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My main gripe with dubstep is that it's becoming unavoidable and overbearing. I live in San Francisco and frequent raves (and also more clubby type events) a lot and almost every show I go to is all Dubstep and Electro. Dubstep's meteoric rise to popularity has almost cancelled out every other genre of electronic dance music around here. The only place I can go to consistently find genres other than Dubstep is illegal underground or renegade raves. It's kind of like prohibition. Basically, to hear other genres of EDM I have to put myself in legal danger.
I understand they are the most popular/lucrative genres for venues and promoters to book but it's creating a really monotonous and homogenized music scene. As open minded as San Francisco and its residents claims to be, people don't seem to give a shit about anything other than Dubstep. If it doesn't fit the stereotypical left wing "psychedelic chill out stoner" archetype, a lot of people will reject it. In a couple weeks there is a "rave" called Dubstep Academy 102 that is -SEVEN- stages of Dubstep and about 50+ DJ's. Every single one is spinning the same genre and same tracks. I went to the first edition of this event (Dubstep Academy 101) and you could walk through three rooms and here the exact same track playing at the exact same time multiple times throughout the night. It's ridiculous.
The argument of "If you don't like it, don't listen to it!" holds no merit because it's almost literally impossible to be involved with my friends and the culture I enjoy without having to listen to Dubstep constantly.
Dubstep has also ushered in a new wave of bedroom producers that, for the most part, are completely awful. You know those 16 year old pseudo gangster kids who are always talking about how they're "in the studio" making "dope ass beats"? They're making Dubstep now because it sounds so similar to hip hop. And they're getting booked for DJ gigs left and right without knowing how to do anything. Couple with the fact that these same people can start a digital "label" (read: badly made websites with equally terrible tracks on them) with minimal effort and you have a recipe for a disaster.
Dubstep has also caused the rave scene to become a little sour. Ravers are a very accepting and loving bunch as we all know. The hip hop scene? Not so much. Since Dubstep is a mesh between electronic music and hip hop/reggae/dub etc., the gangsters are starting to show up to raves tweaked out on 10 pills at a time talking about how they think "techno is gay" and calling people faggots etc. Basically, a lot of Dubstep fans have no concept of what a rave is in a cultural sense and they just see them as parties to get fucked up at and awkwardly grope women.
So basically, I like the music but am incredibly sad about what it has done to the music scene.
I understand they are the most popular/lucrative genres for venues and promoters to book but it's creating a really monotonous and homogenized music scene. As open minded as San Francisco and its residents claims to be, people don't seem to give a shit about anything other than Dubstep. If it doesn't fit the stereotypical left wing "psychedelic chill out stoner" archetype, a lot of people will reject it. In a couple weeks there is a "rave" called Dubstep Academy 102 that is -SEVEN- stages of Dubstep and about 50+ DJ's. Every single one is spinning the same genre and same tracks. I went to the first edition of this event (Dubstep Academy 101) and you could walk through three rooms and here the exact same track playing at the exact same time multiple times throughout the night. It's ridiculous.
The argument of "If you don't like it, don't listen to it!" holds no merit because it's almost literally impossible to be involved with my friends and the culture I enjoy without having to listen to Dubstep constantly.
Dubstep has also ushered in a new wave of bedroom producers that, for the most part, are completely awful. You know those 16 year old pseudo gangster kids who are always talking about how they're "in the studio" making "dope ass beats"? They're making Dubstep now because it sounds so similar to hip hop. And they're getting booked for DJ gigs left and right without knowing how to do anything. Couple with the fact that these same people can start a digital "label" (read: badly made websites with equally terrible tracks on them) with minimal effort and you have a recipe for a disaster.
Dubstep has also caused the rave scene to become a little sour. Ravers are a very accepting and loving bunch as we all know. The hip hop scene? Not so much. Since Dubstep is a mesh between electronic music and hip hop/reggae/dub etc., the gangsters are starting to show up to raves tweaked out on 10 pills at a time talking about how they think "techno is gay" and calling people faggots etc. Basically, a lot of Dubstep fans have no concept of what a rave is in a cultural sense and they just see them as parties to get fucked up at and awkwardly grope women.
So basically, I like the music but am incredibly sad about what it has done to the music scene.