Dubstep VS Brostep [ish]. Is the bass cannon blowing chunks? OF FUCK?

Flux Pavilon and Doctor P seem to have taken the reigns for this era of Dubstep [I'm guessing this is the 5th wave now, or perhaps 4th. Someone clarify this for me!]. Or should I say Brostep?

There is a lot of hatred back and forth from the "old school" [anything under a decade doesn't justify the term old school in my books but we'll roll with it for the moment] days of dark, atmospheric, sub driven ways of Dubstep and the more modern ravey, upbeat and mid-range orientated "brostep". Of course brostep isn't a term coined by anyone except people insulting the style [..ish], or in this instance seperating the two for cross examination. I quite like brostep alongside the "truer" dubstep so happy days for me.

You may be asking why would people hate on the evolution of a genre? Actually there is a good chance you didn't. People crave change but also hate it, I'm a victim of this myself.

You have 2 sides to the evolutionary coin; pros and cons. We'll go ahead and use brostep and dubstep as an example seeing as it's in context.

Dubstep started off as underground, you had that immense scene where nearly everyone was on the same wavelength. BULLSHIT. That doesn't happen, that's just wishful/nostalgic thinking. Scenes stay the same, it's just in smaller scenes it's much easier to avoid the parts that you don't enjoy and siphon through the bullshit.

Anyhow, back on point [there's a point to this?]. Dubstep started off as a particular genre with a particular tone. It gained in popularity with surprising speed and as a result the natural progression of any genre was witnessed on a larger and faster scale. Cue people getting drowned in a cuntstorm of double con sided coins.

With a growing and evolving genre you have the pros of recognition, expansion, larger community and a sharp drop in the costs. On the other side you have the cons of lower quality in terms of consistency, more people saying "Dubstep? I love that band! AND I FUCK MY FAMILY" and of course the dreaded scenester. Scenester: The person who is into a scene due to it being cool and not really giving a fuck about the music. It's important to note that a lot of them have honestly convinced themselves that they do care about the music.It may seem that I'm saying this from an elitist point of view but what I mean is that they really are passionate  about the music in question but once something else becomes popular they drop it and bull on to the next thing which, as far as I'm concerned, equates to not really giving a fuck.

So following on with the trend of other genres you have the older dubstep which is not nearly as easy to approach [weather it's better or more enjoyable is purely personal taste, no matter how much you try to argue one is better then the other; the problem doesn't lie in the music itself] and then the more modern brostep which is vastly more commercial, approachable and marketable. Those last three words, the controversial fucks of words that they are, are good to some and curse words to others. Anyhow I don't think I really have a point to this at the moment, it's more just of an overview/train of thought but I'll come back to it in much more detail in the future. I'm sure you're foaming at the mouth with the sheer thought. Fuck you. I just wanted to clarity what brostep was [which truthfully I could have done in one sentence but ahhhhhh, again, fuck you].

So coming back to the Bass Cannon, this is the new track by Flux Pavilion that has taken brostep by storm and, as a direct result, caused a huge amount of phlegm gems, erupted from the depths of old schooler's under a decade sub beaten lungs, to form into one mass lump of pure cunning prick. It's taken the scene like a motherfucker altogether, people are going mad for it.

Now I like Flux Pavilion ALOT [although truthfully he is one of the least consistent artists that I've come across] but this track is just alright. His other tracks such as Got 2 know, Digital Controller, excuse me remix, cracks remix [probably his best track], etc are much, MUCH, better in my opinion. I'm dumbfounded at the attention that bass cannon has received. It's in no way a bad track, trust me and no doubt timing has a lot to do with it and when I heard it I did enjoy it quite a bit but I was taken back by the attention that it received. It does a fantastic job of summing up brostep, in my opinion. It's very chripy, seemingly bass heavy [it's not really subby, it's very mid rangey which gives it presence and size, old school dubstep is very subby in where it's often more so felt then heard and is the main focus], and on first listen it really gets you pumped. And that it does well, but it's not a track that I would put on a playlist at all. There is nothing original about it to make it a "classic" yet it seems to have taken that status almost immediately [FUCK TIMETRAVEL]. I think it more just boils down to the smart marketing by the lads over at circus records.

Point to be made on what I was saying about the sub bass in brostep: There is clearly sub bass actually there, my point wasn't it's existence. I was making reference to the fact that the midrange punch and "dirty" parts of the synth are the emphasis of brostep. Which I love, it's not a bad thing I'm just making a distinction. Old school dubstep is often very roomy with the focus on the sub itself. I'll dedicate an entire post to this point in the future with examples so hold out for that. With glee they said.

The track in question: Flux Pavilion - Bass Cannon

And two remixes worth listening to that make it a much more interesting track in my opinion:

Filth Collins Remix - Alot more interesting melody wise and overall timbre wise.

Aura Remix - Admittedly the production on this remix could do with a good bit of work but I really like the variation on it. Works really well, the main "go mental" part probably could have been expanded without so many gaps but I think this is a pretty interesting and fairly original rendition. Thumbs up.

Look at those thumbs go.

This is loads more remixes out there, considering it has taken the scene by storm there is a huge amount of potential by jumping onto the remix bandwagon so search for a few and feel free to post your favourite of them in the comments section below.

I'm probably going to regret this post as it was originally just to show 2 remixes of a popular track and it somehow stemmed into this mess of contradictions and incoherent ramblings but take what you want from it. Establish that I'm an asshole so that we can go onto youtube and harrass eachother over the comments. Go on. We're both cool.

I'll look over this again and get my head straight on whatever seeming "points" I was trying to make and I'll also do a breakdown of the timeline of dubstep etc. Hopefully I'll have as much of the history, and evolution covered in the coming weeks that I can so I can move on to what is currently evolving and then things will get really interesting but for now we'll walk.

AND SHUT YOUR MOUTHES YOU DIRTY WHORES.

P.s: Maybe I'm retarded and not paying attention to anything but this seems to be one of the first dubstep tracks with an official properly made video so make what you will of that.

Oh and bass cannon repeating in the background constantly is annoying as shit.

28th April - Here is where you DAMN WELL TAKE IT.

Todays track:

The Noisy Freaks - D.R.E.A.M (nilow remix)

Hello world, friends, family, you, fuck.

Starting off this blog is a rather “lucious” dubstep track, free at that. This is one of those tracks that I’ve come across beating my way through the hoards of pure SHIT on soundcloud with the download button enabled until I reached one worth fucking onto my hard drive and then RAMMING DOWN PEOPLE’S THROATS.

JUST RAM RAM RAM.

Ah this track is actually fairly gorgeous though, it makes for a nice mellow break in between other tracks that unnecessarily force you into enjoying yourself. Saying that this track isn’t exactly what I’d class as light, it’s still got a few heavy sounds in there but in the overall context it’s in helps creates a pretty nice flowing mood.

The lead melody is where it’s at in this track with it’s near old school anologue sound, layered with reverb at times to move it back and some really interesting rhythms keeping this an interesting track overall.

As of writing this I’m finding myself letting this track happily plod on loop in the background and it’s not making me gurgitate the words FUCK and MY CUNT from the pits of my stomach, so yeah, it’s doing something right.

Nice work.

So there you have it: The Noisy Freaks - Dreams (nilow remix)

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