Is this even a real dubstep? It seems like entire community is just this.
I mean this is a particularly jazzy, dubstep adjacent EP and trashbat tends to lean more on the chill / jazzy side of the genre.
But the whole community being like this? I don’t think you have listened to much that has been posted if you think that is the case, there has just been a few releases in the last couple of weeks that lean more to this side of the genre.
What do you describe as “real dubstep”? What artists?
I just listened to some random releases posted on this community, so yes, not much, and maybe i was just unlucky with what i chose, but it does not sound like what i am used to.
For me personally, what i consider “real dubstep”, is not something in particular, as i listen to pretty much any dubstep, but mostly something like melodic dubstep, drumstep, and other similar subgenres. I dont listen to particular artists, i just listen to whatever i find randomly on soundcloud, but the ones i like more than others are: Au5 for melodic dubstep, evilwave for more agressive dubstep, and mdk for wubstep/drumstep.
Maybe we just have very different music taste, and the music posted on this communty is completely different from my personal taste, but is still labeled as “dubstep”, which mislead me into thinking there will the “that” kind of dubstep.
Ah OK, that is fair enough. I think the differences here are our interpretations on the genre label of “dubstep”
What I primarily post is what was originally dubstep and now more often than not goes by “real dubstep”, this is dubstep that was originally derived from dark garage and concentrates on a lot of sub bass with a two step vibe.
The type of dubstep you are describing are the sub genres that derived more from brostep which was what became very popular in the late 00s and what most people tend to call dubstep. This concentrates more on mids than lows and in the case of brostep was more derived from the aggression of metal and the like, popularised by skillrex, that kind of vibe.
There is a documentary on YouTube - All My Homies Hate Skrillex that is a good overview of where dubstep started and what it evolved into when it became popular. As you may guess by the title the originators of dubstep and a lot of “purists” these days do not like what became popular and known as dubstep because it is not in fact what dubstep is or was, if you have an hour to kill it is a good watch and gives you some background on the genre.
To be clear I am not one of those purists and don’t really like the attitude that a lot of the people still within the “real dubstep” scene take towards all the different subgenres that have come about. If you go to reddit and the realdubstep sub you will see exactly the kind of attitudes I talk about and the reason that sub is called “real” dubstep is because they wanted a place where no one would post brostep and the popular, Americanised offshoots of the genre.
I am very much into what derived from the original garage roots although that has now spawned into a very diverse collections of sounds within that genre and so that is what I concentrate on posting to this community but I want to build a community that is welcoming to all of the sub genres, even if I dont love them myself. I dont want this to be a hostile, cliquey place like the realdubstep sub on reddit so I welcome other people to post what they like so please do join in on posting if you have stuff to contribute.
I also very much welcome the dubstep adjacent stuff like the jazzy feel of this post or other left field bass that doesnt have a community yet within Lemmy because as it is right now there are not enough users to have an infinite number of communities for every tiny genre that exists. Only if there is already established communities like drum and bass or something will I remove any posts that would fit in better with those communities.
I appreciate you stopping in and at least listening to some of the posts even if it wasn’t exactly what you were looking for and I hope you at least give some stuff I continue to post a try from time to time to see if anything piques your interest and maybe stop by and post something from time to time :)