I first heard of dubstep when I went to a Halloween party last October. I thought it would just be a bunch of dance music or remixes when I went, but it turned out to be something quite different. I'm not sure that it was necessarily a good different though. Most of the music they played was repetitive in the base line and the base drops and I would have much preferred the original dance songs to be played there rather than the dubstep remixes. I mean, there may have been one or two songs that I liked and could get down to on the dance floor, but other than that, I find it pointless to mix up music that is already mixed. For music, I like something interesting and original, and dubstep to me just sounds like a lot of unnecessary noise to already decent songs. It's probably just my opinion, but I think I'll pass on the dubstep fad for now. What are your opinions on dubstep?
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I had been listening to electronic music (mainly Daft Punk, Nujabes, Darude, and Tiesto) for a few years prior to coming to college, but my first encounter with dubstep was my freshman year of college. A buddy of mine going to Champlain sent me a bunch of hard electronic songs by well-known artists including Mt. Eden, Deadmau5, and Bassnectar. I was immediately hooked on the electrifying synths and satisfyingly primal bass drops. This same buddy of mine started promoting for a local Burlington artist named DJ Haitian - and in March 2010 I went and saw him at my first rave, which took place in a bowling alley. It was absolutely mind blowing. I learned than that while many dubstep songs can be moderately enjoyed on normal computer speakers- dubstep becomes a completely different animal once you throw the amps on 11 and throw a couple hundred (or thousand) people in close dancing proximity.
ReplyDeleteIt's something beautiful when you can feel every individual strand of WHOMP bursting through the speakers and the bass is so heavy it literally shakes the entire venue with all your insides rumbling in unison-and than you look to see everyone around similarly enjoying the experience. Since than I've gone to some awesome dubstep shows including a 12 hour Jungle Book themed set in 2010 headlined by Danny the Wildchild with opening acts such as Dj Knowledge and this past New Years Eve I went to a Tron themed show headlined by Dj Venom with opening acts including Dj Parallax.
While I’ve been to some awesome shows, I have friends who’ve seen such dubstep/electronic acts such as Flux Pavilion, Dr. P, and Avicii where just seeing the videos they took is enough to make my heart rate increase - let alone hearing their mind blowing testimonies. I haven’t been to any shows in awhile, but I still avidly search for new dubstep artists, original songs, and crazy mixes on a weekly basis. Listening to people talk about dubstep at dinner, at a party on the weekend, or all over Facebook is enough to show me that I am not alone in my love. I love music in all forms whether it be rap, hip-hop, classic rock, country, electronic, alternative, ska, reggae, house, Celtic, or bluegrass to name a few-and over the past couple years I’ve been happy to add dubstep to that list. And I don’t think that it’ll be going anywhere soon.