All My Homies Hate Skrillex | A story about what happened with dubstep.

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Timbah.On.Toast

3 жыл бұрын

A retrospective on the pre-2010 dubstep scene in the UK, and why the heads ended up hating Skrillex.
Edit: I did an interview with a new-school dubstep breh talking about this vid. Go peep it:
• INTERVIEW: 'All My Hom...
edit: "Prism" by Starkey was a vinyl-only release back in 2007. Nobody knew where to find it, so he's now made it available to buy on bandcamp:
starkey.bandcamp.com/track/prism
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Tracklist:
00:03 Menta - Snake Charmer
00:46 Skrillex - Ruffneck
00:53 Peverelist - Roll with the punches (Harmonimix bootleg)
01:24 Lenkemz - Entro (p)
01:38 Freestyle Fellowship - Hot Potato
01:57 Capone - Three Drops
02:11 Starkey - Prism
03:24 Mala - Sinners
04:33 Coki - Red Eye
04:45 Skream - Tapped
05:00 Mala - Miracles
06:03 The Bug ft Flowdan - Jahwar (Loefah remix)
06:40 Skream - Midnight Request Line
07:30 Coki - Tortured
07:37 Skream - Dutch Flowers (Rusko remix)
08:15 Coki - Ruff Lovin
09:12 Excerpt from Youngsta - Forward Live Vol 01 [2004]
09:48 Lovestation - Teardrops
11:12 Skream - I (Loefah remix)
12:29 Mala - Hunter
13:10 Benny Ill - Fat Larry's Skank (Kode9 remix)
13:51 Kode9 - 9 Samurai
14:18 Mala - Anti-War Dub
15:00 Calenda - Forever
15:20 Burial - Archangel
16:20 Burial - Shell of Light
16:28 Burial - Fostercare
16:38 Burial - Homeless
17:04 Burial - Stolen Dog
19:29 Skrillex - Cinema
19:54 Plastician - Still Tippin
20:35 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches
22:34 Digital Mystikz - Haunted
23:18 Rusko - Hammertime
23:28 Rusko - 2 N A Q
23:50 Becoming Real - Jen’s Clock
24:20 Zomby - Kaliko
24:43 Zomby - Strange Fruit
24:48 Zomby - With Lazers
24:50 Piece of Shh - Diablo Riddim (Zomby’s Acid)
24:51 Zomby - Little Miss Naughty
25:00 Ikonika - Please
25:10 Becoming Real - Fast Motion
25:22 Von D ft Phe Phe - Show Me
25:27 Phaeleh - Afterglow
25:28 Clouds - Protecting Hands Pt 2
25:53 Shackleton - In the Void
26:12 Untold - Stop What You’re Doing
26:19 Untold - Anaconda
26:30 James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof
27:02 Joker - Gully Brook Lane
27:36 Joker - Retro Racer
27:39 Joker - TRON
27:43 Joker & Rustie - Play Doe
27:57 Gemmy - Bk 2 the Future
28:07 Guido - Mad Sax
28:14 Ghost Mutt - Thoroughbred
28:32 Joker - Purple City
29:12 Coki - Goblin
30:30 Sorrow - Voynich
31:43 Kahn & Neek - Soundboy Obliterator (send for Visionist)
32:01 Crissy Criss - Soap Dodger
32:41 Coki - Spongebob
34:14 Jakes - 3kout
34:53 Laroux - In For the Kill (Skrillex remix)
35:21 Caspa - Louder VIP
35:48 Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
35:54 Excision - The Paradox
35:57 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know
36:22 Doctor P - Sweet Shop
36:37 The Others - Africa VIP
36:53 Skrillex - Right In
37:10 Coki - Voodoo Dolls
37:58 Mala - Eyez
38:23 Wiley - Ice Pole Remix
38:41 Wiley - King of Grime
38:57 Mr Virgo - Hyponotic 2
39:15 Noah D - Seeeriousss
40:10 Sukh Knight - Diesel Not Petrol
40:38 Jakes - Titan
41:23 Peverelist - Junktion (Shed remix)
42:26 Darkstar - Aidy’s Girl is a Computer
43:38 Caspa - My Pet Monster
44:05 Flux Pavilion - Got 2 Know
44:18 Starkey - Time Traveller
46:50 Peverelist - Roll with the Punches (Harmonimix bootleg)
48:14 Goli & Ashburner - If I
51:56 16bit - Shallow
Footage of the UK / Dubstep Raves / Scenery taken from (go like and support):
Bassweight: A Dubstep Documentary • Bassweight: A Dubstep ...
Get Darker / @getdarker
BASS PASS / basspassblog
sibbersfieldwire / @sibbersfieldwire
Connor Moriarty / @connormoriarty3410
Keep Hush / @keephush
Boiler Room / brtvofficial
Please bear in mind this is a highly subjective piece, telling the story of dubstep uniquely from my own perspective and knowledge of the scene.
Peace x

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@MaisBaixo 3 жыл бұрын

The *Dubstep Nether Zone* @ 23:55 *_Dub Pressure / Bassweight_* 1. Quest - Stand/Eden _[Deep Medi]_ 2. Vivek - Feel It _[Deep Medi]_ 3. Goth Trad - Deep Path/S.A.T.U.R.N _[Deep Medi]_ 4. Jack Sparrow - Circadian _[Tectonic]_ 5. Cyrus - Space Cadet/Junk Yard _[Tectonic]_ *_Tecky Rollers_* 1. Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals _[Skull Disco]_ 2. Martyn - Great Lengths _[3024]_ 3. 2562 - Aerial _[Tectonic]_ 4. Dusk + Blackdown ‎- Margins Music _[Keysound]_ 5. Pinch - Underwater Dancehall _[Tectonic]_ *_2nd Wave_* 1. Silkie - City Limits Volume 1 _[Deep Medi]_ 2. Mizz Beats - My World/The Jester _[Deep Medi]_ 3. Skream ‎- Skreamizm Vol 5 _[Tempa]_ 4. Jay 5ive & Kromestar ‎- Bass 96 / Hands In The Air _[Bass 'N' Love]_ 5. Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior _[Tempa]_ *_Vocalist-Centric_* 1. Von D ft Phephe - Show Me _[Sub Freq]_ 2. Phaeleh - Fallen Light _[Afterglo]_ 3. Kito - Kito EP _[Disfigured Dubz]_ 4. Clouds - Protecting Hands _[Deep Medi]_ 5. Emika - Double Edge _[Ninja Tune]_ *_Purple Music_* 1. Joker/2000F & J Kamata - Digidesign/You Don't Know What Love Is _[Hyperdub]_ 2. Mark Pritchard ft Om'mas Keith - Wind It Up _[Hyperdub]_ 3. Mensah - Untitled Future Funk EP _[HENCH]_ 4. Guido - Anidea _[Punch Drunk]_ 5. Joker & Ginz - Purple City _[Kapsize]_ *_Mutated Strains_* 1. 5: Five Years of Hyperdub _[Hyperdub]_ 2. Darkstar - Aidy's Girl Is A Computer _[Hyperdub]_ 3. Zomby - Liquid Dancehall/Strange Fruit _[Ramp]_ 4. James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof _[Hemlock]_ 5. Becoming Real - Fast Motion _[Ramp]_

@tommk88 3 жыл бұрын

The 4th one in 2nd wave is Bass 96 by Jay 5ive and kromestar

@philbegas 3 жыл бұрын

Wow you're the man I was about to ask

@cyanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this!

@dubraja6469 3 жыл бұрын

Fuck Skrillex Deep Medi for life.

@VivaTunita 3 жыл бұрын

@@tommk88 what a tune

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

"DJing is like sex". Yep, sounds about right. I haven't played a live set in 4 years.

@WHADDDD 3 жыл бұрын

Lmao you and me both brother

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

@All Things Dub You can try to; depends on what crowd you get on the night. And at some point you can start experimenting, at some point you just stick to the basics to make it work somehow. Just like sex.

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

@All Things Dub Of course, you are more free to express yourself with a familiar crowd.

@lexifey1300 3 жыл бұрын

Coming off the decks, I usually will head straight outside for a cigarette. I usually end up telling at least one person after every set - yes follow me let’s go vibe, but outside, I need a smoke. That set and feeding off y’all in the pit... it’s just as big if not a greater release than an orgasm.... sometimes you just need a cig after that!! Sometimes even just by myself In my car or walking around the block, to really process and appreciate that high of life that just occurred the last few hours. It’s completely like sex. (With the - hold up... I gotta pee - moment before the cig too 🤣🤣) Make love to the music 🖤

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

@@lexifey1300 I tend to walk a lot after a clubnight, either a visitor or as DJ. Like, let's walk for a few hours and then head home, or walk home all across the city.

@pinzatompings9571 3 жыл бұрын

the most UK thing ever is a cig smoking ban completely changing the vibe of a bass show

@mnamethonk 2 жыл бұрын

The reality is that people still smoke in clubs. Smoking ban or not.

@elhomo6406 2 жыл бұрын

@@mnamethonk especially on packed nights. It's not like the bouncers gonna wade through a crowd to try find the fucking needle in the haystack.

