the guide's unbelievable definition of dubstep

snufkin · Post by **snufkin** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:07 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/ ... op-culture

I point you to near the bottom of the page

"Dubstep: Drum'n'bass with more more drums and less bass"

They also file starkey under wonky which I must object to. I suppose idiotic journalism is what's keeping dubstep in the contented fringes so I shouldn't really complain.

love

ST100 · Post by **ST100** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:11 pm

shambandito · Post by **shambandito** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:21 pm

if atleast it would have been: drum n bass with LESS drums and MORE bass..

pete_bubonic · Post by **pete_bubonic** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:30 pm

before this gets out of hand:

THE ARTICLE IS A JOKE

I mean just read it!

I thought it was pretty funny.

snufkin · Post by **snufkin** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:36 pm

pete bubonic wrote:before this gets out of hand:

THE ARTICLE IS A JOKE

I mean just read it! I thought it was pretty funny.

if by funny you mean written over a bowl of humous and coriander by a 30 something from hampstead who just loves to STATE THE OBVIOUS REALLY LOUDLY then yeah, funny funny funny.

-dubson- · Post by **-dubson-** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:40 pm

the whole thing seems pretty sarcastic to me

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:41 pm

-Dubson- wrote:the whole thing seems pretty sarcastic to me

same.

georgedallas · Post by **georgedallas** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:25 pm

haha i read this in the guide today and was gonna make a thread. it's not really a joke though, the whole article is a guide for people who don't know shit about shit, so i doubt they're chatting balls to make dubheads laugh

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:30 pm

Well, it's not like any of it would make much sense to people who don't already know what this stuff is, so yeah, I'd guess it's basically a joke. Albeit not actually a funny one.

The 'definition' goes a bit beyond that , btw - something like "much appreciated by serious faced people who don't so much dance as let the bass buffet them."

concept · Post by **concept** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:56 pm

Pretty spot on.

j-sh · Post by **j-sh** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:21 pm

the amount of ironic self referencing in the guide is painful.

altered state · Post by **altered state** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 9:27 pm

lfmao

that made my evening.

good work!

caunterstrike · Post by **caunterstrike** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:13 pm

wat do you expect? how many gaurdian readers do you know that listen to dubstep?

hera · Post by **hera** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:17 pm

drum & midrange

computer rock · Post by **computer rock** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:00 pm

When I read it I thought it was supposed to be a bit of a piss take, nuffin more.

However this:

Anything that gives away the fact that London media types' fondness for donk is mainly based on patronising class voyeurism.

is spot on. see the documentary they reference on vbs.tv to see shoreditch's answer to louie theroux fop around in exactly this manner as he 'attempts to understand' donk culture.

etzel · Post by **etzel** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:12 pm

caunter wrote:wat do you expect? how many gaurdian readers do you know that listen to dubstep?

I can only speak for myself: the two best things in life

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:01 am

eeeeh lighten up man, the whole thing is clearly a joke! and if this was being written in a serious way, they'd have at least got the bit about stern faced people right

jimitheexploder · Post by **jimitheexploder** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:30 am

bless the guardian for trying but...

They really are fucking up the whole *ahem* wonky / dubstep thing

I mean first Reynolds talkin shit about Ketamine and its influnce on instrumental hip-hop and now this.

I'm pretty sure they should just give up and go back to enjoying a bit of lonley singer song writer accoustic music and deciding what they should give 4 stars out of five in the whole music monthly magazine.

corticyte · Post by **corticyte** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:35 am

I agree, definitely make sense if it was 'less drums and more bass'

pretty funny article really...

snf · Post by **snf** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:30 am

hera wrote:drum & midrange

lol, nomination for new genre name. love it.

i do think the article is largely tongue in cheek

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