You've all made good points, and here i am with a release in my signature that is most definitely chainsaw bass.
When i started producing dubstep, i had an idea of what it was, and I wanted to validate that claim, so i produced dubstep that was similar to what i had heard from other producers, and in other dj sets.
I suppose i was trying to clone a sound, because, I liked the sound, and i wanted to hear more. I wanted to be able to "do" that sound, and i wanted to get somewhere with my music. You'd be amazed at the reaction people give you when you make a chainsaw bass tune.
So time passes, and i see more and more of these chainsaw bass tunes, and i realize that the only way im going to get my music signed as an artist, is by making these tunes that people want to hear. so i make some, and i get signed to some record labels, and my chainsaw bass tunes get played, and people rave to them.
But i've felt, for a while that im just going through the motions when i make a tune. I've got a formula and its stale. It's boring and im uninspired by what im doing. There is no "hard" when all there is is hard, right? So i decide to do something different, and im experimenting with other sounds.
What I've found, is that to go off on your own and make something original is HARD. Music is about communicating feelings and thoughts that there are no words for, as far as im concerned, and it's hard if you've spent most of your time thinking you had nothing to say. It's difficult to write from your heart and write what you believe in if you've never given yourself an opportunity to listen.
Philip Glass says that music isn't something you "make", but instead, it's always there. Music is an underground river - always flowing, and always changing. it's always playing in the background. Your job, as a producer, or composer, or trashcan drumset player, or whatever, is to listen to that music, and write down what you hear.
These days, I write what i hear. I have begun to have personal relationships with my songs, where if i try and make them something they're not, it becomes difficult, because the message is muddled, and i have to take a step back, let go, and listen to what the song wants to be and then write it down.
I have quite a few new songs these days, and most dubstep labels aren't interested in them, but really who cares? im being true to myself, and my artistic vision. either people will come around or they wont, but i like what im doing, and i know these songs are good - because i made them with a truth in my heart that cannot be taken away from me. I made them with my own unique vision, and i wrote down what
I heard when i listened to that underground river, not what i heard in the club, on the radio, or in the record store. a few of these tunes, by the way, are on my myspace in my signature. im not plugging my shit, but if people want to compare what i've been doing to what im doing now, they're welcome to.
I think it's great that theres this chainsaw bass world, thats driving so many artists away from "dubstep". these artists are making music without a name and staying true to themselves, wandering around in the night on their own, no longer under the umbrella of a genre. maybe, if they're really lucky, and they listen, they'll get to hear who the fuck they really are and have something unique to share with people.
which is why these discussions enthrall me 