@nostralgia3203 2 жыл бұрын

imagine if they banned the queen from drinking tea while listening to big ben bangers, she'd go mental

@inglejuice 2 жыл бұрын

@@mnamethonk Yeah a bit but not that much, it was like that in the beginning now getting less and less. Security getting more and more over zealous about it too. I’m not talking about cigarettes btw Smoking ban has been a huge hurdle in UK clubbing. It’s a vibe killer with about a quarter of the club trying to go to the smoking area, come back from the smoking area or stand out shivering in the smoking area instead of revelling, free in the secret enclosed world that clubs used to be until the lights came on.

@tree4318 2 жыл бұрын

@@mnamethonk why don't they just use hardcore ventilation fans like giant ones in there so you can just smoke it up?

@khalidsawyers6032 Жыл бұрын

This was a brilliant piece. I was half expecting it to be a hate piece on Brostep and Skrillex, but it turned out to be a piece on the love for a Genre lost on people like myself who weren't familiar with its roots. I appreciate you for sharing your perspective on this, it really opened my eyes.

@hoidoei941 Жыл бұрын

Brostep😂 That name says enough.. total shit music, Glad I grew up with 16bit, Bar9 and Chasing Shadows, not this gay shit

@user-dh1ix4ir9r 4 ай бұрын

I appreciate your honesty here. It's most definitely refreshing.

@RC--ji2ov Жыл бұрын

this entire story greatly reminds me of vaporwave from my personal experience of discovering and falling in love with it in my early teens to the progression of the genre itself splitting into tons of different ways and no one really knowing what "vaporwave" is anymore.

@gabrielgeorgemartins1103 Жыл бұрын

I just said exactly that on Twitter. This video is basically my experience with vaporwave

@TheFartGod69 Жыл бұрын

Vaporwave is when slowed and reverb now

@bsh819 Жыл бұрын

Having a genre splinter into a million different things is better than having it collapse into just one.

@OscillatorCollective Жыл бұрын

Same…I luckily avoided most of the “dubstep years” and found vaporwave. I still love vaporwave and all of its sub genres, abd I still think dubstep is a joke.

@mac081793 Жыл бұрын

2011-2012 was an incredible time for Vaporwave and such a nostalgic for me. Its like it had been the sound I was always searching for. Then a few years later Vaporwave just became pink sunsets, windows 95, lean, and Arizona ice tea cans. Haha I was so butthurt about it at the time. Ironic how commodified it became when it had a somewhat underlying anti-capitalist tone to it.

@TheVolgun 3 жыл бұрын

The amount of stuff I learned here was insane, thank you for taking the time to make this, man.

@eeeveeeve 3 жыл бұрын

yooooooo

@slatetu 3 жыл бұрын

Any interesting wub wub scp's?

@mcchickenbaptistchurch.org2 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks scp dude

@scottpatton5220 3 жыл бұрын

the reluctant dimension traveller was amazing thank you for the narration!

@everythinghuman6978 3 жыл бұрын

Our favoite doctor likes dubstep?

@jayscaping Жыл бұрын

Not gonna lie, something tells me skrillex saw this video and took it to heart cause the stuff he's making most recently is more dubstep than anything he's ever released

@NiggaChickenSticks Жыл бұрын

Even the latest id he posted on his iG story is VERY UK dubstep inspired

@heron619 Жыл бұрын

I literally came to comment the same thing after just finished listening to his new album! I blame this video for how good that album is!

@bluchubeats Жыл бұрын

Nah seriously you can hear it in his new album

@grssu Жыл бұрын

@@heron619 agreed, too bizarre is my fav

@UltraCodex66 Жыл бұрын

@@grssu despite listening to the whole thing, Rumble is still my main favourite

@thomasmahoney7538 Жыл бұрын

This is like the best dubstep documentary ever. Brilliant insight, not just into dubstep but music in general. Excellent.

@thomasmahoney7538 Жыл бұрын

And I was over ten years into jungle/breakbeat and other underground music when the smoking ban came in. You've made me realise with video what a mad difference it made. It was crazy how the scene changed after that ban.

@rorz999 Жыл бұрын

Don't know if you've seen the documentary 'Bassweight' but that's good too!

@doodlekid9864 3 ай бұрын

u clearly yhavent watched that many dubstep docs...

@gravytrain73 2 жыл бұрын

As an American, I was introduced to dubstep around 2009 through KZfaq “dubstep remixes”, which were just pop songs with tacked-on womps and bass drops.

@psychotropictraveler514 2 жыл бұрын

Haha oh man I remember those days, EVERY song had to have a dubstep "remix"

@BAKAMAKAMEDIA 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god the hardest nostalgia hit remembering that. I had so many artist doing that I followed

@MrMitchellw16 2 жыл бұрын

ITS MEEE MARIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@BobbinRobbin777 2 жыл бұрын

Same.

@JosephKeenanxBiscuit 2 жыл бұрын

I had kinda the same experience, the thing for me though was it was like I got into the sound backwards. I got into it a year or two after skrillex hit and I was in to the crazy tear out tracks and the brostep stuff. I didn't really have the cultural context of people in the UK in the early days. But then I started lurking DSF like all the time and got introduced to do much of that early stuff, and got into producers still making deeper moody stuff going into the mid 2010s. But I still didn't get all the hate on the harder tracks and stuff until I got to see Mala and Coki and then I think a month later I saw Goth Trad play out on legitimate sound systems in Los Angeles. I got it more after that and realized all the crazy beautiful art that was getting crowded out by the popularity of all the screechy crazy headbang ass tunes. Like someone who got into Green Day or Rancid or whatever in the mid 90s and found their way back to old school punk rock kind of or something.

@nickkatz5352 3 жыл бұрын

how i know i'm old: dude has to clarify what limewire is for his audience in a music history video about fucking dubstep. fuuuuuck

@madgigahz 3 жыл бұрын

right? I'm just gonna lay down and die now

@saskilla1945 3 жыл бұрын

I'm 19 and I know about limewire

@MachoNakedTaco 3 жыл бұрын

@@saskilla1945 Same

@adahyde4705 3 жыл бұрын

soulseek's still very much alive thankfully and carries it's ethos on

@s2sHoXXs2 3 жыл бұрын

limewire is such a middle school mood for me 😭😭

@dmdeign7116 Жыл бұрын

I don't listen to any dance music whatsoever, I'm primarily a metalhead, and somehow stumbled upon this video. Gotta say, this look into your world was truly eye opening, and makes me understand people's love for this music way more. Damn good video bro!

@sickofjin 9 ай бұрын

You should listen to PhaseOne. Its a good mix of metal and dubstep!

@careem3463 8 ай бұрын

@@sickofjinwhy would someone do that ?

@MmeHyraelle 8 ай бұрын

@@sickofjinigorrr out there too :)

@jefe536 5 ай бұрын

Anymore recommendations? Drooling over the sounds from PhaseOne and Igorrr

@TheOnlyShadowWarrior 4 ай бұрын

@@jefe536 Truth, Distance, Amit, Tunnidge.. Check these artists out

@GinaGibbons 9 ай бұрын

The part around Burial is so true. I'll never forget the first time I heard it, a memory that is seared into my being in a deep way. It's haunting and magical and untouchable, really.

@jamesfield1674 8 ай бұрын

So cinematic

@Misanthrop1006 8 ай бұрын

the first time Burial really was something special. "a memory that is seared into my being in a deep way." is a perfect way to describe it.

@ilievsaso 6 ай бұрын

im gonna be honest, i started listening to brostep when i was younger and i left it for a long time and a year after i got into music i heard burial and was absolutely

@mcgritty8842 4 ай бұрын

Yall crazy. He made sleepytime music, not dance music

@galetinm 2 ай бұрын

@@mcgritty8842dance music isn't what you think it is. You don't have to get your ears r*ped to dance.

@breadandbuddabaybay6550 Жыл бұрын

I think the irony is that now people are discovering classic dubstep through Skrillex

@arforafro5523 Жыл бұрын

I don't think its ironic at all, I think its a natural pattern as people become more familiar and knowledgeable about a genre. Just like the author eventually let go of his bitterness at the modern dubstep scene and went back to enjoying the music he loved so do new listeners introduced by the more commercial material eventually dig down into the roots of a genre they like.

@FilmDegenerates Жыл бұрын

finish your sentence jabronie... ε/̵͇̿̿/’̿’̿ ̿(◡︵◡)

@HasturLaVishnu Жыл бұрын

Benga - night

@PongoXBongo Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of people seeing the "Mama Mia" movie or hearing "Stayin' Alive" for the umpteenth time slowly expanding to classic '70s dance and funk tunes. Once you get past the fancy design floating atop your cappuccino, you discover the deliciously dark drink underneath.

@that_which_is_not 10 ай бұрын

The real irony is Skream claiming how much he hates Gabba and how easily it could be forgotten about! 💀

@Mr123Huckleberry 2 жыл бұрын

"Limewire was like this file sharing thing back in the day" Me a 31 year old millenial...Shit.

@stevenwaldon4469 2 жыл бұрын

Remember having to teach others in your household that there’s no such thing as a song with a .exe format?

@lamenamethefirst 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for reminding me of how old I've become.

@BleedForTheWorld 2 жыл бұрын

Real OGs were there when Napster first started. It was purely for mp3s, too. None of this FLAC nonsense /s.

