is it brostep?

Put a banging drop on it.

i just made a slow, pretty brostep track to see if it would work. minimal ambient wobbles.

but does it have a drop?

yes but it is very soft and polite

a drizzle

Skrillex is gonna be the new Gerry Rafferty in 10 years time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVSTr7rb1_Y

Wondering where this ranks on the brostep charts (at least there's a drop):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDdP82eBLM&feature=related

dont really feel like thats brostep

Not even remotely

http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/2892/missum.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_JUlXh7sP8

^^^love that

omg markers = skrillex

i just made a slow, pretty brostep track to see if it would work. minimal ambient wobbles.

and here it is: http://theprojectlodge.bandcamp.com/track/halogen-2

fwiw, thats a 'shop: skrillex posted an aphex twin song not "miss you"

dave cool elsewhere in the world:

I'm trying to be the guy that defends brostep, but you guys are making it extra fucking hard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpXEXBZH-VE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2QT_jaf2-c

#SKRILLWAVE

#DROPCORE

#MALLSTEP

on a big genre coinage trip lately

this isn't brostep but man it feels like it

Avicii - "Levels"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ91VPOgasQ

this is going to soundtrack so many questionable mardi gras moments it's not even funny

i know "Levels" is a few months old now, but i just finally realized that this song i'd been hearing everywhere actually is a song that has a name and not kind of background memory-amalgam of every other middling euro anthem i've ever heard

i've never actually heard the original just remixes before, i'd actually picked up quality's raved-out bmore club mix

http://soundcloud.com/unorthodoxquality/aviici-levels-qualo-more-remix

re: the original it sounds more standard clubhouse / trance than *step though

this isn't brostep but man it feels like it

k

big, loud, obnoxious, electronic, not dubstep

not brostep*

closer to david guetta ibiza-fart

ibiza bloodfart

lol was that the original term whiney coined?

yeah

lol gr8 term

can I just

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bEDM4bsfWg

I mean that video / "song" / look / aesthetic combo is like a perfect storm of bad taste of Chernobyl proportions so . . . be warned

but does it technically belong here because it uses that dubstep-lite beat ala Magnetic Man "I need Air", even thought it doesn't have a wub wub drop?

yeah, it's attractive

no wub no wub

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4TnMHwikRY

everything about that is brostep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIv-qsH40m0

lol

It's been a long time since a blogpost made me do a complete 180 on a genre, but this piece from Leaving Earth on wobble is officially my favorite thing ever right now - 10 WOBBLE RECORDS

Some of Taninian's recommended jams from 21C rave:

Wicky Lindows label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74oSuCAu1Jk

Nevamis: Nevamis EP (Down South Dub, 2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PDavUTeRYY

Akira Kiteshi: Pinball (Black Acre, 2009)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veupiMmt6gg

Borgore: Borgore Ruined Dubstep part 2 (Buygore, 2010)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFOnFdLPZ1Q

Silent Frequencies/Document One: Game Over EP (Neostep, 2011)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Gjk0QbQ_I

"What did the dj play at your prom," I asked. "Too much brostep," my son responded.

Kids today.

What I like about this account is that hardcore continuum discussions in my experience have tended to emphasize the UK pirate radio thread the past few years, from breakbeat through to jungle, d'n'b, ukg, dubstep/grime, etc. So that this style could only ever be viewed as an outside influence highjacking the sound and 'ruining' it. But that post from Taninian makes a compelling case for this being the return of Eurorave and trashy glory era of hardcore, especially things like Belgian hardcore based on electronic dance riffs (with the wobble replacing the mentasm), and a rollercoaster madness of spectacular special fx with b-grade sci-fi/horror samples. Plus a deliberate attempt to break all categories of taste and generally piss people off.

Leaving the Earth more or less makes the case above. Maybe this is all really obvious, but I honestly hadn't bothered paying attention to dubstep for a long while, and when this stuff started coming out, I was equally indifferent until I had to develop some opinion on Skrillex.

One thing that maybe changes, however, is that wobble/brostep fully embraces digital and networked technologies, so it has this hiding in the light quality, and an output on YouTube, soundcloud, MP3 mixes, etc. that dwarfs earlier excesses of rave over-production, also probably a wider hit to miss ratio.

Anyway, Reynolds has some thoughts over here: http://blissout.blogspot.nl/2012/06/and-from-one-black-sheep-of-postrave.html - including a shout-out to the 'ambient/intelligent' response to wobble with dungeon-style dubstep, which after some Googling I discover is also a thing that exists. I've gotta say, this sample track is dope:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AZ-Cv8SG0KU

Anyway, sorry for the semi-serious post btw, not even sure this is the right thread to post on. Probably not. It's just some of this stuff has got me amped the past day or so, I don't have a blog so I post here. Not sure if any ilxors actually listens to any of this style?

Anyway, sorry for the semi-serious post btw

Nothing to feel sorry about

not exactly his fault but lol @ SR doing another wobble-themed blog post yesterday and banging on about eastern European cinema rather than the actual source of the title, Nathan Barley

SR very much in character

I know people who make this style of music, run nights and play it out here in Amsterdam. And I have to admit I was really beyond dismissive. Now I'm thinking there's certainly more going on. Not sure if I'm ready to check it out live though!

Re: SR in character, yeah but this is when he's actually worth reading. I'd even say that Leaving Earth out-Reynolds him on this! ;) That grunt-step quote about the cyber-pigs with the green ooze for this Tomba track below is classic. I've been thinking about it all week...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq7z6TEpGOw

Not being at work to listen to these, I'm not sure I understand... Are people saying that this kind of music is now worth listening to? Or is this a different style? Cos I'd hate to say I told you so...

Sorry, I mis-typed that. I'm at work and can't listen to these, is what I meant. Also - hasn't dubstep been truly mainstream for at least 18 months or more now? IDGI

I don't think anyone is saying it isn't mainstream.