UFO over easy said:Again, like a good techno set.
Precisely what i've always said about dubstepo. It has more to do with techno than anything else nowadays.
and i'm not making stuff up, i'm merely responding to what's being said.
and clubs are not places to meditate as far as i'm concerned.
the good thing about clubs is dialogue, making connections with different people, different styles of music, not pulling your head in and withdrawing from that.
it's like everything that's frequently and wrongly said about reggae – that it's serious , meditative, spiritual, transcendent music that's always obliged to have a higher purpose, despite the fact that it's actually plain and simple mass-market pop music – is being taken as the starting point for dubstep. i mean how often do you hear words like catharsis, meditation, pressure, release applied to it?
it's not fun, it's not pop music and that to me is a bad thing.
that's why 2step garage did best out of any strand of the hardcore 'nuum, because it was pop and it embraced that without shame.
jungle may not have been pop, but it didn't set out with lofty ambitions and was certainly not shy of being what reynolds calls "alternative mainstream" in the beginning.
dubstep starts of as alternative music and that's it's problem. it's the indiest reading of hardcore possible.
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