Genevieve wrote:As far as unmemorable by the numbers stuff goes, most standard dancefloor dnb is pretty much brostep.
As far as harsh brutal noise and simple rhythms goes:
I suppose this is kinda a brostep equivalent? It's good stuff, though. I'm not into what people call 'brostep', but I love the harsher side of drum & bass.
This is completely not the equivalent at all
Some people in the dnb scene think it is. It's along the same lines as the skullstep stuff pkay is talking about (a term that used to be a degarotary by the 'deeper heads'). Grew out of the harder edged side of late '90s dnb like Facs and Panacea. Simple rhythms, harsh distorted mids, influenced (especially these days) by industrial hardcore.
I don't really care what is the equivalent of what (anyone can make an argument for anything being the equivalent of anything). Just thought I'd share an alternate viewpoint.
Some people do. Or at the very least call it filth.
As I said, I don't really care. I don't really think 'skullstep' and 'brostep' are the same, but a lot of the deeper heads in the dnb side of things, especially the ones into the whole drumfunk/choppage thing feel like it is. "Angry, soulless noise". Agree or disagree, I can see why they would.
And those guys are fruits who have probably never been to an actual rave in their life.
Personally, that whole spectrum, even in dubstep, pisses me right off. The clubs are shit, the sound is shit, the atmosphere is shit, everyone is looking at how everyone is dancing/what they're wearing/trying to pull/make sure people know they know the tune.
Brostep imo would be equivalent to Jump up dnb artists like Original Sin, Dj Sly, Dj Pleasure ect! I'd personally say Brostep is better than Jump up but then again i'd have to say DnB is better than Dubstep
Depends what you mean by brostep, Dancefloor dnb is the more commercial side of dnb Sub Focus, Chase & Status, Pendulum etc... But sound wise Jump Up is more similar to the commercial side of Dubstep
sc0tty wrote:Depends what you mean by brostep, Dancefloor dnb is the more commercial side of dnb Sub Focus, Chase & Status, Pendulum etc... But sound wise Jump Up is more similar to the commercial side of Dubstep
Um, Katy B and all that stuff reminds me more of house tbh but I see where your coming from when you talk about 'popular' dubstep (aka Skrillz and his broz)
sc0tty wrote:Depends what you mean by brostep, Dancefloor dnb is the more commercial side of dnb Sub Focus, Chase & Status, Pendulum etc... But sound wise Jump Up is more similar to the commercial side of Dubstep
Um, Katy B and all that stuff reminds me more of house tbh but I see where your coming from when you talk about 'popular' dubstep (aka Skrillz and his broz)
Yeah I guess your right them sort of tunes never popped into my head when I was typing that post
deficit wrote:We call it Jump Up 'round these parts.
However, my interpretation of 'Brostep' was heavy/industrial/relentless/heavyweight business. A DNB equivalent might be Corrupt Souls / Raiden / Tech Itch / Current Value / Limewax, we tend to call this stuff 'Tech', but again, this is a catch all term that covers a lot of ground and there's a big difference between say Current Value and Corrupt Souls.
Eitherway, you're probably looking for Jump Up/Clownstep or Tech rather than Liquid or Autonomic.
Your interpretation is EXACTLY what killed the scene here in New Orleans years back haha. It was all that Tech Itch shit...constant NOISE. BLARING IN YOUR EARS BLAHHH BLAH BLAH. So repetitive/industrial/heavy/aggressive/angry...ugh I hate it haha. It's funny, because for dance music...it's just plain old un-danceable. Makes no sense to me why you would play that live...no wonder the dancefloors were empty when that shit was going on.
I would take it from the opposite way and say that Brostep is disguised d&b in dubstep
same sounds, same intentions and purpose, same grammar, just the beat is different, most of the tunes are halfstep which is historically just a part of what dubstep is / was
bunzer0 wrote:I would take it from the opposite way and say that Brostep is disguised d&b in dubstep
same sounds, same intentions and purpose, same grammar, just the beat is different, most of the tunes are halfstep which is historically just a part of what dubstep is / was
Yeah like this really.
I think that Brostep is re-incarnation of DnB elements in a dubstep format. The first uk brosteppers coming from a jump up angle. Then those across the atlantic taking it up from neuro funk.
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