Dubstep as the new norm - Digital DJ Tips

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June 22, 2011 at 6:31 pm #51

Phil Morse
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Here in southern Spain they’ve always loved their breakbeat, and I’d have thought the leap to dubstep wouldn’t be too much, but you don’t hear dubstep coming from cars and I don’t know anywhere locally that plays it. Plus I got told off for playing some really mellow Falty DL at a gig the other month. So round here, I’d say not.

June 23, 2011 at 5:18 am #91

DjSpekz
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I have started to hear it more and more now also. I hand it over to David Guetta, Afrojack and others for working with mainstream artist on songs.

June 23, 2011 at 9:24 am #100

Digitall DJ
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Dubstep is definitely breaking into the mainstream here in the UK, with special nights now becoming more common.
I don’t DJ it myself – am I the only one who finds it really hard to dance to?!!

June 23, 2011 at 2:00 pm #110

SCHIES
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Yeah I’ve noticed it becoming a lot more popular in my area too, I’m from Jersey (yeah I know haha) and everywhere you go all you hear is either electro/progressive house or dubstep. I didnt really know much about dubstep though until a friend of mine made me listen to skrillrex and once I heard that drop that was it for me haha.

June 23, 2011 at 2:06 pm #112

DjSpekz
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@Schies, same here. Skrillex was my gate into dubstep. Those drops are amazing

June 23, 2011 at 3:04 pm #116

Ivyquake
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I met this kid “DJ Aleve” he got me into dubstep. Then we went to see MartyParty and Inxision, My eyes were bleeding after the show, that’s how loud it was.

June 23, 2011 at 3:53 pm #117

DJ eengenious
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Music in general is gravitating toward EDM – incorporating elements of House, Electro, and Dubstep. The new Britney Spears album is a great example. Beyonce’s new song was produced by Diplo, and take Jason DeRulo’s song “Don’t Wanna Go Home” which samples a classic house track, “Show Me Love”

So yeah, definitely seems like that’s where we’re headed. I personally didn’t use to like Dubstep at all, but over the past few months, I’ve really gotten into it. I try to incorporate it into my mix throughout the night, and the reaction from the crowd is always great. It’s still niche, but will definitely pick up as more and more mainstream artists incorporate it in their music.

Favorite artists are Skrillex and Nero. Skrillex especially, he’s a true visionary.

June 23, 2011 at 4:06 pm #122

DJ GRE
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Yeah I had an over complicated explanation when a friend asked me why Dubstep was everywhere. Basically I said that since David Guetta started making club hits other artists wanted to work with newer djs and hipper djs to produce their songs which led to those djs wanting to produce with some of their more underground sounds and yeah it’s slowly starting to filter through pop music and just get under the mainstreams skin.

@djspekz yeah those drops are freakin’ insane, dropping his tunes peak banger hour people just go nuts!

June 23, 2011 at 4:08 pm #1000324

DJ eengenious
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Dubstep – the only genre where a nerd can be a rockstar lol

June 23, 2011 at 4:44 pm #131

‘Sam Ben-David’
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Yeah Dubstep has made a massive impact everywhere. You even hear people like Chris Brown singing and rapping over dubstep beats. I like some of it….but whats strange is alot of people hate it…..For example some of the lecturers at the music school i used to work for didnt like it. Mainly this was because its not really that musical.

Plus if you are like me and you are either learning to produce or produce regularly you will know that it is relatively simple and easy to make. Get a synth with 2 or 3 oscillators drop the pitch on one detune the other 2,add a filter LFO it and done you got a dubstep bassline!

Like most genres….it has good and bad bits…..I think however that it will just be a fad that will slowly die away soon once people get bored of the simple structure it has.

June 23, 2011 at 4:46 pm #133

DjSpekz
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DJ EENGENIOUS, post: 112 wrote: Dubstep – the only genre where a nerd can be a rockstar lol

This might be my future signature haha

June 23, 2011 at 9:06 pm #190

D-Jam
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Dubstep has been hit or miss in Chicago from what I’ve seen. I’ve seen some guys try to do whole nights, but they’re generally weeknight events at smaller underground spots. I’ve seen some of the more mainstream places play some dubstep, but it’s usually more “dubstep” remixes of pop tunes, or an occasional crowd-pleasing tone of it in between rap music sets.

I think many can get into the stuff that’s more light-sounding and has vocals. I don’t know about the harder darker stuff.

June 23, 2011 at 11:57 pm #204

DJ Crysix
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I live in Toronto, Canada and it seems Dubstep hasn’t really made that big of an impact here. I’ve gotten few of my friends into it and now they really listen to it. I havn’t done any public gigs yet but I have mixed Dubstep and love Dubstep either Filthy or Chilled

I can definitely see Dubstep growing it’s populraity in the future but I believe it will grow the fastest in the UK

June 24, 2011 at 1:43 pm #288

mailman
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Was out last night and the first thing me and my mates heard when we walked into the club was this massive dubstep drop. Really surprised me because the dj’s whole set (probably 30mins from after we got there) was all dubstep, first time i’d been to a club with a full dubstep set. As the night progressed however it obviously headed back into the main house/electro favourites but was still a really surprising and enjoyable warm up set.

I’m a big fan of the genre on a whole, although its important to understand the difference between dubstep and ‘brostep’ when talking about it.

June 24, 2011 at 1:56 pm #1000352

Digitall DJ
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I said on one of these threads that I find it difficult to pigeon hole music into genre, and I am proving this – I would have Skrillex down as Electro! I said above that I don’t DJ dubstep, but maybe I do – I’ve been playing Rock’n’Roll for about 6 months!
When does electro become dubstep?
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