@yvesdecuyper4047 2 жыл бұрын

Hit me too! '89 here

@swoodruff 2 жыл бұрын

'89 here as well. I remember (starting in 6th grade) using Napster on my parents' computer when they weren't home to pirate explicit music and burn it to CDs to listen to at night time and on the bus rides to school with my portable CD player. I'd have to install then uninstall Napster (and later Limewire) each time so I wouldn't get caught.

@hugmynutus Жыл бұрын

still remember when back in 2010/2011 people on the internet would tell you "that ain't real dubstep, this is real dubstep" then send you a link to some of the best electronic music you ever heard.

@pascha4527 Жыл бұрын

yeah, happened to me. And it shaped my taste in music.

@kaeg.7800 Жыл бұрын

those were the days 🤧

@illiciumverum6149 Жыл бұрын

Meanwhile nowadays you'll get called an elitist gatekeeper if you do this now lmao

@HasturLaVishnu Жыл бұрын

Good times

@powertrip6426 9 ай бұрын

One of my best friends went to Colorado and lived there for like 4 years during that time. He came back with a mix and fucked my whole head up. He showed me heyoka and I was confused at first, then intrigued. It definitely was not formulaic during that time imo. People were still experimenting.

@rune7776 11 ай бұрын

crazy how skrillex took notice of this video or at least the work presented as ur introduction sound (the raw middle bass drop from Prism) and implemented it into his recorded set, makes me happy to know that he cares a lot for his own work and how it's received by the community built around his work and dubstep in general.

@samh-ks6ev 8 ай бұрын

Funny thing about me is that I actually grew up on brostep as an american kid. Now as a 17 year old I’ve gone back into the depths of the genre and found all these old goodies which I love so much today. The old stuff reignited my passion for the music.

@StarkbotTV 3 жыл бұрын

Well... thanks for shouting out my track "Prism". It's much appreciated.

@TimbahOnToast 3 жыл бұрын

A lotta love for starting this adventure for me < 3

@StarkbotTV 3 жыл бұрын

@@TimbahOnToast I put the master up on my bandcamp page with a shout out to this video. So, if anyone wants to get the WAV, it's here. Big thanks again, it's much appreciated. starkey.bandcamp.com/track/prism

@TomNode 3 жыл бұрын

@@StarkbotTV One of the first flacs i bought on boomkat back in the day 👊

@mkozachek 3 жыл бұрын

@@StarkbotTV Thanks so much for putting this up! I don't know if I would've appreciated this track as much way back when, but now in my early 30s it's amazing.

@StarkbotTV 3 жыл бұрын

@@mkozachek appreciate that. Thanks!

@ElijahRhyne 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that you had to explain limewire cut my soul on a deep level.

@amberlee4536 3 жыл бұрын

I was born in the 90s and my existential horror at the fact that I remember bootlegging music off the radio with a tape deck and this man had to explain Limewire is mind-blowing.

@miguellagos8889 3 жыл бұрын

@@amberlee4536 ahhhh man radio ripped tapes was the best but I always fucking hated when the radio station would fuck up the song by announcing its name at the end or beginning of the song😂😂 fellow 90s kid here but effing limewire was the next step or Ares was also an alternative to limewire, but yeah I fucked up a couple of computers.

@dorjjodvo1992 3 жыл бұрын

I used to download stuff at 300kb/s at max... The agony of having to wait days to download games

@darbiblu8411 3 жыл бұрын

We are old now.

@thescarecrow897 3 жыл бұрын

ok boomer

@user-bv5kx3jb5n Жыл бұрын

I never really cared for dubstep much but something about hearing somebody talk about something theyre clearly passionate about just makes me sit and listen. I came out of this video a nice piece of history about the scene and a newfound appreciation for the genre

@stusux Жыл бұрын

Mad props to the creator of this video, you explained your connection to the music and why you disliked the change in the genre, but also analyzed the reasons behind the change to the music/scene you loved so much. I feel I'm like 20 years older than you but also in my teenage years I was a part of a scene of music that started as underground, took off then became mainstream and "boring" to initial listeners and we cant help but feel let down, you addressed this beautifully in the last 5 minutes of the video. We'll always have the nostalgia in our spotify or whatever playlists as our life keeps going and music taste keeps evolving. Thanks you for introducing more tracks from dubsteps origins that we didn't know about.

@SaintsAwayOllie 2 жыл бұрын

I was 15 Back in 2012, It was the peak of mainstream Dubstep with me and my mates banging out tracks by Flux Pavilion, Nero, Skrillex ect. I remember being in GCSE media and the cool teacher in his mid 30s went on a rant about how the stuff we listened to wasn't "true dubstep". He played us some older tracks which we found a bit boring. 10 years later, thanks to this video I finally understand what he was on about.

@darbling311 2 жыл бұрын

hard agree.

@carbon-based-lifeform9172 2 жыл бұрын

It's not even dubstep anymore It's something else.

@officaldungeons 2 жыл бұрын

Your teacher was an elitist in the same way that classical musician elitists say that anyone who likes Shostakovich, Ligeti, Penderecki, Crumb, Collier, and hundreds more of the most influential composers in the instrumental genre were garbage because they didn’t conform to the dumbed down, sanitised rules that the Classical era composers imposed on others to make music that was “correct.” Your teacher was not “right” your teacher was biased and shortsighted.

@carbon-based-lifeform9172 2 жыл бұрын

@@officaldungeons this guy is over here trying to compare skrillex to fucking Mozart. You are extremely out of touch 😆

@werlder 2 жыл бұрын

Flux is my defacto favorite, please check out his more recent stuff.

@josephcole224 3 жыл бұрын

Forgot to mention that dubstep originated in Croydon, the most depressing and meaningless place in London. The Cronx was a giant motorway junction surrounded by empty office blocks, decaying shopping centres and abandoned buildings, perfectly mirrored in the dark, squelchy sound of early dubstep. Cronkistani's rise up!

@IUKC 3 жыл бұрын

Good old Croynge. Dubstep certainly helped put it on the map.

@Giesela0815 3 жыл бұрын

thats why dub has to be a bit dark :D hits the right spot!

@vinny5638 3 жыл бұрын

Had no clue dubstep had origins in the UK tbh before this video/comment, thats really cool I cant wait to look up some of the older stuff

@4eversupersonicgirl 3 жыл бұрын

i feel like the darkness of dubstep has not been destroyed because of the early 2010s but simply transferred to future garage (i know it's just called garage in the UK) that artists still do to this day with their tunes.

@Wallacer 8 ай бұрын

You can tell Skrillex has never been to the Cronx!

@playercore7444 13 күн бұрын

The channel is back!

@MrSpectordog Жыл бұрын

A fantastic piece of independent musicology. Perfectly captures the journey so many of us went on, and the feelings we perhaps couldn't articulate. This video etches in history what was so amazing and heartbreaking about loving dubstep. I feel heard. Thank you!

@GoExperimental 3 жыл бұрын

Storytelling is unreal in this. You have a real talent, my friend!

@silasschramm 3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@silasgotsch4458 3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@dansylas 3 жыл бұрын

agreed

@OSYofRR 3 жыл бұрын

Same sort of concept happened with hardcore losing its breakbeats and morphing into happy hardcore, a sort of full 180. Commercialism has a formula it seems for capturing organic movements that are far more artistic with a better vibe and twisting them into garbage for the masses, a modern take on religion being an opium for the masses... Sometimes it works though,like when hard rock came about because of electric guitars and bass but that was before the age of big business we saw in the 90's and continues on today. The chaotic bro step is literally harmful for your health yet people craved it. We all have our vices and escapes but that is another discussion on the psyche of humans, but I am glad I never embraced it and the scene died.

@old_romans 3 жыл бұрын

Good editing skills for sure and he speaks clearly enough. Content was eye-rolling, self-serving, immature and as narrow-minded as a boomer.

@andreyandonov4986 3 жыл бұрын

It was 2008 and I was attending a Radiohead concert in Dublin. They warmed up the crowd by playing something out of this world there I heard for the first time Burial.

@johnnyscifi 3 жыл бұрын

Not surprised, both Greenwood, and Yorke adore dub, and reggae

@plasticriddles_ 3 жыл бұрын

do you remember what burial song was played?

@andreyandonov4986 3 жыл бұрын

@@plasticriddles_ as far as I remember it was the entire album Untrue

@plasticriddles_ 3 жыл бұрын

@@andreyandonov4986 damn that must've been a sick night

@andreyandonov4986 3 жыл бұрын

@@plasticriddles_ it was, it was :))) a crowd without phones.

@nevermindthe Жыл бұрын

This really took me back- thank you so much for taking the time to make this. Its such a perfectly crafted love letter, wow.

@cameaston5632 3 ай бұрын

This story of a connection to music/art is so special and well told. I love the way it’s a story about a music genre and about you. The realisation that what you loved no longer exists was so poignant. Thank you for putting the time and effort into making this.

@Bandstand 3 жыл бұрын

The thumbnail and title of this video has me so intrigued. Imma come back to this 🤝

@onsight1318 3 жыл бұрын

hol up hol up

@le_mole 3 жыл бұрын

Same, it's been saved for tomorow 😂

@ryanmccarthy2033 3 жыл бұрын

Its time

@ryanmccarthy2033 3 жыл бұрын

@@le_mole its tomorrow

@dougharper1492 3 жыл бұрын

Yea!

@jigglykarp 3 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know dubstep was so much more, holy fuck.

