Page 49 of 94
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:40 am
by mIrReN
"
mindwis3 14 uur geleden
Pretty much everything you put out i find very enjoyable... Now i must confess i get the most out of the tutorials, and if there is any chance on getting some of the older tutorials in HD, that would be great..
As for hitting 100.000 , you sure deserve at least 10 times that many, but the tragedy of humanity is that a 'nyon cat' gets 30M views, and Noam Chomsky 30K.
SO it's not your(excellent) content, it's the viewers i'm afraid, i hope you hit 150.000 this year

"
why did I even check those BIAB vids :/ it get's more and more cringy.
Comparing him to Chomsky is ace tho
Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:47 pm
by binakversailles
So as many of you may know Skrillex's latest EP is fucking musicans and music fans alike right off due to the title track being seemingly inspired by Burials very unique and definitive style of future garage. Both fans and haters of Skrillex seem to be responding badly to the new songs and the title track in particular.
Ever since Skrillex has become the poster boy (at least in america or for those who are not well versed in underground bass music) of dubstep, hate has followed from people who dont like the abrasive/metal-like nature of Brostep as well as fans of earlier veins of dubstep who feel like the brand of brostep produced by skrillex is a complete bastardisation of a genre or style that was genuinely innovative and fresh from 2000-2005 and still is in amongst the less popular (in terms of record sales) artists in both North America and the UK.
I just feel as though personally, although i dont like to listen to Skrillexs music, he seems like a genuinely nice person and where people see him as ripping off or biting a fresh sound and using it for personal gain as well as destroying or tainting the musics image amongst the mass population (who now associate the term dubstep with brostep by and large) i think hes just a man who enjoyed the more harsh tones of dubstep and fused them with other styles he liked, i think he was in a punk/rock band as well, and released music that he wanted to hear. This latest release has angered many people because of the blatant Burial influence and lets face it, especially on this forum Burial is seen as a influential, innovative almost godlike figure, deservedly so IMO. However the song in question is clearly way below par if it is being compared to Burials tunes especially the ones off his debut. And its important to remember Skrillex has used vocal manipulations and sample manipulations as main melodies on many of his tracks its not like he heard Untrue and then jumped on Fruity Loops...
There are many reasons which are understandable to 'hate' on Skrillex's music and the way he goes about marketing his brand and the way he conducts his live shows (making it increasingly less about music and more about fancy lights etc etc) however it just seems like a fruitless exercise to heap all this negative energy on him for two main reasons. I think that in any underground movement or community ( i still consider the real innovative and exciting artists of this scene like Wen and Damu in particular to be relatively underground) its important to focus on being positive and supporting each other to support the style and its mutations . Dont get me wrong i think that most people especially on this forum are wonderful and help each other, give feed back on tunes, gear etc so its stupid to hate someone who really isnt affecting what is going on in the important circles of the scene that is dubstep.
Also if youre talking shit about something, its still creating publicity for that thing, so if you hate it and you tell people about it its a contradiction because more people are going to know of it and possibly listen to it because of your statement that it/he is shit. I think its better to just not buy his records or go to his shows if you dont like it, i feel thats a better statement of your discontent with his music than saying "what the fuck is this shit, trying to rip off burial, youre a tnuc, go back to making wub wub wub you dick" or something along those lines.
Stay positive and leave him alone as if he cares anyway hes probably rolling in cash by now the tnuc...

Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:58 pm
by skunktech
1st
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:12 pm
by mIrReN
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:27 pm
by EliteLennon117
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:28 pm
by binakversailles
EliteLennon117 wrote:

YES hahahaha
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:55 pm
by Hircine
surfing on top of the merge
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:03 pm
by thenypmhomaniac
With popularity, comes great responsibility. There's a lot of hate from people, and it comes especially from the underground scene, because even if they dont wanna know about it they hear it everywhere, okay that's not the main reason but true

It's more like some kind of envy. And when a popular guy take something from underground... some people get really mad. Maybe I will paraphrase, just put my thoughts together before.
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:07 pm
by Devry_Kaneda
I'm doing my post-doctorate on dubstepology too.
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:08 pm
by garethom
is it just me that thinks the track doesn't sound anything like burial? sounds more like a generic "uk bass" tune to be honest.
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:18 pm
by dragstar
garethom wrote:is it just me that thinks the track doesn't sound anything like burial? sounds more like a generic "uk bass" tune to be honest.
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:19 pm
by thenypmhomaniac
I think more like Synkro than Burial, and a simple future garage-ish.

And dont have anything bad to say about it.
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:29 pm
by ehbes
This reminds me of Sonika's first post
Re: Hating Skrillex Is Easy
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 7:52 pm
by daeMTHAFKNkim
ehbrums1 wrote:This reminds me of Sonika's first post
lmfao.
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:10 pm
by syrup
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:12 pm
by Devry_Kaneda
you sadist.
ban IMO.
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:15 pm
by Sonika
Very respectful post, fairly well worded, but fairly pointless
Also, I did a double take at "burial's style of future garage"
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:30 pm
by _cheef_
Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:31 pm
by garethom
long, now I have this thread in "view your posts"

Re: Brostep III - ßroClub
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 10:40 pm
by Terpit
garethom wrote:long, now I have this thread in "view your posts"

unsubscribe topic has never worked for me either...