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Show ' ii'iif Tfrr Tjy '0 f8-- eyreunns livid! ammons) creates music Ig'7os recording and soup up the Im willing to take the risk of hate mail and social to declare my undying disgust for what you probably know as dubstep. The obnoxious, shambling robot sex that Skrillex by anyone who dubsteps more nuanced origins. mid-regist- er M ' g pt U-- , interesting soundscapes, The early British dubstep is sparse and fi.il of creepy vocal samples and ethereal background ambiance. It incorporates heavy bass lines to some extent, but nothing like the glaciers of noise currently sliding through the American airwaves. Dubstep artists like Burial, Kode9 and Digital Mystikz are good examples of the beginning of dubstep, when the genre had some class and life left in it. These are people who pioneered the scene, poured their blood, sweat and tears into promoting and playing and mixing and who really cared about the genre. If you listen to Burials self-title-d album, then you can sense the presence of the artist within the music, whereas, Skrillex just play unmemorable band whose debut album was called, get this, Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count. He is a money-grubbin- g sell-ou- t, and as soon as dies, hell hop aboard another gravy train. Therein lies my distaste. Brostep is a mindless genre that perpetuates mindless behavior. There is no artistry. There is no subtlety. There is no soul. Yeah, it gets people moving. So does cocaine. My other issue has to do with the dance culture that comes with the sound. There is so much more to dancing than throwing your body around to a beat. There is skill, there is style, but brostep is lazy music. It is nothing but a momentary flat line in the heart of music. In ten years, people will be trying to forget that Skrillex ever existed. Theyll be 'Stuffing their mid-regist- er bass drop. jf Hu&rtif it, iTunes Store sells it, movies y, I j U nt contain it, and to awarded Grammys are it, so dont think it will disappear anytime soon. Dubstep is a revolutionary genre of music with a recent dominating emergence in the music world. For those who dont know what dubstep is, let me inform you. In my terms, dubstep is an indescribably complex composed music that utilizes extensive amounts of electronic sounds to create a experience for a persons listening pleasure. It is simply newly defined electronic music hyped up on stimulants. I absolutely embrace the dubstep invasion. You may ask: What invasion? If so, then you dont get out much. Movies, dances, TV, radio and many media sources have soaked it up like a sponge; even State of the Storm broadcasts played on campus TVs often use dubstep. Sonny Moore, aka Skrillex, is a prominent dubstep artist who has immensely influenced the dubstep movement. The producers success at the 2012 Grammy Awards is a prime example of how y dubstep is a in the music major player game. Skrillex won Grammy awards for three categories: Best Dance Record ld hi f 1 1 J fj , r' - here-to-sta- i A? SEX ED continued from page 1 1 curiosity keeps growing as reality television becomes . more popular. Schools should take on the role of educators, as they always have, and take the extra step to make sure young adults are aware of true sex education. The school system, through its required health class, should not only teach abstinence, but also how to purchase birth control, how to use a condom, and who to talk to about any private changes that occur after the first time they have sex. can personally say I wish I wouldve known these things as I entered college. Sex is not an easy matter to discuss nor is it something to be denied. Sex is a human, hormonal, very natural thing. I not only believe that teen birth rates would go down if these things were taught, but I also believe students will be. less likely to be curious as to why sex I seems to be the forbidden fruit and why they should stay away from it. As for HB 363, 1 believe it rests simply on the fact that Utah is a widely religious state. If it werent for the religious beliefs of the community and state, then HB 363 wouldve changed from abstinence-onl- y sex education to a combination ofI safe sex and abstinence. Until Utah can teach more than abstaining from sex, 'the teen sex life will continue to increase as well as the teen pregnancy rate. Sorry HB 363, though I would teach my children to abstain from sex until I marriage, I would like my schools to teach my kids how to have safe sex. Especially if they felt they could not go to me. Instead of relying on the parents to teach their kids how to have sex, rely on them to teach their kids not to have sex, as it is a religious belief. Keep on educating our children. The more they know, the better they will be prepared for the future. Romney sets COURTESY OF MCT For a brief moment on Wednesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney actually sounded presidential, a rarity in the nasty, neolithic Republican presidential campaign. Look, the idea of presidential candidates getting into questions about contraception within a relationship between a man and a woman, a husband and wife, Im not going there, Mr. Romney told a television interviewer in Ohio. Mr. Romney further said that he opposed the amendment (to a transportation bill, no less) sponsored by Sen. Roy that specifiBlunt, would have allowed cally employers to creep deeply into the bedroom, taking away individual choices so that employers (job creators!) could have more power. Perhaps Mr. Romney Remixed Recording, Not bad for a producer of music some call just