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Originally Posted by hypertonic
I'll check it out at some point. Yeah I prefer those types of mixes anyways. Something that takes you somewhere. I usually go through 3 or 4 genres of 4/4 stuff in any given set.
Brostep has just took the making tracks in your underwear on yr laptop with pre-made loops thing to such a disgusting level that its taken the fun out of it around here.. Then you have an uninformed "new" audience that scoffs at house/techno and anything without "wub"s. Goddamn its so fucking irritating... Yeah there’s a lot of DJs in general, but at least most house/4/4 types have played vinyl, learned the classics and where it came from... etc. Maybe some dubstep DJ's do, but around here the tracks are horrible, the mixing skills near non existent, and mostly use the cheapest controller available w/o ever having touched vinyl. This usually happens anytime there's a new fad 'it" genre in underground electronic music. Electro was big for a few years and everyone played that, tribal house, etc. But the scale is so much larger and such horrible quality passes for good music, it's really discouraging. It just really irks me, and I think now there's a rift between the old school purists and this new generation (below the age 22-23) that I can't hardly see ever being bridged. Fuck it. Maybe it SHOULD just be a pop genre... Make Korn & Britney Spears remixes. Leave the real underground alone, we were doing fine.
(Ironically I'd rather talk about why AnCo lost their "oomph" after SJ/MPP -- maybe another day  ) |
eh, keep faith: i'm 21 and i know the underground stuff ahah (i still don't buy vinyl though, but that's for financial reasons - seeing how much i already spend on cds and how little money i have i just can't switch to buying vinyls anytime soon).
anyways, i think the growing gap between skrillex/doctor p/rusko and the likes and modern evolutions of proper dubstep mean that really, the brostep branch has nothing to do with the underground stuff and the whole hardcore continuum anymore, the two worlds don't really connect anymore (apart from a few fools commenting on how shackleton lacks wubwub on youtube, and apart from producers like skream being on both sides of the bridge), so there's no real danger that skrillex and the likes will somehow destroy the underground, i think. if anything, the good shape of nearly every single edm genre (from dubstep - brostep excluded - to minimal to d&b to grime to funky to house to juke/footwork to bass music to whatever) shows that there's no fear to be had - the brostep trend will fade out at some point just like it did for, say, trance. already it seems that moombahton is taking over - though some people still call it "dubstep" because of the wobbles -. at the same time, lhf just released a double-album of all fantastic tunes that somehow manage to refer the whole continuum (you can find hardcore, jungle, garage, old school dubstep, it's all in there) and still do something new - personally i'll just ignore what's being hyped on youtube and enjoy my lhf