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Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:07 pm
by mrcat1990
In my work radio 1 is the music of choice for the workers. Personally im not a fan but hey i can blank it out and work away, until today i noticed on Greg James show a familiar tune. At about 2ish there was airplay of Rusko's "woo boost". Now i know Rusko isnt a particularly underground artist and that radio 1 gave Skreams remix of "in for the kill" alot of airplay, but does this point to a vast acceptance of dubstep into mainstream music culture. Also does this heighten the chances of more dubstep tunes getting more daytime play?
I believe several dubstep artists deserve heaps of success but would i really want dubstep to truly step into mainstream. Probably not.
Opinons?
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:12 pm
by jaydot
A lot of dubstep is mainstream now, doesn't make it less good.
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:16 pm
by evil madmen
who
cares
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:17 pm
by Wolverine
Just be thankful it wasn't mt eden
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:22 pm
by brasco
Wolverine wrote:Just be thankful it wasn't mt eden
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 8:27 pm
by bum robot
brasco wrote:Wolverine wrote:Just be thankful it wasn't mt eden
exactly even tho his tunes arent that bad i cant get down to that and like someone else said alot of dubstep is getting into the mainstream but it doesnt necessarily mean its shit, i for one dig ruskos tunes and if it gets mainstream then fuck it hes doing what he came to do to make some music and get paid
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:22 pm
by AntlionUK
jaydot wrote:A lot of dubstep is mainstream now, doesn't make it less good.
is that because of dubstep moving into the mainstream or the mainstream becoming dubstep?
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:34 pm
by Dark Reign
bum robot wrote:brasco wrote:Wolverine wrote:Just be thankful it wasn't mt eden
exactly even tho his tunes arent that bad i cant get down to that and like someone else said alot of dubstep is getting into the mainstream but it doesnt necessarily mean its shit, i for one dig ruskos tunes and if it gets mainstream then fuck it hes doing what he came to do to make some music and get paid
Mt Eden doesnt even have a record label, i dont think so, he just has tunes on youtube that got a lot of hits
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:38 pm
by ST100
jaydot wrote:A lot of dubstep is mainstream now, doesn't make it less good.
it's got the potential to make some shit get turned out, because of unimaginative stnuc.
but that's all I'm saying- and now I'm staying out of this thread.
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:46 pm
by mc wayne
the shitty dubstep they play on bbc radio1 won't lure in any potential dubstepheads I'm affraid, more, drive them away.
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 9:56 pm
by mrcat1990
i never stated that if its mainstream its shit....
i dunno this will come across as very elitist and snobby but theres a certain crowd i def would rather not see at dubstep events. When i first saw skream back a few years back the crowd was your typical bunch of passionate dubsteppers. Next time i saw him (post la roux remix) the crowd was pretty chocka with pretentious fashionistas. I know this shouldn't really bother me as there not talking to me but meh i dunno... Feel as if this kind of crowd dont really have alot of passion for the genre
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:06 pm
by sstutter
Wolverine wrote:Just be thankful it wasn't mt eden
v funny.
perhaps ive got some secret gift, but i never remember the mt eden tracks... i have to listen to them on youtube to remind my self of them... then i wished i didnt.
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:09 pm
by jolly wailer
this tune is signed to Mad Decent, so it doesn't seem that unusual that it would get exposure like that
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:04 pm
by redshiftdubdnb
mrcat1990 wrote:i never stated that if its mainstream its shit....
) the crowd was pretty chocka with pretentious fashionistas. I know this shouldn't really bother me as there not talking to me but meh i dunno... Feel as if this kind of crowd dont really have alot of passion for the genre
yeah man when i saw vaski play live in the US there were a lot of annoying raver girls, and like a bunch of hipsters and bros and i just wished they'd gtfo.
like they were awful. they jumped up on stage and were dancing and like interrupting him while he was spinning. not to mention that it's super annoying when you want to get right up front but a huge portion of it is blocked off by glowstickers making a 15 ft. circle...
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:09 pm
by jolly wailer
glowsticks and dancing at a rave?!!!
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:54 am
by redshiftdubdnb
haha naw dude it was just annoying, there were all these people just pumped by the music and the aggression and what not and then...this little corner of happy-hardcore style raver girls that were very into how "good" they were at glowsticking.
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 12:59 am
by Kensington
redshiftdubdnb wrote:mrcat1990 wrote:i never stated that if its mainstream its shit....
) the crowd was pretty chocka with pretentious fashionistas. I know this shouldn't really bother me as there not talking to me but meh i dunno... Feel as if this kind of crowd dont really have alot of passion for the genre
yeah man when i saw vaski play live in the US there were a lot of annoying raver girls, and like a bunch of hipsters and bros and i just wished they'd gtfo.
like they were awful. they jumped up on stage and were dancing and like interrupting him while he was spinning. not to mention that it's super annoying when you want to get right up front but a huge portion of it is blocked off by glowstickers making a 15 ft. circle...
Where's the vest at and sunglasses!?
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:02 am
by redshiftdubdnb
i saw a man wearing a train engineers hat and carrying a pair of bongos drink a handle of vodka with 1 other guy...
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:20 am
by clairvoyeur
redshiftdubdnb wrote:mrcat1990 wrote:i never stated that if its mainstream its shit....
) the crowd was pretty chocka with pretentious fashionistas. I know this shouldn't really bother me as there not talking to me but meh i dunno... Feel as if this kind of crowd dont really have alot of passion for the genre
yeah man when i saw vaski play live in the US there were a lot of annoying raver girls, and like a bunch of hipsters and bros and i just wished they'd gtfo.
like they were awful. they jumped up on stage and were dancing and like interrupting him while he was spinning. not to mention that it's super annoying when you want to get right up front but a huge portion of it is blocked off by glowstickers making a 15 ft. circle...
yeah! fuck bringing people from different social circles together for the shared appreciation of music! dubstep belongs to me, my cargo pants and black hoodie!
also how dare they come and gyrate their hips and swing glowsticks at a rave, what is this world coming to?
on topic: I heard Rusko's Cali Anthem played here in Los Angeles on a top 40 hip hop station, pretty surreal. i like rusko's music and if it wasn't for Fabric 37 i probably would have never heard DMZ or Silkie or Benga or Ramadanman or L-wiz or ANY of the music I love today. more power to him
Re: Rusko gets daytime airplay...
Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 1:38 am
by redshiftdubdnb
well naw man i'm not saying it's a bad thing that more people are getting into it,
i actually wear skinnies and vans haha so take that kaki pants!
i had no problem with the guys playing their african drums or the 40 year old man in tight black jeans, or even the gamer kids because they were just into the music but it just threw me off that some guy wearing nike sandals and a colorado state hoody jumped up on stage and demanded a handshake from vaski mid-set. i was mostly agreeing that there are just some people i'd like to not have to deal with at shows
i read either on this or a different thread that dubstep's getting huge among neo-hippy crowds and jam band people, and there were TONS of them there. i personally don't really mind when a type of music comes into the light a little more. hell, it gives me more people to talk about music with. i think a lot of people don't like music becoming mainstream (aside from negative effects that mainstream can have on music. see rap and pendulum) because they use their music to define themselves and get all pissy when it's not unique to them anymore. hell, i love these sounds and i love seeing people discover that they do too.