story of brostep

[butt jolokia]

i hope this isnt repost

[ashley]

is a repost if you posted it in the SNH before/after here.

They say cockney thug is responsible?

I say spongebob personally...

[Caski]

spongebob has a sick sub in it tho... coki doesnt use loads of bitcrushers either

[Sexual_Chocolate]

I say spongebob personally...

this. was nothing before it anywhere near its insanity (atleast in terms of wobble based musics)

[ashley]

I say spongebob personally...

this. was nothing before it anywhere near its insanity (atleast in terms of wobble based musics)

Yeah exactly, wasn't implying spongebob is shit, just it didn't make sense at the time.

Mala mixing tek a pill into spongebob = best mix ever.

[fractal]

rusko drops some knowledge in that bit, for real. and he kinda admitted regret in the same way loefah said he sometimes regretted horror show cause it lead to a loss of energy from the dance floor, sometimes things are taken to another place and become something else

[th@-pu$$y]

If Rusko didn't do it, someone else would have.

[cosmic_surgeon]

I seem to remember Fabriclive 37 getting a lot of hate when it came out... But my mate was DJ'ing before Caspa last summer right, and lemme tell you I woulda been over the moon to hear a set like Fabriclive 37 instead rofl. Distance, Cotti, Matty G, L-Wiz, Skream, Quest... even some of Caspa and Rusko's own tunes were alright back then - Cockney Violin, Jahova, and Beta Max is still a tune tbh. They still had a bit of space, yeah they're a bit poppy and too sugary to listen to all the time but it's just not the same type of stuff you get now.

Floor was absolutely packed with chavs at this 2010 Caspa set though.

[ketamine]

It was definitely Spongebob. Although I love that tune, to this day.

[Phigure]

Excision, I'd say (not to knock the man, he's a good producer but i personally just cant get into the sound, especially more recent stuff)

Excision's No Escape came out the same month as Spongebob... And it's obvious that it's much closer to the brostep sound than Spongebob.

From there I think it just went more "bro" until it became an immature gimmick in which each producer tries to make more ridiculous sounding squelches than the last. not saying all brostep producers are guilty of this, but it feels like it's something a lot partake in.

edit: rusko speaks fucking truth. it's not about being completely tasteless and ear piercing, which is kind of funny coming from him with tunes like that holk on remix... it's supposed to be groovy bass music

[Majin]

Excision, I'd say (not to knock the man, he's a good producer but i personally just cant get into the sound, especially more recent stuff)

Excision's No Escape came out the same month as Spongebob... And it's obvious that it's much closer to the brostep sound than Spongebob.

From there I think it just went more "bro" until it became an immature gimmick in which each producer tries to make more ridiculous sounding squelches than the last. not saying all brostep producers are guilty of this, but it feels like it's something a lot partake in.

edit: rusko speaks fucking truth. it's not about being completely tasteless and ear piercing, which is kind of funny coming from him with tunes like that holk on remix... it's supposed to be groovy bass music

Excision wrote that tune in 05 but couldn't get it signed until he made his own label. Now that, my friends, is vision.

[Sparxy]

Rusko still keeps it real. Agree with everything he said. I still like all styles of dubstep from the rollers to the brosteppers. Dubstep music in general just does it for me!
Wish people could just love the tunes for what they are

[brasco]

Wish people could just love the tunes for what they are

Sorry, I can never like stuff like this. It's gone to far

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=179775

Jump up stuff can be great, but where do you draw the line

[chico_red]

If Jakes is brostep, then I hold my hands up.. I am a brostepper!!! But personally I see brostep as Rottun, and I despise everything that comes from that label!
Rusko did hit the nail on the head in his words though.
Funny, Cockney Thug doesn't even seem dirty anymore.. at the time, it seemed like the dirtiest tune ever written!

[pikeymobile]

I say spongebob personally...

this. was nothing before it anywhere near its insanity (atleast in terms of wobble based musics)

[joeki]

yeah exactly. If you think cockney thug/jahova was "heavy dubstep", you were missing out on some bare tunes back then.
Pinch was killing it too on planet mu back then. Milanese...in fact, I'd say planet mu released some of the heaviest dubstep ever.

[wilson]

Fair play to Rusko there, talked a lot of sense.

[brasco]

Fair play to Rusko there, talked a lot of sense.

Yeah and whether he started it or lot, he is a privileged position to start turning it around. A lot of the audiences he plays to don't know any better than filth it seems, its all down now to what he plays/makes in the future.

[cosmic_surgeon]

Excision, I'd say (not to knock the man, he's a good producer but i personally just cant get into the sound, especially more recent stuff)

Excision's No Escape came out the same month as Spongebob... And it's obvious that it's much closer to the brostep sound than Spongebob.

From there I think it just went more "bro" until it became an immature gimmick in which each producer tries to make more ridiculous sounding squelches than the last. not saying all brostep producers are guilty of this, but it feels like it's something a lot partake in.

edit: rusko speaks fucking truth. it's not about being completely tasteless and ear piercing, which is kind of funny coming from him with tunes like that holk on remix... it's supposed to be groovy bass music

Excision wrote that tune in 05 but couldn't get it signed until he made his own label.

Perhaps seeing the North American sound as a direct link from when Coki started making demented tunes is false then. It seems like a plausible suggestion that the "N-Type" sound is of an entirely different ilk to the Rottun recordings sound. Doubtless there's some cross over (Doctor P, Trolley Snatcha, etc.) but the stuff typically considered "brostep", like Datsik, Excision, and so on, does sound almost like a completely different genre of music - and if Excision was creating this stuff in 2005 it more than likely is a different thread entirely.

There certainly does seem to be some divergence in those who make use of the mid-range sound, and to see them all as part of the same thread is probably mistaken. Jakes, for example, seems much closer to Coki then someone like Downlink.

[joeki]

I'd like to think off it as :

Jakes, Coki, some Kromestar, N-Type etc. : it's all sort of jump-up DUBSTEP. Clearly heavily rooted still in the 2006-2007ish style dubstep when wobbles first started dominating certain stretchs of the sound.
Whereas, Doctor P and some in his footsteps, such as Flux Pavillion have just slowed down Jump-up D&B down to 140 BPM's.
I think the excision-datsik-downlink etc. kind of sound is a different genre all together, albeit influenced by dubstep.
Needless to say, I don't listen to the bottom two at all anymore

But that's just how I view it.