Accession wrote to phigan <=-
Is there subgenres of dubstep nowadays? I don't remember dubstep
sounding anything like this a long while ago. Maybe some light
lead-ins, but then a huge bass drop and quite a bit heavier, much more distortion, or chonky, if you will (Skrillex, for example; but maybe he has some lighter songs that I've never heard, too).
Where is the line drawn between dubstep and d&b?
I worked at a music startup back in 2000 called Epitonic. We made
arrangements with small record labels to allow music downloads as well
as to make a "music locker" where you could create your own playlists
online.
The music was curated by a team of people, and they featured "Genre
Walkthroughs", where they'd go into the history of each genre and then
offer a playlist.
Some of the arguments onsite were amusing. Was LTJ Bukem Jungle,
breakbeat, D&B or IDM? Maybe his older stuff was jungle but the newer
tracks were neosoul/triphop?
There were so many subgenres that it was difficult to figure which
artist went in which genre.
It was a great idea at the wrong time. the record indiustry painted
MP3s as piracy, even though our site had licensed the tracks for
download. Online streaming was still new - curated, streaming on-demand
playlists would be popular later with Spotify when more bandwidth
became available.
... State the problem as clearly as possible
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