@strudelh 3 жыл бұрын

Same, I didn't know you could go deeper into the genre lol

@desireesmith862 3 жыл бұрын

@@balloonfiesta15 I feel a little bad because I listened to bro step in fourth grade and thought I was the coolest. I love the video though. Edit: Spelling

@wooyaa8152 3 жыл бұрын

and it's EVEN more than this too.

@samc5934 3 жыл бұрын

Mark Donald no one ever said that brostep isn’t dubstep lol, it’s a strand variation of the UK movement. This dude never once said it was inherently garbage, just that the commercialization and figurehead of the genre didn’t do brostep or anything of the other strand variations of the genre Justice. He uses negative connotation because like it says in the description this is entirely subjective and only one perspective lol. He’s introducing music he enjoys aswell as expanding upon the masses idea of the genre, THATS A GOOD THING.

@zazacrumchy3483 3 жыл бұрын

There’s even more sub genres like riddim

@YarkVI 9 ай бұрын

Man, I've just discovered you with this video and it's a great find! I discovered dubstep when I was 10 (in 2010) and I've never been out of it since. Listening to Skream, Burial and Phaeleh again has made my day, but as someone who loved dubstep before and after 2010, what I particularly enjoyed was discovering the context of Brostep. Honestly, I can't even imagine how proud you must be of this video, which retraces your entire musical life. For my culture and nostalgia, thank you.

@Algrenion 8 ай бұрын

Your analysis of Burial here was spot on there's such an evocative, emotional quality to it. To this day it runs shivers up my spine and when i listen to the OG album, the one my big brother, my protector, introduced me to - it puts me through such a spectrum of feeling. Like i want to laugh, cry, dance, walk, give myself a hug, all at the same time.

@uummiid 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this shit is free to watch.

@4TheWinQuinn 3 жыл бұрын

Init it’s fucjin wild people stay poor paying for Disney+, Amazon prime, Netflix, Hulu, when we have this at our fingertips.

@apollo268 2 жыл бұрын

@@4TheWinQuinn it’s chewsday innit

@user-mb9rh2iz5l 2 жыл бұрын

@@apollo268 iT's ToOzDaY

@Helaw0lf 2 жыл бұрын

Been a fan of KZfaq since 2006 before Google bought them a few years later. The amount of information and history filed away on here is amazing. Plus you can create playlists for whatever you want.

@sebasmana5798 2 жыл бұрын

perfect documentary of the genre.

@digital-alchemist 9 ай бұрын

This is an outstanding music doc. Seriously well done, mate. I vividly remember discovering Burial back in the day and being absolutely blown away by his tunes. Still love his music today. Cheers

@tottycapsgg Жыл бұрын

Holy shit what. A. Video. I am an artist and I felt every single word of this, knowing very little about the genre I can hear how something you treasured warped with times and your identity had, and has, to adapt, and that's okay, but it can hurt to watch the parade around you while it happens.

@FearNLoathing 3 жыл бұрын

Superb storytelling and editing Mate.

@bellpepper3166 3 жыл бұрын

Oh hi! Fancy seeing you here.

@Augors 3 жыл бұрын

Yoooooo, my guy!

@bowskee 3 жыл бұрын

dubstep is one of a kind, greatest electronic music genre

@bellpepper3166 3 жыл бұрын

@@bowskee I think Dubstep is amazing at what it does. It's one of my top favorite genres as a whole! I don't think the greatest genre exists. It would be too perfect if that were the case. I love dubstep to death, I just mainly listen to stuff like Techno, House, Breaks, DnB, Tekkno, Vaporwave, and Acidcore at the moment. I just don't listen to dubstep as I did 3-4 years ago.

@bowskee 3 жыл бұрын

@@bellpepper3166 yeah it died out. Prime dubstep was 2010 - 2014

@StefanMilo 2 жыл бұрын

That was so great. As someone who was at Sheffield uni between 07 and 10, I related a lot to this lol. Skream and Benga were the sound tracks to the big parties.

@oneworldcommunity117 2 жыл бұрын

wow, one of my fav archeologist youtubers on a EDM history video? das crazy

@doperagu8471 2 жыл бұрын

I was in the US (bay area, California), but also went to university right around then - Skream and Benga was definitely a jam in the Bay Area, for the people who knew better at least 😜

@lotussight 2 жыл бұрын

Benga was fabulous in my town, like there were so many night kitchen scenes and they jusr played all the drum n bass and dubstep you could think of

@user-hj8yf3hr4i 2 жыл бұрын

Dude i keep seeing you In the comments section of non history videos. Are you stalking me?? Lolol

@jamieagnew1608 2 жыл бұрын

@@rorz999 skream at Tuesday club, 2006…?

@HaukeHardung 8 ай бұрын

this is insane. I can relate so much and my heart skipped a beat when i saw you dropped the titels to the video description. Thanks, beneath its so informative it just makes me happy and excited to watch

@airwindows 13 күн бұрын

Hooray, it's back! To me this isn't even about being mad at Skrillex, but it's about the love of other forms of dubstep, something that will live on forever :)

@Figureight 2 жыл бұрын

The 5 stages of grief can be observed throughout this video. I came into this as someone who has followed dubstep since 2006, and hated everything that Skrillex put out and only really tacked onto the very early signs of what would be considered Brostep. I think for me it's that I feel like the dubstep scene I grew with and fell in love with was never appreciated to the scale of which brostep was. When I tell someone I like dubstep, they imaging me listening to Bangarang, not Anti-War Dub or Mud. It feels like some sort of injustice to the origins of the genre, and so like the creator of this video I too feel this need to want to idolise it and spread the word of it like some sort of bass missionary.

@noompsieOG 2 жыл бұрын

See what you explained here ? It’s exactly how I feel about metalcore and beat down genre , also the punk pub rock genre , “the chats” are the skrillex of the genre which I was blessed to witness Start in melbourne over a decade ago where the artists who truly formed the genre are still unknown and not appreciated

@breakingpoints4019 2 жыл бұрын

He ruined rumbatone

@zerohp5098 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@sebp400 2 жыл бұрын

@@noompsieOG punk dub started with bands like The Slits in the 70's.. Pre On-U Sound records even.

@noompsieOG 2 жыл бұрын

@@sebp400 no I said punk pub not dub lol Eddie current suppression ring , amyl and the sniffers etc

@jordank1489 2 жыл бұрын

Burial was the first time I realised I was depressed. I would smoke weed in my tiny shed, living on my own at 16 because my parents got divorced and both of them moved out. I had to drop out of sixth form, even though I was a good student, and started working in a factory making car radiators. When that vocal on shell of light came in I broke down for the first time. Such a cathartic experience!

@thalamusDecimation 2 жыл бұрын

Genuinely hope you're doing well these days man.

@mrblobifier 2 жыл бұрын

@@thalamusDecimation same here

@sabojezles 2 жыл бұрын

Wish you all the best, man, take good care of yourself!

@jordank1489 2 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, left this a bit open ended didn't I? Haha. Anyone concerned, firstly thanks, and also I'm absolutely grand now. This was like 10-odd years ago.

@sabojezles 2 жыл бұрын

@@jordank1489 It's really good to know, man, hopefully the future has some grand and beautiful surprise in the horizon for you. Thank you for the reply.

@laurenvelentzas5044 Жыл бұрын

The algorithm dropped this video and my lap and honestly thank god it did. Listening to someone talk so passionately and in depth about a previously unfamiliar to me topic is the best thing in the world.

@bojanvukovic8872 8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for making this! It took me for such a ride!

@maxtennyson2.035 3 жыл бұрын

Fucken hell, watching this made me realise I only scratched the surface of Dubstep back in the day.

@alexwild1435 3 жыл бұрын

Same, it was in my periphery and I liked some tracks but never gave it my full attention.

@Nick1921945 3 жыл бұрын

I regret to inform you that you may not be a true explorer. Change your ways.

@juhadexcelsior 3 жыл бұрын

fucking right? I had no idea about any of this being an american. I actuallty couldn't stomach skrillex, and still can't. However I was a massive fan of artists like virtual riot and flux pavillion. Idk, they just had a better sense of melody and depth to their music than skrillex ever did.

@lukim2744 3 жыл бұрын

I barely even scratched the surface on dub back in the day lmao I knew the dubstep hole went REAL deep.

@jimmyjab190 3 жыл бұрын

@@juhadexcelsior yeah you're right

@rhettorical 2 жыл бұрын

This feels like a man's soliloquy for a lost love. It's not a documentary about dubstep, it's a story of a man coming to terms with the fact that everything has an expiration date and life just keeps moving on.

@ab_aliens 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly. It's about him, not the music. Because the music is fine. Always been.

@alextomlinson Жыл бұрын

@@ab_aliens nothing about Skrillex is fine

@ab_aliens Жыл бұрын

@@alextomlinson Skrillex is an artist, not a genre.

