Dubstep should stay underground

[dubmax]

why wouldn't you be chasing it in america? id be trying to make as much cash as possible, doing what i loved most, making and djing dubstep! id rather do that than have a job on the side, which i probably wouldn't enjoy

edit: i meant that id like to be making enough so i wouldn't need a job, and could still lead an active, normal life

Doing what you love and making money out of it is one thing, if eastern jam on its own, or bits or saxon got big then good for them, but they have got snoop dogg to rap over the top of eastern jam. thats hardly doing what they love, its not going to appeal to the dubstep scene really, or the drum and bass scene which they still make songs for, its just gunna appeal to teenage girls and people who dont already like dubstep. they may aswell of got boyzone to sing over the top, its a fucking major sell out

[3/2kick]

why wouldn't you be chasing it in america? id be trying to make as much cash as possible, doing what i loved most, making and djing dubstep! id rather do that than have a job on the side, which i probably wouldn't enjoy

edit: i meant that id like to be making enough so i wouldn't need a job, and could still lead an active, normal life

Doing what you love and making money out of it is one thing, if eastern jam on its own, or bits or saxon got big then good for them, but they have got snoop dogg to rap over the top of eastern jam. thats hardly doing what they love, its not going to appeal to the dubstep scene really, or the drum and bass scene which they still make songs for, its just gunna appeal to teenage girls and people who dont already like dubstep. they may aswell of got boyzone to sing over the top, its a fucking major sell out

hahaha good point

[dubmax]

Thanks, everyones chatting shit on here thinking they're all clever about the scene evolving, things need to evolve if they fuck up, the garage scene went to shit so people like el-b developed it into something else. Dubstep is so diverse as it is, it doesnt need to evolve into the background music at a 12 year old girls birthday party like chase and status are trying to do

[hardreset]

Thanks, everyones chatting shit on here thinking they're all clever about the scene evolving, things need to evolve if they fuck up, the garage scene went to shit so people like el-b developed it into something else. Dubstep is so diverse as it is, it doesnt need to evolve into the background music at a 12 year old girls birthday party like chase and status are trying to do

I think vocal uk garage could have been the liquid funk of dubstep, and been part of an underground scene, rather than being what it is now, which is basically the equivalent of oldskool hardcore - dead and buried. The main reason garage died was, in my view, the lure of big money to both established and up and coming producers. The promise of big £££s from big labels will inevitably make people do things they wouldn't normally do. Just remember the 2000/01 or so re-mixes of famous garage tunes like Dem 2 - Destiny, or Zed Bias - Neighbourhood, with cheesy new vocals thrown in. Those producers would never have done that normally, but they did it because they were trying to get a more (lucrative) "commercial" / pop sound, or maybe they were even told to by the larger label that had bought the tune. Around the same time, established drum & bass artist Johnny L, producer of some of the most atonal, grimy rollers, was doing Masterstepz! Do you think he would have done that if there wasn't commercial appeal for that type of sound? I'm fine with music evolving, I want dubstep to get bigger and better, but I want to see that happen organically, not through commercial pressure from big, mass market record labels. Otherwise we may wake up in a few days and hear Lil Wayne and T-Pain chatting shit over Benga and Rusko tunes. And then we're all fucked.

[spek lives]

I got every thug in my neighborhood asking me for that DUB shit!
BUMP IT, it wont bother me