does anyone here actually listen to dubstep anymore?

[AxeD]

'I'm only achieving what the Prodigy tried to do'

Don't get the shit about it not being just dnb/breaks because it's on a lower bpm either.
Thought a lot of Concord Dawn stuff has always been at 13-something.

[hugh]

lol the name he gives it is just so BAD as well

[SCope13]

If it turns out he's trolling, (which I don't think he is) he gets an 11/10. Seriously, it would be pure genius.

[AxeD]

If it turns out he's trolling, (which I don't think he is) he gets an 11/10. Seriously, it would be pure genius.

Nah surely he can't be. He wrote so much, you almost get a glimpse of his character and stuff.
Would probably make a more than decent actor if he is faking it.

[hugh]

I don't think he ever was.. I mean he made proper tunes, labelled all his music as "Ember breaks" and posted on loads of different forums about it and responded to ALL of them.
I think he was just especially stupid.

[exfox]

lol the name he gives it is just so BAD as well

wait till you learn that he divides it into different subgenres, like thunder ember breaks, fire ember breaks, water ember breaks... i think the thread in which he discussed them on here has been deleted but that was hilarious

[hugh]

lol the name he gives it is just so BAD as well

wait till you learn that he divides it into different subgenres, like thunder ember breaks, fire ember breaks, water ember breaks... i think the thread in which he discussed them on here has been deleted but that was hilarious

LOL that I did NOT know! :p

[SCope13]

Hahahha, I never saw that either. Mods, why would you delete pure gold like that?

[exfox]

lol the name he gives it is just so BAD as well

wait till you learn that he divides it into different subgenres, like thunder ember breaks, fire ember breaks, water ember breaks... i think the thread in which he discussed them on here has been deleted but that was hilarious

LOL that I did NOT know! :p

i also remember him asking a guy who said he liked one of his tunes if "the music made him feel powerful". pure jokes ahah

[wormcode]

The srebme guy has been doing that shit for years. He used to spam his stuff on DOA years ago.
Definitely serious or the most persistent troll on the net.

[dickman69]

i luv srebme breaks but yeah dubblestep is the new wave

and also, if u cant find "house" percussion interesting, youre prob listening to some lame ass cookie cutter house music

[_v_]

im curious,

Some are saying they dont listen to Dubstep as much anymore,
Some say they prefer other types of music,
some saying they tired of Dungeon, the techno/house stuff, Brostep etc...

So its been said what isnt liked so much,
but what is liked?

Whats been missing from Dubstep that makes those look elsewhere?

[Terpit]

http://embersbreaks.blogspot.com/

[Electric_Head]

"As someone that like music when i press play button i lissten from the beginning to the end but meny pple press play button and just jump tro the sound. And its srebme not a flamme because the srebme when they dye, most of the time comes to some unburning to flamme it . It's about the idee that music is aleways transmit somewhere else and during the ''ON'' process of the sound u hear the personnality."

He's illiterate.

[hugh]

im curious,

Some are saying they dont listen to Dubstep as much anymore,
Some say they prefer other types of music,
some saying they tired of Dungeon, the techno/house stuff, Brostep etc...

So its been said what isnt liked so much,
but what is liked?

Whats been missing from Dubstep that makes those look elsewhere?

Fresh sampling ideas, maybe some halfway decent MCs actually trying to rap over something other than a non-intrusive over the top midrange heavy WHURHWHURH noise.

When is the last time you heard a new tune like Colours or Haunted. I can't even remember.

The thing is, I am getting my thirst for music satisified by other genres that aren't anywher near as "intense" to listen to. Nowadays if I wanna listen to some new dubstep tunes I feel like I have to wrap myself up in cotton wool with a mug of hot chocolate first just to brace myself for the noise.

[hugh]

http://embersbreaks.blogspot.com/

look at his blog.
I swear this guy might have been having everyone on from day one.



I mean...seriously? I think he's just a rather legendary troll now

[Electric_Head]

I think he's undeniably a troll.

