Thraed of Skrillex

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK8YSsjIaDs

goth club called 'neo'

roflz

― The Uncanny Frankie Valley (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, November 11, 2011 6:34 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i took j0rdan there when he first got here haha.

― When snap was real ... Thumbs up if you agree (D-40), Friday, November 11, 2011 6:35 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes, me and deej went dancing at this club in my first night in the chi. the cool thing is that everyone there is super into dancing since it's not a "cool" place to be in the first place.

man every skrillex song is really cool until the skronky "dubstep"-y parts

Due to the style of their music lacking a definite genre, they coined the term 'Industrial Jungle Pussy Punk' to describe their music, but later, they denounced the term

right

Between this and that Hipster House thread, I want to crawl further into a hole with a bunch of snooty Jazz records, and forget I ever had interest in anything youth oriented.

the next Skrillex: http://www.celldweller.com/2011/

This dude is seriously next in line.

http://youtu.be/6f7N9gYXfZo

whoops:

http://www.youtube.com/celldweller#p/a/u/2/6f7N9gYXfZo

Just got out of skrillix so incred

one upthread sounds like girl unit

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welcome skrillex

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he had a crazy light show

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there were hell of high school kids there

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whatever he was wearing made the image of a robot/skeleton/alien creature behind him replicate his movements it was dope

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YAAAA

i would totally pay $25 to see him again tomorrow if it wasnt sold out & if my ears werent ringing like cray

2 sold out shows at a 4000 capacity venue, $25/ticket

guys this shit was so FUN. it also made me feel hella old / wish id dropped a bean before going

I don't get where any and all mention of dubstep comes in. To me this sounds entirely like ca. 2006 blog house, albeit with hints of Ruskoesque midtone wobble. I mean, is it that you can't latch on to "electro" as a label anymore because it longer has cache, so they just semi-arbitrarily chose some "relevant" category it kinda might be able to fit into?

Is Distance the Deftones of dubstep? Clue me in, gang!

Went to the Korn show at Roseland last week (kinda had to, I work for their label); the DJs weren't great. The first act was some horrorcore rap trio w/vaguely dubstep-ish beats, just kinda reminded me of shit on WordSound Records circa last millennium. But some of the later stuff was OK, especially if you just leaned against the back wall and let it vibrate your chest cavity like a massage chair. I will say that I am liking the new Korn album more than I have ever liked any of their previous work.

The drug phrase "to drop a bean" immediately brings to mind the masturbation phrase "to flick a bean".

cool story bro

btw all the non-dubstep dropped was rap music -- opening acts (both of which were interestingly enough african american artists -- the group Two Fresh who did like a trip-hop thing & the straight up dubstep 12th Planet, who got tons of crowd love) each dropped Waka Flocka songs into their sets ('grove st party' and 'hard in the paint' respectively). this was pretty much the only non-dubstep music that didnt get, like, a 'dubstep remix'

the other thing that struck me as forehead smacking obvious about the crossover success of dubstep is that it lets people who've grown up dancing to hip-hop dance exactly the same way -- grinding on each other front-to-ass, at basically the same tempo as hip-hop

skrillex himself dropped 'hypnotize' & let it play for at least a full verse, possibly two (cant recall) and fatman scoop's "be faithful". also "welcome to jamrock". but he didnt overdo that stuff which was good. and he did incorporate a lot of different rhythmic templates -- reggae, house, dubstep, etc. at one pt even did a remix of kris kross' 'jump' where it was basically a perfect imitation of the rhythm, but using those cold metallic textures he uses so everything sounded like pistons covering 'jump.' the only way i recognized the rhythm was because he kept one snatch of the vocal sample in there from the original

also the cheesy singalong parts are basically the same thing as when you're at a corny sports bar and someone drops 'living on a prayer'

at basically the same tempo as hip-hop

nb this might not actually be true, iirc most dubstep is around 70bpm (or 140 bpm played at halftime) which is actually a bit slower than most hip-hop ? although rap has a pretty wide variance & i'm not even sure how fast most current stuff is

i realize someone's probably already said as much re: hip-hop tempos but i think seeing this show connected it more closely to the 'dancing' part for me

A lot of southern rap from the past few years is in the 70-ish range. "Hard in da Paint" is 71 bpm, for instance.

