Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:31 pm
Alright, I've been wanting to put my input in on this for awhile, and I've said it to alot of my friends already but this is my headspace on the topic...
The people I don't like getting into dubstep are strictly and only the scenesters. For example I got one buddy, who once I found Fabriclive 37 (the first actual mix I ever had to give out dubs of) told me he didn't like it, said it was shit. Thats cool, to each their own, but whenever we were around friends who did like it, he'd be like "Oh yah, but this track is dope" and so whenever I'd have tickets to a show (Rusko, Plastician, Skream, N-Type, Caspa, Babylon System, Excision are some of the names who have come through Calgary) I'd offer them to him and he'd say "Naw man, I kinda hate that shit" real passive agressive like.
So now about a month ago he hears In for the Kill, and everyone thinks dubsteps cool, so he's been its biggest fan this whole time. This is one of the guys I started spinning records with back in high school, now I'm gonna see him at the shows pretending he likes it so other people will see him like it, and he'll feel validated or some shit. Thats fucking whack.
So thats that, but otherwise how can it be a bad thing? If it's getting big because people like the music, and are feeding back into the energy it creates for them then its selfish for anyone to say 'This is my music so you can fuck off.' Its gonna globalize, you'll hear somebody in Rio Di Janeiro (sp?) making some latino soul wobble, or some cat in Africa incorporating that Tribal shit into 140 BPMs, then they'll build off eachother and grow into something we can't even comprehend.
This isn't the beginning of the end, we're lucky enough to be catching a new sound in it's infancy. I remember hearing my brother going through it with me when I was younger (way way to young to think about going to raves) how excited he was to be experiencing the same thing with jungle/drum'n'bass scene (And theres alot of parallels there, you can go through alot of the complaints with Rusko and his formulaic songs, and getting too big with the jump-up style and plug Aphrodites name right in there). I'm fucking stoked its getting big man, and if theres more people showing up to the shows and their gonna be all packed and grimy, thats good. Everyone in a room connects with that DJ and feeds into a collective energy as cheesy as that sounds, and I'm gonna be looking down more at the person who's got his back against the wall sipping on a rum and coke mean-mugging all these people who invaded 'his scene' because they weren't OGs or some shit than I am at the person with the tight jeans going ballistic front and center because this is his first time hearing dubstep.
Thats my 2 cents.
The people I don't like getting into dubstep are strictly and only the scenesters. For example I got one buddy, who once I found Fabriclive 37 (the first actual mix I ever had to give out dubs of) told me he didn't like it, said it was shit. Thats cool, to each their own, but whenever we were around friends who did like it, he'd be like "Oh yah, but this track is dope" and so whenever I'd have tickets to a show (Rusko, Plastician, Skream, N-Type, Caspa, Babylon System, Excision are some of the names who have come through Calgary) I'd offer them to him and he'd say "Naw man, I kinda hate that shit" real passive agressive like.
So now about a month ago he hears In for the Kill, and everyone thinks dubsteps cool, so he's been its biggest fan this whole time. This is one of the guys I started spinning records with back in high school, now I'm gonna see him at the shows pretending he likes it so other people will see him like it, and he'll feel validated or some shit. Thats fucking whack.
So thats that, but otherwise how can it be a bad thing? If it's getting big because people like the music, and are feeding back into the energy it creates for them then its selfish for anyone to say 'This is my music so you can fuck off.' Its gonna globalize, you'll hear somebody in Rio Di Janeiro (sp?) making some latino soul wobble, or some cat in Africa incorporating that Tribal shit into 140 BPMs, then they'll build off eachother and grow into something we can't even comprehend.
This isn't the beginning of the end, we're lucky enough to be catching a new sound in it's infancy. I remember hearing my brother going through it with me when I was younger (way way to young to think about going to raves) how excited he was to be experiencing the same thing with jungle/drum'n'bass scene (And theres alot of parallels there, you can go through alot of the complaints with Rusko and his formulaic songs, and getting too big with the jump-up style and plug Aphrodites name right in there). I'm fucking stoked its getting big man, and if theres more people showing up to the shows and their gonna be all packed and grimy, thats good. Everyone in a room connects with that DJ and feeds into a collective energy as cheesy as that sounds, and I'm gonna be looking down more at the person who's got his back against the wall sipping on a rum and coke mean-mugging all these people who invaded 'his scene' because they weren't OGs or some shit than I am at the person with the tight jeans going ballistic front and center because this is his first time hearing dubstep.
Thats my 2 cents.
