This may be a question for Reeve - what is dubstep

[lyssbobiss, Command, B613]

I waste a lot of time on YouTube. People talk about it a lot. I feel like I don't have a grip on what it is. Someone explain please. Like I'm 5. Please and thank you.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

It's a genre of electronica that's managed to make its way into the super mainstream. See: Skrillex.

[Deleted]

Yeah, Dubstep came out of nowhere. Its like many of the other dance music styles, but in many ways it is completely opposite. It is usually half speed - so a reggae pace. But it used heavy and frantic basslines, and it is extremely noisey. There are dubstep tracks that are "happy" sounding or that have vocals, but they are in the minority. Mostly, it is very aggressive. It is also ludicrously difficult to make - I have made most styles of dance music, and dubstep is by far the most difficult to program.
Skrillex is a good start. Nero is also popular, and less bonkers.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

It weirds me out to hear Dubstep on top 40 stations. Back when I was a raver, I remember being SHOCKED when an even slightly electronic sounding beat came up in a mainstream song.

Reeve, you make music? What's your favorite genre? I'm a DnB girl at heart.

[pescalita]

The first music that makes me think young people these days are listening to noise, not music. Which appropriately hits the mainstream shortly before the first anniversary of my 29th birthday. Also, get off my lawn. YWIA.

[bigt1]

Here is a good sampling:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTS6CKuZ4kg&feature=related

[heyjude]

My 15 year old cousin was trying to explain it to me. I had no idea what he was talking about. Then he pulled up a video on YouTube and I was like WTF. This is what kids listen to?

That's when I officially became oldz.

[humpty]

I fucking love the drop.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

May 21, 2012 9:23:10 GMT -5 humpty said:

I fucking love the drop.

Is that GIF from Coachella?

[humpty]

It was from the Grammys.

[humpty]

I will never be old then. I'm 34 and I love this shit.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

May 21, 2012 9:41:36 GMT -5 humpty said:

I will never be old then. I'm 34 and I love this shit.

This may be the one thing that makes me feel young....

[noonecareswhoiam]

May 21, 2012 9:23:10 GMT -5 humpty said:

I fucking love the drop.

I am so old I asked a young colleague (who could be my kid) "What exactly happens when Skrillix drops the bass?"

I was kinda unimpressed. Maybe if I were drugged out in a big, sweaty mass of half-naked people it would be more interesting. But I am a punk rock victim, so what do I know?

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May 21, 2012 7:57:47 GMT -5 Daria Morgandorffer said:

It weirds me out to hear Dubstep on top 40 stations. Back when I was a raver, I remember being SHOCKED when an even slightly electronic sounding beat came up in a mainstream song.

Reeve, you make music? What's your favorite genre? I'm a DnB girl at heart.

Yeah, I have run a "rave" (for want of a better word) hardcore / drum'n'bass label since 1992. I love D'n'B - and thats what my wife makes (she has her own label too) but she likes Hospital and liquid d'n'b, which I can dig, but I prefer the rougher stuff. And because I have been into the music so long, I kinda like all the genres, although anything with the word "progressive" in the title normally turns me off. When I started they were all the same genre lol.

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May 21, 2012 9:50:43 GMT -5 noonecareswhoiam said:

May 21, 2012 9:23:10 GMT -5 humpty said:

I fucking love the drop.

I am so old I asked a young colleague (who could be my kid) "What exactly happens when Skrillix drops the bass?"

I was kinda unimpressed. Maybe if I were drugged out in a big, sweaty mass of half-naked people it would be more interesting. But I am a punk rock victim, so what do I know?

lol, your anti electronic music bias is showing! I think there are a lot of parallels between punk and rave, to be honest. They both like music to be hard and noisy. And a lot of ravers love punk too - me included. But its sort of true that you can appreciate a heavy rock tune in your car, whereas to really enjoy dubstep, you need the bass of a sound system.

People who hate dubstep should just be glad that Gabber didn't rule the airwaves. Here's a link to something almost everyone hates, the fastest, ruffest, loudest most offensive music in the world. Very useful if you get into a sound war with neighbors, lol
Its called Cunt Face. Obviously, NSFW:

[dylanite]

Not a huge fan of dubstep but have seen a couple amazing videos of people 'dancing' to it.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

May 21, 2012 10:15:16 GMT -5 @reeve said:

May 21, 2012 9:50:43 GMT -5 noonecareswhoiam said:

I am so old I asked a young colleague (who could be my kid) "What exactly happens when Skrillix drops the bass?"

I was kinda unimpressed. Maybe if I were drugged out in a big, sweaty mass of half-naked people it would be more interesting. But I am a punk rock victim, so what do I know?

lol, your anti electronic music bias is showing! I think there are a lot of parallels between punk and rave, to be honest. They both like music to be hard and noisy. And a lot of ravers love punk too - me included. But its sort of true that you can appreciate a heavy rock tune in your car, whereas to really enjoy dubstep, you need the bass of a sound system.

