Revivalism is no reflection of (a lack of) originality in dance music, but of its age. Rock music has gone through several cycles of reviving a number of styles and a lot of rock music in the '60s is heavily indebted to the folk music revival of that time.
test recordings wrote:I think a dubstep revival would actually be good. It got prematurely killed with the USA completely missing the point, the subsequent birth of brostep and the framing of Skrillex etc as 'dubstep' along with the use of the term EDM as if the past 30 years of dance music didn't exist...
Most kids in Europe, even the UK, who say they like dubstep are Skrillex kiddies too. And before that, if you talked about dubstep with most random people, they would talk about how much they love 'Eastern Jam'.
America didn't kill shit and it didn't 'miss the point'. This is a normal evolution of musical genres. A scene starts out, then a group of fans hear something else in it than the original crew of musicians do and the sound changes. Breakcore was the same, it was anti-technical distorted noise OPPOSED to digital audio and 'four-to-the-floors', but it evolved and by the mid '90s the scene was centered around filesharing and digital music technology and by the turn of the century, it had four-to-the-floors.
"Heavy metal" was originally loud and noisey slow-mid tempo blues rock. And more specifically, black metal was a thrash metal offshoot similar to death metal before it diversified and became more about repetition, atmosphere and darkness over brutality.
That's just the way it goes with music.
And midrange brostep started with Caspa, Rusko, Cookie Monsta, Chase & Status and the Circus crew before Skrillex took over, and screechy brostep was being played out at large shows and festivals all over Europe and America, before Skrillex was even a thing.
And I'm glad dubstep is over. Most of it sounded the same. A lot of it was good shit, but it's time for something else
