Disconnect between dubstep on dubstepforum vs. in real life

[skitz_0]

best thing to come of this thread so far

[Liam92]

'm up in Scotland where dubstep artists seem to neglect

This is quite true but as well as Magnetic Man, Benga, Caspa is playing with Emalkay and Chase & Status (not necessarily dubstep) are playing with Nero, so there's a few coming up!

Whaaaat!?! When are Emalkay etc. coming up? And where??! I need to get out to more gigs

Duuuuuude, if you just keep checking the Mixed Bizzness site, they run most of the good events and there's so many coming up:

http://www.mixedbizness.co.uk/

Chase & Status/Nero are playing at the Arches:

http://www.thearches.co.uk/Jungle-Natio ... DJ-Tez.htm

[FSTZ]

yeah...

at a dubstep show, no one complains like they do on this forum

[fractal]

yeah...

at a dubstep show, no one complains like they do on this forum

depends on who's playing

[truefiktion]

best thing to come of this thread so far

Ermmmmmm my new favourite Burial track???!!

[HORSEFORCE]

this site has never come close to representing anything like the whole "scene". thousands of people go to events every weekend that've probably never signed on to a forum in their lives. even if you can't afford to go to london now, work for it, and go, because until you do, you'll never fully understand this sound. london culture is unique on the planet. i don't care if you disagree. it just is.
you could be the biggest reggae collector in your country, go to every reggae website you can find, go to every reggae dance in your area....but you won't understand reggae until you've been to jamaica, and walked those streets.....eaten roast fish from a street vendor.....been to a few soundsystems. same with new york and hip hop. same with country music and nashville.

when a certain sound gets under your skin, you go as close as possible, to the kitchen where it came from.
the internet will never provide that experience for you.

totally agree. i loved hip hop my whole life, but never really lived it and experienced it until i lived in NYC and worked at Chung King Studios (one of the birthplaces of Hip Hop, now closed down.) I really would love to experience the london music scene, but unfortunately im stuck in the american midwest and have to DJ great dubstep to like 5 or 6 people on a weeknight.

[kay]

I understand that this is an international forum, so obviously there will be different perspectives - I'm really interested in hearing from people from all over the place.

I live in the US (Denver, Colorado), and every time I spend some time on this forum, I'm really amazed at how different the online dubstep community (as represented here on dsf, at least) is from the dubstep events that I go to (and perform at) regularly. If I had no exposure to the scene in real life, and only knew of it from this forum, I would think that a dubstep party would be all about very dark, moody, somewhat minimal music, with a crowd of people mostly interested in a meditative, pensive, introverted experience.

But the reality of most dubstep events (at least where I live) is so far from that, it's just absurd. They are all about really intense, upbeat music (sometimes aggressive, sometimes pretty, often times both), and the people are very social, all about dancing, and often twisted on all sorts of mind altering substances. Now obviously any internet forum dedicated to a style of music will tend to be populated more by the "purists" than the party kids... but I've frequented a lot of forums and their respective party scenes, and I've never encountered this extreme of a disconnect. So I'm just wondering, are there other folks that have noticed this?

I think it might be more a disconnect between the dubstep sound in the US, and the dubstep sound in the UK (and possibly most of the rest of the world). Rather than a disconnect between DSF and real life. I reckon also a disconnect between what "oldtime forumites" think of as dubstep versus what "newer forumites" think of as dubstep - and for the most part, the oldtimers tend to be more vocal. Which I think is partly justified when the sound mutates from bass heavy sounds to something that hardly has any bass with really loud midrange sounds, yet they are told that the newer sound is everything that constitutes dubstep and that the stuff that used to define dubstep is shit.

Mostly though, it's just people who overeact to pointless stuff over the internet.

[fractal]

Mostly though, it's just people who overeact to pointless stuff over the internet.

guilty!

[Elkie]

since when has "disconnect" been a fucking noun?

um...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/disconnect

I wasnt arguing the fact it was a noun, i was just saying since when has it been one?




haha whoops

[dr h]

The only disconnect I see is that you visit DSF from your home, on your computer. It's unlikely you want to listen to midrange bangers, whilst writing an email and drinking tea. That's where the stuff like DMZ, Burial etc comes into play. I hate brostep as much as the next guy, but that kind of music is just better suited for clubs, especially since students make up the vast majority of club goers in the UK anyway and they're not really interested in getting moody in a corner. It's naive to think that kids go out to clubs for the braindance. Unless you're at a Rephlex party of course!

So yeah, it might be shit music, but it does the trick in a live environment for the majority of people into this scene. When you're at home, you want something different usually.