Genre: Dubstep

[Surfrider]

The only thing I have enjoyed to come out of dubstep is this. Especially going right from the beginning. (I think some of the humour might be a bit too Britain-specific for you overseas types though).

[Bill Swansea]

http://www.spin.com/articles/muse-show- ... pintwitter

[jimmy two hands]

Some dude named Blawan, doing it right. No wubs.

You know, that wasn't all bad.

[Ernest]

Some dude named Blawan, doing it right. No wubs.

You know, that wasn't all bad.

Yeah, man. I'm not much for programming that's not in 4/4, but I like it.

[jimmy two hands]

Some dude named Blawan, doing it right. No wubs.

You know, that wasn't all bad.

Yeah, man. I'm not much for programming that's not in 4/4, but I like it.

I'm pretty sure the time signature was 4/4, just polyrhythmic. Somewhat of a samba rhythm.

[Ernest]

I mean straight ahead 4/4; it's that shuffle I can't really get into.

[Luzwei]

http://www.spin.com/articles/muse-show-mother-earth-some-wub-dubsteppy-2nd-law-unsustainable?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

hey, there's a plus. I get not to hear his irritating voice.

[Bill Swansea]

http://www.spin.com/articles/muse-show-mother-earth-some-wub-dubsteppy-2nd-law-unsustainable?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

hey, there's a plus. I get not to hear his irritating voice.

Oh it's in there.

[Luzwei]

http://www.spin.com/articles/muse-show-mother-earth-some-wub-dubsteppy-2nd-law-unsustainable?utm_source=spintwitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=spintwitter

hey, there's a plus. I get not to hear his irritating voice.

Oh it's in there.

apparently, dub step theme bugged me more.

[Tommy]

Some dude named Blawan, doing it right. No wubs.

You know, that wasn't all bad.

Gave this song a second listen. I'm definitely not someone that doesn't like electronic music. I guess what I don't like about the majority of this genre is the same thing I don't like about "We Built This City". Forget the structure or writing of the song itself because I can't get past the fact that I don't like one single "instrument" sound within the song itself. Maybe I'd like the song if it was some kind of World Music field recording of a group of musicians with acoustic instruments and it actually had some swing to it. Maybe I wouldn't, hard to tell.

[BClark]

apologies if this has already been mentioned --

wtf is the connection with dub, the genre from which dubstep presumably derives its own name? i'm aware that almost all post-70s "electronic" music is to some extent dub-influenced. but to me, i hear just about no dub in dubstep. i listen to quite a bit of dub and i see almost no connection.

btw, one of the questions on yahoo answers is "what is the dubstep song that goes wub wub woooooob?" priceless.

[Bill Swansea]

wtf is the connection with dub, the genre from which dubstep presumably derives its own name? i'm aware that almost all post-70s "electronic" music is to some extent dub-influenced. but to me, i hear just about no dub in dubstep. i listen to quite a bit of dub and i see almost no connection.

A lot of early dubstep was quite bass heavy and used a fair bit of delay. Also they were remixes in the same sense that dub songs were. This is what I assume, anyway.

[MisterX]

apologies if this has already been mentioned --

wtf is the connection with dub, the genre from which dubstep presumably derives its own name? i'm aware that almost all post-70s "electronic" music is to some extent dub-influenced. but to me, i hear just about no dub in dubstep. i listen to quite a bit of dub and i see almost no connection.

I believe dubstep started out as a fusion of dub techno and UK 2-step garage, so the "dub" was already technofied before it met the step. A lot of the early British stuff sounds like a Basic Channel track set to a 2-step rhythm instead of house beat.

[Tommy]

Forget the dub in dub step. Let's talk about garage! When I think garage, it has NOTHING to do with UK Garage. Hell, 2-step is shitty country.

[Antero]

I always assumed this was dubstep



Obviously, whatever's taken over stadiums in the past year or two has basically nothing in common.

That's what they used to be calling dubstep, right? At the beginning of this thread and shit? The fuck happened?

[jimmy two hands]

Forget the dub in dub step. Let's talk about garage! When I think garage, it has NOTHING to do with UK Garage. Hell, 2-step is shitty country.

Stop trying to make sense out of it - there's a formula to creating new electronic microgenres that is similar to coming up with an alternative band name in the early to mid nineties: pick a random musical style and a random word and put them together. Except in the nineties alternative band game, it's three unrelated random words of no particular significance. Compare: Sham-waltz; Polkaskin; Drone fungus; Scallion Rap; or Panda Thrash; to: Stomach Monkey Cancers; Cement Furnace Horses; Condor Canyon Sandwiches; or Brown Tooth Soul.

[Arson Smith]

I always assumed this was dubstep

^ Isn't that more like "trip-hop" or something...?

(I'm so confused...)

[Ernest]

Burial is like the prim, and polished vein of dubstep that likes melodramatics. The bros that harass women, or the dudes on 4chan are the ones with the wub-wub assfart sound.

[circle_ruler]

[johnnyshape]

Enough brostep already. Jeez.