Dubstep & the mainstream - a discussion

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:09 pm

6000 words of the fucker: http://thequietus.com/articles/05753-du ... n-jamie-xx

brasco · Post by **brasco** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:17 pm

big, checking this out now

ashley · Post by **ashley** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 6:24 pm

christ 6000 words. Do you have a TL;DR version?

Valarya · Post by **Valarya** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:21 pm

really really good read - thanks for posting

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 9:52 pm

ashley wrote:christ 6000 words. Do you have a TL;DR version?

Does not compute.

Actually it very specifically bigs up Get Darker

__________ · Post by **__________** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:06 pm

ashley wrote:christ 6000 words. Do you have a TL;DR version?

"You've said lots that's interesting here, and I disagree with most of it!" - excellent quote Joe!

Shum · Post by **Shum** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:27 pm

Nice read Joe

Sharmaji · Post by **Sharmaji** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 10:36 pm

nice round up of the state of things, Joe-- glad to see that, in the end, i think we can all agree that there's endless positive things that will continue to come from our little neck of the subcultural worlds.

And you excellently ducked-and-covered the bro debacle by coining "dudestep."

that, alone, is deserving of dancing corn:

dj klaim · Post by **dj klaim** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 11:29 pm

Great read! Fucking LONG tho!

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:35 am

dj klaim wrote:Great read! Fucking LONG tho!

There's a lot to say....

In the old days, people used to write things that are even longer, you couldn't put them on your screeen but they had these individual bits you could flick through to jump from one part to another instantly. They were called "buks" or something.

ras-claat · Post by **ras-claat** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 11:02 am

nice read! glad to see this topic being discussed on a serious level with profound arguments!
strong points on both sides!

thx for your effort!

polho · Post by **polho** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 8:37 pm

slanguage · Post by **slanguage** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 9:55 pm

brilliant...nuff said

i'm gonna repost this on my facebook and link as many heads that i know will enjoy reading this as i can

DannyLifted · Post by **DannyLifted** » Sat Feb 26, 2011 10:08 pm

nice breakdown indeed

madmeesh · Post by **madmeesh** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 3:23 am

"it still remains a deep rooted sound, something with real people's real soundystem experiences at its beating heart"

joe muggs · Post by **joe muggs** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 8:49 pm

Cheers for the comments, much appreciated.

Also if anyone hasn't seen it, here's another lengthy bit of musing on where genre names come from, with a few familiar folk popping up in it: http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/dail ... /17/0/2070

youthful_implants · Post by **youthful_implants** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 10:18 pm

really interesting discussion.

collige · Post by **collige** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:12 pm

Really fantastic article. I agree with pretty much everything said there. However, I do want to add this:

Dubstep (in America, at least) has an image problem. Speaking from my own experiences and talking to other people, I've realized this: Despite all this great, diverse music being made, to the average person who isn't a fan of a genre, dubstep appears to consist only of WUBWUBWUBWUB tracks and James Blake. Obviously, not everyone is going to like the genre anyway, but due the continuing success of "brostep" artists outside of the genres' regular listeners a lot of people are writing off dubstep as the worst genre ever.

Thoughts?

Caski · Post by **Caski** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:21 pm

collige wrote:Really fantastic article. I agree with pretty much everything said there. However, I do want to add this:

Dubstep (in America, at least) has an image problem. Speaking from my own experiences and talking to other people, I've realized this: Despite all this great, diverse music being made, to the average person who isn't a fan of a genre, dubstep appears to consist only of WUBWUBWUBWUB tracks and James Blake. Obviously, not everyone is going to like the genre anyway, but due the continuing success of "brostep" artists outside of the genres' regular listeners a lot of people are writing off dubstep as the worst genre ever.

Thoughts?

they're listening to the wrong shit.

64hz · Post by **64hz** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:22 pm

they are fools.

great article, it presents the present genre/scene perfectly imo

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