noise. Dubstep is a new fresh sound much needed during a time when original compositions are rarely found, or most current material is exhausted. Dubstep is miles ahead of any other competitor when it comes to recent originality, creativeness and spontaneous flow of Non-Classic- uniquely unmatched audible and emotional shirts into the bottom of the trash can when no one else is home, theyll be scolding their kids for playing the music too loud, and theyll pray they never hear another I DanceElec-troni- c Album, and Best Dance clubs to Last, a pathetically dubstep ing, Best BY GREGORY LAYTON Staff Writer makes you feel like youve been aurally violated. Skrillex is the biggest problem in the genre. Skrillex started as an Emo singer, fronting From First j, pyj ' at 1 Brostep can be characterbass ized by lines swooping around underneath needlelike electronic samples while meatheads named Chad fist-puto their new favorite, mindless slosh. Real dubstep started in South London when enterprising young scratch artists such as El-- B and Zed Bias started experimenting with dub remixes of garage music back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. If you know a little bit about both dub and you will understand and join forces with me in the war against this perversion of what began as an eerily beautiful genre. Dub started in the 1 960s A p, Combine these two things and you can achieve some post-dubst- brostep bass and drum tracks to create instrumental dance music. Dub is really just another word for remix. , Two-steon the other hand, is a timing thing. It started with British garage bands that emphasized the first and third beat of a four-bemeasure rather than the traditional steady pulse on each of the four beats per measure, or four on the floor. made popular is actually American a movement known as is familiar with when reggae artists, especially DJs, would remove the vocal hacks from a - Genre represents the future of music Bastardization of Brostep is just noise BY CHRISTINA OSBORN Staff Writer J, emotion. There is nothing else like it. I dont claim to be a music specialist, but I do know about the compositional process from living with a family member who professionally of Mr. Romneys reasonable, grown-u- p and proper answer on contraception was posted on the Internet, Web administrators were hitting the update button with a statement from the Romney camp saying that their man had misunderstood the question. It might have been the Sknllex then he has done It would be that hard bygr t0fir a person familiar wnl, dubstep who wouldnt recognize a song Skrillex. The non-typic- al The Ini by innovatic style ofdub step is another contribu tor to the brilliance of), In an Electronic Musician article by Micallef, Skrillex said KC( I a dont have three-an- difficulty. Dubstep propels ones mind into an emotional d influx of bass wobbles in with an endless selection of electronic sound possibilities. Images of magnificent raging dragons, mes' merizing space battles, malignant creatures and mechanical wonders occupy the minds of listeners. Music that accomplishes this affect is extremely complicated with perfectly combined layers of sound. I think the difficulty in producing, for whatever genre, is to create something that stands out, Layton said. If multi-layere- cop-juncti- :ecruitin leeping all DSC 521,0 chorus, outro, whatever dont follow that sortc format, and I never will for anybody. Im makin; music for me. I Dubstep reminds meo Adn poetry. The rules, structure, limits and forms of poetry evolve as time BYRl new and inventive I compositions an evolution of music that is inventing new rules, structures, limits, and forms. Just because it north e DSCs is is different doesnt mean its not music. Not only do dubstep producers make original compositions, but they can also remix dubstep into popular songs Personally, I usually omple DSC bui and iroke Snow s. 51-4- f Ho like In for the Kill, remixed Skrillex, would be my b Comm' Grou library Center mov tennial ample. curren1 Dubstep is not for I admit. Countn song and classical mu lovers will find dubstep remodi cal sci loud and disturbing These two music genre' are the polar opposites of dubstep, but great the fact that we all can choose what we want listen to. This I can assure you dubstep is here to stay Dont be afraid to listen to it. 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The Blunt amendment was voted down 8 Thursday in the Senate, despite Republicans attempts to portray it as a battle over religious liberty, instead of what it was an attempt flip-flop- a cl lurid songs u i io assist versechorus, verse students are still considered poetry. So too is dubstep challenging music genres to produce, but all genres have different degrees of ifdecidi ed and media. dubstep he said, Dubstep is one of the more wi laced Raginj i produces compositions in multiple music genres My brother Clay Layton owns, operates and directs Layton Entertainment. We often talk about music and in one of our talks about Dixie if i passes, but the flip-flo- p forgot he was running in a Republican primary that has seen acolytes cheer the rush into war, Texas high execution rate, and allowing someone without health insurance to die so that the public wouldnt have to pick up the tab to save his life. Mr. Romneys handlers quickly admonished their candidate for his burst of sanity. The candidate then immediately called a conservative radio talk show in Boston to say, Of course, I support the Blunt amendment. Todays political news cycle is measured not in hours, but in minutes. Moments after the video were talking Ar |
