how popular is Skrillex in the UK? Metal Hammer are covering him (probably due to Korn connection, but it backs up what dog latin says about nu-metallers liking him)
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
There's a certain subsect of UK society who may as well and will forever be US emo-punk-metallers with tattoos, ear tubes and all that. Kerrang, being the most popular music publication in the UK (IIRC) means these guys proliferate throughout Britain and so there'll always be a huge market for angsty, driving, fratty rock over here. Then there's the dubstep connection - and of course a lot of dubstep kids are into Skrillex. It kind fo creates a mush of a subculture where hardcore kids hang out with rudeboys, with quite a big crossover. I can see Skrillex playing some pretty big shows over here.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
kerrang covers (or used to) cypress hill and the prodigy so it wouldnt surprise me in the least if they covered skrillex.
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i hope that korn album is a total flop. i dread to think of dubstep metal becoming the next big thing
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
ach, frankly I couldn't care less if it is or it isn't. The next big thing is bound to be schoot whatever it is so if it's dubstep metal it'll be about as effective in pissing me off as much as anything else. The Korn/Skrillex thing sounds kind of great for the first 30 seconds until Jonathan Davis starts doing his tortured millionaire thing, and then you realise it's just a patchwork where korn get their bit and skrillex gets his. Skrillex seems to have a bit of an ear for strong melodies - I genuinely wonder what the van dyke parks collab will sound like. It seems so incongruous, but kind of makes sense at the same time.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Korn album's actually pretty good.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kuyYO.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
which ilxor is going to post on there "its needs a donk"?
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
please let that not be real
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah if that's not shopped in some way then Skrillex fans are even worse than I imagined
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I just checked. There are now 1,426 comments
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
most of the recent comments are positive though
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
this one is great too, found it linked on a messageboard by rdj himself http://www.skrillex.com/forums/751ae8-is-skrillex-about-to-release-an-ep-on-aphex-twins-record-label/
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
good to the last drop
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 16 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
― teledyldonix, Monday, 16 January 2012 23:28 (twelve years ago) link
Great piece from Nitsuh on My Chemical Romance, Skrillex and the origins of that world that people over a certain age will never truly get:
http://pitchfork.com/features/why-we-fight/8754-my-chemical-romance/
― JLB Credit (Jack BS), Tuesday, 17 January 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link
fully went into that thinking "i bet it's the now oldhat excuse of excusing skrillex based on his derivate mall screamo roots" and was not disappointed
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
it's a puzzle of a conundrum of a maze of excuses, if you will
you guys really made it this far into the thraed without skrillex.gif?
― NZA, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 02:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvepu1KTat1qexyuco1_400.gif
It's been on other threads. :)
― ENBB, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/2zois0w.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
that is the best
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I was hoping you'd show up with that tbh.
― ENBB, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puZJA2qKBsw
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
― ENBB, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
dying @ that
― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Mf2Zf.jpg
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
damn i didn't think anything could make me like skrillzex but that'll do it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Love that Kramer clip
― Moodles, Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxphnzkJNP1qav850o1_500.jpg
― ¯\(ツ)/¯ (am0n), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:47 (twelve years ago) link
looks like an anonymous industry ad for dj gear
"behringer makes you go whoosh" etc
― the star of many snuff films (Edward III), Thursday, 19 January 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
he looks like a michael bay transformer
― NZA, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
lol at the skrillex windowlicker pic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPoS9BVAAs
― тυᾔε➸ƴαґ∂﹩, ωн☺кїℓʟ (diamonddave85), Thursday, 19 January 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/401972_346452385378891_300205486670248_1269543_253039391_n.jpg
― NZA, Monday, 23 January 2012 01:59 (twelve years ago) link
late to this, and the "serious thoughts" portion of this thread seems to have run its course for the moment, but this music is a hell of a lot of fun, and i'm having a hard time seeing why it might be so bad and hated. thought i'm probably too old to really gi and will never be a serious fan, when i'm in the proper frame of mind, i like the joyfully anthemic melodies, the choppy adhd comedy and the ridiculous heavy metal bass drops equally.
diamonddave85 on "scary monsters and nice sprites":
...those are mall metal breakdown beats! just imagine those beats being played with a double-bass drum and the wobble bass being a chuggachugga guitar riff and you have a straight up screamo breakdown.
otm. first thing i thought when i heard the big bass in "cinema" was "o shit, that's a metal guitar part!" a lot of this does seem filtered through a nu metal/screamo sensibility, but it's way more generous and inviting than most of that stuff. skrillex's best move, imo, is that he jettisons the angsty, narcissistic ear punishment that so much teen rebel noise trades in, whether rock or electronic, while managing to retain the supercharged, jumparound intensity.
there's a lot of grousing upthread by people who fw this part but not that one. when it comes to tracks like "cinema" and "rock n roll", i like each element on its own but love the way they support one another. suspense gathers behind the sunny melodies when you know that mosh bass is about to wobble down and wreck the room, and the poptones are all the more lovely when they glisten back up out of a heap of broken speakers.
can's see why anybody who ever dug the prodigy, the chemical brothers or primal scream would have trouble clearing a bit of aesthetic space for skrillex.
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Monday, 23 January 2012 08:46 (twelve years ago) link
Because we're old now
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2012 12:59 (twelve years ago) link
Prodigy maybe, but I don't see anything Skrillex is doing to be on par with the Chems or Primal Scream, both of whom have done way more than just Dig or XTRMNTR. I mean all the "big beat" Chems stuff amounts to like 6-7 tracks
― frogs you are the dumbest asshole (frogbs), Monday, 23 January 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
he might be more talented than Crystal Method, lol
― mh, Monday, 23 January 2012 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
he's more talented than crystal method
― The Reverend, Monday, 23 January 2012 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-M90iCenK4&feature=related
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Monday, 23 January 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Crystal Method owns wtf
― river, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
today must be opposite day!
― dayo, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
Who is "river"
― mh, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:06 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just a semi-lurker, chill
― river, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:09 (twelve years ago) link
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/27/arts/27SKRILLEX1_SPAN/JPSKRILLEX1-articleLarge.jpg
― joepa mi pinga (am0n), Friday, 27 January 2012 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
funk doesn't work
― beachville, Friday, 27 January 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/417367_340151512673501_100000359659538_1139016_1532823759_n.jpg
― Sounds Of The Baskervilles (dog latin), Thursday, 2 February 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
He's gonna think about skrillex every time he takes a crap.
― beachville, Thursday, 2 February 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link