Follow DJ Premier, Mark Ronson, Skrillex, Pretty Lights and The Crystal Method as they remix, recreate and re-imagine five traditional styles of music. From the classical perfection of the Berklee Symphony Orchestra to the bayou jams of New Orleans jazz, our five distinctive DJs collaborate with some of today's biggest musicians to discover how our musical past is influencing the future.
You can watch the whole thing on HULU with minimal commercials, and you can download the tracks they produced for free (copyright laws make it so they can't make money off the project). It's definitely worth the watch if you're a fan of music in any fashion. If you don't like some of the newer genres, it might be a bit tough to watch, but I found it fucking awesome. I stumbled upon project while surfing youtube videos and ended up at the website because I saw this:
This video gave me the chills as I watched it because I'm a Doors fan, but also a huge fan of Skrillex. To see a full-on collaboration from the older generation is awesome. I always hear things like, "it's nothing but noise!" "what is this garbage?" so on and so forth, but seeing this meld between old and new gave me nerd-chills the whole time.
Personally, I think Dubstep and some of the newer types of musical production are ground-breaking and I can't wait until there's a full integration of a live performance with instruments being modulated and shit rather than full studio, with 100% synthetic production. I love how dubstep has slowly seep'd it's way into the mainstream by way of commercials, movie trailers, remixes of well-known songs..but just basically commercials. It's already all over the internet.
But I think people are finally starting to realize that it's not just randomy noises, it's actually music...just a different kind of music that they are maybe not used to. I even had an argument in Music Appreciation class 2 semesters ago because some kid called it garbage, and he couldn't even justify his stance on why it was garbage other than "it's noise." SO WHAT? What is sound? Noise. What is music? Noise. Everything is noise that enters your ear, just because you're not use to the sound it makes, doesn't mean it's not musical. Ever try listening to Classical music? I bet you hated it at first. What about Opera? Probably hated it. It takes time for your ears to adjust to new sounds, kind of like listening to Deathmetal or Hardcore where there's lots of screaming. After a while, you can eventually understand the guy that's screaming, because your ears have become accustomed to the noise it's receiving.
Poll: Do you think Dubstep is the future of music?
No (185)
92%
Yes (9)
4%
Maybe, so what? (8)
4%
202 total votes
Your vote: Do you think Dubstep is the future of music?
"Future of music" is too broad and overestimating...it makes it sound like you're saying that dubstep is the going to be the most important genre in the future or something. As much as I love dubstep, it's not the "future" of music, it's just another genre that people can enjoy.
Yes I agree with you that people need to stop hating on dubstep/electronic (I get annoyed when people just call it noise as well), but it doesn't mean that it should be any higher than other genres either. All genres should be equal and people can listen to whatever they want.
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zachMEISTER United States. August 21 2012 10:36. Posts 573
On August 21 2012 10:35 zulu_nation8 wrote: i think you really have to be culturally illiterate to think skrillex has any significance
It's not Skrillex...it's the GENRE. I personally think he's an interesting individual, and I feel like the movie really showed the side of each musician well.
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killa_robot Canada. August 21 2012 10:40. Posts 982
future of music if a gross assumption for any one genre. if anything dubstep is an example of why calling any one genre "the future" is a bit of a misstep. Influential, yeah absolutely. The future, no cause its hear now. Something we haven't yet heard will be the future of music.
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FACENC United States. August 21 2012 10:47. Posts 50
I mean, isn't dubstep already on its way out? Fucking Kmart commercials have dubstep in them now. It will vanish just like other musical trends that have happened over and over again.
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zachMEISTER United States. August 21 2012 10:50. Posts 573
On August 21 2012 10:42 Sporadic44 wrote: future of music if a gross assumption for any one genre. if anything dubstep is an example of why calling any one genre "the future" is a bit of a misstep. Influential, yeah absolutely. The future, no cause its hear now. Something we haven't yet heard will be the future of music.
A bit wordy there, especially the "hear now" part. It made me laugh. I guess I could adjust my claim and say that it's here to stay. It's not so IN YOUR FACE DROPS EVERY 59 SECONDS, as it used to be. It's becoming more structured. And it's fucking ridiculous!
On August 21 2012 10:42 Sporadic44 wrote: future of music if a gross assumption for any one genre. if anything dubstep is an example of why calling any one genre "the future" is a bit of a misstep. Influential, yeah absolutely. The future, no cause its hear now. Something we haven't yet heard will be the future of music.
A bit wordy there, especially the "hear now" part. It made me laugh. I guess I could adjust my claim and say that it's here to stay. It's not so IN YOUR FACE DROPS EVERY 59 SECONDS, as it used to be. It's becoming more structured. And it's fucking ridiculous!
DubStep influenced EDM a bit and I think that's here to stay. A song that is just entirely dubstep is just so..boring..
Drumz United Kingdom. August 21 2012 11:14. Posts 28
Personally I don't see dubstep being ''the future''. Also I don't quite understand how it became THAT popular since it has been around for years. Watched the Skrillex + Doors part of the movie, I liked it and it shows how electronic music allows a lot of incorporation from other genres... keeps things fresh too
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Klipsys United States. August 21 2012 11:17. Posts 1201
On August 21 2012 11:17 Klipsys wrote: I can't comment on the future of music, but breaking a sweat (the doors collaboration) is one of the best electronic songs I have ever heard.
The Pretty Lights collab is pretty good too. I feel as though of everyone in the film, he was the least knowledgeable about how music is physically produced. He seems to be the absolute result of a computer-fed generation, then again maybe not.
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dUTtrOACh Canada. August 21 2012 11:24. Posts 1638
The way music fans are these days it seems anything new is the future of music. By that I mean if it isn't totally played out and they like the sound of it, it'll be fresh and invigorating but a few months down the line it's on to the next thing.
It also seems like there's a cut-off for many people where they're done dabbling in the new and just want to hear the same old comfort tunes they know and love. Somewhere around the 40s. Maybe earlier.
EDIT: In that regard I don't think dubstep will be the music I play when I'm an old fart sitting on my porch.
On August 21 2012 10:40 killa_robot wrote: I enjoy some dubstep, but honestly it all sounds almost exactly the same. It's not the future, it's just a cool little niche genre.
I enjoy almost 0 dubstep, and I completely agree when you say that it all is very similar and that it's just a genre... I certainly wouldn't call it "groundbreaking" like the op...
imallinson United Kingdom. August 22 2012 07:13. Posts 2072
As much as I love dubstep I think calling it the future of music is a bit much, as would be the case with any genre of music. There may be a case for saying remixing in general is a future of music because it has introduced a whole new way of making music that also allows the manipulation and revival of older pieces of music. Obviously other, non-electronically manipulated, music will continue to exist but electronic remixing is definitely a new branch of music that has appeared fairly recently (in a similar way that the introduction of instruments like electric guitars spawned it's own offshoot).
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FlamingForce Netherlands. August 22 2012 07:27. Posts 699
I mean sure, there's some decent noise in there but in the end it's just some stuff mashed together without even touching an instrument. If you consider music crafted by some guy on his hipsterbook to be "Groundbreaking" and the future of music, more power to ya.
Me, I prefer my music a bit more..Hands-on.
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