is it brostep?

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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

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

Didn't nobody wanna speak
Now everybody peepin out they windows when they hear me beatin up the streets
Is 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

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

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.

fauxmarc, Friday, 28 October 2011 19:32 (twelve years ago) link

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

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, 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

i pretty much agree with ronan. i don't seek it out, but it's undeniably effective (especially when gaslamp killer drops it in the middle of a mix). the kids could do worse, even if they don't care much about the kind of electronic music i like.

btw seeing this video of some (pretty skilled) orange county bros covering skrillex made me realize that he hides some real melodies in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuunY8BTqNs

this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Friday, 28 October 2011 19:44 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah there's a lot of predictable copycat lame rubbish out there, but it doesn't really apply to an artist like skrillex, who really has got some splendid ideas in there. Don't see how it's any more predictable than any other genre. Reminds me of when all my metAl pals at school would tease me for liking rave because 'it's all just boom boom boom' and then later when I came round to metal, people would say it all goes 'dun dun durrrrr' or that it's 'just angry shouting' or when people say indie is just 'lame sings about cardigans'. Come on, if you want music that changes and excites, a bit of brostep does the trick.

dog latin, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

*lame songs

dog latin, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link

(iPhone rants - I'm having a weird day)

dog latin, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link

ronan = local garda /= dog latin, fyi

The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 20:54 (twelve years ago) link

oh my bad, i'm always getting those user names confused for some reason, but i know who you guys are

this is unusual for batman. (Jordan), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:00 (twelve years ago) link

btw what the hell is the bassist doing in that skrillex cover video?

The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

i finally "got" skrillex when i realized he was in a screamo band (from first to last): a lot of his songs are really just screamo songs with electronic music sounds and wobble bass instead of chuggachugga guitar

∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

xp looks like he has some sort of theremin-like midi controller on his thumb

∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:11 (twelve years ago) link

I have never seen such a thing before

The Reverend, Friday, 28 October 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link

im also wondering about that glove he's wearing

∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:16 (twelve years ago) link

looks like it might be this HotHand stuff: http://www.sourceaudio.net/products/hothand/index.php (found on one of the related videos, which are very lol)

∞th-wave ska (diamonddave85), Friday, 28 October 2011 21:22 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah there's a lot of predictable copycat lame rubbish out there, but it doesn't really apply to an artist like skrillex, who really has got some splendid ideas in there.

wait has this been verified

fauxmarc, Friday, 28 October 2011 23:39 (twelve years ago) link

splendid might have been hyperbole. i don't wanna rep for him to hard, i mean, it's not the best thing in the world OMG, but it's fun, y'know.

dog latin, Saturday, 29 October 2011 00:02 (twelve years ago) link

facebook's watching us

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