I've always said dubstep is the new screamo...

So then what the hell do you call it when dubstep producers start remixing screamo songs?



Seriously though, just as I was secretly (or maybe not so secretly) a big fan of many groups that may have been considered "screamo," "metalcore," or "hip-hop-tronic nintendocore," I find today that I am equally as a big a fan of certain types of dubstep.  The song available above isn't one that particularly impresses me, although the inclusion of numerous "vomit screams," as my dad calls them, is certainly a plus.  My big beef with dubstep is taking a song with a beautiful melody, letting a build for a minute or two, and then dropping it entirely for a generic and trite (although sometimes face-melting) wobble-wobble bass line that sounds like someone throwing a lawn mower through a jet engine (I guess the upside to a song like the one above is that it never really had a melody to miss once the bass dropped).

Anyway, here are some dubstep songs that I find myself unable to not enjoy, even if they do contain some of the most cliched elements of the infant genre.  The first is by Feed Me, a previous drum n bass DJ who went by the name Spor, who has now signed to Deadmau5's mau5trap label and is producing some very promising dubstep and electro tracks.  I am not sure who came first, but he and fellow mau5trap producer Skrillex are almost carbon copies or one another (interesting side note: Skrillex, one of the hottest new dubstep and electro producers on the scene, was originally the lead singer of the high-school screamo kings, From First To Last...what did I tell you about the dubstep-screamo connection?)


Next is a remix of Hadouken's (a "new rave" band, whatever tf that means...) "Oxygen" by some guy named Gemini. I don't really know anything about him, but I am digging how he let the meat of the song build during the breakdown without dropping everything for the wobbles...


Finally, this last song doesn't support my point at all that dubstep producers shouldn't let it all go for a fix of that heavy bass in the middle, since Vaski chooses to do just that in his remix. I am including it for two reasons, the first being that it's a remix of Sandstorm, and who hasn't always wanted a dubstep remix of Sandstorm? The second reason is that it starts out all innocent, like "oh, let me just get a nice mid-afternoon Sandstorm-listening sesh before I go back to work," and then BAM! You just got Rick Dubstep-ed (doesn't really roll off the tongue as well as Rick Rolled, does it?).