What is the difference between brostep and dubstep

At its most inoffensive, it's moody restaurantica. At its best, it's an obnoxiously fun and angry assault on your ears; the kind that makes you say, "What is this shit? That's not music," just like every generation of old people has uttered when they were confronted with a new and exciting musical genre.

Maybe you love it, maybe you hate it, maybe you've never heard of it. Regardless, it's impossible to ignore anymore as it's gradually popping up everywhere. You'll hear a Rusko song between whistles at sporting events, read a great review of Burial on your favourite blog, see a hilarious YouTube video with a dubstep score or watch a stripper dance to a Skream remix of La Roux at the No5 Orange it was an incredibly classy performance. And it's only going to keep spreading.

This past week, Justin Bieber announced his next album is going to include some dubstep while the biggest name in the genre, Skrillex, was receiving five Grammy nominations -- including Best New Artist. Or maybe give a listen to this one, "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," which is closing in on a stupefying 50 million views.

To give you a little perspective, the first single from Jay-Z and Kanye West's album Watch the Throne has nearly 30 million views. Skrillex is a pop star that's never had his music played on commercial radio or television. In his previous life, when he was 18, Skrillex went by his given name Sonny Moore and was the lead singer of screamo band From First to Last Yep, that's him screamo-ing. Now practically geriatric at 23, it only seems fitting that a kid who was signed to Epitaph Records and played the Warped Tour is the one to triumphantly bring dubstep from the trendy areas of London to the Hot Topics of every mall in suburban America.

Feel old and out of touch yet? I sure do, and I'm the one writing about this shit. Purists of the dubstep genre, of course, hate him. They say he looks like a jackass and his music lacks subtlety; that it's too in your face. I don't get all the hate. So in other words And so that is where all the hate comes from??? What does the "original" dubstep sound like???

Last edited by DjBetta; at PM. IMO you have to explore it yourself and choose what sounds good for you. Original dubstep producers like Skream, Benga, Hatcha, Rusko, Caspa and such started making dubstep by the end of 90s and with the internet dubstep became famous in ish. Rusko invented that brostep sound with his Woo Boost tune and all of his tunes were always a bit different than others. Also, you'll find links to artists that specialize in each sub-style.

This is what it feels like the first time you hear dubstep. It'll most likely be of the classic style and it'll be like nothing you've ever heard before. You'll feel small, a little nervous as the song builds up the first rise towards the drop Classic Dubstep uses all of the wobbles, wubs, glitches, and blips you hear in all of the sub-genres and other genres of electronic music.

Great examples of the classic style are Rusko and Kode 9. Filthstep is the lo-fi, Super Nintendo cousin of Dubstep. It's somewhere between Nerdcore and Seattle garage band music. It sounds like a 5th generation copy of a cassette tape half the time.

That's one part of the "filth" term. The other is that its very noisy and rhythmically aggressive and not very melodic. Try out 16Bit for an example of this style.

Wobblestep focuses on the wobble aspect of Dubstep. The wobble is the heavy synthesizer bass line with smooth pitch bends that drives the low-end of the frequency spectrum. Here, it's accentuated and placed up front. This makes Wobblestep the most disorienting yet enjoyable sub-genre in the list. Check out Caspa if you want to jump out of your seat and do the dance above zebra costume not included.

One of my personal favorites, Glitchstep puts the fancy drum patterns and wobbles in the background and really spends its time focused on the glitches.

The glitches are the high frequency, fast paced sounds that you'd expect to hear in a UFO. Think of the sound you hear when Neo first gets sucked into the Matrix when he touches that mirror. That's Glitchstep's feel.

For a good time, call Bassnectar. Timestretch is a great album. Another favorite of mine. Purists hate it, call these guys sell-outs, etc. But it's dope. I love the hip-hop influence and vocal samples. It focuses on the glitches and blips with lots of syncopated drum breaks and dynamic fluctuations in the feel of the song.

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