Xilent - Big Dubstep producer releases 8bit song (Page 4 of 5)

I just find this kind of statement incredibly disingenuous. Here's the thing -- no one is a better or worse person for liking or disliking the things they like, and it really seems like you're getting to the point of not hating dubstep, but rather hating people who like dubstep (or brostep or corestep or metalrhythmcorebrostepbrostep).

I'm not trying to say that this kind of discussion about music isn't important, but I'm finding that more and more that I don't care about someone's "taste", but rather whether they can elucidate their taste without referring to whether other people like it or not. I don't think we should carry on talking about the latest trends as though there is some sort of objective measuring tape telling us whether music is "good" or "bad", because that kind of thing just stifles discussion. If it were me, I'd be into talking about what the aesthetic of dubstep reveals to us about the cultural climate of the intended audience, which I think is a much more valuable discussion than why dubstep is bad, because it just ends up being an argument about subjectivity, which never ends up going anywhere.

I agree with what you are saying but I also understand where Downstate is coming from. I imagine it is very annoying for him that so many people like something that he thinks is shite. That's definitely his problem, but then it is also very annoying when you are DJing dubstep nights and you are playing valid dubstep tracks and everyone is coming up to you requesting Skrillex and saying that what you are playing is not dubstep.

It's like if I was DJing a club and I was playing some classic french house and someone came up and asked me to play dance music. Something like this actually happened to me once and my friend stepped in and said "she obviously wants you to play Lady Gaga" and that's what made people happy. And I was obviously super annoyed at this whole exchange.

Basically what I'm saying is you can call something "annoyingly popular" when a lot of people are into it and they annoy you

And it's doubly annoying when the semantics are a mess!

The epic battle between cerebral and fun.

Any one else think the robot looks like george lopezas charecter off of shark boy and lavagirl?

Hmmm, well what i mean is  - the more a wider audience lap up the shitty brostep, (i mean an audience not so much into underground music or the culture that goes with it / but more an audience into dance remixes of pop songs) - then the more the scene dies.
Because people that used to make good stuff and not care about the FAME, compromise their shit and before you know it the artists that used to be innovative are just hashing out shit that is boring, predictable and 'safe' i guess i'd say. Not that you can blame them, they're probably thinking - "hang on, we've been doing this for years we should be getting the money too".  I dont hate people for liking brostep, but like Decktonic says - it's damn annoying that the people into 'dubstep' nowadays are the kind of fuckers that dont know the difference between any types of dance music, the same people that ask for 'hip hop' when you're playing PUTS or even Wu-tang instead of Rick Ross. (yes - someone has asked me for hip hop as i played wu-tang. when i kind of looked at them in shock until the walked off, they waited two mins then sent the boyfriend to request 'rap' instead. I know it sounds snobby but i feel im well within my rights to laugh and want to murder these morons haha

I think the song's alright. Sticks to the tried-and-true formula you see in most popular dubstep production, but it's got some clever sampling here and there. Fun enough. I can't see my opinion on it really changing that much if they replaced the chippy leads with the average trance synths though. More focus on the chippiness would improve it drastically.

Dubstep doesn't really have anything inherently good or bad about it, I think. Most other popular EDM genres grow into similar structures: a strict formula, a characteristic instrumentation. Dubstep is essentially the new ULTRASAW BREAKDOWN-INTO-SILENCE TRANCE in that regard. What's Tiesto doing these days anyway?

There'll always be dudes who created the genre that make good material that doesn't adhere to that 100%, and there'll always be dudes who come afterwards and build off of the established formula. James Blake is pretty danged cool. And a lot of the subgenres that've spawned out of dubstep's quick rise have been interesting, at the very least. More dubstep horrorcore/gabba please.

I'm hoping that the popular dubstep goes the way of eurobeat, getting sent off to some part of the world where people will be able to appreciate it for decades onward without it getting in the hair of the general global populace.