even kardinal offishall is making whooshy trance-step "club bangers" now :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
There are actually some really good tracks on the Magnetic Man album but only when they pretty much abandon dubstep altogether.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
Post Magnetic Man a lot of the poppy stuff sounds surprisingly perky. Brastep?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qORbkqdD58g
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
have to say, listening to max martin eurorave beats in the woods of massachusetts a couple weeks ago at a miranda cosgrove show was kinda inspiring. so, in theory, ancient lumpenprole rave sounds can work for me. heck, i love the new britney album. but most of this neu-dubstep is just as boring as most regular dubstep to me.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
would totally go to a local moombahton night around here if there was one. there will never be one.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
If I listen to the SBTRKT and Nero albums am I going to hate myself and feel slightly soiled afterwards?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:35 (twelve years ago) link
there is a curious subset of punk-kids-that-into-dance-music-now that eat this up
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Master's Thesis level shit belowThere's like an entire genre of youtube video discussing brostep vs. dubstep.
? Clarke B., lunes 15 de agosto de 2011 21:07 (Yesterday) Bookmark
omg the part where the dude goes "why 'brostep'? why not call it like... 'mainstreamstep', or something else ghey like that?"
? swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), lunes 15 de agosto de 2011 21:40 (Yesterday) Bookmark
i'm dying
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
― scott seward, martes 16 de agosto de 2011 11:32 (40 minutes ago) Bookmark
i don't know, people everywhere seem to be jumping at the chance to get in on it. coincidentally where at?
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:13 (twelve years ago) link
i feel like this is revenge on all of us who were bitching circa 2003/2004 that dubstep needed to be "more pop."
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
either that or revenge on me bitching ca. 1999 to anyone who would listen that 2-step needed to be "more electro"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Haha we all get the music we deserve.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
Around 2004-05 I was arguing that indie bands should embrace other styles of music and take production cues from house, techno and R&B and that's probably the single worst call I have ever made.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ Brastep
I think this also belongs on this thread, as I think it's perhaps the "best" pop/autotune/diva/brostep/brastep jam I've heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOri_2FLVEI
― the tune is space, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
i think maybe the united kingdom should just take a break from dance music for a couple of years. take a bank holiday to brighton. soak up the soggy rays. read a good book.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
We pretty much already did that from 2003-2006 except some arseholes took advantage of the lull to sneak dubstep through.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
damn them. granted, i should probably check out some, uh, "funky", but i never seem to want to.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
nothing sadder than when i get a big box of records in at the store and its full of completely unloveable downtempo acid jazz illbient jungle garage dubtronica. ugh.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
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― scott seward, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
:'(
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
brastrap
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
love when i get a bunch of Loading Bay singles though. love that stuff! gotta catch them all! hi-nrg golden girls theme song my new fave.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
tim, i'll get around to it. i'm always about 5 or 10 years behind. i get to everything eventually.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
i actually really like "i need air"
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
It's really enjoyable MOR electronic music!
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
The Magnetic Man stuff, that is. Most brostep still horrible
it's also ridiculously fun to dance to, as you can tell from the video
...rest of the song sounds like generic auto-tuned dancepop circa 2011.
― Lee626
uh ... RONG
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Love the synths on "I Need Air" but will never get how people could find that trademark Benga exhausted trudge beat anything other than wearisome.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Tempted to say it's one of the worst sonic memes in dance music of the past few years.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
well you only have to worry about hitting the simple bum/bum/THWACK and then you can throw all type of flair around the synths and vocals, so it's actually super-fun and easy in that regard
does that make sense?
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
obviously if you remove the synths and vocals then it's boring as shit to dance to
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh it makes sense but don't you find the rhythm actually sucks the enjoyment out quite a bit?
The trudge is much less obvious in that "Dub Me Crazy" tune I posted above which means I could see how what you're saying actually works (even though otherwise "I Need Air" is the better tune). There's something about Benga and people who copy him though which I find really dispiriting groove-wise.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
I think the mixed 4/4 + 2/4 groove can be achieved in a non-callous way, it's just a lot of producers don't make it interesting
― shania law (crüt), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://vimeo.com/27260633
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
~*~*muzik*~*~
― Monstrous TumTum (Lamp), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
wish i could find the video of a daytime festival rave type thing where a nerdy dude is playing skrillex and a bunch of chix in bikini tops and jean shorts and total brobrah fratboys w/backpacks are headbanging. totally sums everything up
― jaxon, Tuesday, August 16, 2011
could someone post this today, please? it's my birthday.
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
wow, that was "next level"
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
i just paid that skrillex clip in the store and rufus said "is that electric heavy metal?"
― scott seward, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
i can totally understand why you prefer "dub me crazy" tim but i honestly don't like dancing to r&b as much as dance music ... part of me just gets lost/bored without kick drums
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
les twins do the best job possible of making brostep seem awesome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G2JV_1RQoE
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
part of me just gets lost/bored without kick drums
personally i prefer dancing to stuff that has a little more space in the beat, too much four on the floor and i start to feel like a marionette
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
xxpost I'd prefer a good house tune to either really but that's obv.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
too much four on the floor and i start to feel like a marionette
i think that really sums up the break between disco/rave and rap/r&b
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm still reconciling my househead roots with not really caring about house anymore
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
with disco/rave you're actively trying to get to that trance-state, whereas in rap/r&b you're trying to hook up
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
personally i've always been a) in steady relationships and b) into "doing drugs" instead of drinking so it's been disco/rave for me all the way
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
See it's not the 4x4 in these tunes that bugs me but the way it's overlaid with the halfstep beat so that each cancels out the other's nuance.
I don't think it would occur to me to get "over" a 4X4 beat much more than it would occur to me to get over 4/4 time signatures - there is always sufficient variation possible within that framework. But the post-Benga sound really wants to make a virtue of not trying most of the time.
And I really liked a few early examples of this kind of beat, like Quest's "The Seafront".
― Tim F, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:25 (twelve years ago) link
i'm into drinking and trying to hook up with my girlfriend
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:26 (twelve years ago) link
:-(
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
no it's actually pretty :-)
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
haha i listened to the first youtube posted itt and now i feel like 'brostep' is just the less gay verz of early 00s 'club remix' hex hector style house music
― Monstrous TumTum (Lamp), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:30 (twelve years ago) link
we've come a long way, baby
https://twitter.com/RaveSnob/statuses/301467708426448897 @RaveSnob
the ACTUAL fact of brostep being the soundtrack the State of the Union address HOW. EVEN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwuEnyV1Cb0
― don't call it a cloud rap i've been high for years (zvookster), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
state of brounion
― mh, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 04:18 (eleven years ago) link
#FOLKSTEP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7iHfhBfRKs
why should we donate to the keeplove movement?
― dsb, Saturday, 8 June 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22630303
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― woof, Saturday, 8 June 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
Oops sorry phone made a post with ancient fragment from other thread
― woof, Saturday, 8 June 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
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― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Sunday, 4 August 2013 23:18 (ten years ago) link