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Permalink Reply by ▲UltraK.I.D.™▽ on September 28, 2011 at 12:32pm

I love real Dubstep, not a big fan of the whole brostep scene.

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Permalink Reply by Stringer Bell on September 28, 2011 at 4:50pm

I think its misleading to say that Americans were unaware of dubstep. If you're into the electronic scene you knew it. Personally I dont like dubstep, not my thing but to each their own. I'm more into Trance and house ( a distant second ) myself. However I dont think its a bad thing at all that a "new" form of electronic music has infiltrated mainstream music. For instance (and while this may not be dubstep) take Chris Brown's track Beautiful People, for the artist I'm neutral to his music (ignoring his whole battery issues) but the after mentioned track has a really not beat to it and tbh I'm a fan of it. I think so many times those into the electronic scene are starved from not hearing anything like that on mainstream radio whatever that when something hits...anything hits well you gotta love it by default. So yeah thats my opinion / end rant.

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Permalink Reply by Chris Porter on September 29, 2011 at 8:04am

I personally think its a bad thing that dubstep is starting to invade popular culture because it can start to overload and desensitize the media from appreciating good music like actual dubstep, instead of the Mainstream dubstep craze. personally i believe they didn't approach dubstep at the right angle. instead of gradually adding dubstep to their songs they should just shock the media and make it a DIFFERENT genre then pop.

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Permalink Reply by Stringer Bell on September 30, 2011 at 1:37am

I can agree with that. I guess in that respect I'm glad Trance has never gonna mainstream and I dont think it ever will.

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Permalink Reply by Wounded Cyc△d on September 30, 2011 at 10:27am

"I'm glad Trance has never gonna mainstream and I dont think it ever will."

you have got to be fucking kidding me...

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Permalink Reply by Stringer Bell on September 30, 2011 at 6:20pm

umm no I'm not "fucking kidding you" songs that average on 6 minutes plus and a community that thrives on creating remixes from artists in multiple labels would be lost if it went mainstream. Radio cuts of elaborate songs almost always are inferior so much is lost in the compression. So I stand by my statement.

 

Care to elaborate on your stance?

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Permalink Reply by Wounded Cyc△d on September 30, 2011 at 8:11pm

Trance is the most popular genre in the entire electronic music scene. There are fucking gigantic trance shows all over the world and all the biggest djs in the world are all trance djs. It is far bigger then dubstep ever got or will ever get.

Hell they played a few trance songs at my prom 5 years ago.

Sure it's popularity has waned recently but you don't get more mainstream then trance. Unless you are listening to really oldschool stuff:

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Permalink Reply by Stringer Bell on September 30, 2011 at 9:38pm

Nope the most popular genre is House, Its always been that way with Trance coming second. While there is large events all over the world it certainly doesn't make the genre mainstream. Those massive events are only a tiny fraction of the many small sets that really make the scene jmho.

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Permalink Reply by X. Just X. on October 1, 2011 at 2:39am

yeah.  there is a subtle difference between "popular" and "mainstream."  but trance was encroaching on mainstream back in the 90s.  until people realized just what you said:  6+ minutes of super repetitive tones and minimal lyrics isn't radio friendly.

your average joe can tell you the difference between pop, r&b, hip-hop, and rock.  heck, they could prolly tell you differences within those genres.  ask them to explain the difference between house, d&b, euro, techno, jungle, tribal, ambient, and trance, they'll have no clue.

but alot of this is just semantics.  according to some people, hip-hop isn't mainstream, it has its own classification "urban."  then some others say everything that is mainstream is "pop."  its all over the place, nobody ever agrees with these things.

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Permalink Reply by Stringer Bell on October 2, 2011 at 11:33pm

Okay yeah you're right about that especially about the genre encroaching mainstream status back in the 90's. I remember hearing Children all the time on the radio, a random track from 4 Strings as well plus Robert Miles music was even used in a few well known films but for the life of me I cant remember any other artists I heard on the radio, Certianky never Atb or Paul Van Dyk even in their hayday they never broke out onto the radio and tbh Atb put out a lot of radio friendly stuff. But yeah its all semantics...

Permalink Reply by X. Just X. on September 30, 2011 at 12:34pm

its nice.  anything that comes along, i'm all for it.  why hate.  enjoy it for what it is.  and if you don't like it, just wait until the inevitable backlash that will come in a couple of years.  these things are always cyclical.

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Permalink Reply by NerdyHeartbeat on September 30, 2011 at 6:27pm

Love dubstep of the Burial, Skream, SBTRKT, James Blake flavor. There's a time and place for "brostep" as well, preferably in a crowded, steamy place; drunk as fuck with an urge to dance sexy/mosh.

 

Say what you want about Skrillex but he's created this signature and noteworthy sound whether you like it or not. He's been around for less than two years and he already has a slew of imitators. That says a lot.

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