See, this is why people come up with shiat like SOPA

GAT_00: Osomatic: This is how I know I'm old: I just don't understand the music the kids are listening to these days.

Honestly it sounds like somebody took a drum machine and some power tools and threw them in a garbage can and then kicked it down three flights of stairs and what came out when it got to the bottom, they called "Dubstep."

But I know, I know. It's not for old fogeys like me.

I'm 25 and I think dubstep sounds like absolute garbage.

Same. I could listen to it for a video like this and be amused... but people who actually listen to this, like all the time, as their preferred genre of music... I just don't get 'em. I'm 26... so maybe I'm just too old.

Song sucks, lights are annoying.

Beats the hell out of yet another Trans-Siberian light eructation.

kingoomieiii: Osomatic: Honestly it sounds like somebody took a drum machine and some power tools and threw them in a garbage can and then kicked it down three flights of stairs and what came out when it got to the bottom, they called "Dubstep."

People said the same about industrial. It's a bit more refined now. Certainly production values are easier to come by.

Also, this is just someone's Christmas lights synced to a year-old Skrillex song. Which is good, because if someone actually made a dubstep version of Deck The Halls or some shiat, I'd have to angrily post on Youtube about it.

Not everything needs a dubstep version. Just like not everything needs a trance version.

In fact, NOTHING needs a farking trance version.

I listen to trance, and even I agree.

Fuxsa dubstep?

I'd rather hear this than Xmas music 99% of the time.

What the fark is dubstep?

This is what passes for music nowadays? This actually sells albums?

I am probably too old. I know. I used to get upset over boybands/girlbands and playback. Then the next generation of "singers" whose only talent was looks and the songs nothing more than some slut swinging tits and ass around and yes, all the people who heard the music before seeing it, totally thought it was good, right? And now this, great.

/Why are most of my favorite artists dead/almost dead/old enough to walk on a cane

Talon: GAT_00: Osomatic: This is how I know I'm old: I just don't understand the music the kids are listening to these days.

Honestly it sounds like somebody took a drum machine and some power tools and threw them in a garbage can and then kicked it down three flights of stairs and what came out when it got to the bottom, they called "Dubstep."

But I know, I know. It's not for old fogeys like me.

I'm 25 and I think dubstep sounds like absolute garbage.

DrAwesomeTBM: Song sucks, lights are annoying.

I'm older, I still enjoy GOOD club music.

DubStep is just Jungle/Drum&Bass noise with a Breakbeat frame slowed down with House-y, sampled nonsense vocals. It is not good music. It's a fad.

It's great crap if you're in a k-hole or rolling hard, but otherwise, it's just a bunch of stupidity. Actually, it's just the Marilyn Manson of dance music. It'll be gone and forgotten soon enough - just like Jungle/D&B.

House is pleasing to the ear, regardless of age. Trance? Same. (They're sisters.) They're still around after 15 years (30+ for house music) because they're enjoyable to listen to. I'll take a dubstep fad over the Florida Bass/Rap Bass fad of the last 20 years, but damn - it's not the best thing since sex...stop promoting it.

Also, video sucks.

Nothing worse than a synched light show that isn't synched.

That guys CD is skipping all over the farking place. I couldn't even discern the music from the skipping CD. That's why his lights are all wonky, he tried to sync it to a farked up CD.

This being america and all, I'd love to go have a seizure on his lawn.

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mmmm...I thought this was farking awesome.. not a dub step fan but its got its good songs. The synch was amazing.

(Brostep^ (Dubstep^/YT^ (UK Garage^ (EM^(old))))

I'm dweaming of a wobble Chwistmas!

kingoomieiii: Also, I sincerely hope that this recording was the ONLY time they ever made the lights do that. I'd expect very angry phone calls molotov cocktails if I left that running through the evening, even silently.

FTFY.

I'm not sure what to think about Dubstep. I know I'd never listen to it on purpose, but I don't hate it per se. The other thing that stymies me is that almost every other genre I can make some kind of qualitative comment on it like, for example, "Ok, ok, you were shot 9 times... fair enough. But Jurrassic 5 has more humanity and soul in their stuff and I prefer it."

The difference between this and the other eleventy dubstep tracks I've heard on Fark sound more of less the same (except that disaster of fader tweaking someone was trying to pass of as "melodic" the other week... that was just hurtful to the brain).

Osomatic: This is how I know I'm old: I just don't understand the music the kids are listening to these days.

Honestly it sounds like somebody took a drum machine and some power tools and threw them in a garbage can and then kicked it down three flights of stairs and what came out when it got to the bottom, they called "Dubstep."

But I know, I know. It's not for old fogeys like me.



/Large Marge knows what's up
//hot

I understand that everybody has their own taste, and I can even see some merit in this genre, but please, for the love of god, don't put $20-worth of this shiat on the jukebox at the bar. I will murder you.

