watch your Dubstep

[JAMAS]

Not sure the meaning behind it, but I immediately thought of LDub.

http://www.society6.com/studio/biotwist/Caution_watch_your_Dubstep

[MSHardeman]

Never heard of it before either, but here is what Wikipedia has to say:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubstep

I would watch my step around Dub too.

[vt_maverick]

I don't get it either... :confused:

[Stephen Biko]

Dunno where LDub gets his handle from - initials LW perhaps?

But Dub as a musical genre has its origins in reggae remix culture going back at least to the 70s probably earlier. Reggae dubs are remixes of the original music with lots of reverb and emphasized bass, added nature sounds like rain and thunder in the background and de-emphasis of vocals. The term "dub" may derive from the word "double" as in a b-side remix or even an entire album getting doubled with song-for-song remixes.

Dubstep is a modern dance-club style of dub where they have kind of done away with the original song and just started in composing with the characteristics that were "dub" to begin with. Of course its more than that over simplification, but close enough.

[Marlin]

urbandictionary.com has a good definition as well.

Ldub came form the fact that his last name is like wijokotoajskoski. :)

I asked him about this either at moab or on a thread buried somewhere. His brother would go by Jdub or whatever his first initial is, I can't remember but I think it was when we took a break on Poison Spider and he scored that sweet piece of wood out in the middle of nowhere while others(Billy) scouted ahead. Not 100% sure, but there were talks about his time in Hawaii as a "kona" farmer in the same conversation...:bgwb:

If he were in the navy, we would call him W13 or however many letters were in his last name.

[IndianaVX]

I think too, there is a simpsons episode involved inhis name also, maybe mows bar???

[Cobrajet]

...and going viral.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI&hd=1

[nfpgasmask]

Yeah, dubstep is a new popular type of dance music, characterized by heavy "broken" beats and repetative breaks and samples. Skrillex is the most popular dubstep artist that i can think of. Its a fad that I am sure will pass eventually.

Bart

[ND92]

I used to be a bouncer at a bar that had R&B nights and DubStep nights
I never really listened to it before I started working there, but now its basically all I listen to.

[Ldub]

In my world, Dub step can only be accomplished with copious quantities of alcohol, & the largest black leather gloves you can possibly find...:yesgray:

I has proof (about 90, but sometimes as high as 151)...:fyi:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/DSC03765.JPG

[pbkid]

haha, all the above who said they have no idea what dubstep is... youtube skrillex, very 'woppy' techno music.

its the most recent fad of popular music. In fact, skrillex won a grammy this year for his music.

[Paul_A]

Ok.... so you just spent ten minutes kicking the stereo cos it sounds like it's gone BADLY wrong.... then you realise it's "Music" that your 14 year old is listening to. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL completely talentless bilge churned out on a computer... Yep.. that's "Dubstep.":mad:
If he does it again I'm going to tie him to a chair and put on some Trace Adkins or Kip Moore at full blast till he surrenders! :smilewink

[Ldub]

Ok.... so you just spent ten minutes kicking the stereo cos it sounds like it's gone BADLY wrong.... then you realise it's "Music" that your 14 year old is listening to. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL completely talentless bilge churned out on a computer... Yep.. that's "Dubstep.":mad:
If he does it again I'm going to tie him to a chair and put on some Trace Adkins or Kip Moore at full blast till he surrenders! :smilewink

:laughing:

Good call...:thumbup:

But I'd be more inclined to blast the lad with Pink Floyd...:yesgray:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/fl_pink_JP.jpg

[nocturnalVX]

There are some aspects of Dubstep that I don't like, but I have heard remixes of songs that blew chunks UNTIL they were remixed... some songs are cool from the get go, but others need to be tweaked by others to truly rock. That said... they need to lose that annoying pitch-bending reverb garbage.


...and going viral.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI&hd=1

Perfect example. Beautiful song mixing violin & a trance like track, but flawed by that goofy broken computer freq. scanning pitch bending nonsense.


Ok.... so you just spent ten minutes kicking the stereo cos it sounds like it's gone BADLY wrong.... then you realise it's "Music" that your 14 year old is listening to. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL completely talentless bilge churned out on a computer...

What Dubstep sounds like to parents... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodrSfsboFk)


:laughing:

Good call...:thumbup:

But I'd be more inclined to blast the lad with Pink Floyd...:yesgray:

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/fl_pink_JP.jpg

Oh yeah... like Floyd doesn't have serious weirdness going on on more than a few tracks! :disturbed

[Ldub]

Oh yeah... like Floyd doesn't have serious weirdness going on on more than a few tracks! :disturbed

Which makes it "bolt on perfect" for a variety of Lad Blasting applications...:laughing:

[pbkid]

Ok.... so you just spent ten minutes kicking the stereo cos it sounds like it's gone BADLY wrong.... then you realise it's "Music" that your 14 year old is listening to. AWFUL AWFUL AWFUL completely talentless bilge churned out on a computer... Yep.. that's "Dubstep.":mad:
If he does it again I'm going to tie him to a chair and put on some Trace Adkins or Kip Moore at full blast till he surrenders! :smilewink
haha, im SURE that your parents loved your music too..... :rolleyesg

[nfpgasmask]

haha, im SURE that your parents loved your music too..... :rolleyesg

Yes, there is a VAST misconception that just because it is made electronically, it takes "no talent". While in some cases, that is certainly true, it is not always that way. The talent isn't just in the instruments played by "hand". There is also talent in composition, and just because different tools are used for the output, it doesn't mean that the musicians behind it lack talent. They are just using different mediums.

Personally, a careful marriage of conventional instruments and electronica is what I prefer.

Bart