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2012-01-10 04:09:32 PM
"I don't know what the hell a "dubstep" is..."

Is that img1.fark.net tag for Subby? Because he/she obviously also doesn't know what a search engine is either.

Honestly, Why do people think it's smart, funny or witty to advertise their own ignorance?
 
2012-01-10 04:09:59 PM
Five Tails of Fury: Will that make everyone who listens to "real" dubstep hipsters when the junky stuff turns mainstream?

In USA everyone is hipster anyway, and on the other side hipsters can't exist
 
2012-01-10 04:10:10 PM
Tradskinzd: Dubstep = techno
That's all that most farkers need to know.


Ahh, no. No it's not.

I like techno and electronica in general quite a bit.

I was way into Lords of Acid, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method back in the late 90's, and still have Daft Punk album Alive along with the Tron Legacy soundtrack in my car. I love Deadmau5 and Glitch Mob, Wolfgang Gartner and Shanghai Restoration Project.

AND I CAN'T FARKING STAND DUBSTEP.

It's seriously crap. It's the anti-rhythm, the unholy marriage of computerized metronomes and whacked-out compostion. I wish it would die a quick and loud death, preferably in a 4-on-the-floor 160bpm pattern. Yes I know Deadmau5 does some dubstep, but only 4x4=12 and only the last 2 songs, so I can safely skip those and enjoy the rest of that kick-ass album every day just fine.

I didn't think it would be possible for Bieber to suck worse, but going into dubstep might just do it.

ProfessorOhki and probessport, thank you, you got 'em up early.
 
2012-01-10 04:14:17 PM
tehbeermang: GreenSun: UGH dubstep music sounds so depressing, it's like the world just got blasted by a handful of atomic bombs and millions of people died. Dubstep is suicide music, even if you're a normally happy person.

You're apparently not listening to this. (new window)


I fail to see how that sounds really any different than the rest of dubstep.
 
2012-01-10 04:15:45 PM
I only listen to Moombahton.
 
2012-01-10 04:15:46 PM
halfof33: Done with Fark. I'll read the yahoo main page when I need to catch up on the same farking bullshiat, non-news stories out there.

Way to become what your whole book was about Fark. Can we get more articles about gas prices in summer soon?

/dr


But is it too non-alt to make my alt leave? Too pop to poop?
 
2012-01-10 04:23:37 PM
2 Replies: "I don't know what the hell a "dubstep" is..."

Is that [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag for Subby? Because he/she obviously also doesn't know what a search engine is either.

Honestly, Why do people think it's smart, funny or witty to advertise their own ignorance?


This is a continuation on the "I don't know what a Justin Bieber is" meme from fark about a year and a half ago

http://www.fark.com/comments/5279575/I-dont-know-what-a-Justin-Biebe r- is-but-apparently-your-son-wants-to-look-just-like-it (new window)
 
2012-01-10 04:26:31 PM
I lost faith in humanity recently (for the umpteenth time) when I couldn't convince some stupid coont friend of mine that Skrillex was garbage by showing him Skream tracks.
The day Midnight Request Line gets laughed at because "it just doesn't amp you up" as much as a Skrillex track is the day I go in a killing rampage.
The high point for me was after, when he said "then I guess I just don't like dubstep" and I just nodded.

On the topic of Skrillex, had a major LOL moment when I heard his new track on the radio. For some reason I started to like it, only to reason later that it was just a Flux Pavilion track with vocoders in it.

/Rusko and Flux Pavilion are the border in dubstep for me
//I'd say the future now is funkstep, stuff like Joker
///wub wub slashies
 
2012-01-10 04:26:49 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui16AvN5MEU

It's Star Wars, it has structure, cohesion, and a great sound.


And it's dubstepp-y. It's not all bad. Just the vast and overwhelming majority of it is.
 
