Thraed of Skrillex

maybe not hated but he's def still a punchline in a way few other artists are

People I know who hate Skrillex haaaaaaaaaaaate Skrillex.

Yeah, but so many people who hate Skrillex are douchey dubstep "purists," but nevertheless, your point stands, rev.

i kinda dislike dubstep in general but i really do get the feeling that if you're not seeing this stuff live or with bigass speakers, it's kinda shit, plus there's the whole douchy-16-year-old element

Every time I see bros in a jeep bumping something with wub wub bass, I assume I am hearing Skrillex. i could be wrong.

Yeah, but so many people who hate Skrillex are douchey dubstep "purists," but nevertheless, your point stands, rev.

― heiswagger (rennavate), Thursday, April 5, 2012 11:25 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A lot of people who aren't dubstep purists have a hate-on for Skrillz too tho!

http://www.mixmag.net/words/features/richie-hawtin-interviews-skrillex

i'm pretty lots of people i know that hate skrillex and dubstep have like heard one skrillex song and heard no actual other dubstep at all. it's just a thing to say

http://i.imgur.com/uhvnQ.jpg

hahahaha

is that Corey Feldman?

No, it's more useful.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/skrillex/mynameisskrillex.html

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/skrillex/firstoftheyearequinox.html

― Tuomas, Friday, April 20, 2012 1:40 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha

What in the

Skrillex ‏
@Skrillex

I wish I was aloud to use the n word sometimes (in a non racist way of course)

yeah, that o_O moment was discussed upthread.

Got it, thought it was just posted (saw the Apr 26 date, missed the 2011 part!)

I had to unretweet that so I could retweet it again.

why is there a firestorm over this today

it was in that Jezebel hipster racism article

ah

aloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z1RRslsFxA

I totally want a Skrillex button for all of my board games, I'd be grinning just like the guy in the video

that video + shrooms = i would literally die.

I was hoping that video was why this thread got revived.

http://www.forbes.com/profile/skrillex/

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/554831_10150922448643889_1362338399_n.jpg

hahaha

saw him for the 2nd time tonite. imo if you've never seen skrillex live u dont really have the full scope of what it is he does

http://s18.postimage.org/6huhhhaw9/423196_319620308101997_981731436_n.jpg

saw him for the 2nd time tonite. imo if you've never seen skrillex live u dont really have the full scope of what it is he does

I believe you and I want to see him live but I have to lol at this

tbh that is exactly what someone told me about Phish, years ago

haha

http://i.imgur.com/D2XiY.png

tbh that is exactly what someone told me about Phish, years ago

― mh, Sunday, June 17, 2012 11:06 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont like phish but i dont like most of the wack bands ppl around here like either

i do like dance music & hes great at spinning it.

littledoweknow of the full scope of what it is he does

if you've never seen skrillex live u dont really have the full scope of what it is he does

I used to be the #1 hater of positions like this i.e. if I have to see you live to like your records then your records suck but time has mellowed me on this q. Still, it's fair to judge recorded output on its own merits whether you've seen the act live or not I think

I thought he doesn't "spin" anything but just does live recreations of his songs, including ramp up/slow breakdowns, creating song-length ups and downs rather than maintaining energy for multiple songs? idk, that is just what I got from earlier live reviews

I'm cool with that, and I'm sure it is a good live show, but that is pretty much completely different from most live dance acts

also it's different for skrillex because his recorded material is like 2% of the reason why he's risen to fame

Is that really for-real true? Like, are you saying that a v. high % of the people who've made him famous are people who've seen him live - does he tour constantly and widely? I don't doubt that his live act is a big part of how he came up (that's true of acts reaching back a long ways) but "the recorded output barely matters at all" is a pretty intense thing to say imo

youtube is probably a factor

ha yeah ok I'm a fuckin' mummy, it's v. hard for me to imagine seeing a guy whose music I didn't otherwise care about on YouTube and goin' "oh fuck, I love this now, having seen it on YouTube"

think he meant the way he looks/headbangs in popular .gifs accounts for the other 98%

why can't this guy rise to the top the way the rest of us did it i.e. by sleeping with the right people

brostep product differentiation

I finally checked out some more of the recordings and I had underestimated the plunderphonic aspect. If Girl Talk is brazen about borrowing, and doesn't do much of any transformation of his material, a lot of this guy's stuff is playing with that space between original production and sampling. The word most people would use is 'remix' except they're all mostly unauthorized remixes. What this means is that most of his strongest, most effective tracks are commercially unreleasable; he only plays them live.

I'm going on excerpts from youtubes; I'm interested in finding myself a good mp3 of a straight through live set.

Fwiw I dont listen to his music as songs at home, I think theyre kind of like video game music or something. Kind of entertaining in a soundtrack way but not rlly interesting

He uses the common denominator of dubstep-- the drop but also the grinding robot intercourse textures-- to play with a wide variety of rhythmic components, shifting from dub reggae to juke to hip hop to regular house, balancing emotional moments with textured grinding moments that are like the common ground of acid and guitar crunch. The hip hop influence has definitely been understated, the entire stadium was doing more rap arm chopping than raver hands

Plunderphonics thing is a good point too

Like, it takes that mid nineties ALL GENRE frankendance but instead of being vibeless cacophony he gives it coherence under the dubstep banner. The live show is what its all about... Hes not mixing records but hes definitely a dj

I meant mid 00s not mid 90s