Justin Bieber to Release Dubstep Album

  On 12/7/2011 at 2:36 PM, feltcher said:

...but not everybody will go from Skrillex to Flux Pavillion to Engine Earz to Pinch and then further back into the roots....

 

...95% will listen to Skrillex and then Chase & Status, Biebers new album and Nero and think thats where the genre ends.

But Smettinghams point is that some people in this discussion have a problem with the last 5%. The people who actually use Skrillex and Random Crap Artist to widen their horizons. Apparently they are discovering new music in a...false...(?) way.

well now aphex can't ever release a new album because it wont be as good as the new skrillex album.

  On 12/7/2011 at 2:42 PM, MortstoX said:

  On 12/7/2011 at 2:36 PM, feltcher said:

...but not everybody will go from Skrillex to Flux Pavillion to Engine Earz to Pinch and then further back into the roots....

 

...95% will listen to Skrillex and then Chase & Status, Biebers new album and Nero and think thats where the genre ends.

 

But Smettinghams point is that some people in this discussion have a problem with the last 5%. The people who actually use Skrillex and Random Crap Artist to widen their horizons. Apparently they are discovering new music in a...false...(?) way.

I think 5% is kinda low honestly. I've chatted with a small but nonetheless notable amount of people on turntable.fm who've discovered older dubstep and garage via Skrillex and other brostep artists or listen to house, techno, dnb, IDM, etc and cite such "dubstep" as a guilty pleasure. Don't forget there are masses of people with even more limited taste (mainstream rock, adult contemporary, pop country, mainstream hip-hop, etc) who think that any electronic music is crap that will be bashing people from the opposite spectrum of music taste. Either way I'm with MortstoX, I'm one of those people who got here via Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, late 90s VGM, etc.

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  On 12/7/2011 at 2:37 PM, MortstoX said:

  On 12/6/2011 at 11:05 PM, chenGOD said:

Because it's all about how those people came to arrive at that state. They arrived there not of their own volition, or through some innate curiosity to expand their musical sensibilities, rather they were pulled there through a machine of hype.

 

That part of your post is just epic "Not of their own volition."

So if my 12 year old cousin who listen to Skrillex, moves on to the artists Skrillex is namedropping, that's wrong? If he in a few years is a fan of Aphex Twin because of Skrillex, he came to "arrive at that state" in a wrong way? WTF is the right way? Posting at Watmm?

No, of course not - not if your cousin actually listens to Aphex. I'm talking about the people (and this will be the vast majority) who listen to Skrillex, hear Skrillex name-drop Aphex and then listen to one Aphex track and call themselves "like underground listeners of techno and dubstep roots man". Those people aren't fucking conscious.

I liked AphexTwin before I knew Skrillex liked him.

New facebook post for all my friends who listen to Skrillex but called AphexTwin "Robot Sex".