2012-01-10 04:27:12 PM
1. I was a raver in the 1990s (when it REALLY existed), and no, it didn't look like emo, Skrillex, or any of the stupid face-painted crap today. Rave looked like punk with more dayglo, less black, and a penchant for monochrome stripes or classic clothing. DJ KittyLitter wasn't goth, Ronna(the basketcase) from the move "Go" was raver.

2. That fat blob of goo in the photo is NOT TECHNO. Those are club kids. Please please please do not confuse club kids with ravers. They're nothing alike and they're a couple generations apart.

3. Ravers not exist today, nor has it since the early 1990s. What exists today is something else that is often mistaken for being rave by younger people who don't realize that techno was an era, not a fashion choice. It was a subculture based on creativity (and filled primarily with artists), and NOT something you could buy at the mall. If you wear it without making it or altering it yourself, it's not raver; It's mall-punk, at best. It's cheap-ass scenesters at worst. It's emo leftovers at Hot Topic at very worst.

4. I can believe Jen Aniston was a raver. She's an artistic person, and it would have been a natural fit for her.

5. Despite what halfof33 said, the Mod movement ended in the early 1970s, and it was primarily an English thing; Didn't happen much in America. Mod eventually blossomed into Glam.
 
2012-01-10 04:28:59 PM
Justin Bieber is doing an album with a dybbuk? He'd best carry some protection. And also some magical protection.

Maybe it'll be enough to just carry a recording of "There must be a morning after" and play it backwards if the dybbuk tries to impregnate him. That worked against the Succubus in South Park. Mind you, he seems to have some experience with succubi lately. I know they are exactly the same thing as dybbuk, but they do seem to have some common traits.
 
2012-01-10 04:29:10 PM
I still don't see why music from 1999 is "the shiat". I enjoyed it then but moved past Metalheadz to squarepusher. Warbling 60-40Hz with stab sampling seems pretty old considering what is out there. I would prefer 8bit or bent/glitch to that any day of the week. To each their own and I guess most of the folks listening to it now were like 4 or 5 years old the first go-round lol. I still fire up my Kraftwelt and ATR like it is 1998 lol so I guess to each their own. Maybe this Beiber guy will make dubstep jump the shark if it hasn't already.
 
2012-01-10 04:31:13 PM
2 Replies: "I don't know what the hell a "dubstep" is..."

Is that [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag for Subby? Because he/she obviously also doesn't know what a search engine is either.

Honestly, Why do people think it's smart, funny or witty to advertise their own ignorance?


1. It's a Justin Bieber/Fark meme that you apparently missed. So you've sort've "advertised your own ignorance" on that mark.

2. I'm actually not sure what "dubstep" entails beyond awful techno bass, but I don't feel guilty for it.

/Not submitter.
 
2012-01-10 04:32:08 PM
Wayne 985: 2 Replies: "I don't know what the hell a "dubstep" is..."

Is that [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag for Subby? Because he/she obviously also doesn't know what a search engine is either.

Honestly, Why do people think it's smart, funny or witty to advertise their own ignorance?

1. It's a Justin Bieber/Fark meme that you apparently missed. So you've sort've sort of "advertised your own ignorance" on that mark.

2. I'm actually not sure what "dubstep" entails beyond awful techno bass, but I don't feel guilty for it.

/Not submitter.


Herp derp.
 
2012-01-10 04:33:02 PM
So.... if im understanding it right... dubstep is supposed to sound like some 14 year old just discovered the pitch bend wheel?

media.soundonsound.com

/i feel old
//im only 25!
 
2012-01-10 04:33:08 PM
Can we just agree to strangle hipsters with their monster jam headphones and be done with it?
 
2012-01-10 04:35:23 PM
Cyno01: So.... if im understanding it right... dubstep is supposed to sound like some 14 year old just discovered the pitch bend wheel?

[media.soundonsound.com image 640x426]

/i feel old
//im only 25!


Yes. And that they just discovered a pile of samples The Dust Brothers left laying around.
 