@alextomlinson Жыл бұрын

@@ab_aliens Skrillex is an artist who makes a very specific type of music. That "music" is largely void of melody. Whether music needs to include melody or structure or not is up for debate. I think it does. Maybe with some exceptions, Skrillex not being one of them. While I do agree that this video is as much about himself as it is the apparent downfall of the genre, I think he does have a good point that until the likes of Skrillex hit the mainstream, the artists were plentiful and new sounds were being experimented all the time. Skrillex seemingly collapsed the whole thing. The genre was booming even when Benga, Coki and Skream were being aired on BBC radio1extra(an alternative, more underground station to the popular BBC radio 1) As soon as Skrillex started getting played on BBC Radio 1, the genre imploded. It declined in popularity DUE to the nature of his songs and their lack of melody and structure. THEN interest in other artists dwindled too, and new artists ceased to come up and experiment. Skrillex had left such a bad stain on the genre that not many artists wanted to continue to produce. Shows declined, private listening declined as the groupthink of society turned its back on an otherwise eclectic and functional genre.

@ab_aliens Жыл бұрын

@@alextomlinson As I said, good music is always there. I don't care about the popularity of a genre, the uprising or downfall on mainstream media or ears, because it is irrelevant. In the end, the best - most influential - artists where never mainstream, so this is no excuse. I'm listening to electronic music about 20 years. I saw many genres having ups and downs for various reasons, but I never complained because I was ,and still am, hungry on discovering new sounds. You can be bored and complain, or you can be active and evolve. That's my opinion. The fact is that you are wrong about the void of melody or structure in this kind of music.

@Dman130 10 ай бұрын

I watched this video when it came out and it truly sparked my interest in UK Dubstep. I grew up with skrillex and other brostep artist in US. I did discover El-B when I was in college but never dug too deep into his tracks. It wasn’t until this video came out, during this time I was going on a major musical journey (I enjoy all genres of music and started to collect vinyl). This video truly captured the culture of what dubstep was. I just want to thank you for this video. 2 years later and I am now obsessed with UK Dubstep and have a growing vinyl collection of these dope tunes. I come back to this video now and again, and it is so amazing to recognize all these tunes and know these artist with more confident than when this came out. Sorry for my life story, but I feel if it wasn’t for this video, I’d never dig more into the UK Dubstep and would not enjoy listening and collecting dubstep. Thank you for this masterpiece!

@James_Wisniewski 3 ай бұрын

The best way to explain old Skrillex is probably to look at what he was doing before he started making electronic music. His first couple EPs sound a lot like post-hardcore made with a computer instead of guitars. I was in high school when he first came on the scene and I was very much deep in the heavy metal and metalcore scenes at the time, and even then, I had friends who straight up said it sounded like that. Breakdowns and everything, only renamed to a bass drop.

@ApasheOfficial 3 жыл бұрын

Extremely nostalgic to watch, didn't realize it was that long ago and only caught the end of it as a teenager. Can we talk about drugs? In my opinion it played a huge role is... The scene was split, kids that loved drugs stayed in the dnb room cuz dubstep was nice at home but boring to party on. It only shifted when dubstep became more aggressive and we all loved it, we could finally all go to the same events or the same room. We were wild and hopeless only seeking for more self destruction.

@__foam 3 жыл бұрын

Someone came from Reddit

@Peichone 3 жыл бұрын

indeed bro, it brought some sweet tears

@mikeyvee5677 3 жыл бұрын

I took drugs and did party pretty hard on dubstep, the og dubstep .. I remember discovering it in 2005 on lime wire like in the video said. I was like what is this, deep bass weight then my first proper dubstep show was in New Zealand 2006.. Could not get me away from the bassbins..

@Kennyjamesss 3 жыл бұрын

i used to do drugs when i first got into the dance music scene, i was going to alot of trance shows so at the time i thought thats all EDM ever was, it wasnt until my first steve aoki show in like 2009 (his best ears before becoming lame like he is these days) that i didnt do drugs cause i had to workt he next day, but it blew my mind, and it just progressed there my love for aggressive dance music, then i went to coachella in 2010 and saw skrillex/excision/12thplanet and thats when i knew i loved dubstep

@TheDJkarsy 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm maybe age and drugs did have a combo that meant people like DnB more but personally I just loved Dubstep no matter what the drug I was on.

@the_accidental_poet 3 жыл бұрын

This is the absolute visual representation of the days I use to lurk around the Dubstep Forum a decade ago. Excellent video, my dude.

@deeplaysit 3 жыл бұрын

Dsf represent :)

@ventarfield7115 3 жыл бұрын

Those were the days. I still have hard drive full of dubstep forum Choones.

@deeplaysit 3 жыл бұрын

@All Things Dub I remember I had a track in one of the comps and the tune that came second ended up being one of the Mt kimbie guys doing an anon submission... Wild days haha

@Kostemusic 3 жыл бұрын

dsf gang

@unrue1048 3 жыл бұрын

And then came wave?

@Gholladay 8 ай бұрын

Excellent video. Thank you for taking the time to put this together.

@gabrielhill1725 2 ай бұрын

Whoa- just finished this one, and I wanted to thank you for such a thorough and well produced essay. It was both touching and informative- a hard balance to strike! You really transported me to a time/place/scene that I had no part in whatsoever, except for the occasional glimpse (Burial being a major touchstone for me back in the day). But I loved it the ride you took us on. Thanks so much! I look forward to following your work!

@espawna 3 жыл бұрын

I've been a huge fan of "brostep" since 2010. This video really opened my eyes to real /UK dubstep I just listened to Burial and I am completely enamored with the sound.

@Sool101 3 жыл бұрын

It's mesmerising

@dpdilla 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know why but this comment makes me happy. I think I had this experience coming into drum and bass (specifically Metalheadz) in the late 90s and discovering all the dope music from the early 90s that lead up to it (specifically Reinforced Records)

@DeanLawrence_ftw 3 жыл бұрын

this makes me happy too. well done on broadening your horizons. burial has an uncanny ability to reach right into your chest and play with your heart

@metalworker87 3 жыл бұрын

man welcome to the planet. you can now learn to walk

@ext93 3 жыл бұрын

Ashtray wasp

@nathankennedy3342 3 жыл бұрын

This hitting with daft punks breakup, they got me into more focused listening and the era is officially over, not super dubstep educated but this video was amazing

@NASkeywest 3 жыл бұрын

I was hoping they were announcing the release of a final record, instead......the announcement of the end...

@NinjaThatLongboards 3 жыл бұрын

@@NASkeywest I'm still holding out hope they'll surprise us. Maybe foolishly but I need to believe.

@tob.meister 3 жыл бұрын

Early Daft Punk is fucking GOATED

@KingOfDarknessAndEvil 3 жыл бұрын

@@tob.meister I've only heard a few daft punk songs, are their later songs not as good?

@fungdark8270 3 жыл бұрын

@@KingOfDarknessAndEvil Just different. KZfaq homework and discovery, first two albums

@robertnewsum2536 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing your story through the scene! Finding the little corners of the scene all over the uk and the resurgence in 140 from labels like 1985 and Critical in the last few years has been great. Especially someone who's come from dnb and found themselves loving the lower tempo stuff 🔥

@TERRORSTORM096 Жыл бұрын

Dubstep is actually my favourite genre of music I love both Morden and old dubstep, they're both equally just as incredible

@sevenkaylive 3 жыл бұрын

Can we just appreciate the guy putted EVERY SONG in the description!

@minnie7453 3 жыл бұрын

I want someone to put them all on a Spotify playlist

@TheSkullConfernece 3 жыл бұрын

Is he a golfer or something?

@zerveaux3565 3 жыл бұрын

@@minnie7453 many of those were only distributed physically :p

@jessicareed2092 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSkullConfernece English is probably not his first language, don't be a jerk

@joeyboikly 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSkullConfernece what’s a golfer?

@ChimeTunes 3 жыл бұрын

This is a lovely re-telling of the history behind dubstep's origins filled with your unique experiences as a dubstep listener from the UK that I appreciate the hell out of! But as a dubstep listener - now producer - also from the UK that only got into dubstep after 2010, during its transition into what you claim to be the "downfall" of the genre, it's frustrating to have your in-depth recital of it's origins not continue past the point many of us gained our interest. There's so much to explore in dubstep post-2010 that is completely beyond and separate to the "tasteless" vibe you mention as the end-all-be-all of the genre now. While it's of course an utterly different genre of music at this point, it's a continuous frustration of mine to once again hear a UK-based listener outright dismiss a style I know to be varied and beautiful - referred to so negatively and based entirely on it's surface-level perception from an outsider. Just because the music has evolved and changed drastically, it doesn't mean there aren't any incredibly introspective and thoughtful approaches to the genre being employed over the past 10 years. The UK loves to claim things as ours and hate it when it's taken and changed and this is displayed no better to me than with dubstep's evolution. My music may not be dark, brooding or subdued for the most part and it's absolutely not in the same ball-park as those early dubstep tunes you love, but I assure you they're incredibly meaningful to me despite being wrapped up in that high-impact, sound-design-celebrating package you've dismissed. Hell, I even had a tune with Flux Pavilion come out last week - an artist you lumped into being part of "the problem" multiple times during this video and one I know to put in a huge amount of thought into his tunes. Just because a track is high-energy doesn't mean it can't be deep and meaningful - and a track doesn't have to be deep and meaningful to be great. For me the appeal of modern dubstep IS the fact that you can wrap emotions into it and blast it at a crowd with as much impact as sonically possible. I love subtlety too but the maximal nature of dubstep's new form is insanely beautiful to me in a way I have never experienced with dubstep pre-2010. I guess my point is, people express themselves in different ways and they shouldn't be shamed for that. If someone wants to make tunes that are literally just fun as hell to play live then that can be as important to them as another producer pouring their emotions into their music. There's pleeeenty I dislike about the modern dubstep scene and where it's gone recently but I just wanted to give a bit of a rebuttal to your points about brostep along with a reminder that just because you know the depths of a genre's origin doesn't mean you can claim that the entire continuation of it is terrible without actually diving into it properly for yourself!