Falcon Hunter: It's great crap if you're in a k-hole or rolling hard, but otherwise, it's just a bunch of stupidity. Actually, it's just the Marilyn Manson of dance music. It'll be gone and forgotten soon enough - just like Jungle/D&B.

Nobody forgot DnB. They still make it and the people still listen to it and it still has some of the best production around.

The problem with dubstep is that the popular artists are terrible. It shouldn't sound like DnB at the wrong speed with the soul removed.

EvilEgg: Personally I'm just glad kids these days have moved on from "classic" rock. The boomers constipated musical innovation for three decades.

This is hilariously true. Now that you mention it, today's music smells like a three decade old pile of shiat.

My friends are sure I'd love dubstep, Skrillex in particular, if I just listened to more of it. My problem with it isn't lack of exposure though, my problem with it is it's ear-rape. It's like saying "I know you didn't enjoy wiping your ass with that 100 grit sandpaper but I think you'd really like it if you tried some 80 grit and OH! You'll just love this 60 grit!"

It's not music, it's anti-music. In fact, keep that stuff away from real music or the resulting explosion could take out half the planet.

Every generation needs their own brand of shiatty British electronica.

sparkyumr98: Beats the hell out of yet another Trans-Siberian light eructation.

This, but without that fancy word at the end.

Dubstep strikes me as a genre of music that is more fun to make than it is to listen to.

Still, there is some good dubstep out there, but like any other genre it's obfuscated by shiatty remixes and sonic nonsense. I've been listening to Avenger by Hecq (first track here) which is nice to listen to on long drives. His track Sura may be familiar to Assassin's Creed fans.

So that's dubstep, huh? Is it normal to feel like your brain is leaking out of your ears after listening to it?

sparkyumr98: Beats the hell out of yet another Trans-Siberian light eructation.

Whats wrong with the Bells of Northrend?

I miss Plague Spredders...

What were we talking about?

Falcon Hunter:
DubStep is just Jungle/Drum&Bass noise with a Breakbeat frame slowed down with House-y, sampled nonsense vocals. It is not good music. It's a fad.........House is pleasing to the ear, regardless of age. Trance? Same. (They're sisters.) They're still around after 15 years (30+ for house music) because they're enjoyable to listen to. I'll take a dubstep fad over the Florida Bass/Rap Bass fad of the last 20 years, but damn - it's not the best thing since sex...stop promoting it.

That's a great description. From a producer's perspective, however, I doubt Dubstep is going away. It will continue to evolve, the sounds will change, and ultimately it will fall from the mainstream masses and clubs, but it won't end. The tempo and rhythmic style lend themselves to expression not possible with breaks, house, DNB, etc... At least this was my experience when I began to dabble with producing dubstep tracks a year or so ago. The media coverage part of the fad however, yea - I'm with you there. The sooner it ends the better.

I was introduced to Dubstep while hosting an electronic music radio show sometime in 2006-2007, and most of what was coming in was clean bass and clean tones with a little attitude. Then it got dirty. Then it got dirtier. I expect it to clean up again at some point, but who knows. I love the dirt too, I'm just curious where it will go next. I mostly do DnB/Jungle when producing electronic music in my studio, but still dabble with dubstep because the tempo is so damn fun to work with.

/not a fan of house music at all, but I can respect what my friends do with it.

Falcon Hunter: DubStep is just Jungle/Drum&Bass noise with a Breakbeat frame slowed down with House-y, sampled nonsense vocals. It is not good music. It's a fad.

It's great crap if you're in a k-hole or rolling hard, but otherwise, it's just a bunch of stupidity. Actually, it's just the Marilyn Manson of dance music. It'll be gone and forgotten soon enough - just like Jungle/D&B.

House is pleasing to the ear, regardless of age. Trance? Same. (They're sisters.) They're still around after 15 years (30+ for house music) because they're enjoyable to listen to. I'll take a dubstep fad over the Florida Bass/Rap Bass fad of the last 20 years, but damn - it's not the best thing since sex...stop promoting it.


They think it's brilliant and new because they were listening to Nirvana or Phish in the late 90's and early 00's, or are very young. What passes for excellent nowadays is mediocre to anyone with a broad and lengthy knowledge of electronic music. Nothing new has happened, but creating cool names like 'dubstep' sure makes it feel like something is.

EvilEgg: Personally I'm just glad kids these days have moved on from "classic" rock. The boomers constipated musical innovation for three decades.

Pretty hard to argue that when even by the mid-70s there were the likes of Punk, Disco, Philip Glass and Isao Tomita, and shortly after they were all replaced with totally different sounds across the board, and then times continued to change, but there were always renegades.

Oh, I guess you could argue that if you were totally ignorant of 99% of modern music.