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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by hassanova » Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:28 pm

is the brostepforum still up? can't believe how big it was lol, and the names :lol: seth brogan etc lol
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by tookansam » Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:16 am

Wiki entry on dubstep... it caught on
Wobble bass

One characteristic of certain strands of dubstep is the wobble bass, where an extended bass note is manipulated rhythmically. This style of bass is typically produced by using a low frequency oscillator to manipulate certain parameters of a synthesizer such as volume, distortion or filter cutoff. The resulting sound is a timbre that is punctuated by rhythmic variations in volume, filter cut-off, or distortion. This style of bass is a driving factor in some variations of dubstep, particularly at the more club-friendly end of the spectrum - a subgenre which has been termed 'brostep' by some.[13]

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by ZIMBA » Mon May 30, 2011 1:45 am

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by jsaxton » Mon May 30, 2011 2:22 am

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by amphibian » Mon May 30, 2011 9:40 am

lynn mc wrote:I think now, if you spell out brostep it should just come out as b*****s because this shit is annoying me. the term brostep was clearly started by some sort of troll. Thing is, if we keep mentioning this stupid catchphrase, and when it comes down to it, that's all it really is. then it wont die and may result in a subgenre officially being called this. mods, you listening? ban this fucking word cause it's only going to get worse. I would of PM'd the mods but I thought I'd make a thread to warn everyone first.
Are you kidding me? The term is suitably applied because of the crowd that it attracts. It also helps us separate what some of us consider dubstep, from midrange cack that is known as brostep. GL changing it btw - it's been cited in several magazines ;)
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by vishes » Mon May 30, 2011 10:16 am

Why ban it? It actually fits the music perfectly.

We all know how much the US is contributing to this sound, and they're all calling eachother "Bro" there (which I absolutely hate, it sounds fucking ridiculous) so the word Brostep was actually very clever made up.

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by 55stevieboy2010 » Mon May 30, 2011 3:30 pm

YEP! keep the fucking word. that way hopefully people will start calling the heavy shit that and leave us real dub heads with the proper name of dubstep.

LOOK ITS SIMPLE...BREAK THE WORD DOWN, THERE IS NO DUB IN HEAVY DUBSTEP. THIS MAKES THE WHOLE TERM INACCURATE. TEAROUT IS NOT DUBSTEP!!!

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by Wildcard » Tue May 31, 2011 3:04 am

november wrote:is the brostepforum still up? can't believe how big it was lol, and the names :lol: seth brogan etc lol
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by subearache » Tue May 31, 2011 3:59 am

We all know how much the US is contributing to this sound, and they're all calling eachother "Bro" there (which I absolutely hate, it sounds fucking ridiculous) so the word Brostep was actually very clever made up.[/quote]

What's even funnier is people calling each other mates. A mate is someone you fuck to reproduce. :mrgreen: You mate with ur wife bro.

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by fractal » Tue May 31, 2011 4:27 am

55stevieboy2010 wrote:YEP! keep the fucking word. that way hopefully people will start calling the heavy shit that and leave us real dub heads with the proper name of dubstep.

LOOK ITS SIMPLE...BREAK THE WORD DOWN, THERE IS NO DUB IN HEAVY DUBSTEP. THIS MAKES THE WHOLE TERM INACCURATE. TEAROUT IS NOT DUBSTEP!!!
The dub in dubstep has nothing to do with dub music :)

I think the term "brostep" is a stupid one, but banning words is stupid as well

Anytime someone looks down on someone because of their aesthetic tastes they make themselves look the fool imho
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by 55stevieboy2010 » Tue May 31, 2011 5:44 am

im pretty sure it does fractal?

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by fractal » Tue May 31, 2011 7:23 am

Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by DZA » Tue May 31, 2011 7:25 am

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by MrReplay » Tue May 31, 2011 8:38 am

Skream makes BROstep nowadays

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by Hyoscine » Tue May 31, 2011 9:01 am

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by NilsFG » Tue May 31, 2011 4:12 pm

Hyoscine wrote:
fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.
Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).

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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by fractal » Tue May 31, 2011 4:59 pm

NilsFG wrote:
Hyoscine wrote:
fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.
Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).
Exactly. Don't use wiki as a guide for anything as just anyone can use it. Read the xlr8r interview and do some digging. I'm not chatting air on this one. Dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006, when it was already a few years old
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by limbo » Tue May 31, 2011 5:09 pm

I have no idea where the word brostep has come from, some guy probably made that genre up as a joke and now look what it has come to.
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by fractal » Tue May 31, 2011 5:40 pm

it was a girl named Kozee actually
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Re: Ban the word brostep?

Post by Hyoscine » Tue May 31, 2011 7:17 pm

fractal wrote:
NilsFG wrote:
Hyoscine wrote:
fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story
Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.
Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).
Exactly. Don't use wiki as a guide for anything as just anyone can use it. Read the xlr8r interview and do some digging. I'm not chatting air on this one. Dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006, when it was already a few years old
It's the wiki page on dub, not dubstep, and the section I referred to is on the money. Is anyone here going to dispute that dub involves stripping tracks down to the drums and bass, sprinkling other instruments/vocals on top and making generous use of reverb and delay effects? Jus' saying, El-B, Horsepower et al. were doing that. I think when you say 'dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006' you mean it didn't have reggae stylings. That's different (though there's an early Tempa release you might want to have a look at...).

And wikipedia isn't that bad, really. One of my profs (cpsc) assigned a wiki page as a reading once :)

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