Someone explain - What is and what is not "Dubstep"

[illuem]

[pulkpull]

Lots of dub songs lack lots of tangible melodies, like the Kode 9 one I posted

How are those haunting horns not a melody?

True facts this. I spent all of yesterday walking around the office whistling 9 Samurai.

[Liam92]

WH3R3S THE 1337 DROPZ LOLZ?!?!?!111111111111

[apmje]

You gotta be trolling

or you're literally the stupidest person to ever find their way to this site.

[NickUndercover]

get a subwoofer and listen to 9 samurai again

Have you ever been to a sound system night?

If not, no further questions.

I think you are underestimating the skill involved in using space when producing.

[Sheff]

tl;dr version:

im 12 and cant afford a subwoofer so i can only listen to the skrillex songs on my laptop speakers

[pkay]

to quote myself from another skrillex thread

"Most people on this forum don't like Skrillex. Complaining about Skrillex here is like preaching to the choir. In fact, if people stopped complaining about skrillex the guy would never even come up on this forum."

[Naan_Bread]

Or if not then OP might want to check out UKF forum.

[Redderious]

If you think there is more melody in killer-robot-wub-yoi-eeeeee 'dubstep' then real dubstep you're fucking ignorant. You have your midrange flying all over the fucking place, and it sounds like what comes out of my asshole. I've heard some tracks that all it is, is just a million fucking differant synths being resampled into a pattern. Can you play this so called 'Melodic' Dubstep of your's on a piano or a guitar? I can almost gurantee you, no. Maybe one day they will make a keyboard that plays the generic bro sounds you love so much.
You would press the C key, yoi will play, D a machine gun sample, E a screeching siren will sound. Now play these in a pattern and it should sound familiar to you. Hah, melody....

Dub is a remixed form of reggae with stripped vocals and intesified sub bass and drum patterns. The vocals are sampled and you will averagely here alot of reverb and delay attached to them. I don't listen to alot of Dub so i can't speak for all the tracks, but usually they go for a more laid back, vibey sort of feel.

They wouldn't name one genre after another if it had nothing to do with it. and it is called DUBstep.

If skrillex is dubstep, The Beatles were rappers. I mean their lyrics rhyme, right?

[Redderious]

You gotta be trolling

or you're literally the stupidest person to ever find their way to this site.

[cityzen]

[Dr Bloodnugget]

I wouldn't say it's harder to produce a really heavy in your face tune at all! It's become so easy for producers to download various drum packs, Stick in a kick on 1 and a snare on 3 and load up the brutal electro massive preset and play one note basslines. (Not that there is always something wrong with nice rolling 1 or 2 note basslines. It's just a bit aggrivating with all the unneccessary noise over the top.)

P.S. Have you listened to older Rusko? To me this track vv Has such a huge impact when it drops!