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is the brostepforum still up? can't believe how big it was lol, and the names seth brogan etc lol

Wiki entry on dubstep... it caught on

Wobble bass

One characteristic of certain strands of dubstep is the wobble bass, where an extended bass note is manipulated rhythmically. This style of bass is typically produced by using a low frequency oscillator to manipulate certain parameters of a synthesizer such as volume, distortion or filter cutoff. The resulting sound is a timbre that is punctuated by rhythmic variations in volume, filter cut-off, or distortion. This style of bass is a driving factor in some variations of dubstep, particularly at the more club-friendly end of the spectrum - a subgenre which has been termed 'brostep' by some.[13]

dj evil wrote:I find the fact that you guys actually care about this quite amusing....

Bro

agree

troll be trollin'

lynn mc wrote:I think now, if you spell out brostep it should just come out as b*****s because this shit is annoying me. the term brostep was clearly started by some sort of troll. Thing is, if we keep mentioning this stupid catchphrase, and when it comes down to it, that's all it really is. then it wont die and may result in a subgenre officially being called this. mods, you listening? ban this fucking word cause it's only going to get worse. I would of PM'd the mods but I thought I'd make a thread to warn everyone first.

Are you kidding me? The term is suitably applied because of the crowd that it attracts. It also helps us separate what some of us consider dubstep, from midrange cack that is known as brostep. GL changing it btw - it's been cited in several magazines

Why ban it? It actually fits the music perfectly.

We all know how much the US is contributing to this sound, and they're all calling eachother "Bro" there (which I absolutely hate, it sounds fucking ridiculous) so the word Brostep was actually very clever made up.

YEP! keep the fucking word. that way hopefully people will start calling the heavy shit that and leave us real dub heads with the proper name of dubstep.

LOOK ITS SIMPLE...BREAK THE WORD DOWN, THERE IS NO DUB IN HEAVY DUBSTEP. THIS MAKES THE WHOLE TERM INACCURATE. TEAROUT IS NOT DUBSTEP!!!

november wrote:is the brostepforum still up? can't believe how big it was lol, and the names seth brogan etc lol

Abroham lincoln
Brosama bin laden
Bro namath

We all know how much the US is contributing to this sound, and they're all calling eachother "Bro" there (which I absolutely hate, it sounds fucking ridiculous) so the word Brostep was actually very clever made up.[/quote]

What's even funnier is people calling each other mates. A mate is someone you fuck to reproduce. You mate with ur wife bro.

EDIT: Isn't it tea time?

55stevieboy2010 wrote:YEP! keep the fucking word. that way hopefully people will start calling the heavy shit that and leave us real dub heads with the proper name of dubstep.

LOOK ITS SIMPLE...BREAK THE WORD DOWN, THERE IS NO DUB IN HEAVY DUBSTEP. THIS MAKES THE WHOLE TERM INACCURATE. TEAROUT IS NOT DUBSTEP!!!

The dub in dubstep has nothing to do with dub music

I think the term "brostep" is a stupid one, but banning words is stupid as well

Anytime someone looks down on someone because of their aesthetic tastes they make themselves look the fool imho

im pretty sure it does fractal?

Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

you clearly know nothing, dubstep came out of caspa and rusko's fabriclive 37

Skream makes BROstep nowadays

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.

Hyoscine wrote:

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.

Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).

NilsFG wrote:

Hyoscine wrote:

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.

Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).

Exactly. Don't use wiki as a guide for anything as just anyone can use it. Read the xlr8r interview and do some digging. I'm not chatting air on this one. Dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006, when it was already a few years old

I have no idea where the word brostep has come from, some guy probably made that genre up as a joke and now look what it has come to.

it was a girl named Kozee actually

fractal wrote:

NilsFG wrote:

Hyoscine wrote:

fractal wrote:Nah buddy. Before it had a name, dubstep came out dark 2step. At the time 2step/garage had a lot of vocals in them. The dub in dubstep refers more to it's instrumental nature than any connection with dub music. Dub meaning instrumental (similar to version). True story

Naw there's definitely a connection. Read the first paragraph of the wiki page on dub music and tell me that doesn't sound like what El-B, Horsepower, etc. were doing in 2000.

Because wikipedia is the source for all your music history.

The only people I know who could, maybe, give you a clear and correct answer are the people at Ammunition, Soulja, Youngsta etc.
Maybe Horsepower Productions, according to many many sources, "dubstep" was first used in a cover-story about them in XLR8R (issue 60, 2002).

Exactly. Don't use wiki as a guide for anything as just anyone can use it. Read the xlr8r interview and do some digging. I'm not chatting air on this one. Dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006, when it was already a few years old

It's the wiki page on dub, not dubstep, and the section I referred to is on the money. Is anyone here going to dispute that dub involves stripping tracks down to the drums and bass, sprinkling other instruments/vocals on top and making generous use of reverb and delay effects? Jus' saying, El-B, Horsepower et al. were doing that. I think when you say 'dubstep didn't even have dub stylings until 2005-2006' you mean it didn't have reggae stylings. That's different (though there's an early Tempa release you might want to have a look at...).

And wikipedia isn't that bad, really. One of my profs (cpsc) assigned a wiki page as a reading once