Why everybody hates dubstep music?

[KronicReaper]

Another question from me to the members from WZ. Why everybody hates dubstep music?

[TheConzio]

I don't dislike it, I have even made my own dubstep song.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk2ulr1uTHs

[Xpand]

While I acknowledge the existance of good dubstep, to me it all sounds the same in general.

[TheConzio]

Agreed. All it is, is some roaring sound and some heavy beats. It gets repetitive.

[Knux_Chaotix]

Each to their own. How boring the world would be if we all liked the same things. While Im just not into dubstep I know plenty of people who love it. Its all down to personal taste.

[terra-wrists]

the dubstep genre is diverse - to say it all sound the same would be a fallacy.

People used to say the same thing about DnB - that it all sounded the same... fast forward to today and DnB has its own definitive genres within itself. DubStep is going the same way... a seed was planted, it grew into a plant which pollinated and spread to other areas, and the soil from those areas influenced the flavour of the new seedlings... which grew into some mighty fine buds :D

variety can come from the most simple of things. Let's never forget that.

Grow Music :)

[superjeepboy]

I also like it, so it sounds like you are the DJ. Well, kinda.

[TheConzio]

variety can come from the most simple of things. Let's never forget that.

Grow Music :)

Amen to that!

[Xpand]

People used to say the same thing about DnB - that it all sounded the same... fast forward to today and DnB has its own definitive genres within itself.


I gotta disagree with you, I listen to a lot of both old school DnB and recent DnB, I have to say that the late 90's to mid-lateish 2000's were the golden age for DnB, now most of it revolves around wobby or distorted basses, the same sampled breaks (Amen break included) that aren't edited at all in terms of beat structure and infected with Dubstep influences. Liquid DnB is probably the only that retained a bit of originality. I wish people took at look at old school Jungle and the funky beats and sounds they managed to do, it sounds a lot more "intelligent" IMO.
Like, just some examples of what I mean:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYsY4wYMQe8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9xPJ6QNYzY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZ68IUVYGg0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1frmyqE0178
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2UA0VG-wms
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vVxK92vJvA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbigc57sQI
You don't hear this nowadays, or at least it's hard to find them.

Long story short, my opinion on modern dnb is that it's too industrialized or, in other words, it sounds as mass production tecniques applied to music.

[terra-wrists]

Oh you mean you like DnB to sound more organic right?

Like live DnB sets with instruments instead of samplers etc?, so do I. I grew up with oldskool DnB, Hackney East London! And the Kool FM block was where it was at, ram records, ruffige kru, cungo natty - all names from the past that I'll never forget, or the late night radio sets with brockie and dett / MC5.0 and the gang etc... those were the days when it was taking off, and boy was it like the BIG BANG or what? Fantastic stuff...

...But electronic music will always be, just that! Electronic.

This ages sound is warpy, yesterdecade ago, it was a lot more dub, and the drumbeats fuelled the intelligence behind it - from that we got the liquid and all else.

And today, there dubstep - industrial and warpy seems to work best. I don't have a problem with it. I kinda like it a lot! Especially for wipEout. yes it's over done - but I don't have strictly dub step playlists. Instead, I supplement my DnB playlists with the odd dub step track.

Also, I've noticed DJ's mixing up both, DnB and Dub-Step in their sets, and that really rocks it down!

as for those wobbly / distorted basslines, well, you can blame Azzido for that :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cYwggM2UGk&feature=kp

[mistroboy]

I don't believe people hate DubStep as a whole more or less the Brostep sub genre Skrillex i think?, Can't really blame them i do love more slow Dubstep style similar to what Skream has! Recently i think he quit Dubstep or i read on an article that he did.