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Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 11:16 am
by fooishbar
yong wrote:Also: Labels have their sounds. You'll recognize them with time.
this ... no need for the straight-up rudeness, even if it is fairly daft.
just find what you like, then look along those labels and associated artists.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:14 pm
by slothrop
Tbh people have been three notches past paranoid about naming subgenres of dubstep since the word go because "if you call this sound 'liquid dubstep' and that sound 'jumpup dubstep' then all the sounds will go off into their own little pigeonholes and not interact, like with dnb" and so on.
But it's seems pretty obvious to anyone without a big dollop of wishful thinking that despite the lack of subgenre names dubstep is still seperating into different sounds and different scenes and getting just as fragmented as DnB.
So I don't really get why people still trot out the same line...
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:20 pm
by spydee
hatcha wrote:ITS ALL DUBSTEP SO JUS LEAVE IT AT THAT
fuck all this sub genres and segregation. there are different styles but its all one sound, one music. thats one of the best things about dubstep compared with other genres.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 12:22 pm
by slothrop
Btw, I'm not suggesting that we should prepare our submissions to the United Nations Commitee for Classification of Dance Music Subgenres and explaining why liquid techy funkstep is different from hard techy funkstep, just that the idea that people using words to describe particular sounds is responsible for the existence of those sounds seems to have pretty solid evidence against it now...
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2010 1:38 pm
by cityzen
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Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:15 pm
by DannyDubstep
I'd say no.
Yes there is ambient dub & filthy dub + all that inbetween but Dubstep needs to be under one genre untill we've taken over completely.
I say 'taking over'... that's where some are taking it. Personally I believe Dub should stay underground... I hate all these posh R&B kids listening to Dubstep and thinking they're cool.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:26 pm
by bass hertz
wooda916 wrote:its just 140 (ish)
and the resolve snare crackin on the 3rd beat.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 10:50 pm
by _boring
waste thread!
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:09 pm
by gravity
slothrop wrote:But it's seems pretty obvious to anyone without a big dollop of wishful thinking that despite the lack of subgenre names dubstep is still seperating into different sounds and different scenes and getting just as fragmented as DnB.
exactly, dividing things into subgenres will generally lead to segregation between styles, which is generally a bad thing. the cool thing about dubstep is you can listen to 3 dubstep tunes and hear 3 completely different things.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:43 pm
by batrobin
why do some people feel the need to put a label on everything =/
just enjoy the sound
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:47 pm
by mistalime
stop thinkin so much and just enjoy your riddim.
to many men sayin brostep this breakstep that etc etc.
the good selector will always shine on.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:00 am
by muttleydubs
pointless
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:56 am
by youthful_implants
good thread.
splitting genres into sub genres is long, boring and generally marks the death of the genre in question.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:57 am
by swiftguyver
bass hertz wrote:wooda916 wrote:its just 140 (ish)
and the resolve snare crackin on the 3rd beat.
they have tended to be the only 'rules' for the sound so far but even those two specifications aren't always guaranteed nowadays...haha...
i love the fact that the boundary lines for genres have become gloriously blurred over the last couple years...the whole UK Funky movement, the shit Brackles and Shortstuff etc etc are pushing, the Club Autonomic stuff, grime, dubstep...it's all just one big thing really anyway...
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 7:16 am
by nicenice
I think all music genres in general are slowly losing the need for genres and names.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 2:41 pm
by dj 2e
shortest answer for the OP is NO
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 3:38 pm
by prisoner
shit has clearly hit the fucking fan...
also..
FUCK OFF to the o.p.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:03 pm
by 1017_duck
FackOff wrote:the beauty lies in the mystery - finding for yourself is part of the fun of dubstep music,or just music for that matter.i can see where you're coming from but i just think that to maintain the mystery,something which is always appealing to anybody,the vagueness and diversity has to be left at 'dubstep' and too over-classify something just removes the mystique about it and makes it more mechanical and therefore less soulful if you get me..
THIS POST THIS POST THIS POST THIS POST
how do you not get it yet man...? we were all newcomers at some point, DIG IN.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:08 pm
by Sentinels
I like the following categories:
Good Dubstep
Bad Dubstep.
I'm more into the first one though.
Re: Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?
Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:16 pm
by jiggamanjoe
DRTY wrote:Naaaaaaaa sub-genres suck.
eg. Neo, New, Old, Post, Pre............. FUCK OFF