Somebody Help me Understand Dubstep.

Discussion in 'TV & Media' started by Tribble puncher, Feb 20, 2012.

  1. Eyes

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    About the best example of dubstep I can think of right now. It's not my favourite genre of music, as there are far too many annoying poorly produced tunes around, but like everywhere, there are a few good tunes in it.

    Actually, these two, mainstream for the UK, but amazing nevertheless:

    [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_2Z32qCYBg[/yt]

    [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpTkZARu0pE[/yt]

    Skrillex is a weird one, he's an underground producer with music that's unfriendly to the mainstream ear, becoming mainstream. Some of it ventures a little far to the crazy part for me. First Of The Year and Breakn A Sweat are incredible though.

    Yes it blends with house and drum and bass now and then, but it fills the same niche, is arguably more up to date than those, it's the new boy of dance music, and it's enjoyable on a night out.
     
  2. Amaris

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    I'll be 32 next month and I listen to dubstep. I don't go clubbing, I generally don't party, and I like my music to have some kind of intelligent driving force behind it. If it's going to be chaotic in melody, then it has to take a genuinely chaotic approach. If it's going to be uniform, then it has to achieve a unique type of uniformity.

    [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MigURCQQA0[/yt]
     
  3. Temis the Vorta

    Temis the Vorta Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    That "Uplar" remix sounds like what Harry Belafonte would be forced to listen to in Hell. :wtf: Count me with the confused fogies.
     
  4. Bob The Skutter

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    Uplar isn't dubstep. I don't know what it is, but it's not dubstep.
     
  5. Amaris

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    Sounds like Pop/Trance to me. Yeah, Uplar's not dubstep.
     
  6. Flying Spaghetti Monster

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    You know, I played the very beginning of the video posted above, Burial's 'Archangel" and the first five seconds or so, before the music started, sounded so familiar, and I couldn't place it.

    Finally, I found the match (I think) seven seconds into the Star Trek teaser:
    [yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYMmLCMAJas[/yt]
     
  7. M'Sharak

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  9. Tribble puncher

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    I've found a few tracks here and there I like, "midnight request line" is actually a good song.
     
  10. Tribble puncher

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    HA!