2012-01-10 04:36:14 PM
zato_ichi:
3. Ravers not exist today, nor has it since the early 1990s. What exists today is something else that is often mistaken for being rave by younger people who don't realize that techno was an era, not a fashion choice. It was a subculture based on creativity (and filled primarily with artists), and NOT something you could buy at the mall. If you wear it without making it or altering it yourself, it's not raver; It's mall-punk, at best. It's cheap-ass scenesters at worst. It's emo leftovers at Hot Topic at very worst.


You're not looking very hard then. Old style raves are very much alive and kicking, and like back in the day you have to know where things are going down to be apart of it. Warehouse parties, private shows, etc. Most of these types are parties are filled with the same artistic types that go to burning man. Burners are, essentially, the ravers of today. The artistic types you speak of.

http://estheticevolution.com/

Things like that are still all about art, creativity, and everything that defined the "rave" culture of the early 90s. The music has changed, but many aspects remain the same.

Other than that, I agree with you. What most people consider "ravers" in this day and age are not that at all. They're emo club kids jumping on the skrillex band wagon. You try to talk to them about proper house music, or take them to a real rave, and their eyes would gloss over before you could get a drink in them.
 
2012-01-10 04:37:45 PM
2 Replies: "I don't know what the hell a "dubstep" is..."

Is that [img1.fark.net image 54x11] tag for Subby? Because he/she obviously also doesn't know what a search engine is either.

Honestly, Why do people think it's smart, funny or witty to advertise their own ignorance?


Actually, I am the subby, and I am a techno and house DJ so I know very damn well what the fark dubstep is. The headline is a play on the "I don't know what the hell a Justin Bieber is, but..." headlines which have been so prevalent in the last year.

So yeah, your attempt at sardonic humor gets the FAIL tag, now.
 
2012-01-10 04:38:28 PM
Cyno01: So.... if im understanding it right... dubstep is supposed to sound like some 14 year old just discovered the pitch bend wheel?

[media.soundonsound.com image 640x426]

/i feel old
//im only 25!


Welcome to the club.

/now I feel old again.
//People born in (before this date) 1991 can legally buy alcohol
///People born in (before this date) 1996 cal legally drive now
////Oh NOES.
 
2012-01-10 04:40:59 PM
zato_ichi: 1. I was a raver in the 1990s (when it REALLY existed), and no, it didn't look like emo, Skrillex, or any of the stupid face-painted crap today. Rave looked like punk with more dayglo, less black, and a penchant for monochrome stripes or classic clothing. DJ KittyLitter wasn't goth, Ronna(the basketcase) from the move "Go" was raver.

2. That fat blob of goo in the photo is NOT TECHNO. Those are club kids. Please please please do not confuse club kids with ravers. They're nothing alike and they're a couple generations apart.

3. Ravers not exist today, nor has it since the early 1990s. What exists today is something else that is often mistaken for being rave by younger people who don't realize that techno was an era, not a fashion choice. It was a subculture based on creativity (and filled primarily with artists), and NOT something you could buy at the mall. If you wear it without making it or altering it yourself, it's not raver; It's mall-punk, at best. It's cheap-ass scenesters at worst. It's emo leftovers at Hot Topic at very worst.

4. I can believe Jen Aniston was a raver. She's an artistic person, and it would have been a natural fit for her.

5. Despite what halfof33 said, the Mod movement ended in the early 1970s, and it was primarily an English thing; Didn't happen much in America. Mod eventually blossomed into Glam.


Hilariously, you could switch a few things around and replace raver with punk or goth and it would still be a perfectly cogent rant.
 
2012-01-10 04:43:26 PM
People need to realize that techno is not a broad umbrella term. It's a specific style.

I'm not trying to be one of those guys but this is an important distinction. It's like calling punk a form of heavy metal -- it's not accurate. Just because it has the same instruments doesn't make it the same.

As far as electronic styles go, the current, poppy American dubstep and legit techno could hardly be further from each other.
 
