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Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a year?

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:28 am
by lavalamp360
I have been wondering this for a while. He was banging out song after song in 2010 and 2011 but released next to nothing in 2012. There was that Make it burn dem song (which I wasn't very fond of) and that My name is Skrillex remix for Wreck it Ralph. That's basically it. Now it's officially 2013. Where has the man been?

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 12:40 am
by DRTY
the world is a slightly better place

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 1:36 am
by Ludge
Touring, doing a bunch with OSWLA. Not much of a fan at all, but running a label that big must be quite a job, so props to him on that.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:25 am
by Sexual_Chocolate
DRTY wrote:the world is a slightly better place
:Q:

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 5:54 pm
by illandnatti
He is at the stage where he doesn't ever have to make another track if he doesn't want to. He can tour for the rest of his life on the stuff he's already made.

Here's a little food for thought. Almost every track he's made in 2012 has been embraced by the masses as a genre defining track. His 'dubstep' tracks in 2011 and early 2012 made all these new kids switch their focus to the louder more midrange sound. His Birdy Nam Nam remix made such a splash that those kids switched again and are making 'trap.' He makes a track with Damian Marley and puts a reggae skank in it, and suddenly big brostep producers like Knife Party, Skism, Zomboy, what-have-you are all putting a reggae skank in their productions (which, as an aside, I appreciate greatly).

Given all that, if I was Skrillex, I would hesitate to release anything that wasn't what I thought to be cutting edge.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:00 pm
by tomre
illandnatti wrote:He is at the stage where he doesn't ever have to make another track if he doesn't want to. He can tour for the rest of his life on the stuff he's already made.

Here's a little food for thought. Almost every track he's made in 2012 has been embraced by the masses as a genre defining track. His 'dubstep' tracks in 2011 and early 2012 made all these new kids switch their focus to the louder more midrange sound. His Birdy Nam Nam remix made such a splash that those kids switched again and are making 'trap.' He makes a track with Damian Marley and puts a reggae skank in it, and suddenly big brostep producers like Knife Party, Skism, Zomboy, what-have-you are all putting a reggae skank in their productions (which, as an aside, I appreciate greatly).

Given all that, if I was Skrillex, I would hesitate to release anything that wasn't what I thought to be cutting edge.
Indeed. :z:
I will not miss his sounds, but the wave he made was impressive and funny to see.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 6:34 pm
by Dustwyrm
He tours like a fuckin madman. I think he did over 300 shows in one year very recently.

That and the running of his label too. A lot of valid points made here by others are true.

I will go ahead and take some hate; I like Skrillex (crickets) hah. Whatever he did and however he did it, it worked. Grats to the dude, he's a hard worker.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2013 11:53 pm
by dubstepper
Nevalo wrote:
DRTY wrote:the world is a slightly better place
:Q:
:z: x a billion
but although i can't stand infact hate the bones off his music, his presence big or small really don't bother me.
i simply ignore his music and tunes alike. guy has made some serious doe tho, so big up to him.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:12 am
by +torment+
wait.

when was dude ever "cutting edge"?

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 6:35 am
by Sinergy
Hell yeah haha, If I was skrillex I'd much rather sit atop many different LED fortresses around the world and flail around like a madman while crowds of thousands and thousands go crazy rather than sit on a macbook playing with screeches in ableton.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 8:06 am
by BASED
his ghost producer went backpacking in asia

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 9:24 am
by daeMTHAFKNkim
I'll upload his most recent work soon :D

you guys might actually like it...it's really different. :dunce:

EDIT: He uploaded it on youtube.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 11:28 am
by test_recordings
BASED wrote:his ghost producer went backpacking in asia
Innit, his head`s probably got so big he tries to charge ghost writers for him to put his name on so everyone gave up and went back to their own products :roll:

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 11:35 am
by Marcus
You make way more money touring.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 12:45 pm
by +torment+
daeMTHAFKNkim wrote:I'll upload his most recent work soon :D

you guys might actually like it...it's really different. :dunce:

EDIT: He uploaded it on youtube.

its ok. nobody listens to the dude.


in other news...

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 1:11 pm
by garethom
+torment+ wrote:
daeMTHAFKNkim wrote:I'll upload his most recent work soon :D

you guys might actually like it...it's really different. :dunce:

EDIT: He uploaded it on youtube.

its ok. nobody listens to the dude.
Actually think quite a lot of people do.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 3:47 pm
by Lye_Form
garethom wrote:
+torment+ wrote:
daeMTHAFKNkim wrote:I'll upload his most recent work soon :D

you guys might actually like it...it's really different. :dunce:

EDIT: He uploaded it on youtube.

its ok. nobody listens to the dude.
Actually think quite a lot of people do.
Nah bruv nobody in the world listens to that mainstream bollocks.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:24 pm
by illandnatti
Lye Form wrote:
garethom wrote:
+torment+ wrote:
daeMTHAFKNkim wrote:I'll upload his most recent work soon :D

you guys might actually like it...it's really different. :dunce:

EDIT: He uploaded it on youtube.

its ok. nobody listens to the dude.
Actually think quite a lot of people do.
Nah bruv nobody in the world listens to that mainstream bollocks.
Nobody in the underground (maybe), but the mainstream masses take note of his every ebb and flow.

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 4:36 pm
by TheTornado
who the fuck cares?

Re: Why hasn't Skrillex released anything new in almost a ye

Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:04 pm
by garethom
I reckon OP cares.