hubb wrote:ultraspatial wrote:lol yh one track each
ffs m8 - you know i'm always slightly joking. I have to. I've warmed up for both limewax and current value btw.
But... I mean aesthetically or in essence skullstep tracks are just very samey - it's not even an oppinion it's just the nature of it. Which is fair to comment on. And it's imo too safe or formularic compared with all the ideas exchanged throughout some of the other subgenres. Like the reese samples they go for, were figured out by other people in other sub genres. This does become trainspotting quickly, but:
They have to have some inventing going on.. which someone like current value could be an example of. He breaks some barriers sometimes. It's just such a shame how niche it was from the beginning and very difficult to build on when the 'rules' are so tight.
you can't criticize electronic music scenes for being too same-y. it's just how it happens
i get what you're saying tho. but i think it's got more to do with the fact that there's very few people involved - i mean there's probably loads of dudes making this stuff, but there's only a handful that are big, and they collab a lot, share the same labels etc. it's bound to end up like that
but it's pretty varied imo, at least looking at the way it changed over time. you got the tech-y amen shit at first, the hard techstep stuff tech itch is still up to, technoid/techno dnb, hard halfstep stuff, and all the hardcore/crossbreed stuff