@sharkstunes 3 жыл бұрын

hi harvey have a nice day

@96YotaT100 3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@AustinSimard 3 жыл бұрын

That was very well written, I appreciate your insight Harvey.

@frankycheifsosa8946 3 жыл бұрын

CHIME

@Ghost0oo 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said

@stevepaul9714 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like dubstep is a deeply personal thing for people in the UK during the mid 2000s... That's awesome. On the flip side, Skrillex made awesome music that was fun and served a completely different purpose. Call it what you want, I really don't care about genre labels, but his music was exciting and new. Productions like that had never been heard before to that level. I really do cherish Skrillex's old tracks because they sparked my interest in music production and that took me down an amazing road in my life.

@BingTVCh-sr4qs 10 ай бұрын

Yeah. I remember everyone liking dubstep but I never met anyone who had a true personal connection to it... I mean, how?

@JulianMartinez-jt6pl 9 ай бұрын

Someone seeing the things as they are. Thank you.

@MyNameJeff.. 9 ай бұрын

Bro, we millennials in the us were bumping sukh knight, caspa, rusko, all of the great dubstep in 08-early 10 before Skrillex made it popular for gen z kids. Which is straight because he opened it up. But we knew how awesome the sound was as it was coming out back before the 2012 and beyond “dubstep”

@Wallacer 8 ай бұрын

If you lived an urban life in London or other parts of the UK, particularly South London during this era, dubstep was a natural progression of the scenes going on at this time. It was a new sound. The description of the night bus the narrator speaks of is just it. You can tell Skrillex hasn’t taken the night bus home after a night out in London. No disrespect to Skrillex and what he does, but this is the difference.

@hardgainer7396 4 ай бұрын

amazing work man. I see this for like 4th time I guess and keep it sending to my younger friends who are curious enough. You make this fringe history not to be forgotten

@berke2336 3 жыл бұрын

it was weird being an American in high school that loved the subtler British stuff like Silkie, Goth Trad, and Skream seeing brostep/Skrillex blow up and everyone started talking about "this crazy new music called dubstep"

@DistrictWitch 3 жыл бұрын

man, as an english person, you are what we wanted lol. Not THEM, Aaaa. Why do americans always ruin British music genres? It's like some 'bruh' at a frat party was like 'TURN IT UP LOUDDDERR, FK THE BASS TRN UP THE MIDZZZ', and then it all went downhill from there.

@Johnpinckney98 3 жыл бұрын

@@DistrictWitch I want to ask you something. What do people think of the newcomers of the genre (5+ years ago) Chime, Oliverse, Teminite? I know they all can't bring back what dubstep was, but are they doing a good enough job with what the genre has developed into now (in your or your peers opinion)?

@RiceCubeTech 3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnpinckney98 teminite is hardly new, I can remember jamming to some of his songs back in freshman of high school, and I’m a sophmore in college now. Been almost 6 years.

@testdrivefan1 3 жыл бұрын

@@Johnpinckney98 Teminite has been producing since 2013 or so. He's not a newcomer nowadays. And simply IMO dubstep can't go back to only the dark sounds of the pre-Skrillex era. It needs to be varied in order to strive. And all of the current dubstep artists nowadays really are helping with this. There are multiple styles for everyone to hear.

@CallowaySchmidt 3 жыл бұрын

Bassnectar is what got me interested in the genre

@dankenstin8803 3 жыл бұрын

As someone, who isn’t a fan of dubstep, this is amazing.

@zachstone6717 10 ай бұрын

Great video! I was there in the beginning and sadly saw the trajectory explained here. Once the music left the sub woofers I was out. I loved hearing your take on Burial. It is spot on! I have bought everything Burial has done and his music will be played loud at my funeral. Love that shit!

@MaxbrainCapital Жыл бұрын

Wow. Absolutely the video we all needed..you hit the nail in the head. No ones said it better. Also, this had to come from the UK perspective. As somebody that grew up in the US (Denver, CO) it’s great to get to hear the real origin stories from back in those times. 🖤⚡️ Thank you!

@checkeredslime9478 3 жыл бұрын

Watching Skrillex's Nardwaure interview made me feel so sorry for him. He got so much hate during dubstep's pique popularity, and you can tell he's legitimately happy to be treated so kindly.

@sol5038 3 жыл бұрын

I remember how he posted Aphex Twin's Flim on fb, calling it his favourite song of all time, and his fans complained about the lack of a drop. Looking back, I really do feel bad for him.

@TheAwesomoe 3 жыл бұрын

He was really in touch with trends as well, his later songs were of a genre (sound) that would dominate the market a bit later.

@drifter402 3 жыл бұрын

@@sol5038 I remember the article where Aphex Twin agreed to let Skrillex have a go on his tank

@carsandzombies7606 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone hated him and memed him to death but yes, he is very nice. He was a singer in a emo/metal band then transitioned to Dubstep. Im not surprised he created brostep. Metallic sounds got introduced due to his past lol.

@grandtheftautocj 3 жыл бұрын

@@sol5038 That was such an iconic moment.

@i_make_sounds 2 жыл бұрын

What a journey, man. As an American whose only exposure to dubstep was through KZfaq playlists full of what you'd call Brostep. I always wondered why one day it was just gone in the popular sphere. I never realized that was because the cultural niche it filled in Britain started to disappear. I knew it originated there but I never realized how divisive the American interpretation was on the other side of the pond. Thanks for the education!

@One_Call_System 2 жыл бұрын

I started listening to electronic music and even djed in the mid nineties US rave scene, it was awesome.. Then about 2006, I heard proper dubstep being played out for the first time. And the next week went to Dubwar in NYC, it was Digital Mystiks and Loefah.... still the best dubstep event I ever went to lol. As an American who loved the UK sound, I saw the train wreck that was coming for years. It kept getting worse and worse in the dances too, just like how this guy explains it.. Now the only way to hear the deep stuff is from certain promoters who usually barely break even on their shows. Mean while the festie scene is huge and retarded here in America and I just want to kill myself lol.

@AntonL1994 2 жыл бұрын

It was very frustrating at the time

@Hodapp Жыл бұрын

You’re videos are legendary. I still think of this title any time I think of dubstep which is admittedly not very often but still.

@greatwhitnorth Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video. Your own mixing during this video was really great so wanted to call that out. Really well crafted piece of work

@skyalkemade605 2 жыл бұрын

The strange thing is that dubstep is still very much alive. In my city of Amsterdam we have tons of parties with well known dubstep artists where tickets sell out often.

@apmac6723 2 жыл бұрын

that's cos those kids are down to party 24-7

@skyalkemade605 2 жыл бұрын

@@apmac6723 I'd actually put the age range between 20 and 30 over here. And dedicated fans to certain artists. It's more the drum and bass that attracts younger party kids

@bleepbloop134 2 жыл бұрын

Waah waah its not real dubstep waah waah

@thavrisco1632 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like contemporary trends die faster on average in the US and Canada compared to Europe, Asia, or Latin America. There's a certain meme that I always see when browsing Chinese social media, Brazilians were still playing Among Us a while after it died in the US, and Amsterdam still appreciates dubstep.

@Jaymo00 Жыл бұрын

Dubstep is alive and well in California! Theres TONS of clubs, raves and big festivals over here that play dubstep and all its subgenres.

@clrndalvare 2 жыл бұрын

I've spent half of my life waiting for someone to come up with a cohesive thesis on how the word "dubstep" came from meaning the sound of Burial to the shouts of Skrillex. This is it, you made it my friend. Thanks.

@MultiSciGeek 2 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same here! :D

@Enzaio 2 жыл бұрын

Haha I totally get you. When I listened to Burial for the first time about a year ago and then saw it labeled as dubstep, it nearly broke my brain. Now I get it.

@emancipator6497 2 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@notmus 2 жыл бұрын

Meanwhile Average metal/rock fans: dUbStEP iS nOt mUzIc iZ nOT hAvE LyRiCs.

@lorez4573 9 ай бұрын

By far the best music (documentary) i've seen, describing more through feeling than facts! And all the tracks listed, big thank you from france! This is for me a masterpiece, an holy journey into music!

@tminusfivetwu 3 жыл бұрын

You need to make a Spotify playlist homie

@lasarousi 3 жыл бұрын

For fuck sake yes.

@larissacristinaamaral1964 3 жыл бұрын

Definitly!

@lenjaminbang 3 жыл бұрын

i know fucking right

@aaronswanson6227 3 жыл бұрын

Here ya guys go, 135 hours of dubstep/brostep/just all around bass music.

@trs4184 3 жыл бұрын

@@aaronswanson6227 Did you mean to add a link?

@WorldOfXeen 2 жыл бұрын

Skrillex is the artist who got me into Dubstep. I remember being at a really small local venue and they had scary monsters and nice sprites playing through the huge speakers. The bass shook my whole body and I was hooked. It was the first time I had heard anything like it. After watching this I'm excited to go and give all of the other subgenres and classic dubstep artists I've never heard a listen. This video was such a great look at the history of the genre and the editing was beyond stellar.

