Brostep / Skrillex and the Forum.

[baseband]

I just meant I've not seen a club night or dance referred to as a concert or show until recently. then again, Ive heard that some of these larger events have a similar vibe to a rock/pop concert. maybe that's where the difference in wording stems from. all a matter of venue and context

[gibbst22]

since when did we start calling a DJ set a concert or a show? since when did we start focusing more on the selector than the selection?

I ask myself the same question.

[Immerse]

Ive heard that some of these larger events have a similar vibe to a rock/pop concert

hit the nail on the head there

[garethom]

Yep, a lot of the kids that are into bro seem to be the ones that are into mainly rock music or whatever.

I think that goes a long way to explaining this "where's the drop?" fascination for ALL electronic music now, most famous case has gotta be Skrillex posting Aphex Twin and the kids complaining that it wasn't filthy or whatever, or kids referring to Example tracks (not the remixes) as dubstep. I think for a lot of people, this is the first time they've listened to or followed dance music, and they can't yet comprehend an electronic track beyond dubstep. Just my thoughts.

[dickman69]

Skrillex posting Aphex Twin and the kids complaining that it wasn't filthy or whatever

that hurt so bad to see that...

I must've listened to Flim more than 100 times, Richard D. James was the catalyst to me listening to ANY sort of EDM and to see people shitting on him like that pissed me off so much...

[_TraX_]

Yep, a lot of the kids that are into bro seem to be the ones that are into mainly rock music or whatever.

I think that goes a long way to explaining this "where's the drop?" fascination for ALL electronic music now, most famous case has gotta be Skrillex posting Aphex Twin and the kids complaining that it wasn't filthy or whatever, or kids referring to Example tracks (not the remixes) as dubstep. I think for a lot of people, this is the first time they've listened to or followed dance music, and they can't yet comprehend an electronic track beyond dubstep. Just my thoughts.

I remember that, I was baffled by how pissed kids were at that Aphex twin song not having a drop. It seemed too ridiculous to be true . I mean it makes sense but actually seeing those comments was...

[ultraspatial]

[akaaka]

Way 2 good brostep kids can't understand such amazing stuff like flim.
Otherwise they will be asking "WHERES THE DELICATE BEATS OVER COMPLEX BASS LINE, ALMOST CLASSICAL PIANO AND RARE OVERPRICED SYNTHS?"

[BonerJams04]

Way 2 good brostep kids can't understand such amazing stuff like flim.
Otherwise they will be asking "WHERES THE DELICATE BEATS OVER COMPLEX BASS LINE, ALMOST CLASSICAL PIANO AND RARE OVERPRICED SYNTHS?"

Thats not as catchy as "wheres the drop"

[swim]

NVM I QUIT

[Artie_Fufkin]

I've noticed that the obsession with bass drops/ going straight to the climax is like a parallel with the mainstream "hardcore" punk people. I used to hear "dood check out this breakdown"/"this is my favorite drop", but now it's "check out this drop"/"this breakdown is so heavy, it's my favorite".

What's even more sad than that is how many posts this thread has and that I keep coming back to check it out.... Why does this gripe thread have more views than the Production Forum Rules and Basic Help thread, the Sound Design sticky, and the What is Dubstep? A Guide to Start With.. threads??

[Killamike49]

Why does this gripe thread have more views than the Production Forum Rules and Basic Help thread, the Sound Design sticky, and the What is Dubstep? A Guide to Start With.. threads??

Trolls dude. Trolls.

[TheTornado]

^I read that as John Goodman's character in "The Big Lebowski"

[Grixis]

I'm a fan of both darker, melodic and the more club friendly side of music. Up until recently I would have reluctantly included Skrillex in my list of favorite producers. So, when my girlfriend bought me a ticket to see him play at my Uni, I was pumped for the gig. I met up with a couple of people I used to hang out with back in high school in the queue on the night of the show and found out the support acts were going to be some local guy and Alvin Risk (who I admit I'd heard of but never listened to until that night). When we got in, I was buzzing for the gig. The warm up act came on and started up.

What proceeded for the next 3 and 1/2 hours was possibly some of the shittiest live sound I've ever heard. Each one of the three DJ's sounded like they were just pushing the volume as hard as they possibly could regardless of how it sounded (probably in the red the entire from the sound of it) and managed to turn every tune into a wall of sub and trashy, grating treble, interspersed with kicks and snares that were bordering on indistinguishable from one another (hurr durr boost all of the drums at 100-200hz all of the time).

Each and every DJ played nothing but HARD CHOON after HARD CHOON after HARD CHOON with no contrast what so ever. I got so bored at one point during Alvin Risk's set I went and just sat outside for a while. So, not only were all tunes sounding bad, but each tune was basically the same series of stupid WOOP WOOP WOOP, BLEEP, MASSIVE GROWL, just in a different order and sometimes with different BPM. But it didn't matter, because it all sounded like an unrecognisable wall of sound anyway.

And they cherry of top of this trainwreck was that it was a 14's and up gig, so the whole place was packed out with scenester kids flicking their fringes out of their faces and moshing like twat's at every SIIIICK DROP.

Yes, I'm probably being snobby and I'm not a DJ so I don't know what it's like, but these guys are supposed to be good at this shit. It annoyed me that they took so little pride in their work (or too much pride for what was just a bad sound) and just blared out everything as loud as possible. This gig has basically put me off brostep. So I guess some good came out of.

Any other experiences like this? Shitty DJ's or being turned away from something you thought you'd like because of a bad live show?

/rantover

inb4 hurr durr what did you expect your fault for like shitty music in the first place smug smug smug

[_cheef_]

BuMp!!

[cmgoodman1226]

BuMp!!

Skrillex or die bro!!!

[JBoy]

May have been postedalready in the thread but this produced serious

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[_cheef_]

Skrillex or die bro!!!

u no it!! your not real dubstep without a tat!

[_cheef_]

[hutyluty]

what did you expect, your fault for like shitty music in the first place