Dubstep
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
I guess I'm one of these refugees, although I'd pretty much just lurk and download mixes ect. Have been lurking here for a while too I guess and came to this thread thinking there would be some interesting discussion.... which there has been...
For me what I loved about dubstep originally was how experimental and forward thinking it was. I could listen to a record, even from a established producer, and have no idea what I was about to hear...
I know people listen to music for different reasons though and some just want to go to a club and rock out or whatever...
I think these are inevitable growing pains really, as the scene has grown internationally many people coming into the scene but also producers and long term listeners now have a much more fixed idea of what dubstep 'is.' and for me that goes against why I liked the genre in the first place...
When I first started listening to dubstep (around the time grime 1 & 2 came out) none of my friends were into and now many of them regularly go to dubstep nights and love the music, but to a lot of them dubstep IS half-step wobble... I have no problem with wobble or any other sound but the problem is, like someone else said, the scene reflecting back on itself and saying this is what dubstep is... for me wobble or anything else is good as long as its not following a formula... maybe that's inevitable and what I have a problem with is genres themselves but can there be a scene without a genre? Maybe its because I'm a listener and producer first and a raver second.
It makes me sad now when I get the juno dubstep realises in my email and can't even get through the whole list because I know what's coming, this happened to me with drum and bass and its the worst kind of deja vu...
For me what I loved about dubstep originally was how experimental and forward thinking it was. I could listen to a record, even from a established producer, and have no idea what I was about to hear...
I know people listen to music for different reasons though and some just want to go to a club and rock out or whatever...
I think these are inevitable growing pains really, as the scene has grown internationally many people coming into the scene but also producers and long term listeners now have a much more fixed idea of what dubstep 'is.' and for me that goes against why I liked the genre in the first place...
When I first started listening to dubstep (around the time grime 1 & 2 came out) none of my friends were into and now many of them regularly go to dubstep nights and love the music, but to a lot of them dubstep IS half-step wobble... I have no problem with wobble or any other sound but the problem is, like someone else said, the scene reflecting back on itself and saying this is what dubstep is... for me wobble or anything else is good as long as its not following a formula... maybe that's inevitable and what I have a problem with is genres themselves but can there be a scene without a genre? Maybe its because I'm a listener and producer first and a raver second.
It makes me sad now when I get the juno dubstep realises in my email and can't even get through the whole list because I know what's coming, this happened to me with drum and bass and its the worst kind of deja vu...
has anyone managed to get this yet? can someone sendspace it? i've met quicker glaciers than this.
my internet connection's too shit to stay connected this length of time (11 hours or whatever). looking fwd...
Grievous Angel
Beast of Burden
Thought not.most of the duscussion here on this thread has been this style of production over that style of production and the other style of production and all those different styles meaning dubstep
good and bad, it's like dubstep is football and producers are teams. It's a symptom of having dubstep forum so that everyone has an opinion about everything and there is no mystery no suprise or spontanety. Even new producers aren't new as you can hear their tracks and meet and greet on dubstep forum, not even dubs are new as they're named all the time. It would be good to stop thinking like that and just make dubstep and do dubstep now. Bring back some fucking excitement, some artist lead decisions and not audience focussed decisions.
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john eden
male pale and stale
Lightweights.
john eden
male pale and stale
Good discussion over here though.
