• Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Not gonna lie, his return to music and most recent two albums are pretty good if you like the Fred Again style of production.

    Dubstep is a hard genre to get into, aside from very few album releases (there are A LOT of singles/splits) there’s some big sonic variation. Some of the faster, more frantic tracks sound closer to Jungle, while other artists like Burial bring a lot more of the UK Bass sound, and then you’ll get a very downtempo track, or a flute as the main instrument.

    It’s kind of a “I know it when I hear it” vibe lol

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      9 days ago

      Ehh theres good and bad

      I’m personally not a fan of brostep, but I will admit that skrillex was an early pioneer of the scene, and a lot of modern edm is shaped around that era (which is moreso around the start of mainstream edm imo). A lot of the first exposure of edm for people was through early internet culture, which a major portion was mlg memes and a lot of brostep. For me, if it wasn’t for brostep, I wouldn’t have color bass (one of my favorites atm along with just good ol dnb). Even brostep brought a resurgence in traditional (-ish) dubstep in the form of teardown and riddim (not much 2 step though)

      Example of color bass that I like https://youtu.be/2mInwGLfEaI