Phigure wrote:seckle wrote:this site has never come close to representing anything like the whole "scene". thousands of people go to events every weekend that've probably never signed on to a forum in their lives. even if you can't afford to go to london now, work for it, and go, because until you do, you'll never fully understand this sound. london culture is unique on the planet. i don't care if you disagree. it just is.
you could be the biggest reggae collector in your country, go to every reggae website you can find, go to every reggae dance in your area....but you won't understand reggae until you've been to jamaica, and walked those streets.....eaten roast fish from a street vendor.....been to a few soundsystems. same with new york and hip hop. same with country music and nashville.
when a certain sound gets under your skin, you go as close as possible, to the kitchen where it came from.
the internet will never provide that experience for you.
that was great...
This is true of everywhere in the world,
IN MY OPINION. (which, to most here I'm sure isn't really worth shit at this point.)
Everything is different where ever you go. I've always thought, "imagine all of the music I'd be able to get down to if I understood every language?"
When I was in London I could feel the underground. Everything seemed like, if you don't already know about it you aren't meant to know.
Where as in America everything spreads like HIV because everyone's so down to be "cool"
The thing is anything that you can get involved in has a different way to enjoy it. Joining this forum definitely, confirmed this for me. Most people on the internet are concerned about dubstep being "REAL" dubstep, they seem so picky about what they listen to. That's all good and dandy to me, I just like music, I'm very open minded. The first thread I ever posted was about Boregore, that was the only artist I knew by name. I've had countless hours of dubstep listening, but the only thing that I could remember was that all these bitches wanna lick my ice cream. So I go home, research that, and now I'm here. The reply's I got were nasty and rude. Clearly, I don't give a fuck since I'm still here. And a few people PM'd me and linked me a bunch of songs. Every single one of those songs were different, and every person had a different thing that I "ABSOLUTELY HAD TO HEAR"
So when I was listening to it, and I didn't like some of it at first I felt really stupid. That was until I found songs that I did like, and I realized that if all you guys are allowed to like what you like that I'm going to like what I like and I'm going to listen to it.
It doesn't matter where you're from it's just who you are.
But you're right, it's ten times gloomier here than it is in real life.
I guess what I meant was that some dubstep is best just in your ears only, then other is best in a big crowd going nuts. Shambhala looks awesome though.
