is it brostep?

I find all of this pretty fun and non threatening really, when I was 19 I liked breakcore. Could totally see myself being into Skrillex if I was 19 too.

i can see being 19 but i know mostly late 20's / early 30's into it. eh, breakcore's fine.

everything about this from visual to track to comments apropos lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbPjiJ-4jMA

When Darkness Falls

1. Protocol X - Our Storm
2. Vex'd - Thunder
3. Distance - Koncrete
4. Emalkay - Gut Feeling
5. SPL - Lust
6. Lone Wolf - The Plague
7. Scarecrow - Snakes And Ladders
8. Aaron Spectre - Music is the Weapon
9. King Cannibal - Aragami Style
10. Milanese - Sight beyond Sight
11. Toasty - The Knowledge (vexd rmx)
12. Coki - Spongebob
13. 16Bit - Chainsaw Calligraphy
14. Reso - Armored Core
15. Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
16. Noisia - Alpha Centauri (Excision & Datsik remix)
17. Pendulum - The Island (Statelapse Remix)
18. Plan B - The Recluse (Nero Remix)

When Morning Comes

1. Boxcutter - Gave dub
2. Burial - Fostercare
3. Caspa & Rusko - Rock bottom
4. Fat Freddys Drop - Cay's Crays (Digital Mystikz Remix)
5. Conquest - Forever
6. d1 - Sorrow rmx
7. Hell Science Dept - Getto
8. James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof
9. Mala - Alicia
10. Phaeleh - Lounge
11. Pinch - Qawwali
12. Reso - Onsen
13. Scuba - Dream
14. Shackleton - In the void
15. Skream - Dutch flowerz
16. Vaccine - Wishful thinking vip
17. Von D - Show Me (feat. Phephe)
18. vvv - émeute

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NCSThQHgvz0/TX1lXz26KOI/AAAAAAAAANM/MjDgh3G9Mt4/s1600/tumblr_lgdcmxy6HZ1qaqka2o1_1280.jpg

but surely hipsters don't like this kind of stuff

yeah, it's not very gud.

i think that's why the "brostep" label doesn't really work properly either. Aren't "bros" somewhere between jocks and hipsters in the US? See this kind of thing as a natural category for one-time nu-metal/emo kids who I believe wouldn't call each other "bro". Something like Nu-Step or Stepcore would be more appropriate, surely?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbusf0NK6v1qe7oxqo1_500.jpg

It varies by area, but the general bro stereotype is a guy who uncritically loves dumb partying with male friends and has a generally dude-oriented view of life. There are jock bros, fraternity bros, hippie bros (lots of bros at jam band shows) and so on. Music that is kind of dumb and testosterone-heavy is pretty much prime bro territory.

No! Really?

well, it's not a term (or stereotype) that gets bandied around much in the UK as it does in other places, so in that context it makes sense.

ya rly

"bruvstep"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXHLybTW2dI

"I may have lost a few fights, but I will fuckin shoot you blad"

but surely hipsters don't like this kind of stuff

still struggling to see what the definition of hipster is today (my daily psa to kill the term already) but if it can still be applied to your typical striped-shirt, tank-top and rayban-wearing williamsburg beardo, sure a good number do. i'm under the impression that the friday night girls and boys party at webster hall is run by these types

Yeah, but out-and-out hipsters (surely a dwindling breed in this climate?) would be more interested in the more leftfield side of things (James Blake and what not).

Mainly lurk this thread but on the edge of my seat wanting to know what an "out-and-out" hipster is. Completely earnest btw.

well, whatever, i only ever really hear about them on public forums, so..

yeah i'm not sure. also lots are into both this stuff and james blake

also i do use the bro term negatively but i'm mostly joshing, my first years out of college i lived with 3 guys from different parts of ohio that did nothing but talk about the cleveland browns, one of them had no music at all bought/copied/pirated or otherwise, i learned about livin' on a prayer from the other guys via fist-pumping drunk singalongs at fratty fake irish bars, we're still best friends, did all of their weddings etc - i'll bro down but i just won't get my brostep on because it is worse than all of that other stuff combined. or i'm a baby and can't handle my faceeeeee melttinggggg

On the topic of bros...to me a "pure bro" is what you describe above. Basically if music is a part of their life it's on some classic rock tip with a dash of U2 or a few other alternative-era leftovers with no real interest in contemporary music of any kind. Indie/hipster bros are more on some "I did too many drugs at an outdoor Fleet Foxes show and I might go to Pitchfork fest one day but Bonnaroo is good for me now" game. Fans of "brostep" are more like holdovers/breakouts from the Dim Mak/Steve Aoki party-til-you-puke "hard electro" end of the spectrum. That's what I think of when I think of brostep/Skrillex/etc.

Some tracks have basically turned those saw waves into pluck-harmonic guitars. I've tried to recreate this in Reason and it's kind of tricky to get right without making a mess

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx2nH2RJEAA

intellectbro

Some tracks have basically turned those saw waves into pluck-harmonic guitars.

the vibrato is the key, if you're talking about what i think you are.

brostep is between dubstep and stepbro in my mind

music for children of second marriages? shame (sic) no one's ever done a remix of this awful awful song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yERDDbP53Sw

Bubba Ho-Step

^^^ all time.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOsmHXpWq4

I'm late to the game but have been listening to Emika and Vex'd. What's my brostep quotient?

Not very bro-y, bro.

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/09/james-blake-dubstep-classist-problems-modern-indiecentrism.html

I feel like James Blake is almost sensitive brostep. He is like a latter day sensitive indie dude in a masculine genre that bros can "be into" to get chicks.

the James Blake show i went to (to see my friends who were opening)....well, while the crowd was very straight and gross and lolcollege-looking, the bass....was....really....something else. motherfucker plays looooouuuuddd.

didn't brostep first appear to describe mount kimbie and maybe other such gentle gentlemen? back in my day...

No. Never.

http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/pukestep

I haf made the world's most horrible brostep tune.

Whiney has a new love

I listened to that Skrillex mini album and it's lots of fun!

Way to misspell KoЯn, noob Whiney

Just cause Kode9 is boring doesn't mean you have to torture yourself.

And Whiney gave me and some dude shit for thinking the new Primus album was not terrible!

haha, I just ran across this. THERE WILL BE DUBSTEP in my town of 100k, which historically has really only sustained top 40/hiphop/rock nights. The one gay bar in town just closed. :(

http://nwtekno.org/showthread.php?t=164654

I might go just for the lols.

i found myself explaining what brostep is to a friend last nite and the only thing i could think about was how ridiculous i sounded

I have yet to get a good picture of the dubstep night advertised on the marquee of an old theater in my neighborhood that has recently been turned over a couple times and repurposed as a concert/social venue. A scant ten years ago, it was a dinner theater. Now, it has hosted a variety of touring musicians and seems to have occasional dubstep nights (DUBSTEP on the marquee) and swing dance thursdays.

dubstep is everything now. we have a dubstep chip shop in our town. they don't even play dubstep in there.

we have a dubstep chip shop in our town

i have no idea what this means but i pray you are serious.

man this shit is invading my town, how do I stop it