is it brostep?

Brostep is just post-Caspa, post-Pendulum, made-in-a-flash, just-plain-bad dubstep with not much "dub" and not a lot of step - slowed down jump up drum'n'bass with wacky samples from action movies or featuring some TV theme or 80s hit crowbarred in there somewhere.

FTR I actually have (or had?) a fair bit of time for Caspa - he was one of the first to do this kind of hard-'n'-heavy dubstep, and that's all fair enough, especially since he makes it relatively interesting from what I've heard. But now there's an increasing amount of terrible stuff - peaking this summer. It'll be like the opening chords from the Cheers theme tune "unexepctedly" interrupted by "BBBOOOOOMM-beeeerrrrrr-BOOOOOMMM-beeeerrrr-Eeeeh-eeeeh-eeeeh wouldn't you like to get awa-BOOOOOOOOMM-beeeeerrrrrrrr-eeeh-eeeh-eeeh-And they're always glad you-BOOM BOOM WHEEEEERRRRRR". Anyway, stuff like that. I don't normally get annoyed about it but it changes people's opinions of what dubstep is, and kind of makes me embarrassed to say I like dubstep these days.

(sorry about typos - i have stupid hands)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blV0nFTOL_8

is the Nero - Welcome Reality album brostep or is it too smart to be brostep or what is the deal?

It's brostep.

but poppy brostep.

is brostep still "boring dubstep" or is all dubstep boring/brostep now?

what do you think?

that non-boring dubstep was post-dubstep before dubstep was brostep? could chuck wood.

now i get it

is there not non-boring dubstep that is neither bro-step nor post-dubstep? what about stuff like youngsta or distance?

i dunno, maybe stuff like horsepower productions or king midas sound?

Sully's album's worth a spin, although that's going into more 2-step revival territory. The new Zomby is surprisingly dancey and non-crazy

What about Various

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6O01mhbZWE

Silkie imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66V_TkwbgRA

2000F & J Kamata imo too

do you really like it is it is it brostep

bro

Haha I called a track I made 'Brodiestep' the other day.

xpost I'm wubbing it wubbing it wubbing it I'm wubbing it like this

shit is blowing up in my little corner of the world. my 13yo cousin is listening to skrillex. two co-workers have asked me in the last day for dubstep recommendations. i'm not sure if they actually want dubstep or if "dubstep" is the new "techno".

mexican kids at my school were jerking to dubstep today. they are dressed like the kids in jerk videos from LA except they have candy raver bracelets on their arms. one of them had "JERK 4 LIFE" and "M F DUB STEP" written on his hands

sorry, i should've said hispanic kids, they're not from mexico

"i'm not sure if they actually want dubstep or if "dubstep" is the new "techno"."

someone came in my store today and asked me i had a "dub or dubstep" section. so apparently dubstep is all things to all people.

it's all just a dub
bro

sign outside bar near my place:

"no cover, no lineup, no dubstep"

I'm wubbing it wubbing it wubbing it I'm wubbing it like this

http://www.mtv.com/photos/vmas-host-rewind/1646002/5122397/photo.jhtml

http://www.panspeople.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/zoo_downtown_julie_brown.jpg

skrillex was the vocalist for from first to last

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yG6iw7AeWE

i keep a mental tally of musicians that went from punk/hardcore to dubious/bad edm

- steve aoki was in this machine kills, good emocore, i liked them i mean they had a split with yaphet kotto and envy
- skrillex
- dave nada (coincidentally about to tour with skrillex, solo dj, member of nadastrom and coiner of moombahton) - bassist? in de nada, thrashy dc punk in the 90's, also good

lol i heard a dubstep remix by true tiger of that punjabi mc song. it started off as normal, the broke down before it would usually get going, and went into some metallic staggered version of the song. i like this stuff just cos its funny and i like how generic and brainless it is but i just forget it all instantly. at least the older OG brosteppas (SALUTE) had more attitude and darkness in what they were doing.

Hessle Audio is way too interested in rhythm soft to be brostep.

Whoa, I thought this was just an ILM joke name initially.

sad day for music when the brostep forum no longer exists

"known as hard and horny raw dong music for sweaty males to “bro out” to,

[to whom?]

http://www.spin.com/articles/new-rave-generation

"You can't put a fuckin' timeline on it," (Diplo) continues, "but what Skrillex does, it's really grassroots, man. The energy here at this stage is, like, 40 times bigger than what (David) Guetta 
has right now."

does diplo write for freakytrigger now

needs the magazine cover for full impact

http://www.spin.com/sites/spin.com/files/imagecache/huge_page_view/sites/spin.com/files/110912-skrillex-cover.png

sweet fucking christ

good on tiesto for staying relevant, huh

http://www.spin.com/sites/spin.com/files/110912-skrillex-6.png

yessss

See Skrillex perform and you understand why Deadmau5 -- the genre's most spectacular, or at least recognizable, act -- has anointed him with his magic mouse pheromones

hahaha

i really need to know what units stage energy is measured in

haha that article has the word 'brostep' in it

how the fuck is this article written by philip sherburne? I really hope this is a ridiculously edited online version!

if not, um... how do we summon him to thread?

this is a good idea for a cover story imo, tho it seems weird to lump tiesto in there, and maybe even justice

I liked the article but yeah the point might be better made if the piece were more Skrillex/Deadmau5/new faces and less Diplo/Tiesto

I went and listened to Skrillex's big hit. Y'know, for research. It's really bad.

yeah listening to it now... the central riff is pretty good imo but all the heavy bass dupstep stuff is terrible -- it could've been a great house song! oh well

It's like, you Google 'DJ,' (Tiesto) what comes up, y'know?"

psh no i just did this and spooky came up. and some news/realtime for medhi.

kind of reads like a "let's mention everything dance music-wise that sells in the US and order it by popularity and just kind of splat it all on the page with anecdotes to add minimal context"

assuming it has features/interviews with each of the mentioned artists on the cover?