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L + ratio

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Modern prattle

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l o l as if being born pre-1982 gives you any better a point of reference to the pre-Skrillex brostep scene

Skrillex did popularise that sound, just as T-Pain popularised autotune (even if Cher was the original innovator in that case) and the Beatles popularised psychedelia. no need to take that crippling chip off your shoulder to acknowledge who brought novelties and/or innovations into the mainstream

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Acid House, Rave culture, Jungle absolutely massive ‘movements’ in dance that had all more or less evolved from ‘disco’ and the house music scene prior.



Absolutely massive jolts in dance music not in the same league as some bell end with shit hair playing beats to saps.

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I remember electronic culture really hitting the kids in England, suddenly you'd see those multi cassette cases being carried around, probably around 1991-92. Ten cassettes of stuff I thought of at the time as completely repetitive, indistinguishable and unrelatable - took me a few more years to start 'getting it'.



whether you are as into the genres, the changes in hip hop and metal in the '90s were almost as seismic as in electronic



it's insane that all this was happening in all these different genres at once, to be fair back at the time it felt like something massive was happening in music every month - with hindsight I can't believe the short spaces of time between some of the classic albums back then

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The necessity and requirement of change. Internet killed it. Apathy as virtue.

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Old man stares at cloud.

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Yeah that old trope means fuck all an’ all

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zak comments getting closer and closer to OKC fanfic every day

>Absolutely massive jolts in dance music not in the same league as some bell end with shit hair playing beats to saps.

in terms of Skrillex + co being a bunch of superfluous shite, sure

in terms of how much mainstream traction they realistically had for a cursed sequence of years, think again

zak you may not like skrillex (and nor do i really) or the fact that it happened in a year beginning with the numbers 2 and 0 but its inarguable that skrillex spearheaded a massive movement in dance music that had more relevancy than basically everything you talked about on a mainstream level

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Again that’s it, the traction lost track so to speak very quickly but it continually moved at a pace over a quarter of a century ago to be replaced by what?



Nothing.

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And rock is dead

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imo normalising brostep within the mainstream allowed the same treatment to be extended to bubblegum bass, which paved the way for PC Music, which is still responsible for engineering a steep proportion of the pop landscape today

that empty space you keep pointing your finger at looks suspiciously like the point where you simply lost touch

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Also edm festivals are massive and there's a lotta step still, even if I generally avoid brostep. Most of my friends are wooks

leave the beer drinking pie eater alone!!

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Bubblegum bass



‘Bubblegum bass is a form of Electronic Dance Music that originated in the early 2010s primarily in the works of producers associated with the PC Music label. The genre's birth was intricately tied to a novel, alternative and countercultural approach to popular music that primarily embraces authenticity and eclecticism, seeking to remove the division between high and low culture, particularly in regard to modern music and media. Therefore, many artists of the genre consciously embrace Pop music cliches and common subject matters, often aiming to elevate them from their usual "low culture" status by re-appropriating them as genuine, unconventional expressions, or deliberately estranged and alienated musical experiments’



What a load of shite

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'The name Bubblegum Bass comes from the music’s similarity to 90’s Bubblegum Dance (e.g. Aqua, Vengaboys).'



What illustrious origins those were

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I mean Christ Almighty

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zak treading water and furiously trying to copypaste his way back to the shallow end, you hate to see it

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As if y'all didn't sell Radiohead as being important because they were reactionary to Brit-pop. Good music steals from bad music sometimes, not that I don't have a massive soft spot for Barbie Girl