[SCope13]

http://embersbreaks.blogspot.com/

look at his blog.
I swear this guy might have been having everyone on from day one.



I mean...seriously? I think he's just a rather legendary troll now

I need to cop one of those shirts.

[Today]

well Goth Trad was ridiculous this weekend
i might be late to the party because his whole set was like new and invigorating to me
incredible from start to finish
i have no complaints about dubstep and definitely still love listening to it

[joeki]

6 years in the game. It's certainly beginning to get boring. The circumstances surrounding dubstep seem to divert from the starting point along with the music. Old school / Small scale nights usually don't get the turn-out they did 5 years ago: heads have moved on to other music, have gotten steady relationships (real life). If you want a UK name you're never going to break even. And locals resources are scarce as all are into filth. And as I said, the audience has gotten smaller: the paradox of dubsteps explosion. There are no people left putting in efforts any more with venues and systems unavailable or expensive. And no new generation to fill up the ranks because they all prefer the Skrillex and electro shit.

And then you have the large scale old school nighters here that make the papers, like Daily Dubstep, Untitled!, Selected... which are nights that easily draw in a couple of thousand people and thus also have to cater to more commercial sounds, so you'll end up having to switch between main and back-up rooms for purer sounds (agreed not really a problem, but the scale is simply much larger, less intimate). Also, with the re-emergence of (UK-inspired) house music, the second Garage wave, and Bass music on the rise in general, many commercial dubstep nighters have now turned to that pool to fill up their second rooms. I don't mind that, I like quite a lot of this new funky/house/techno cross-over/hybrid stuff (trap hasn't convinced me so far, the odd track is fun but an entire set of that seems pointless, can't I just put on some bass heavy hiphop like dälek or something in stead?) meaning even less attention for old school sounds, the most interesting still.

Seeing as dubstep has always been a live thing for me, my interest has faded along with the changing of the circumstances. A lot of the venues are gone (almost all of 'em in Brussels and Louvain, still some remaining in Antwerp, Ghent). Heads have moved on as well. Attention for system and the underground culture has been replaced by attention for max profit. The audience has become younger. Different in attitude and also hoping for a different experience going to a rave. Meditation has been replaced by Mayhem.

What about home listening then? Yeah certainly listen to dubstep on a weekly basis at home. Then again, I've always been versatile when it comes to music. When I was 13 years old I was listening to hardcore and jungle and at the same time checking out punk, metalcore, Venetian Snares and black metal just to name an example. Even though I consider myself a clubber / dance music aficionado, instrumental music records far outnumber the amount of dance-music records I have in my collection. But to get back to the subject at hand:

A lot of my personal favourite DJ's, Producers and Labels have moved on to other things: Skull Disco: gone. Break-Step: gone. Labels like Hyperdub, Hotflush, Hessle Audio, Planet Mu: they've all moved on you know, and the styles and artists they put out have largely gone with them (still good, but is it really dubstep?). There was a time and moment for all of these styles and fortunately I was lucky enough to live a large part of it (I'm still sad I missed the '04 and most of the '05 period but that was mostly a London thing any way regardless of what many here claim).
But when I hear a dungeon tune: it has the aesthetics of early dubstep, it has the sub bass but it seems out of place: a forced attempt at recreating something that has passed: some tunes are good nevertheless but that feeling will always play in my mind.

So in conclusion: I get my '06-'07-'08 records out the most still (and mixes from that area). My and my bro and my mates will get together again from time to time and just play out those records from the day. What classics we missed we occasionally go and buy in discogs/eBay and that way there's always someone somewhere with something fresh from days passed. And we all occasionally stumble on something recent as well. But I would not call it my main interest any more: for sure.

What dubstep has really convinced me this year? I'm having a hard time finding anything that blew my mind so far that's been pure dubstep so to say. What originators are still doing remarkable things? Cyrus, Mala/deep Medi, Tectonic (to an extent), Tempa (to an extent), Distance/chestplate, Blackbox (though on the repetitive side if I may be so frank) and that's about it and even then: the days you couldn't afford to miss a single medi are gone too for me personally...