2012-01-10 04:43:59 PM
I like taking lots of hetty mahlz and wub wubbing all over the dance floors with sweaty hetty brahs. The SSRBs can be annoying, but like I said, I go to dub step after parties for the hetty brahs!
 
2012-01-10 04:44:31 PM
This could form a black hole of suck.
 
2012-01-10 04:45:23 PM
tehbeermang: GreenSun: UGH dubstep music sounds so depressing, it's like the world just got blasted by a handful of atomic bombs and millions of people died. Dubstep is suicide music, even if you're a normally happy person.

You're apparently not listening to this. (new window)


I checked it out but I still saw visions of malnourished people dying, cities burning, and a burning red sky as I listened to it. I dunno, it just sounds like something from a post apocalyptic setting. This is the only music style that actually made me have visions at all. Maybe it's effective for that purpose.
 
2012-01-10 04:46:20 PM
FARK!!!

First he ruins steampunk, and now this!

BIEBER MUST DIE!!!
 
2012-01-10 04:46:47 PM
cyber_slacker: Can we just agree to strangle hipsters with their monster jam headphones people who use the word 'hipster' and be done with it?
 
2012-01-10 04:47:25 PM
Trying to figure out what the slideshow that was in TFA has to do with beibers or dubsteps.
 
2012-01-10 04:52:03 PM
static.entertainmentwise.com

img.photobucket.com
 
2012-01-10 04:53:22 PM
GreenSun: tehbeermang: GreenSun: UGH dubstep music sounds so depressing, it's like the world just got blasted by a handful of atomic bombs and millions of people died. Dubstep is suicide music, even if you're a normally happy person.

You're apparently not listening to this. (new window)

I checked it out but I still saw visions of malnourished people dying, cities burning, and a burning red sky as I listened to it. I dunno, it just sounds like something from a post apocalyptic setting. This is the only music style that actually made me have visions at all. Maybe it's effective for that purpose.


I could understand that reaction to early Skream tracks. But DZ's "Down" sounds like the second cup of coffee to me. It brightens my day.
 
2012-01-10 04:54:51 PM
I have no idea what a dubstep is but I'm old enough to know that it sucks
 
2012-01-10 04:58:13 PM
Link (new window)
Link (new window)
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2012-01-10 04:58:21 PM
In ten minutes I'll be late for the door...
 
2012-01-10 05:03:40 PM
I don't know if I like dubstep in general, a lot of it seems pretty bad. But I like Mt Eden:

Link (new window)
Link (new window)

And a little dubstep live jam that I found interesting:

Link (new window)

I am old though.
 
2012-01-10 05:11:15 PM
swee2th: legit techno

"legit techno"


LOL
 
2012-01-10 05:11:19 PM
Try Feed Me....It's dance music for adults.. Link (new window)
 
2012-01-10 05:13:16 PM
GreenSun: tehbeermang: GreenSun: UGH dubstep music sounds so depressing, it's like the world just got blasted by a handful of atomic bombs and millions of people died. Dubstep is suicide music, even if you're a normally happy person.

You're apparently not listening to this. (new window)

I checked it out but I still saw visions of malnourished people dying, cities burning, and a burning red sky as I listened to it. I dunno, it just sounds like something from a post apocalyptic setting. This is the only music style that actually made me have visions at all. Maybe it's effective for that purpose.


That is exactly what its supposed to sound like. I had the same visions when listening to some tracks. For example this Skream track..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmyG9h48JE0

This track is also a masterpiece

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScyoA9k9FDQ&feature=related

Skream is a pioneer in dubstep, producing some of the best sounds ever. Morning Blues is my favourite. But I also love Summer Dreams, Emotionally Mute, and Colourful
 
2012-01-10 05:15:16 PM

Am I the only one who thought Bieber made for an ungly woman?

