I thought I would see if anyone else listens to Dubstep. I listen to it on long drives at night because it keeps me up.

Share some of your favorites, I'll so the same. If you're on SoundCloud, you can follow me and the stuff I randomly find: http://soundcloud.com/mapeterson2

Here are some of my favorite artists:

Minnesota

DJ NADE

Waeck

Jomekka

Big Chocolate

Jakk

There are more but, you can find more on SoundCloud, the ones I'm following are really good.

WUB WUB WUB WOOOOOOOOBLE.

I'd namedrop some DJ's, but I usually just have it on ElectricArea when I'm in the car listening to Dupstep.

NICEE

Kill it with fire?

Kill it with fire?

I hate dubstep that sounds like:

a.) Transformers

b.) Someone is having a synth seizure

c.) It's made by a metal kid that never learned an instrument

That's probably about 90% of it now a days which pains me to say I do like the genre.. well 10% of it.

But,

I am going to see Nero next month.

The poor hatred towards dub step. It's true though, I liked it when it was new. Some people (Skrillex) are going WAY overboard and collaborating with bands that they shouldn't (Korn).

My girlfriend named her car Sonny, after Skrillex

My girlfriend named her car Sonny, after Skrillex

Wow...

NOPE

I liked dubstep when Burial - Untrue came out in 07'

The poor hatred towards dub step. It's true though, I liked it when it was new. Some people (Skrillex) are going WAY overboard and collaborating with bands that they shouldn't (Korn).

I just hate the whole fad. DJ's are not musicians they are button pushers, maybe artists but not musicians. You have to play an instrument to get that title.

inb4butthurt

I agree to a point, some DJ's make some pretty complex tracks, trance, progressive and drum & bass come to mind for me in the Electronica genre.

Not to mention, some of the best Dupstep tracks aren't exactly easy to make. At all.

just because it is complex and hard to make doesn't make it any better. Dubstep is simply noise generated from a computer. They ruined the a Red Tails trailer by simply including it, and Korn just hopped onto the bandwagon. As Ringo said, they aren't musicians, just artists.

mu·si·cian/myo͞oˈziSHən/

Noun:

• A person who is talented or skilled in music.
  
• A person who plays a musical instrument, esp. professionally.
  

Synonyms:

player - bandsman - music player - composer

According to the first bullet, since it is a genre, they are musicians and I agree with you that they just are sounds generated from a computer, however, isn't it the same thing with a piano? Pressing buttons to make sounds...

I enjoy some of it. I don't care if you don't, I created this for future members who may like it.

I listen to a ton of electronic music and I honestly don't care what DJs are referred to as. I also don't think they are fighting to be recognized as musicians either. For the most part I think they consider themselves DJs and/or producers.. So no reason to get butthurt there.

Now, that said. If you think it's easy to make good/decent electronic music, you're very uneducated on the subject, close-minded, and archaic.

Nobody cares if you don't get it and there's no reason to compare it to other things.

People listen to stuff cause it's catchy, shakes up something inside, whatever. Which type is best will always be subjective

For some twisted reason, I started listening to Eifel 65 because of this thread.

No, not the one song EVERYBODY knows, but their album "Europop" in general.

Behold!

I know, not dubstep...but this should really be called the "Electronica" thread. So many interesting sub genres within this realm of music worth finding and sharing.

Yeah, it could get renamed but, I made it to find more dub step to listen to.

Funny you posted that from Eiffel 65, I have that CD and it was the 2nd CD I ever owned! haha

My problem with DJs are more or less they are putting together premade

tunes, noises, segments or altogether an already made song with other

premade tunes, segments, noises or other already made songs. Music isn't

just putting together sounds that other people created and put on a computer

and saying "Oh that sounds good", it's about

perfecting your song knowing what instruments sound like, understanding

how music works thus working and practicing your instrument. Being able to

say oh that quarter note needs to be a whole note with a fermata to that break or that

needs to be taken up an octave or adjusting your overall attack on the

note (as examples). Very hard to do the latter when someone else recorded

it and put it on a computer for you to use thus you are very limited and

creativity sufers. Since computers have come into music we've had more 1

hit wonders than ever before, you could argue that technology has just

made it easier for people to come through the woodwork and disappear again

but shouldn't if they are talented be able to stay around longer if it's

easier to come through? You also don't hear of bands/musicians like the

Beatles, Stones, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers or bunch of people from

the 60's and 70's any more who had as many hit albums as they did in a 10

year span AND still listened to this day by EVERYONE.

I play 7 instruments and spent half of my life in some form of band or

another having fun with this stuff (Yes I did marching band, jazz band and

concert band in middle/high school). I've also spent a huge chunk of my

life and now earn a living by working with computers, a computer will

never match the skill of a LIVE musician no matter what it's operator

does.

Mark, please don't say playing a paino is like pushing a button. Beethoven

will arise from the grave just to slap you in the face lol. Drag and

dropping two songs to play one after another is so much easier than

learning to play a paino and even playing "hot crossed buns" on the piano.

Now if it was one of those painos that play themselves when you drop a

quater in them then yes it's like pushing a button, that's a perfect

analogy of a DJ now that I think of it

Last reason why I'm not a fan of this is a musician is BETTER live than

they are recorded. Utilizing the recording studio is fine but I pay to

hear a musician though when I go to a concert, I can listen to the

recording at home. People ask me why I'm going to see Tom Petty this

summer live 2 separate times? My response is I guarantee even if he plays

the same set it won't be the same experience because he is bound to change

something for the better. One of the best live concerts I've heard is Neil Young

Live at Massey Hall, listen to it. Probably the best raw cuts of a great musician,

just him, his guitar or piano and the audience, amazing. Another great thing is

when Bob Dylan played live he changed things in the middle of the performance

without telling his band and just motioned it through to them, amazing talent to

pull that off with a whole band of about 5-6 people

This turned into a huge rant on music today rather than just Dubstep but most of it still applies to how I feel. Not saying you guys are stupid or wrong in liking it but I am just looking for different talent when I want to listen to music. Call me stuck in the past or whatever but I just think creativity should be in music and originality. The music should also be created by the musician and not someone else who put it on a computer.

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I rest my case.

@ Ringo, all great for reasons why you like the kind of music you do.

But, you stated many of your opinions as fact, which isn't necessary.

Opinions or facts, how ever you may see them, feel free to take them or leave them as always. They were just my reasoning to the claim I made earlier that everyone didn't like about DJs not being musicians. My point may seemed to come across strong and for that I applogize, I am very passionate about music and it may show