https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXHLybTW2dI
"I may have lost a few fights, but I will fuckin shoot you blad"
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
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
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:32 (twelve years ago) link
Mainly lurk this thread but on the edge of my seat wanting to know what an "out-and-out" hipster is. Completely earnest btw.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:36 (twelve years ago) link
well, whatever, i only ever really hear about them on public forums, so..
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
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
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:54 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
intellectbro
― ( ) (mh), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
brostep is between dubstep and stepbro in my mind
― blah blah blah, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
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
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Bubba Ho-Step
― owenf, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
^^^ all time.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 12 October 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
18:50 Bassnectar - Where Is My Mind.mp3by (Unknown)added by Sanpaku
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 19 October 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOsmHXpWq4
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 19 October 2011 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
I'm late to the game but have been listening to Emika and Vex'd. What's my brostep quotient?
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 20 October 2011 01:49 (twelve years ago) link
Not very bro-y, bro.
― Number None, Thursday, 20 October 2011 02:05 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2011/09/james-blake-dubstep-classist-problems-modern-indiecentrism.html
― The Sunspots In Your Eyes Are Actually Cataracts, Mr. Rudich (AWALL), Thursday, 20 October 2011 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 20 October 2011 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sophomore subs are the new Smith lesbians. (the table is the table), Thursday, 20 October 2011 05:22 (twelve years ago) link
didn't brostep first appear to describe mount kimbie and maybe other such gentle gentlemen? back in my day...
― known for melding an outrageous stage presence with tenacious hooks (Merdeyeux), Thursday, 20 October 2011 11:50 (twelve years ago) link
No. Never.
― Tim F, Thursday, 20 October 2011 12:18 (twelve years ago) link
http://soundcloud.com/doglatin/pukestep
I haf made the world's most horrible brostep tune.
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney has a new love
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
I listened to that Skrillex mini album and it's lots of fun!
― dog latin, Friday, 21 October 2011 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Way to misspell KoЯn, noob Whiney
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Saturday, 22 October 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
Just cause Kode9 is boring doesn't mean you have to torture yourself.
― turfin' bird (The Reverend), Saturday, 22 October 2011 02:09 (twelve years ago) link
And Whiney gave me and some dude shit for thinking the new Primus album was not terrible!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Saturday, 22 October 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
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
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 October 2011 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
I might go just for the lols.
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 October 2011 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
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
― ⚓ (gr8080), Monday, 24 October 2011 11:25 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Monday, 24 October 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
dubstep is everything now. we have a dubstep chip shop in our town. they don't even play dubstep in there.
― dog latin, Monday, 24 October 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
we have a dubstep chip shop in our town
i have no idea what this means but i pray you are serious.
― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, 24 October 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
man this shit is invading my town, how do I stop it
― frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
don't trust anyone under 25
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Monday, 24 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
at least all the shitty country, terrible auto-tuned-to-hell rap music, and whatever the Black Eyed Pears are can be tuned out, but this pretty much demands your attention, determined to destroy your brain and give you FUCK YEAH! vibes without breaking a sweat
― frogbs, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.brobible.com/brommunity/story/brostep
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 24 October 2011 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.factmag.com/2011/10/27/skrillex-and-the-doors-team-up-cover-miles-davis/
― it's time for the purpculator (psychgawsple), Thursday, 27 October 2011 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
Didn't nobody wanna speakNow everybody peepin out they windows when they hear me beatin up the streetsIs it brostep? Is it brostep?That's what they say, every single motherfuckin day
― The Reverend, Thursday, 27 October 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.stuffyouwillhate.com/wp-content/uploads/skrillex-tattoo-374x500.jpg
― lagerfeld of modern despots (latebloomer), Friday, 28 October 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
Hahaha. I love those musical conversations where you all of a sudden realize, "Fuck, I'm in waaay too deep here; how am I going to pull myself out of this one?!"
― Clarke B., Friday, 28 October 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
wow, I feel like an idiot, I kept calling the guy "Skillrex" and commenting and how dumb of a name that was
― frogbs, Friday, 28 October 2011 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
A lot of the backlash against this kind of music sounds to me like old men shouting at clouds. It's as though people aren't treating it as a style of music so much as an automatic joke that youngsters are duping themselves into. When I was a young buck I fucking lived for gabba, digital hardcore and jump up d'n'b - that was the music that spoke to me along with the standard issue punk, grunge and metal we used to love. There's no mystery that teenagers and 20, 30, 40 year olds enjoy high impact, energetic music. I get why people are against the proliferation of jokey dubstep versions of 80s songs and the throwaway YouTubeness that comes with it. But I don't subscribe to the idea that because it's not "proper dubstep" (whatever that is these days), it's not worth anyone's time. Sure it's a racket. Sure there's a lot of screeching and grinding and not a lot of sub. Sure Sonny Moore looks like a Vril-Ya crossed with Trent Reznor, but frogbs thing about it demanding your attention with fUCK YEaH vibes - what is wrong with that? Isn't that the point? this is fast becoming one of the most popular new youth-music styles in the world and we're all still talking in hushed tones about Kode9 and Shackleton as if dubstep's still some sacred underground thing that shouldn't be tainted by anything so gauche as a big build up or a distorted wob. I sat down and listened to Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites and one thing's certain - it's not throwaway music, it's meticulously created, bulging with sound and bloody good fun. Even if he does have a song that goes 'I want to kill everybody in the world'. But if i'd been an angry door slamming teen when this was out, I know what would have been my anthem.
― dog latin, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
It's as though people aren't treating it as a style of music so much as an automatic joke that youngsters are duping themselves into
don't see why it can't be treated as both which i think people are doing
I don't subscribe to the idea that because it's not "proper dubstep" (whatever that is these days), it's not worth anyone's time
i don't think anyone's criticizing it because it isn't "proper" except for mr. ambassador james blake - i mean sure i enjoy the other stuff but i'm not really directly comparing it to brostyle which can be faulted entirely on it's own.
frogbs thing about it demanding your attention with fUCK YEaH vibes - what is wrong with that?
nothing at all if you're fine with music being reduced to mostly predictable material (and hyping itself based on said predictable material). no one's complaing about high impact / energetic music in general. see the michael bay subplot
― fauxmarc, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
(which isn't to say yon FUCK YEAH vibes are inherently the equivalent of a cheeseball scene in a melodramtic movie, but the music we're referring to in here is)
― fauxmarc, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link
*ARE NOT INHERENTLY
I AM DONE.
Quite a lot of highly predictable italo, techno and rave has now been upgraded to classic status by the 40/50y old generation, so all is not lost dog latin...
― Siegbran, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
― dog latin, Friday, October 28, 2011 2:15 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark
you're right but also older people are supposed to make fun of younger people's music. it's the circle of life.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link