Skrillex

[Townhallsavoy]

Why? 

[AUChizad]

Why?

Yeah, I agree.

Realizing that there was an entire musical genre called Dub Step that I had no idea was a thing, was a pivotal moment in realizing I am old.

It sounds like aliens farting into a microphone and sending it to earth as a prank, but instead the kids are dancing to it.

[GH2001]

It sounds like aliens farting into a microphone and sending it to earth as a prank

That's probably because that's what it is. In end result anyway.

[Vandy Vol]

Skrillex is useful as a featured artist on a song for the electronic, distorted sound he brings to the table, but as a stand alone "artist," he sucks.

[djsimp]

Sounds like some bs Techno/Rave music.

Breakbeats>Techno>Skrillex

[Townhallsavoy]

Many of my students love Skrillex, and they're ecstatic about the big festival he's playing in this summer.  I tried to give him a listen, but I couldn't make it through one song. I gave another song a try, and I had to turn it off.

It reminds me of Ross in Friends when he shows off his mad electronic music skills. 

[GH2001]

Many of my students love Skrillex, and they're ecstatic about the big festival he's playing in this summer.  I tried to give him a listen, but I couldn't make it through one song. I gave another song a try, and I had to turn it off.

It reminds me of Ross in Friends when he shows off his mad electronic music skills.

I remember that episode. And yes, it sounds just like that.

[GarMan]

Why?

Why not?  If we're going to recognize thug/gangsta hippity-hop as music, why not stretch the electronic genre with Skrillex? 

[Townhallsavoy]

Why not?  If we're going to recognize thug/gangsta hippity-hop as music, why not stretch the electronic genre with Skrillex?

Hippity-hoppity music at least has a message.  Granted, nowadays, that message seems to be more puerile than poetic.  Skrillex is just noise.  And it's not good noise.

[wesfau2]

Eh...I'm not a big fan of electronic music, but this isn't as horrible as I was expecting.

He's a dorky little hipster kid who favors Teddy Duchamp, and his songs are NIN-ultra lite, but he's not the worst I've ever heard.

[Jumbo]

Eh...I'm not a big fan of electronic music, but this isn't as horrible as I was expecting.

He's a dorky little hipster kid who favors Teddy Duchamp, and his songs are NIN-ultra lite, but he's not the worst I've ever heard.

Deadmou5 is the worst.

[AUChizad]

Here's an example of dubstep infiltrating otherwise good music. This is not a remix, it's the original song.



It's not terrible, but I've seen this movie before. This is a sign of things to come. Similar to auto-tune. It gets done. Then it gets done too much. Then you want to fucking choke every person on the radio that uses it.

[Townhallsavoy]

Yeah.  Wow.  At 1:15 into that Alex Clare song, I realized that I'm officially an old fogey and that I'm going to be a cantankerous bastard after 40. 

And another thing - Bjork was using those ideas a long, long time before this modern Skrillex-influenced shit. 

From 1993:

[GH2001]

I just listened to some of this shit on iTunes.   

THS, you mentioned Bjork in the electronic genre but you can go even further back to ELO in the 70's for electronic sounding music, although its a far stretch from this shit. Jeff Lynne was actually a great musician and they played real instruments with synthesizers complimenting them. But this crap? Barf. Sounds exactly what Chad said and what you said combined - Ross Gellar's mad skills + aliens with the runs.

[AUChizad]

Here's an example of dubstep infiltrating otherwise good music. This is not a remix, it's the original song.

Here's a "rock-step" band:



I like the part where he says the sunlight hurts his eyes.