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I lol'ed.... nothing against anyones taste in music but levels simply isn't dubstep- its house.
I think way too often people hear an electronically produced song (whatever the sub-genre may be) and call it dubstep. ...and then go on to make a thread about their opinions of dubstep
Could be trolling, but that's pretty ignorant if you're not. Too many people judge dubstep on the garbage that has somehow gained recent mainstream recognition. You need to dig a bit deeper than skrillex etc if you want to get a proper understanding of the genre.
Brostep fucking sucks, real dubstep is good if you like minimalistic music. Yes that's right, i said minimalistic. Real dubstep is a darker, minimalistic form of garage with heavy dub, techno, reggae, and a few other influences. It's isn't over the top and doesn't sound like transformers like brostep does. It has a nice mellow sub bass. Now of course it's not for everyone, but no music is. I would agree with you saying dubstep sucks if you are thinking of brostep, but I would say otherwise to stuff like this:
Then what's this? And what exactly separates it from brostep?
Dubstep isn't minimalistic, its the same as every other genre of EDM. Are you talking about melodic minimalism or minimalism through production? Because melodic minimalism is certainly not a requirement of the genre. And dubstep gets the shit produced out of it, no questions asked, so I don't think its minimal through production.
The only way that I would ever attempt to classify dubstep would be beats and bass at half time 140 bpm. But even that's pushing it.
I would call it heavy dubstep(HD), there has been HD for years now obviously, it's just a different take on the base genre. Original, true dubstep branched off from garage in the late 90's, at the time it really did not even have a name from my understanding. It got darker, more bass directed, and moved away from the cheesy vocals and pop trends that had begun to kill garage. Skream has been a pioneer in the genre, he was one of the main people to add something extra, something more heavy to the music at the start. The main difference in my eyes between the song you posted and the shit filling mainstream american media is the lack of shitty vocals, a more simplified/consistant heavy sound(not bouncing around to something new every 2 seconds, which is the main thing with brostep now), and you can still hear the dub influence in the sound(while small, it is still there). All forms of music evolve, and dubstep is still very young in terms of musical age, so it will continue to change. But when you compare that skream track and a skrillex track to something like this(bellow), which is closer to the roots of the genre? The answer is pretty clear to me.
I think this track, along with Surge, are what defines dubstep for me. Immense bassweight, more minimal than most, that deep dungeon sound. I cant help but nod my head every time i hear this.
The hype in american culture about brostep won't last, but the genre(all parts of it) will thrive on. It's a new sound that the world hadn't seen till right before the turn of the century, a new sound that many in our age generation are strongly embracing. All things popular are fads, but when the hype dies down, there will still be the true fans doing/listening to what they love.
Saw him and coki in march this year, such a sick show. Triple reload on Fatman VIP to end their set, the crowd was going mental. Equally insane when coki dropped goblin.
I'v been listening to stuff in the 140 range forever, from UKG to dubstep and everything between. I will not attend most dubstep shows now because the scene consists of little nightmare hippy chicks and pimply misguided teenagers who are competing to consume the most fake drugs
I love my new job, in the past few months I'v seen: Liquid Stranger, Bare, Terravita, Nadastrom, Zeds Dead, Skrillex, 12th Planet, And Foreign Beggars. I have about 4 shows comin up in two months, with about twice as many artists. LOVE. THIS. JOB.
