Wouldn't that be Gary Numan? Or something roughly around the same time period?
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBGNlTPgQII
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:12 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0WNbm1jz6A
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
gary numan doesn't really strike me as dance music tbh
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:14 (twelve years ago) link
True enough.
The Prodigy would be the first really big crossover of an electronic act into rock?
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
you're forgetting about the UK, dude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyoDbX1EkPQ
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Well if we're talking about the difference between American and European markets, you just add something like 15 years onto the timeline for America.
Kraftwerk, Numan and New Order all started as rock bands and slowly went electronic, I was trying to think of someone who took the opposite route.
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Moby.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
Fatboy Slim
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD8dZGffkzQ
― next thing she's shaving my skrillex (NickB), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:22 (twelve years ago) link
Prodigy/Chems/Fatboy Slim circa 1997 the obvious precedent - John the Baptists to Skrillex's Jesus if you will. Though they would obviously be horrified by that.
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
He's a firestarter, twisted firestarter.
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
― pattern loader, Tuesday, November 15, 2011 5:19 AM Bookmark
Skrillex was in a rock band tho.
― fauxmarc loi (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Primal Scream kind of go back and forth
― Number None, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
From First To Last, the Housemartins of their time
― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
Xpost: So Skrillex would be rock->dubstep/proghouse->rock influenced crossover.
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:44 (twelve years ago) link
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, November 15, 2011 8:37 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Horrified by the comparison to Skrillex or the Christian stuff.
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
?
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Tuesday, November 15, 2011
they've no reason to be horrified - they made enough terrible music between themselves
― post, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
I'm fairly certain that if offered some kind of Skrillex collab the Prodigy members would be very enthusiastic. Anyone who wrote Smack My Bitch Up would.
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
http://theprodigyfanboy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/keith-flint.jpg
vs
http://s3.amazonaws.com/hottopic_shockhound_production/attachments/4498/skrillex.jpg
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
Undercut vs. inverse mohawk not even a fight really.
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Well the inverse mohawk is a lot more practical if you're balding.
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
Strikes me that it doesn't have to be a choice of either of those two haircuts cos why not have both?
― next thing she's shaving my skrillex (NickB), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/images/strapping_young_lad.jpg
― pattern loader, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
well played
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Kraftwerk - not exactly dance music, not exactly appealing directly to Rock (capital R) fansNuman - sameNew Order - again, it's not electronic music and it's more pop than rockMoby - no. I mean, he made a rock album and he made electronic albums, but I don't think the two worlds converged. I don't think you got a lot of metalheads getting into Play.Fatboy Slim, Chems etc - they had crossover appeal and some rock fans got into dance through them, but I don't think they were aiming squarely at a rock crowd.
Closest is the Prodigy, Fat Of The Land onwards, but still they got Gizz Butt to shove guitars all over their music and still came from a dance milieu. I should clarify I was talking about purely electronic dance music aimed at the hard rock market.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:27 (twelve years ago) link
Skrillex's fanbase came to him via Deadmau5 as much as they did via screamo.
― fauxmarc loi (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Numan in his Tubeway Army days definitely had a lot of crossover appeal to say, glamI agree that Fatboy is probably the closest real "mainstream" thing we've had lately, especially as he tended to have a lot of "I can't believe he is intentionally ruining this" moments
― frogbs, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
Moby - no. I mean, he made a rock album and he made electronic albums, but I don't think the two worlds converged. I don't think you got a lot of metalheads getting into Play.
i don't know about metalheads (and don't know if it has to be metalheads to apply) but moby was big in the alternative rock crowd starting with revolver but well on into a lot of tracks from play, the local radio station wfhs would put him alongside smashing pumpkins, afghan whigs, better than ezra etc with no problem. all of that being the first music i was actively into in my head i'm fully accustomed to still thinking of moby as a "band" myself.
― fauxmarc, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 15:58 (twelve years ago) link
Blue Monday is electronic music, dog latin.
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:00 (twelve years ago) link
of course the US's historical relationship with dance music is quite different to the UK's which will change things. The people in the UK I know who follow him are all ex-nu-metallers (or their generic equivalent), but the US has always had that Go/Candy Rave thing which Skrillex is also very much a child of.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zsqQtsSZmd4/TbppJXDd_JI/AAAAAAAAAA8/vjldRUQdjZE/s1600/450px-Plur%2521.jpg
― kashi west: late vegetarian (rustic italian flatbread), Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
I think I parsed the previous post wrong when I mentioned Moby - I was talking about him as an artist who started making dance music and moved towards rock.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 15 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
I put my ear closer to that Nice Sprites thing again the other day. Matt isn't wrong about his rhythms being a bit uninspired - most of the tracks stick to very simple half-step or 4/4 rhythms. I hadn't really noticed this before, because the rest of the music does have a number of twists and turns, "bits" coming in and out of the mix etc. I guess the beat anchors everything, and yeah compared to Aphex it's nowhere close. But I guess it's not meant to be IDM, it's big dumb rave music for emos so does it need to be complicated? I guess it would be a vast improvement if the beats were more exciting.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2011 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
how popular is Skrillex in the UK? Metal Hammer are covering him (probably due to Korn connection, but it backs up what dog latin says about nu-metallers liking him)
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
There's a certain subsect of UK society who may as well and will forever be US emo-punk-metallers with tattoos, ear tubes and all that. Kerrang, being the most popular music publication in the UK (IIRC) means these guys proliferate throughout Britain and so there'll always be a huge market for angsty, driving, fratty rock over here. Then there's the dubstep connection - and of course a lot of dubstep kids are into Skrillex. It kind fo creates a mush of a subculture where hardcore kids hang out with rudeboys, with quite a big crossover. I can see Skrillex playing some pretty big shows over here.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
kerrang covers (or used to) cypress hill and the prodigy so it wouldnt surprise me in the least if they covered skrillex.
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
i hope that korn album is a total flop. i dread to think of dubstep metal becoming the next big thing
― (Algerian Goalkeeper) Vs (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Thursday, 17 November 2011 17:35 (twelve years ago) link
ach, frankly I couldn't care less if it is or it isn't. The next big thing is bound to be schoot whatever it is so if it's dubstep metal it'll be about as effective in pissing me off as much as anything else. The Korn/Skrillex thing sounds kind of great for the first 30 seconds until Jonathan Davis starts doing his tortured millionaire thing, and then you realise it's just a patchwork where korn get their bit and skrillex gets his. Skrillex seems to have a bit of an ear for strong melodies - I genuinely wonder what the van dyke parks collab will sound like. It seems so incongruous, but kind of makes sense at the same time.
― Glo-Vember (dog latin), Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
The Korn album's actually pretty good.
― A. Begrand, Thursday, 17 November 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/kuyYO.jpg
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
which ilxor is going to post on there "its needs a donk"?
― Jimmy Riddle Orchestra (Armand Schaubroeck Ratfucker), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
please let that not be real
― the third kind of dubstep (Jordan), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
yeah if that's not shopped in some way then Skrillex fans are even worse than I imagined
― frogbs, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
I just checked. There are now 1,426 comments
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
most of the recent comments are positive though
― Number None, Monday, 16 January 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
this one is great too, found it linked on a messageboard by rdj himself http://www.skrillex.com/forums/751ae8-is-skrillex-about-to-release-an-ep-on-aphex-twins-record-label/
― pat methamphetamine (diamonddave85), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
good to the last drop
― maghrib is back (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 16 January 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link