"brostep"
I heard of Skrillex when Shomik posted a picture of him and Skrillex. Hadn't heard of him at the time.
Lately I knew he made electronic music and I noticed he got nominated (and won!) a ton of Grammy awards.
Recently I've been starving for something - ANYTHING - new, so I checked out a few songs. Not bad. The sounds have some distortion (I have a soft spot for this), and it's varied enough to be independently listenable (I don't dance).
I came to know that this stuff is called "dubstep", and I then came to learn (Wikipedia) that Skrillex's scene is derisively known as "brostep". It emphasizes the midrange and distorted noise over clean sounds. (Hmm, sounds like metal, making sense why I like it...)
I think this is the closest I've come to paying off on what I think the potential of electronic music is. The sonic space it occupies does it for me, and he has a level of personality expressed that invalidates the tired argument of no real instruments = not real music.
The EP is by no means perfect. The title track is by far the best track but does even suffer from repetitiveness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw). The dubstep "drop" is as much of a cliche as the hardcore "breakdown" and so maybe it's hitting the spot now, but after I hear it a few more times it will lose any potency. Also, while I like it, I don't think I need any more Skrillex - the 6 tracks seem to cover all the ground he has unless I'm mistaken.
There are two places I think music like this can go to to retain my interest. One is to lose the drops used as drops and get even more out there with a varied structure - in the metal space I think this is what Meshuggah is doing to retain my interest in a very limited sonic scope.
The other is collaboration. You take the individuality present in this music making and attach some vox to it, and you get the fucking badass track "Scatta" off the EP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-YjVp_ibQ&ob=av2e
This genre has potential though. I don't understand the hate for "brostep". I mean, you can hate on music "bros" listen to, but you could hate on metal for the fact that meatheads listen to it or hate on Tool for the tools who listen to it. The hate is pointless. Good is good, bad is bad, who cares who else is tuned in.
Lately I knew he made electronic music and I noticed he got nominated (and won!) a ton of Grammy awards.
Recently I've been starving for something - ANYTHING - new, so I checked out a few songs. Not bad. The sounds have some distortion (I have a soft spot for this), and it's varied enough to be independently listenable (I don't dance).
I came to know that this stuff is called "dubstep", and I then came to learn (Wikipedia) that Skrillex's scene is derisively known as "brostep". It emphasizes the midrange and distorted noise over clean sounds. (Hmm, sounds like metal, making sense why I like it...)
I think this is the closest I've come to paying off on what I think the potential of electronic music is. The sonic space it occupies does it for me, and he has a level of personality expressed that invalidates the tired argument of no real instruments = not real music.
The EP is by no means perfect. The title track is by far the best track but does even suffer from repetitiveness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw). The dubstep "drop" is as much of a cliche as the hardcore "breakdown" and so maybe it's hitting the spot now, but after I hear it a few more times it will lose any potency. Also, while I like it, I don't think I need any more Skrillex - the 6 tracks seem to cover all the ground he has unless I'm mistaken.
There are two places I think music like this can go to to retain my interest. One is to lose the drops used as drops and get even more out there with a varied structure - in the metal space I think this is what Meshuggah is doing to retain my interest in a very limited sonic scope.
The other is collaboration. You take the individuality present in this music making and attach some vox to it, and you get the fucking badass track "Scatta" off the EP: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-YjVp_ibQ&ob=av2e
This genre has potential though. I don't understand the hate for "brostep". I mean, you can hate on music "bros" listen to, but you could hate on metal for the fact that meatheads listen to it or hate on Tool for the tools who listen to it. The hate is pointless. Good is good, bad is bad, who cares who else is tuned in.