― a parker full of poseys (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
I totally want a Skrillex button for all of my board games, I'd be grinning just like the guy in the video
― Moodles, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
that video + shrooms = i would literally die.
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was hoping that video was why this thread got revived.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.forbes.com/profile/skrillex/
― The Reverend, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 14 June 2012 17:47 (11 months ago) Permalink
hahaha
― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Thursday, 14 June 2012 18:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Sunday, 17 June 2012 06:24 (11 months ago) Permalink
― am0n, Sunday, 17 June 2012 06:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
I believe you and I want to see him live but I have to lol at this
― hot slag (lukas), Sunday, 17 June 2012 07:03 (11 months ago) Permalink
tbh that is exactly what someone told me about Phish, years ago
― mh, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
haha
― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
― StanM, Sunday, 17 June 2012 16:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
― 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.
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
littledoweknow of the full scope of what it is he does
― am0n, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:26 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:31 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― mh, Sunday, 17 June 2012 17:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
also it's different for skrillex because his recorded material is like 2% of the reason why he's risen to fame
― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 17 June 2012 18:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
youtube is probably a factor
― Number None, Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:33 (11 months ago) Permalink
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"
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:38 (11 months ago) Permalink
think he meant the way he looks/headbangs in popular .gifs accounts for the other 98%
― carly rae (flopson), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:39 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― decrepit but free (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
brostep product differentiation
― carly rae (flopson), Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:54 (11 months ago) Permalink
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.
― Milton Parker, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:15 (11 months ago) Permalink
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
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Sunday, 17 June 2012 21:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
I meant mid 00s not mid 90s
The hip hop influence has definitely been understated, the entire stadium was doing more rap arm chopping than raver hands
I almost came back to make this point: the song arrangement and, from what I've heard, concert presence are much more reminiscent of the energy and build-up of that spectrum. I don't think there are going to be any cross-song 15 minute build-ups at a skrillex show. More drops, more head bobbing, more chopping hands for sure.
― mh, Sunday, 17 June 2012 22:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
I just saw Skrillex live at Bumbershoot. I went to Bumbershoot for the comedy, but this show was happening at the end, so I figured why not?
Have you guys ever watched a movie that surprised you on how good it was, walking right out of the theater?That's what this show was: a pretty stunning production all 'round with some positively memorable scenes.However, you start to immediately think of a couple of flaws walking to the subway station or bus stop or after hours bar or car or sonething.Then you get home, and you realize even more things that were pretty lame about what you just saw as you go to bed.Then more flaws hatch out day by day. About a month later, you want to kick in your own teeth for wasting your time on having seen such a thing. Then you kinda mentally deny you experienced it i.e. you're not even sure you saw anything at all, but you totally remember you went.
This is the mental pattern I'm already detecting with this Skrillex show. :-/
At least the "EW SKRILLEX KOOTIES" people only hatch out the negativity in short bursts.
That said, Skrillex should stick to goth-mane whips, and stay off the mic. Wow. Least inspiring crowd-hyper ever. That Skrillhouse pic is totally accurate re his voice.
― ma ck ro ma ck ro (mackro mackro), Tuesday, 4 September 2012 09:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Monday, 10 September 2012 12:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
seems fair
― r|t|c, Monday, 10 September 2012 12:19 (8 months ago) Permalink
need each other because they suck
not gonna investigate further than page 1 of google right now but there appears to be a substantial amount of Daft Punk slash out there
not that I'm surprised or anything
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Monday, 10 September 2012 12:50 (8 months ago) Permalink
― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.)
― young money color me badd (J0rdan S.), Monday, 10 September 2012 13:12 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh Avril:
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
waht is
― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:51 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh it loaded now
looks way more MLP than Skrillex tbh
― ┐(´ー｀)┌ (sic), Tuesday, 11 September 2012 15:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
― borscht and bikinis (how's life), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:08 (7 months ago) Permalink
I don't know why, exactly, but I thought it was hilarious seeing this scrawled across a bathroom stall door.
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:53 (7 months ago) Permalink
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
SKRILLEX IS WATCHING YOU SHIT.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 04:45 (7 months ago) Permalink
"brb dropping some bass"
― panther modems (electricsound), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 04:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
sick plop brah
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:15 (7 months ago) Permalink
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
irl lol
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
(on the kob)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 12:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Saturday, 20 October 2012 22:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
Where's the drop? There's the drop.
http://www.nme.com/news/ellie-goulding/66877?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=elliegoulding
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:04 (6 months ago) Permalink
i knew this would eventually come in handy
― whining boom (electricsound), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:30 (6 months ago) Permalink
daaaaaamn cold as ice you two
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 October 2012 21:57 (6 months ago) Permalink