is it brostep?

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.

tim, i'll get around to it. i'm always about 5 or 10 years behind. i get to everything eventually.

i actually really like "i need air"

It's really enjoyable MOR electronic music!

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

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.

Tempted to say it's one of the worst sonic memes in dance music of the past few years.

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?

obviously if you remove the synths and vocals then it's boring as shit to dance to

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.

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

http://vimeo.com/27260633

~*~*muzik*~*~

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.

wow, that was "next level"

i just paid that skrillex clip in the store and rufus said "is that electric heavy metal?"

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

les twins do the best job possible of making brostep seem awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G2JV_1RQoE

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

xxpost I'd prefer a good house tune to either really but that's obv.

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

too much four on the floor and i start to feel like a marionette

yeah i'm still reconciling my househead roots with not really caring about house anymore

with disco/rave you're actively trying to get to that trance-state, whereas in rap/r&b you're trying to hook up

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

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".

i'm into drinking and trying to hook up with my girlfriend

:-(

no it's actually pretty :-)

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

"it's not right, but it's brostep"

wait what

Not sure about the Katy Perry remix but i quite like Noisia's Machine Gun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAO-lzl3vVQ

alternate thread title: if you close your eyes does it potentially sound like it could be a segment from a rammstein show?

and here's this too for good measure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Waqn0jBG58&feature=fvwp&NR=1

SEXY DUBSTEP

^^ I was trying to remember where I'd heard that Noisia original track and I realized it's in Wipeout HD! Um, works pretty well there.

"sexy dubstep"

actually in regard to the moombahton mention earlier i sort of wanted to know if it was just random talking or specifically in reference to the misogyny talk around moombahton's image as of late (and thus relating it to the bro-ness, otherwise i don't usually stick dubstep and moombahton in the same camp). but didn't. THEN I DID

I'm going to have to agree with Tim about the base Benga formula really making things drag out. I'm going to have to pull out the classic "It was great the first thousand times I heard it..." line. :(

i like moombahton and i don't like dubstep. i brought it up cuz moombahton has bro elements. i don't usually think of them together either. i mean there are plenty of moombahton remixes that would probably delight a room full of drunken bros. maybe the bros are already down with it anyway. i don't go outside.

is brostep the moment when America finally explicitly gets into "electronica"? that would be sort of hilarious to me.

you mean not counting electronic pop and hiphop?

for whatever reason?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIz411TpMs8

Christ.

i need to go listen to a bunch of gabba to get this shit out of my system

there, now THAT'S how you pander to the masses

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLwLzIwu_-4

crut, right, not counting electronic pop and hip hop. i'm talking about you know, far out soundzzz with no lyrics and 120 bpm

i can't take too much at one time but i like how the gaslamp killer will toss bits into a set for effect, alongside old breaks & psych etc.

honestly i think if this sound wasn't EVERYWHERE right now i'd be more amenable to this being the way dubstep finally pops itself out

i was always kinda hoping for a lenny dee/omar santana revolution in this country. alas, not to be. way better than friggin' atari teenage riot and still plenty noisy and metally and all that good stuff. i've spent many an hour watching lenny dee live sets in crummy looking hoodrat clubs around the globe. just not a strong enough network of bars/clubs/deejays to make it work/happen here.

uh, watching on youtube that is.