Justin Bieber and more... as waxworksstatic.entertainmentwise.com
 
2012-01-10 05:15:19 PM
I like electronic music, but dubstep is just a recording of clowns being raped by power tools.

/raped by power tools
//rape rape.
 
2012-01-10 05:18:07 PM
Deadmau5 was pure musical happy. Especially I Remember (Link (new window)) and Move for Me (Link (new window)).

Anything since then by him is meh.
 
2012-01-10 05:18:45 PM
spiro: Good dubstep:

"Good"...

That word... you keep on using it....

s3-ak.buzzfed.com


(image is hot like real music)
 
2012-01-10 05:19:30 PM
Infernal Wedgie


I like electronic music, but dubstep is just a recording of clowns being raped by power tools.


I thought it was the sound of robots raping each other...there is a demotivational poster of it, but I don't have the guts to GIS robot rape at work.

/wub
//wub
///bbbbbbbrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt wub wub
 
2012-01-10 05:20:59 PM
Smeggy Smurf: I have no idea what a dubstep is but I'm old enough to know that it sucks

No actually you`re just old. And lame.

Also no one likes you because you smell.
 
2012-01-10 05:21:06 PM
Seraphym: I like techno and electronica in general quite a bit.

I was way into Lords of Acid, Daft Punk, Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method back in the late 90's, and still have Daft Punk album Alive along with the Tron Legacy soundtrack in my car. I love Deadmau5 and Glitch Mob, Wolfgang Gartner and Shanghai Restoration Project.

AND I CAN'T FARKING STAND DUBSTEP.

It's seriously crap. It's the anti-rhythm, the unholy marriage of computerized metronomes and whacked-out compostion. I wish it would die a quick and loud death, preferably in a 4-on-the-floor 160bpm pattern. Yes I know Deadmau5 does some dubstep, but only 4x4=12 and only the last 2 songs, so I can safely skip those and enjoy the rest of that kick-ass album every day just fine.

I didn't think it would be possible for Bieber to suck worse, but going into dubstep might just do it.


Music is evolving. You can join the anti-dubstep chorus but most of them wouldn't even be able to tell dubstep from the house/trance you listen to, and would likely thing you are just as retarded for listing to "Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce" for hours and hours on end. Most will just go back listening to the radio or some poppy Rhianna crap they thought they were edging for buying $2.99 on itunes.

I thought dubstep was crappy at first. But then kind of jumped on it since it's different from all the pop/hip hop commercial garbage that hasn't changed a bit since 1998. Pretty much anything that's not Top40 I will give some credence too. However, if you listen anything on the Top40 chart you immediately become an artless aesthetically challenged and prone to advertising drone in my point of view. I mean really, beyond all differences of opinion, it just sucks.

"Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce Oonce"
 
2012-01-10 05:22:03 PM
I didn't know what dubstep really was so took the Youtube tour suggested here. Holy crap that's some boring shiat.
 
2012-01-10 05:22:44 PM
Infernal Wedgie: I like electronic music, but dubstep is just a recording of clowns being raped by power tools.

My girlfriend asked if a recent song I was playing was the sound of Santa's Workshop
 
2012-01-10 05:23:35 PM
jerrytaylor: spiro: Good dubstep:

"Good"...

That word... you keep on using it....

[s3-ak.buzzfed.com image 425x368]


(image is hot like real music)


Alright, so lets hear some music you like.
 
2012-01-10 05:32:26 PM
When Bieber can do the dubstep dance like this guy (new window) [Freakin awesome, once it gets going], I'll have some respect for him.
 
2012-01-10 05:33:19 PM
Seraphym

Daft Punk = stole everything, none of their songs are original. They didn`t bother to change anything in the original songs.

Also Deadmau5 is just plain crap.
 
2012-01-10 05:44:39 PM
I'm turning 25 next week and I have no idea what the FARK dubstep is. Other than a fancy way of saying techno.

/feels old
//going through your "indie phase" was cool when I was in HS
 
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