Ban One Music Genre, Go On You Know You Want To.

[Sheilbh]

Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.

Heh, I didnt even read the thread before posting.  According to my sons Skrillex is THE thing - or at least was last year.  Be thankful you havent actually heard it.

Okay.  I listened to some Skrillex... 

This is a song (from a brilliant album, worth listening to as one) by Burial, mentioned by some of us.  To me this is like a more high concept version of what dubstep is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw&feature=related

As I say it was big in some clubs when I was in Bristol (it's far bigger now) but it's nothing like Skrillex.  They're more, as Queequeg says, influenced by trip hop and local heroes like Massive Attack.

[Ed Anger]

That shit makes me pine for the days of Emo. I want to punch a Brit now.

[Queequeg]

Massive Attack is one of my favorite artists of the 90s. 

[Eddie Teach]

That's not too bad. I like music that gives me the shivers, hate music that gives me headaches.

[garbon]

Oh okay. I've not heard Skrillex but love Burial. So yeah the UK scene is maybe different.

Heh, I didnt even read the thread before posting.  According to my sons Skrillex is THE thing - or at least was last year.  Be thankful you havent actually heard it.

Okay.  I listened to some Skrillex... 

This is a song (from a brilliant album, worth listening to as one) by Burial, mentioned by some of us.  To me this is like a more high concept version of what dubstep is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QS38JBh5gcw&feature=related

As I say it was big in some clubs when I was in Bristol (it's far bigger now) but it's nothing like Skrillex.  They're more, as Queequeg says, influenced by trip hop and local heroes like Massive Attack.

That song sounds pretty much like Ambient music.

[Sheilbh]

In the best possible (ie Brian Eno-ish way) you're right

[garbon]

Yeah which is why that track doesn't seem very much like dubstep to me.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah which is why that track doesn't seem very much like dubstep to me.

Well as Queequeg and I were saying I think it means something different in the UK and US (apparently some in the UK refer to the US style is called brostep ).  The Burial album is very good though.  A lot of dubstep in clubs I went to was far simpler and bassier than that

[garbon]

If that's the case, then that leans to my thought that dubstep is really a useless term and really just describes various bits of electronica.

[Josephus]

That song gets annoying very quickly.