an expert or anything but I know that dubstep is a pretty diverse genre.

I mean there's 'real' dubstep like this: VEmM6vVFrao

Then there's what people have deemed 'brostep' like this: WSeNSzJ2-Jw

Then there's post-dubstep or whatever (which I guess technically isn't dubstep?): oOT2-OTebx0

Like I said, I'm not an expert and you're entitled to your opinion. Just trying to show that there's more to the genre than meets the eye and you should give it a listen.

[Pretty Flaco]

dubstep isn't really music

[Hebrew Hammer]

Then there's what people have deemed 'brostep' like this: WSeNSzJ2-Jw


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I'm not sure what intoxicants I need to ingest to be able to enjoy this properly?

[Robespierre Richard]

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I'm not sure what intoxicants I need to ingest to be able to enjoy this properly?

Lots of good weed usually. Complementary vodka is an option.

[Hebrew Hammer]

Lots of good weed usually. Complementary vodka is an option.

Yeah, I was thinking if I got real blazed and drank some booze I could probably get into it maybe.

[Rusty Shackleford]

Its funny, Skrillex is just some washed up emo guy turned dubstep.

howsabout stuff like this?

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[Aeval]

I've literally just got in from seeing Skream so it's pretty high on my "like" list right now :lol:

Dubstep can be pretty boring if people play a whole set of it with nothing else, and here at least it's still massively overplayed (even the local rock and goth club has worked out it can make more money putting on a dubstep night). That said, it's evolving, people seem to be making it a lot more breaksy now, which is pretty cool.

[Honggweilo]

Dubstep and D&B just seem like a post-modern tallentless regression from the good old goldenage of Breakbeat and Jungle. Thank god for Pendelum and Prodigy for atleast sticking to their roots.

[L.A.P.]

Skream is a great artist and one of the pioneers of dubstep.

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His stuff is a lot more melodic than the other early dubstep artists but he still sometimes leans a bit more to the conventional "filthy" sound such as this below.

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Another great artist is Mt. Eden (but his remixes aren't that good).

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Despite growing criticism of the "filthy" type of dubstep that the genre has formed into having and calling it "fake dubstep", it's still really good music. Such as this.

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[L.A.P.]

Dubstep and D&B just seem like a post-modern tallentless regression...

What do you mean postmodern? What does dubstep have to do with postmodernism? Surely this word was just added in senselessly just to add to your rhetoric, I assume.


...from the good old goldenage of Breakbeat and Jungle. Thank god for Pendelum and Prodigy for atleast sticking to their roots.

Oldies hipster or just nostalgically grumpy about music?

[bcbm]

there's definitely some good dubstep out there, too lazy to post vids maybe later. i like a lot of the dark, droney shit that has come out of it too

[Johnny Kerosene]

Then there's what people have deemed 'brostep' like this: WSeNSzJ2-Jw



Don't knock Skrillex bro.

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[ComradeGrant]

Hey remember when music meant knowing how to play an instrument, forming a band, and practicing? Neither do I, let's dance!

[Aeval]

Dubstep and D&B just seem like a post-modern tallentless regression from the good old goldenage of Breakbeat and Jungle. Thank god for Pendelum and Prodigy for atleast sticking to their roots.

You sound like a friend of mine, he always turns up wearing his ridiculously over sized hoodies and combats moaning about the damn kids and their dubstep, whist all the kids just look at him like "all right Grampa" :lol:

I probably have more fun somewhere playing Jungle and Breakbeat, it's definitely a nicer crowd, the other night people were massively aggressive and unfriendly, I can't even begin to count how many fights/people getting dragged out by bouncers we saw.

Nero's stuff is pretty good, more dreamy than harsh:

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[Kenco Smooth]

Hey remember when music meant knowing how to play an instrument, forming a band, and practicing? Neither do I, let's dance!

In general there's as much skill involved in the writing and production of dubstep as there is in the performance of most 'instrument based' popular music going back the last 50 years. With exceptions on both sides obviously but still I can't understand this quite common elitism amongst (almost exclusively casual) musicians.

[the last donut of the night]

i fucking love dubstep

[L.A.P.]

Then there's what people have deemed 'brostep' like this: WSeNSzJ2-Jw

Skrillex is more electro house than dubstep plus she's from Los Angeles so there probably lack of understanding of the genre. Hopefully this isn't going to be what the American outgrowth of dubstep sounds like, and if so then I will no longer be offended when people say Americans ruin everything.

EDIT: The song is actually pretty cool.

[Kléber]

i think it sounds like someone taking a shit

[Bright Banana Beard]

I never ever like one song of dubstep and its variety, until I listened to Digitally Imported Radio's Dubstep Radio. It was done rightly so.

[DiaMat86]

i fucking love dubstep

Me too!

[Rusty Shackleford]

there's definitely some good dubstep out there, too lazy to post vids maybe later. i like a lot of the dark, droney shit that has come out of it too
god damn please post some of that dark and droney dubstep.

[L.A.P.]

god damn please post some of that dark and droney dubstep.

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[Honggweilo]

What do you mean postmodern? What does dubstep have to do with postmodernism? Surely this word was just added in senselessly just to add to your rhetoric, I assume.



Oldies hipster or just nostalgically grumpy about music?

Its post-modern (as in art) in the sence that it is once again a new genre for genres sake. Most dubstep is really flat and unoriginal. Most good dubstep tend to sound more like breakbeat. Its basically a dumbing down of breakbeat/jungle. But oh well, people want their boxes.

For someone who is anti-hipster, you sure are as pretentious btw

[L.A.P.]

For someone who is anti-hipster, you sure are as pretentious btw

Thank you, pretentious is what I aimed for in that post.;)

[JustMovement]

is there some good dubstep wth reggae samples?

[bricolage]

is there some good dubstep wth reggae samples?
yeah most of the early mala, loefah stuff.

[Political_Chucky]

is there some good dubstep wth reggae samples?

mmm... this is probably considered more of D&B

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I just like this song.

[JustMovement]

I love that song as well, but its not dub step

[Ele'ill]

I skipped right to page two because obviously any post railing against dubstep is silly and grossly inaccurate.

Lady GaGa dubstep remixes.

Burial is amazing too although it's arguably not dubstep.

[El Rojo]

i didn't like dubstep, but its grown on me since the student protests last year. it gives a demo so much energy, and young people indentify with it more than protest songs.

[bricolage]

was there actually that much dubstep played? all I ever heard was grime.

[Fawkes]

Hey remember when music meant knowing how to play an instrument, forming a band, and practicing? Neither do I, let's dance!

Computers, samplers, synths, drum machines, sequencers aren't instruments? dumbass


I don't have much time right now, but I like a lot of dubstep. It can get monotonous if you listen to it non-stop for a really long time because it tends to be formulaic, but what genre isn't?

I'm not a genre nazi or anything, but for what it's worth, Skrillex is much more of an electro-house musician than dubstep. Notice all the four-on-the-floor beats in a lot of his songs.

Also, while a lot of ravers do drugs and stuff, not everyone does and not everyone that likes this music only does so cause they're fucked up. I've never gone to a rave in any state other than sober and I still love it.

[An archist]

It's weird, 5 years ago, when there was a dubstep party at our squat, it was a really subcultural thing and maybe 100 people would show up.
Now, all the kids love it and there's a thousand 16 year olds, saying they've got no money for entrance, while dressed in the most expensive clothes.