All My Homies Hate Skrillex | A story about what happened with dubstep.
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Channel: Timbah.On.Toast
Views: 2,183,611
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Keywords: dubstep documentary, skrillex documentary, Mala, Coki, DMZ documentary, I hate Skrillex, UK dubstep, real dubstep, zomby, pinch, loefah, skream, benga, rinse, stella sessions, EDM, UK scene, Burial documentary, Burial untrue
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Length: 52min 52sec (3172 seconds)
Published: Thu Jan 28 2021
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Always wanted to understand the connection between Burial to Skrillex.
What's crazy to me has been to watch little Sonny Moore from From First to Last leave the screamo/metal genre and start making electronic music, only to explode out of seemingly nowhere and become this worldwide superstar.
Burial’s 2006 release still sounds like future.
I like the idea that the rise of breakout dubstep was caused by a smoking ban.
As a huge DnB and Jungle fan I was backpacking Europe in 2008-ish. I went to a club in London and heard dubstep for the first time. After coming home and continuing my rave life that shit blew up fast and I loved it.
About 10 years ago I used to work in FE College (UK equivalent of a Junior College) and once saw a guy of about 17/18 with a tattoo going the length of his forearm saying "I LOVE DUBSTEP"
I often wonder what became of that young man and his ill-advised tattoo.
If anyone is interested, I made a youtube playlist from his curated list in the description.
I can't watch this right now but Skrillex really became the scapegoat (including by me and many other dubstep heads at the time) when it reality Coki's oddball tracks and Rusko in the UK really spearheaded the brostep sound that others in EDM started emulating and expanding upon. It was quite ironic that a music genre literally named to describe it's low end bass and sparse sound became a chaotic mid-range form of EDM music. In hindsight I think Skrillex broke out because he had this pop appeal to his productions and good timing, and to his credit he was aware of the original London scene and had no intention to overshadow them.
EDIT - This is my favorite mix of "classic" Dubstep def recommend it as a primer.
Watching this video kinda ruined live dubstep for me a bit.
Spoilers, he basically argues that “drops” used to be few and far between, and the DJs used to cultivate a vibe and an ambiance, and then the fans would get treated to a massive drop or two. He claims skrillex started a movement which resulted in American dubstep being essentially non-stop drops, which subsequently removes the magic or almost artistry of dubstep.
I saw this video then went to go see subtronics, Griz, and kayzo shortly thereafter and I definitely thought that switching songs every 45s to basically just a drop a minute is kind of tiring