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I don't get how anyone can enjoy dubstep or any other purely electronic music, to me it all lacks the life of actual instruments.

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Alltogether a little pricey but those are some magnificent beers, looking forward to tasting them.

Just different tastes, I guess. While it's true that it's not the same as physical instruments, purely electronic music isn't lacking anything in my book - it's just different.



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I don't really get how anyone can enjoy death metal or any other screamcore music. To me it all lacks the life of actual vocals.

It's all a matter of degrees.

As an aside: Favorite tweet of the weekend -

1963 - Whitney Houston / 2012 - Whitney Houstoff

I don't get dubstep. Or rather, I don't get what makes it dubstep. It all sounds techno/dance to me. I still can't find anyone that can actually explain the difference.

Oh, well, here we go. An article about metal subgenres on wikipedia.

Example:

Dubstep apparently started out as a UK garage/DnB hybrid with some tribal sh*t thrown in, but now it's basically dance music with a more pronounced, and wobbly, bass line, ranging from the almost unnoticeable to the ludicrous, marked by a drop between the intro and main section of the track.

After dubstep became mainstream, people started upping the amounts of wobble bass to hilarious levels, sometimes removing the rest of the background sounds, like so. It sounds incredible stupid, in my opinion. I prefer the bass adding to the song rather than taking from it. Nero's song Promises is a good example of what I'd call discreet dubstep.

Generally I like dubstep more than regular dance music because the latter has a tendency to be "hard" in its style, whereas dubstep, because of the emphasis on wobble, has a more soft, almost liquid, feel to it (think non-Newtonian fluid). I love a good bass line, as long as it doesn't take over the song completely.

Oh, and Skrillex isn't dubstep. Doesn't matter how much his fans want it to be, those eighteen-year-old haiku-writing mother@#%^ers need to get off my internet and go back to whatever Starbucks they came from. I'm not saying Skrillex is bad, but this isn't dubstep.

Edit: The young'uns today think everything with a heavy bass line is dubstep. Deadmau5 isn't dubstep, it's just Skrillex minus the random noise.

Edited, Feb 28th 2012 12:34am by Mazra

My dog was awesome. Now she's eleven years old of awesome and half blind.

Yeah, Bella is pretty much the exact same dog now that she was when I first got her, but she's certainly lost a step or two. We used to go jogging in the mornings together, and now it's too much for her. She can't quite jump up on the couch anymore either. Still just as affectionate as ever, though, and let's my daughter get away with pretty much murder.

That's fantastic.

He does not look amused.
cool pic though. ^^

Good drink, lame label.

That's a ghoul, not a zombie.