Thraed of Skrillex

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

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.

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.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/408335_518080031540509_2018097304_n.jpg

seems fair

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

― thomas smangalter (J0rdan S.)

Oh Avril:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v252/hawaii_bombay/ONTD/ONTD%205/AvrilLavigneAbbeyDawnAvrilLavigneArrivalsEZ3sDhwzKu0x.jpg

waht is

oh it loaded now

looks way more MLP than Skrillex tbh

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/396403_10152162315440122_1446226173_n.jpg

https://twitter.com/edwarddbacal/status/258052671364276226/photo/1 I don't know why, exactly, but I thought it was hilarious seeing this scrawled across a bathroom stall door.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A5TJiZKCIAAOIAu.jpg

SKRILLEX IS WATCHING YOU SHIT.

"brb dropping some bass"

sick plop brah

http://static.flickr.com/66/228881206_d28a586bc0.jpg

irl lol

(on the kob)

http://i.imgur.com/70YmC.jpg

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

i knew this would eventually come in handy

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

daaaaaamn cold as ice you two

Meanwhile, it was recently confirmed that Skrillex will record all of the music for new Disney film Wreck-It Ralph

:/

http://soundisstyle.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Skrillex-and-Ellie-Goulding.jpg

"bangarang" is amazing, fuiud

I finally succumbed to Bangarang a couple of months ago. Just ramping the tempo up helps. Like if he was prepared to commit fully to this direction and forget about all the other lopey shit I would be 100% on board with that.

yeah bangarang is good. the synth in that is just so good.

I mean we should all be concerned about crossing the rubicon that blurs brostep and frankenhouse that probably happened ages ago, and couldn't be worse than actual brostep anyway.

i am obligated to counter-rmde any time mdc r-s his de at anything half-tempo

even if it's brostep, lol

But you admit that the non-half tempo stuff is better!

(Here at least which is a fairly easy win admittedly)

lol i'm still kinda drunk and not at my most articulate, so i'll tell you why you're stupid in the morning

Although in fairness Bangarang's virtues vs the rest of Skrillex arise more from the fact he doesn't drop a gigantic robotic shit in the middle of it.

#old

if this contretemps is secretly about mala in cuba then mdc otm, sit down rev

thing is if you take away the giant robotic shit in the middle arent you just left with daft punk for entrylev spazzes

lol no it's way bigger than mala in cuba, rest assured

if i did dn's then "it's way bigger than mala in cuba" would be it right now

this thread has reminded me to get round to listen to ZEDD's album, which tbh i have already to rep for but let's see how far i'm gonna have to stretch

*decided

thing is if you take away the giant robotic shit in the middle arent you just left with daft punk for entrylev spazzes

That's sort of a less kind way of putting "blurring brostep and frankenhouse" but actual frankenhouse tends to stand or fall on how catchy it is and 'Bangarang' is really catchy.

yeah i probably should have added i was fine with dpfels

skrillex's fame&fortune is built on those robot turds, you can't try and embrace him while thumbing yr nose at them

http://www.skrillexquest.com