People who hate dubstep should just be glad that Gabber didn't rule the airwaves. Here's a link to something almost everyone hates, the fastest, ruffest, loudest most offensive music in the world. Very useful if you get into a sound war with neighbors, lol
Its called Cunt Face. Obviously, NSFW:

Eeesh. Though I'm torn between what's worse- Gabber or Happy Hardcore.....

[IIOY]

May 21, 2012 9:23:10 GMT -5 humpty said:

I fucking love the drop.

Ditto. I'm a huge EDM fan, and I love me some dubstep (I was listening to that 10 Most Brutal at the gym the other day), but hearing it on the radio weirds me out as well, and it irritates me in a strange way that it's gone mainstream. I heard it today in a Pitbull song, FFS. Then again, I'm weirdly possessive about music and was all bent out of shape when the world discovered alternative music, LOL.

Gabber cracks me up. Sometimes I put it on for shits and giggles, but I can't listen to it for more than a few minutes at a time.

[BAMFMrsB]

random:

I was at Target yesterday and DH picked up Skrillex in the $5 section . (FWIW, I think it was More Monster and Sprites, but I'm not 100% sure)

I then proceded to sing "I want to kill everybody in the world" for the rest of our shopping trip. The kid is a goofy one, but I do love his sound.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

May 21, 2012 11:49:18 GMT -5 IIOY said:

Gabber cracks me up. Sometimes I put it on for shits and giggles, but I can't listen to it for more than a few minutes at a time.

Oh man, you just reminded me of a funny memory. Once when I was 18 and visiting my best friend in NYC, we went to a rave in Queens that we thought was supposed to be all house/trance. About an hour in we realized that every single DJ on the docket was hardcore, and every single time they announced the next DJ, they'd scream "are you ready for some hardcore?!?!??!!!!!!!!!!!" and we'd just whimper in the corner. We'd paid like $30 for the tickets and didn't have enough money to try and go somewhere else, so we just got earfucked by hardcore for about 8 hours straight. Hardcore gives me a little bit of PTSD now. ;D

[IIOY]

Heh. You are a better woman than I because if it wasn't my style, I probably would have headed for the exit.

I don't listen to hardcore all the time, but I do have my moments where it's just what I need. I actually remember being surprised to discover that I liked it. Generally, my early morning/newspaper/coffee is trance and I work my way up to the harder stuff as the day progresses. By the end of the day, I usually need some lounge or deep nu-disco because I'm beat from my kids tearing me in 40 different directions.

[pixy0stix]

This whole thread is like a foreign language. I just know that I can't listen to trance because it gives me the freaking spins like I've been drinking too much.

[kasi]

I didn't know what dubstep was until my husband discovered it recently. I like it for the most part, especially the harder stuff. As for trance...eww. I have nevre liked that. I prefer my old school hard house from the late 90s. I like lots of bass. I can't find a Pandora station for it though.

[meshaliuknits]

May 21, 2012 12:20:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

This whole thread is like a foreign language.

Sits with pixy.

Really, though, all I know about music is that I prefer loud, fast, and instruments. Screaming/growling rather than actual singing is a plus.

[pixy0stix]

May 21, 2012 13:37:20 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

May 21, 2012 12:20:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

This whole thread is like a foreign language.

Sits with pixy.

Really, though, all I know about music is that I prefer loud, fast, and instruments. Screaming/growling rather than actual singing is a plus.

::high five:: dh gave me an autographed cd from Wayne static for mother's day.

[Daria Morgandorffer]

Yea see, I can't get down with the screamy guitar music.

[Deleted]

I think I am the only one into all of the musics mentioned. My ipod is like a total lunatic.

[frostytoes]

May 21, 2012 11:05:40 GMT -5 Daria Morgandorffer said:

May 21, 2012 10:15:16 GMT -5 @reeve said:

lol, your anti electronic music bias is showing! I think there are a lot of parallels between punk and rave, to be honest. They both like music to be hard and noisy. And a lot of ravers love punk too - me included. But its sort of true that you can appreciate a heavy rock tune in your car, whereas to really enjoy dubstep, you need the bass of a sound system.

People who hate dubstep should just be glad that Gabber didn't rule the airwaves. Here's a link to something almost everyone hates, the fastest, ruffest, loudest most offensive music in the world. Very useful if you get into a sound war with neighbors, lol
Its called Cunt Face. Obviously, NSFW:

Eeesh. Though I'm torn between what's worse- Gabber or Happy Hardcore.....

I've got a special place in my heart for Happy Hardcore, it always makes me smile. Agree with you on Gabber though.

[emisi]

It's basically just WUB WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB.

YWIA.

[kcb]

LOUD NOISES!

*stumbles out of post on cane*