@willbournerv2259 2 жыл бұрын

Names to check out: skream, loefah, kode9, coki, mala

@BloodOfTartaros 2 жыл бұрын

Remember, fam: Dubstep has no subgenres, only styles!

@danJAHrous 3 ай бұрын

Names to check for today, Leon Switch, Biome, Truth, AxH and anything on Dubstep For Deep Heads, Uprise Audio & Deep, Dark and Dangerous.

@Dontgankmeplx Жыл бұрын

What a great video. I went to university 2008-11 and some of my friends were producers so went to fair amount of dubsteb gigs and noticed the change in scene, music and crowd but couldnt articulate it as well as you have here. I think its why i switched from electronic music to mostly metal now.

@Egonem Жыл бұрын

This is the first time I've ever seen your channel before and I'm really glad I found this video. I could feel your passion and emotions for the music that shaped you and it really made me see that I've been looking for something like that for myself. Thank you for this. I think I'm going to go listen to some of the songs in this video now

@benfletcher8100 3 жыл бұрын

I was just talking to someone the other day and was like “Remember when dubstep was huge and Skrillex was one of the top artists?”

@ChodeMaster 3 жыл бұрын

Ikr

@Gianfranco_69 3 жыл бұрын

I would have slapped you around your dirty mouth for saying skrillexx

@benfletcher8100 3 жыл бұрын

@@Gianfranco_69 And why would you do that?

@veronikat6996 3 жыл бұрын

@@Gianfranco_69 Chill out dude

@woods3757 3 жыл бұрын

@@Gianfranco_69 skrillex

@PeterPan-dz7mu 3 жыл бұрын

The problem was never the music and never the artists. "Skrillex did nothing wrong", seriously. The problem is the influence of the commercial music industry limiting opportunities to a few narrow subgenres that are considered "safe" and in return cause all producers to flock to these subgenres for money and causing every company who wants to appear hip to insert the sound into everything from rom-coms to cornflake commercials - making everyone, even the most hardest fans of the genre burn out on it within a few years.

@jfklmk13447 3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone with a brain here !

@nonnaput1074 3 жыл бұрын

Finally someone with a brain here !

@andrewrobertsmith7367 3 жыл бұрын

Isn't Skrillex brostep rather than dubstep? Basically for me brostep is just making noise while dubstep is creating music. Pretty new to the genre to be fair & I only really like a small proportion of the genre too. Loving Zomby, Burial & Pinch amongst others. 👍

@jakeaaaaaaaaaa 3 жыл бұрын

@@andrewrobertsmith7367 Do sonny a favor and give his 5 dub albums a listen. Personally I give him credit for the uniqueness he brings and how he has grown his sound design.

@andrewrobertsmith7367 3 жыл бұрын

@@jakeaaaaaaaaaa, Who's Sonny? If it's Skrillex then life's too short I'm afraid. Skrillex for me is a terrible artist. Rather give me one of his tracks that you think is amazing and I'll check it out because I've never heard anything good from him period.

@garethbarnett6389 9 ай бұрын

Dude I gotta thankyou personally for the introduction to Burial. I originally watched only 1/2 of this video leaving it to search YTmusic for Burial. This was about a year ago and I've been totally obsessed with Burial ever since. You see, I was there for acid house, I was there for jungle, I was there for drum n bass but by the time dubstep came along I was suddenly a father of 3 and not working in nightclubs anymore, I lost touch man. I missed it all. Now I've got Burial and all those back catalogues. Great video man 👏 👍 👌 Kids are all over 18 now so I'm off out with them now!

@interlapsed 6 ай бұрын

The same thing happened to breakcore. Sewerslvt came along and made music that would fit more into ambient DNB rather than breakcore, and people from then got confused and just thought the genre was only just sad synths / sampled anime music with a breakbeat.

@Zephyrs009 2 жыл бұрын

Y'know, as an American my first exposure to "Dubstep" was Skrillex and his schlock made me write the genre off as soulless and empty, devoid of substance or meaning. Watching this video kinda makes me feel bad for dismissing the genre so wholeheartedly

@GANO. 2 жыл бұрын

This is beautiful

@adamwyatt1902 2 жыл бұрын

Good. Cuz you should feel bad. A life changing genre is now degraded. Metal is a similar topic.

@youtubehastakenovermylife4979 2 жыл бұрын

I heard dubstep for the first time when I was 24 in 2011 and I said “this stuff sucks. Like it’s a fuckin joke and will be a joke in five years”. And....

@1fault 2 жыл бұрын

skrillex is a god

@yuxanne. 2 жыл бұрын

Hardstyle embraces the huge 50k festivals on the contrary lol, but yeah skrillex was my intro to dubstep but I grew out of him pretty quickly, after I started making music I started appreciating him again tho, sound signature was crazy for the time lol

@taliban_skate_vids 3 жыл бұрын

I've always been musically homeless. I like darkwave, country, thrash metal, synth, anything. But I've never been so entrenched in a genre as it was happening. I always arrive at the aftermath, when there's no chance of music coming out, or all I have to hold onto is a shitty mp3 I downloaded from youtube. It blows my mind that all of this happened without me knowing it was even there, it's existence is completely new to me.

@UsedNapkin-pz8sg 3 жыл бұрын

Bruh I’ll be listening to Megadeth and then go listen to fuckin Waterflame sometimes lmao.

@norgepalm7315 3 жыл бұрын

@@UsedNapkin-pz8sg 👏 wow

@DealingLace 3 жыл бұрын

How the fuck am I supposed to beat Takeshi’s Challenge, Takeshi?

@taliban_skate_vids 3 жыл бұрын

@@DealingLace just don't fuck up

@theeoddments960 3 жыл бұрын

@@UsedNapkin-pz8sg here’s your award 🥉

@tylercarter456 9 ай бұрын

Always thought I was the only person who cried to the last bit of shell of light until watching this

@kiwidubtee 6 ай бұрын

Wow. This is a really, really impressive piece of work. The way you explain and dissect the dubstep sound, its history, the culture that influenced it and the underground scene it created is absolutely awesome. As a formerly obsessive fan of the original dubstep sound, this definitely made me nostalgic. I love the way you broke down and compared the differences between tear out dubstep tunes and the brostep stuff - this is something I have always wanted to explain to people but have never been able to verbalise myself.

@yezmo5688 3 жыл бұрын

This video is actually making me realize why as a kid i hated trying to share what genre of music i listen to.

@OfficialGoldenboy 3 жыл бұрын

Bruuuh same but we got the chance to bring it back & better !!

@David-ck3gv 3 жыл бұрын

I usually say electronica now. It's broad enough and also somewhat different from EDM

@UNCOOKEDTV 3 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sOCRf7qZx8-wdWw.html

@user-wr8bs8vx9r 2 жыл бұрын

When I was 15-17 and people would ask me to control the music at a party, I would because sure I like it... But the party goers 99% of the time didn't. I quit around 2015 to share my music with anyone. I knew no one liked it so why torture them. It sounds much more harsh in text lol It's been years. I'm used to it and I'm not a festival (or party) goer anyways. Very introverted. I actually even prefer earphones. I say I listen to EDM these days. I go into deeper level details if the person seem to know anything or ask for it.

@notmus 2 жыл бұрын

Remember guys EDM is a term not a genre, all dubstep and DnB and jungle belongs to the underground bass scene, edm is a term for all the mainstream big room and trap hits since 2011 when big room and deep house was huge.

@jordansmith130 3 жыл бұрын

WHAT ARE YOU DOING, BRO-STEP???

@Xavier_Breaking_Bad 3 жыл бұрын

😆

@naffy3327 3 жыл бұрын

Fucking the scene entirely apparently

@EtamirTheDemiDeer 3 жыл бұрын

Wub wub

@jordansmith130 3 жыл бұрын

@@naffy3327 Dubstep was stuck in the washing machine, this was the logical course of action

@KingNexusMOCs 3 жыл бұрын

Dubstep bro

@ryukyu8089 Жыл бұрын

Preach it brutha. Much aloha for this. It was a joy to watch and listen to your origin story. Extremely educational as well.

@imperfectclark 9 ай бұрын

This is 15 years of me hanging my music rep (as a music blogger) on the line, redeemed. So well done; thank you.

@prupsicle 3 жыл бұрын

Mate I’m not even a dubstep fan and I was utterly transfixed by this video

@brendendas 3 жыл бұрын

Transfixed is accurate.

@TriSamples 3 жыл бұрын

All genres have a time span. UK garage used to be underground and exactly like dubstep was early on. It became popular over time and was destroyed by its success. The key to happiness is not to follow a genre but just find things you like and keep searching.

@gregt8033 3 жыл бұрын

I'm

@dodoshlodo 3 жыл бұрын

Except for Drum & Bass

@wakeyskate 3 жыл бұрын

@@dodoshlodo dnb is a bit of an enigma I think, most genres in popular dance music sit between the 110-140 bpm side of things so it’s easier for people to transfer between them. I’ve know plenty of people who’ve moved between funky house to dubstep to minimal to tech house etc. There’s nothing wrong with that but with dnb being nearly on its own at the top end of the spectrum there’s there’s a wider spectrum to work with within the dnb umbrella, which I love by the way. It’s outlived lots of ‘fads’ (harsh term but let’s be real) along the way and still going strong so totally agree with you.

