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Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 2:21 am
yeah stupid thread. ignore
I agree a genre of music must have some guidelines... but what drew me to dubstep in the first place was how loose it was and how it was just: around 70 bpm, lots of bass. if we start compiling lists about what makes a tune dubstep or not... then count me out. this is kind of depressing really.victorxray wrote:I've got two observations to make;
2. this is about conventions, or the idea of 'no conventions'. if we did that (have no conventions) there wouldn't be 'genre' anymore. what marks a genre out is that it that it has a set of common conventions that mark it out differently from other genres. if dubstep had 'no conventions' then it would cease to be 'dubstep' and about the only thing you could say about it conclusively is that it appears to be music.
if one of those conventions is tempo, so be it, maybe this is not desirable or maybe it is, but please lets not pretend we have no conventions. and openly discussing those conventions is a good thing.
this reminds me of this thread a while back of this guy asking what makes a good dubstep beat and sending over JPEGs of his midi drum pattern.
this shit makes me sad man.