deej, are you still saying "cool story, bro"? That shit's on shirts at the mall.

this ain't no middle of the mall shit

I'm still unable to process the popularity of the Skrcjzhgx remix of Cinema. The Benny Benassi version is really good.

this ain't no middle of the mall shit

― tpp, Monday, November 14, 2011 8:58 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

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Hahaha

Also great ian m. Banks joke upthread

i still don't understand the appeal of this dude. it sounds like vomit.

did deej misspell "thread" on purpose

yeah i'm surprised this isn't a "defend the indefensible" thread

i TOTALLY understand the appeal of this guy, but that's exactly why i have to smh at him fucking up what could be p decent music

j0rdan otm

thraedophile

Also he looks like a crazy homeless person. But not in a cool way. In a 'he'll stalk yr younger sister and try to rape her' way.

he looks like a Korn member's son

I think the difference between Skillrex and Come To Daddy is that Come To Daddy is a) a joke, b) a one-off, c) has a sense of rhythm. Heard my first Skillrex tune the other day and was kind of amazed how plodding it was, it was kinda "hey, remember rhythm? It used to be this thing..."

lol @ dude's sample sources

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JrkJJam-qI

yuh like i said crut

I think the difference between Skillrex and Come To Daddy is that Come To Daddy is a) a joke, b) a one-off, c) has a sense of rhythm. Heard my first Skillrex tune the other day and was kind of amazed how plodding it was, it was kinda "hey, remember rhythm? It used to be this thing..."

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 November 2011 15:47 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Um... what?

lol yeah Come To Daddy intentionally throws rhythmic curveballs all over the place whereas Skrillex sticks pretty strictly to rhythmic conventions

I kind of unintentionally became Cap'n Save-A-Bro on this thread: is it brostep?

I don't understand how Aphex is more "rhythmic" or "jokey" compared to Skrillex. Obviously Aphex is a hero, has been since I first heard CTD at 16 y/o, but y'know, his music still adheres to 4/4 structures, recycling drum'n'bass loops, throwing in comedy samples and fucking with metal tropes.

It's because Aphex has a finely-tuned sense of rhythm that he's able to get away with throwing rhythmic curveballs all over the place - cf the useless toss thrown out around that time by less competent drill and bass producers.

The Skillrex I've heard just adheres to this 4/4 plod with zero momentum in the beats themselves. Dude has no sense of groove, basically.

I'm obviously not holding Come To Daddy up as any kind of paragon of groove or whatever just having a meanspirited pop at Skillrex here.

the point is, if Scooter can do a good imitation of what you do, you probably will not stick around for long

He's an ex-emo brostep producer - it's not really meant to be "groovy" (although I'm at pains to think of many groovy Aphex tracks either). If anything - and yeah I'm trying to contextualise rather than defend Skrillex here - he's got an incredible grasp of melodic arrangement, not to mention considerable production chops. Not sure what software/hardware he's using but just trying to get a powerful big-room multi-tiered sound like that without muddying up the mix is no mean feat. I don't really get what makes Skrillex any worse a producer than say Rustie who seems to garner a huge amount of props in credible circle. As I said in the OG brostep thread, part of me suspects that it's Skrillex's teenage appeal that marks him out in more "mature/mid-brow" music circles, when really the appeal is that it's meant to be nu-metal/rock pumped up to 11 with all the angsty 'tude taken out and an emphasis on fun times.

sorry that was xxposts

many of Aphex Twin's more straight-up techno tracks are very groovy.

this guy's shit has always just sounded like slowed-down dnb of the dj fresh school*, big riffs that are distorted and gnarled but still pretty bouncy, which has always been popular with a subset of american kids, but i guess the tempo and the fact that there's so much synth-y stuff on the radio already is what's helped him really cross over.

*except, yeah, somehow even less rhythmically interesting.

his boyish looks with his hair down exuded this enthusiasm

he's 35 years old, grinning, jumping up & down and dancing on top of the decks in his shorts, waving and cheering his collaborators, doing call-and-response moves with the crowd... plenty of boyish enthusiasm on display imo :)

anything over age 30 is decrepit iirc

This is an excellent album.

https://i.ibb.co/Snz4srT/george-santos2-640x480-49636597.jpg

"I said boy-ish."

never thought I would enjoy a skrillex album but... fun so far