@Flokoli1 3 жыл бұрын

@@wakeyskate I love neuro funk and drumstep

@wakeyskate 3 жыл бұрын

@@Flokoli1 like the former but not so keen on the latter

@wilderulz Жыл бұрын

this video was so interesting! as someone who has 0 knowledge of dubstep (aside from the memes) It was so fascinating to learn about this from someone who has so much passion and love for the genre. Definitely going to check out some of the artists that you mentioned!

@lollylula6399 Жыл бұрын

Big up Nottingham crew 🙌🏼 Loved this documentary, for your exquisite analysis & articulation of this music genre and it's evolution, and your personal involvement/evolution with it. And, loved seeing scenes from my beloved home city and hearing your bad boy and Nottingham accent coming through :) I highly recommend 08:30 the original early 70s Minnie Ripperton Lovin' You - her voice and vibe are heavenly.

@JakeLDS 3 жыл бұрын

Another thing about the smoking ban. People used to smoke a lot of weed on the dancefloor. No one was ever really dancing dancing, we'd all just stand there in the dark nodding to the beat, deep in the groove as we were blazing. After the smoking ban came in you couldn't really smoke weed while you enjoyed a set so the vibe changed a lot. People were drinking more and loads of ketty teenagers started flailing around on the dance floor. I remember there was a very distinct way that the crowds behaviour changed because of it.

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

In one of the local clubs they would still smoke occasionaly. On every door there was a piece of paper stating the smoking ban an the fibers were greyed out from the ashes and fog. It was rare enough that you could still hang out there without getting a headache after a few years of that ban in action, but you could still smell the residues.

@RyoMassaki 3 жыл бұрын

There never was a smoking ban in the Berlin underground scene (not enforcable) but i do remember that there was an influx of people who took amphetamine/cocaine as well as some who took Ketamine after a certain point in time. But the overwhelming majority was always fueled by alcohol and/or weed.

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

@@RyoMassaki I know some clubs would spray oil on the smooth surfaces in the bathroom to piss off people trying to do coke in there: it would soak into the oil within seconds and be unusable.

@RyoMassaki 3 жыл бұрын

@@Testgeraeusch That's creative. Lol. I can understand though. There is something about cocaine that just makes people insufferable if their personality isn't great. Most people can't handle it and turn into egoistical assholes. Me included, that's why I don't take it.

@Testgeraeusch 3 жыл бұрын

The closest i came to drugs was a dude bringing a cake to a party and one hour later being informed that he should mark said cake somehow as it contained weed. He was so lost, he forgot to tell everybody what he had made.

@JohnDoe-rx3vn 3 жыл бұрын

Unfun fact: The song sampled at the end of "shell of light" no longer exists. KZfaq deleted the original video, and the artist doesn't have a copy. That song is one of the few places you'll ever hear those vocals

@user-gu1il8dp7p 3 жыл бұрын

I mean there’s definitely a copy of it physically or downloaded by a fan somewhere in the world let’s be honest lmao

@JohnDoe-rx3vn 3 жыл бұрын

@@user-gu1il8dp7p i'm hoping someone does, and replies back to me in defiance lol

@HangOnThereSlick 3 жыл бұрын

What is shell of light?

@darragho6358 3 жыл бұрын

@@HangOnThereSlick A burial track. Go watch RA's video on burials unture for more info

@Chopperdragon39 3 жыл бұрын

the creator of this video probably has it.

@TheOrphicCreative 9 ай бұрын

So glad I found this video. What a well reasoned, intelligent look at the birth, evolution and fate of dubstep. Thank you for making this, I learned a lot. Your story reminds me a lot of my own journey through Trance, a few years before yours. It was much the same evolution and eventual disillusionment, but the music I make today still owes a lot of it's origins to the experiences I had back then.

@rainerohst9147 9 ай бұрын

I've never been into dubstep but I love the description of the sense of wonderment at discovering new music styles and substyles as a teen. That definitely transcends genres. Great clip.

@FuntCaseUK 3 жыл бұрын

A very interesting take! I must say though, being as i'm 100% a part of the rise of the more aggressive part of dubstep when I started in 2009, I can't help but feel a little disappointed in the reactions of some people towards how myself, Circus Records and other artists during this change in the scene. I do love deeper dubstep, I also make deeper styles of dubstep and have contributed to that as well, so I feel a little attacked by a lot of what was said in here. That being said, i'm not offended at all, this was an awesome narrative from a true fan perspective and understand it totally! Good work my friend. Although saying music got annoying then showing UKF and Circus Records did make me say wow ahahaha

@g0odluck527 3 жыл бұрын

how has no one seen this

@tannermccann8922 3 жыл бұрын

You are a fucking legend brother

@KonJonnorMusic 3 жыл бұрын

Fr man ! Got into the heavier sound around 2010 , UKF were a huge part of the success of that heavier noisy dubstep in the UK. I think the real game changer came when Skrillex started hitting here though. That electro/dubstep sound is clearly a US import of the original UK dubstep . I like soulful vibes, but I guess you know yourself - the hype is where the money is!

@tom_mac 3 жыл бұрын

I think it takes a big man reply to this video in a solid gold spirited way like you did, all things considered but uh; All respect due, and you were very good at it, but surely you knew what you were doing with brostep there. Brudda, you called ur project FuntCase. lol.

@FuntCaseUK 3 жыл бұрын

@@tom_mac was kinda an accident i ended up being called FuntCase but i'm not sure what you mean entirely by "you knew what you were doing"

@alexwise5459 3 жыл бұрын

Skrillex was actually my entry in discovering music in general. He was the first artist that I actively sought out music for. Sure I was only like 11, and don't even really like skrillex anymore, he still led me to the genres I listen to today.

@alexwise5459 3 жыл бұрын

@Federal Bureau Of Investigation I'm 17, I was 7 when scary monsters and nice sprites came out. I was 10 when I started actively listening to skrillex.

@XeroPro 3 жыл бұрын

yes

@flammingdragon 3 жыл бұрын

check out his work with From First to Last

@ianholmquist8492 3 жыл бұрын

You have my pity

@oight 3 жыл бұрын

I honesty don't understand how people found any enjoyment in skrillex and I listen to some shite donk music lmao, but it at least hits that dopamine part of my brain shamelessly. honestly jealous, wish I could get that feeling from it that all those american lads went mental for when skrillex came on, just can't understand at all

@kmart6026 Жыл бұрын

Really great documentary man!!! Great job and conveying the history of dubstep! I really love liquid drum n bass with soft dub undertones slapped into mid range beat style dubstep

@ch33zer 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like this is the standard progression when a niche genre blows up. As the music gets bigger it gets boiled down to the parts people find the most enjoyable. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, or with the people that enjoy it. Music doesn't need to be a subtle deep experience at all times, sometimes it can just be some shit you headbang to. I understand that it can really suck for those who like a particular aspect, though.

@LoudPaul1 3 жыл бұрын

it can also get boiled down to the parts people find the most profitable.

@f67739 3 жыл бұрын

there is a huge problem with that when you're involved in making the music or establishing the scene

@sophiafortyfour 3 жыл бұрын

I bet garage heads hated what they loved turned into. Strange, deep, and slow music.

@123eee 3 жыл бұрын

@@rorz999 I've just posted a comment related to this - my feeling at the time was that after the financial crash people needed to burn the anxiety off somehow (and yeah, sure, some people profited from the crash, but they sure as fuck weren't at any dubstep nights)

@mikedavidson6454 2 жыл бұрын

@@LoudPaul1 in terms of music those are the same things typically

@zZerozZz Жыл бұрын

My dubstep journey was backward. Skrillex got me into dubstep, then I researched the history of the genre and found out about these old school UK dubstep artists in the video, and I love both classic dubstep and brostep equally. While I think tastes are subjective, and things like this will always happen, even now in brostep (people who like riddim and those who don't), I hope people are more open minded because dubstep as a whole is still going strong and there are so many talented artists worth checking out in the new wave of brostep. I'm still a frequent fan of DUPLOC and recently really digging the "color bass" subgenre with artists like Chime and his label Rushdown, go give them a listen to see if you like it or not!

@chrizi7753 Жыл бұрын

Color bass and riddim are so fire dude and the old school bro step is fire too

@HieronymousLex Жыл бұрын

Riddim was also killed in the same way. I guess I’m not surprised that we can’t even have this one video for the people who were actually there. Even this has to be taken over by millions of brostep fans talking about how they love both, completely missing the point

@jornl9177 Жыл бұрын

Same here: coming from a middle European country I couldnt afford a bass heavy soundsystem listened to Skrillex got bored by brostep which I considered as dubstep and found other genres and subgenres I wouldn't have heard otherwise.

@JohnPaulBuce Жыл бұрын

OMG SAME!!!

@loyaltyuncrythro6788 Жыл бұрын

@@HieronymousLexas long as they start to understand the roots of dubstep and listen to what the vid has to say then I don’t see how being a gatekeeper is equally any better then an ignorant bro step listener. You were there ? Aight cool, people tryna to head back to the past on their accord and dig up what the forefathers of the genres left behind, it ain’t their fault all they had around them was brostep at the time