Been into a lot of straight up techno, more on the industrial, and kind of settled on it as my favorite but I like a little tech house too. Dubfire, Will Clarke, etc.. are some of my favorite DJs
Also been listening to a lot of aphex twin lately, his most recent sets, which were bonkers. i like things with a lot of subtle layers, straight up bangers, or both layered and bangin
Nice, man! Ive tried making threads like this, but there aren't a lot of EDM fans on Yas Forums I guess. Honestly not a big fan of techno. Been getting very into electro house though. But Aphex Twin is one of my biggest inspiration, hands down. From his weird, crazy stuff to his happier stuff.
Big room is meh. But dubstep actually takes a lot of skill. I get hating Skrillex and brostep at the time was the cool thing to do. But it goes beyond that.
Julian Lee
Both genres are fucking awful. Same sounds in every song. It's not hating on a specific musician or artist. It's the whole genre itself that sucks.
As for Big Room, it's just cancer.
Jayden Perez
I'm still going strong on guys like Koletzki and Kalkbrenner like I've been doing for the last few years.
Skrillex is actually a fairly technically skilled producer. He just happened to make some garbage songs with mass appeal.
Kevin Moore
I dont really agree that the OG stuff is allways the best. But what really pisses me off is that in 4 years going to psytrance raves/festivals i have never heard one single oldshool goatrance set. people really need to appiciate the past more.
You can say the same thing about any genre, and not only in edm: "hurr durr, ITS THE SAME SOUNDS USED EVERYTIME, so boring!" Besides the big names in dubstep, who have you heard? Two artists that completely flipped dubstep on its head are Virtual Riot and Au5. Just listen to this one song, and tell me it's not art. Even if you don't like the poppy vocals or the "typical" dubstep sounds, it's incredible.
Really a lot of it has to do with the rise of the bedroom producer and pirated software meaning any untalented loser can mash together some sample packs and release 10 EPs a month on Beatport. But for example this guy combines classic and modern production techniques to achieve a sound that is both authentic and holds up to the production standards of 2020. youtube.com/watch?v=NNvUwXlduVY
Julian Lopez
I actually really like Skrillex. He was ahead of his time, and popularised brostep, and in turn, dubstep- inadvertently, at that. Old school dubstep is pretty awful though, not gonna lie.
Michael Brooks
Original dubstep and post-Skrillex dubstep are so different, they deserved to have different names.
Juan Wood
The wubs are too fucking annoying. It may be the best piece of music ever, the best produced and from a sound engineer standpoint, the most amazing thing ever.
The wobbling of the bass track isn't music. Sorry. I grew up listening to deep house and acid house. I like when my bass actually does something for the song, not just some autistic sounds I'd get by rubbing my nuts on a glass.
youtube.com/watch?v=waYpEQAYf3g Taking you deeper, a mix by Mrsuicidesheep. Pretty much a chaos channel at this point. But some gems still pop up from time to time. Always listen to the first 30 seconds of everything he posts to get a feel for the song.
Just not your thing, fair enough. But really, acid house and deep house? I appreciate any genre, even big room. But all that 4/4, kick clap repetitive shit is so easy. It's the same Reese bass in every single song- the same reverb-soaked vocals and the same boring plucks and sunths- sound familiar? I'm a producer, so seeing it from that perspective is what I do. You're probably more of a show or festival-goer: you want something nice to dance to, I get it.
Bentley Taylor
Those guys do some amazing work.
Nathaniel Kelly
You're right. That's why I just say old school and current/modern dubstep. Even though I hate the term, sometimes I'll just say brostep when referring to that Americanized sound.
Ian Bennett
This reminds me of some 2am sets at sacred earth. They played some pretty odball house back then.
Cooper Gonzalez
I'm a bit of both, to be honest. I have a soft spot for old tunes, which, I'll admit, aren't the best when it comes to the difficulty of producing.
I do enjoy a good producer though. Aphex Twin is a name I hold pretty highly when it comes to producing, for example, even though I don't listen to his stuff on a regular basis.
Julian Carter
That stuff isn't oddball, it just isn't the normie version of electronic music.
It doesnt get much harder than this. Its brutal man.
Ryder Hall
>The wobbling of the bass track isn't music.
Critically acclaimed avant-garde musicians in the 20thC who experimented with music based on timbral rather than harmonic and tonal excitement: "am I a joke to you?"
Considering everything up to that point was Goa, hardstyle, or vocal trance, yeah it was a different vibe. Not saying it's bad, it was just a change.
Unlike that one fucking year at infrasound. There is only so much dubstep you can listen to before you want to shoot yourself. Security is fun and all, but trying to sleep through shitty dubstep at 2 in the afternoon after a 26 hour shift really gets on your nerves.