Brostep / Skrillex and the Forum.

[cmgoodman1226]

Okay, I can't resist it...really?
So let me get this straight, if you choose not to sound like Skrillex, you're a hipster??? I must be misunderstanding, please explain.

Also, you want an example of someone who does the same vocal editing stuff as Skrillex? Burial.

And please, do tell, what can you do that Icicle and Kryptic Minds can't?

Edit: his melodies are generally incredibly simple and musically, nothing very special.

Lol at burial doing the same thing as skrillex to vocals. And please explain to me why all these people are "infinnitly better " than skrillex with your vast knowledge and experience in the dubstep world.

[ehbes]

I also can make Noisias Reeces

i highy doubt you've gotten the noisia reese down pat

[ehbes]

they may have a similar style but they vary in different ways.. to me it just sounds like skrill take the same baseline he always uses and changes the order of things...

[e-motion]

I also can make Noisias Reeces

i highy doubt you've gotten the noisia reese down pat

Sarcasm by the way, just remembered another simple melody: Beethoven "Fur Elise". It's pretty simple, but imho, it's the best melody ever made...

[ehbes]

I also can make Noisias Reeces

i highy doubt you've gotten the noisia reese down pat

Sarcasm by the way, just remembered another simple melody: Beethoven "Fur Elise". It's pretty simple, but imho, it's the best melody ever made...

i concur

[Sexual_Chocolate]

to me it just sounds like skrill take the same baseline he always uses and changes the order of things...

is that not just brostep in a nutshell?

[Sonika]

they may have a similar style but they vary in different ways.. to me it just sounds like skrill take the same baseline he always uses and changes the order of things...

+1

Seems like it's the same FM8 or Massive patches being cycled through, the same drum samples, EQed the same way...etc

[Puncture]

Your basslines have to make sense when you're stitching them together for the "drop". Doesn't matter that you're working with hugely wonkey and distorted sounds, its still got to have something driving it forward. Rhythm. Flow.

Listen intently to the guys already pumping out tunes that you love and understand what they're doing.

[jrisreal]

First you want to get all your samples and basslines together. Make sure you have at least 3 Wobs, 2 Wompwumps, maybe 1 or 2 Screeeewaows, and as many Graorgerghhhs as you like. To make the drop heavy, you want to have complete silence before it, and maybe a clip of dialogue from your favourite Warner Brothers film. Then you unleash the bass-to-the-face drop by having all of your bass sounds playing at once for the first millisecond of the drop. Then you can go into arranging them however you like. By playing all of them at once very suddenly the volume and bassweight will be so overwhelming itll force your listeners into submission, which is basically the whole point of dub.

[gwest]

Maybe throw on some metal/hardcore shit and put a different spin on things. I feel like there's alot of similarities and you may find something you'd like to try to replicate. Protest the Hero? Just a quick thought.

[VirtualMark]

Meaning? Is that your disagreeing with my statement and calling me a dunce, while simultaneously offering nothing back to defend your position? I'd hope not, that would be a bit silly.

thats exact;y whys people win grammys

Keep telling yourself that. You'll go far.

Still makes better music than any of us

Exactly! Like it or not, he's streets ahead of most producers, and as an aspiring producer i look up to anyone like that.

"better music" is subjective. There aren't parameters that once met makes someones music "good" and if you're below the line your music is "bad".

Winning multiple awards, gaining worldwide success and reinventing a genre doesn't count for anything then?

What is fact but just an opinion held by so many that it becomes perceived as true, If everyone in the world held the idea that say Mala is better than skrillex than wouldn't it then become fact?

Not exactly. Both are good artists, i prefer Skrillex's music to Mala's but would not criticize either of their skill. Who am i to judge, i can't make music as good as either so don't really think its my place to criticize. But having an opinion on who's music i prefer is ok, but really isn't of relevance to most production discussions. Which is why these irrelevant haters annoy me, nobody gives a shit whether or not they like Skrillex's music. The purpose of this post was to let us who are interested know of a new interview. The other comments are just there to provoke a negative response, aka trolling.

And he's not a better producer than artists like Icicle or Kryptic Minds. And no, that's not judging from the "music-I-like" scale, that's based purely upon the actual technical quality of the production.

Again, who are you to judge? Do you consider yourself a better producer than all of them, and able to decide who has the most skill? What have you achieved in the music world that's greater than them?

Yes we are musicians, so if you want me to analyze the music behind Skrillex's tunes, and tell you why artists like Silkie are infinitely better musicians than he is, I'd be glad to.

Lol, should be good for a laugh. 'Silkie is infinitely better than Skrillex because i says so, and becoz his beets are fatter'.

it's rather that they choose not to because they go for a much more refined sound than he does.

Riiight. Didn't realise you was personal best friends with them, and understood why they took all their creative decisions.


He has achieved a very large amount of success, and for that deserves peoples respect. Especially from fellow EDM producers. Whether or not you like his music, you should still show respect for what he can do.

[Huts]

skrillex didn't reinvent a genre lol

[syrup]

[davwuh]

[render]

step 1. light the fire
step 2. watch it burn

[UVOZ]

lol first this


then when you want to get even HARDER this

what'chu gona do about it?

[render]

"nothing to do here"

[VirtualMark]

skrillex didn't reinvent a genre lol

He definitely helped. Why is old style dubstep now called dungeon? Say what you want about him, but he's definitely made his mark on the world.

[ghosttown]

All this talk about who's better etc! Is just boring IMO!
It's music like it or don't like it!!

[hutyluty]

Oh dear, lol, arguing about Skrillex on the internet again, I need to find something to do with my life (especially as I've never even listened to one of his songs )

thats exact;y whys people win grammys

Keep telling yourself that. You'll go far.

Grammies are not won because of someone's talent, they are an event where the industry slaps each other on the back and congratulates people on how many records they've sold, so to be somehow putting it out there as an indicator of his talent is ridiculous. He won the grammies because he happened to jump on the bandwagon of dubstep just as 'rave' music was starting to become the big thing in America. If he had been making these same beats in 2004, would he be so huge? Without DeadMau5? Without the sudden rise in popularity of dance music everywhere?...

Totally agree with render on this one - good music will sell itself. Most amateur producers make shitty music, and wonder why they're not successful. They'll bang on about not having the right contacts, successful producers getting lucky, any other reason that they're not famous. But the truth is, they're just not good enough and need to work harder.

...Which is why this statement is so stupid. There are a lot of very technically accomplished amateur producers, who make music which is good enough, yet they aren't even signed, let alone winning grammies. I get that it's all subjective on whether their music is good or not, but still I firmly believe a huge factor in gaining success is actually gettong those lucky breaks. I don't think you could point to any moderately succesful producer and not see several ways in which things fell right for them and they progressed to fame, from the scene they attatched themselves exploding, or their friends gaining success and helping them out, to one influential musician feeling a demo and giving them a leg up.

tbh though, I dont really care about why skrillex s succesful, i'm more pissed off with the way this board has been infiltrated by brosteppers, who talk about brostep and want to make brostep. And I don't like brostep.