Dubstep, but not precisely

That was- much, much better than expected.

Can anyone tell me what it was that the bass player was doing with his hand?

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Summoning dark spirits.

(I have no idea. I learned that you’re supposed to play the bass with both hands on the instrument)

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I’ve been kind of out of the dance music world for a while (still listening to old Squarepusher and Mr. Scruff records from, like, 14 years ago) so I was only vaguely aware of dubstep till MGK uploaded this and the Nonstop/Butch Clancy/Foster the People thing this week.

I was a little sad but not too surprised when I started looking up Skrillex on the Google and found a whole bunch of hate for the guy due to his somehow being responsible for selling the whole dubstep genre out to fratboys. Really? Fratboys listen to/dance to this? And this producer is at fault how?

Like I say, I wasn’t too surprised because every musical genre must have purist devotees who hate all commercially successful renditions of “their music”. All the same, the hate in this instance seems especially ridiculous.

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This is Brostep not Dubstep, you have to be from London to know how to make Dubstep.

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