Somebody Help me Understand Dubstep.

[Eyes]

I like Magnetic Man, though this with Katy B is what first made me listen to them

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_ZftrTodU0[/yt]

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.

 

[Amaris]

This is the first time I've ever heard of "dubstep"

Can't really say that I care for it. The music in those youtube videos above were horrible. To each his own I guess

(I'm also 25 years old, don't really consider myself old )

I've heard of it before and even had the bad luck of hearing some of it, too. I'm not much younger than you, and I think it's horrible. I even went to the trouble to listen to a minute or two of every song linked to in this thread, and the only one which I would ever consider listening to again was "Bangarang" because it had the hilarious ice cream truck driver in the video.

I want to know what the age demographic is on this stuff. I'm curious about who listens to this.

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]

 

[Temis the Vorta]

That "Uplar" remix sounds like what Harry Belafonte would be forced to listen to in Hell. Count me with the confused fogies.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

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

 

[Amaris]

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

Sounds like Pop/Trance to me. Yeah, Uplar's not dubstep.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

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]

 

[M'Sharak]

Just saw this:

http://whitewhine.com/post/18263502244/nobody-appreciates-my-deep-understanding-of

 

[Methos]

M

 

[Tribble puncher]

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

 

[Tribble puncher]

M

HA!