#early dubstep

[bazedjunkiii]

one for the OG bass headz.

[beatfein]

You choke my throat with words of wonder

You make it hard to breathe

Your love's so cold, just like an arrow

Pierced through my skin, I bleed

I knew you were no angel

But God, what did I do?

Do you remember what I said that first time we met?

Stay away, why couldn't you stay away?

I never needed anyone, but now that you are gone

Stay away, won't you just stay away?

[speedlimit15]

with all the love and kindness in my heart no techno from the late 90s could ever be considered early techno

[ratlycheese]

Being in middle school in the early 2010's was so killer dude. Radioactive and SAO dropping the same year? Attack on Titan AND dubstep? Being 12 was never better!

[moldysourlemons]

What happens if you get rid of Monika early...?

Sayori + Anzu Mazaki (Tea Gardner)

Deciding to have some fun with this one

[queenoffists]

Festival season was so good to me this year. Missing Lost Lands like crazy 🔥✨️🦖🦕

[mlpshippingtournament]

people who send propaganda about their blorbos in tornaments all talk about "sweep this", "sweep that"... Heck, even Twilight finds it fun!

www.youtube .com/watch?v=YT60_bItkqQ

The link doesn’t work for me, buttttt I think I know what you’re talking about XD

🎵 sweep~ sweep~ sweep~ sweep~ sweep~ 🎵

[weedle-testaburger]

if we start to make 2000s nostalgia a thing, i have two demands: one, we call it the noughties, not the 'aughts'- i was there and everyone called it the noughties at the time, and also aughts is a fake word that sounds stupid. two, we bring techno music the fuck back

[error404-drawnotfound]

NEW

vs

OLD

What Version is better?

[axl-ul]

Is it too bad and hypocritical of me to have a need to write some sort of poetry even though I passionately despise it most of the time?

Like seriously, anyone who knows the answer, send help. Now. Please

[bazedjunkiii]

the year is 2005 and dubstep and grime are still fresh.

[starscreamingg]

okay I know the amazing spiderman 2 isn't the best but why does Electro's theme FUCK

[charcuteriecrab]

5, 23, 29 for the music asks :)

5: A song that needs to be played LOUD

I know it makes me look like a nerd, but THIS song will never not be blasted it makes me want to scream that's how much emotion it evokes in me

23: A song that you think everybody should listen to

Don't Touch My Clogs because its new and hilarious

also this:

29: A song that you remember from your childhood

oooof man there are so many to choose from. the ones i remember the most are Eternal Consumption Engine by Primus, a lot of my dad's songs, and whatever was on on the radio at the time. A lot of Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, classic rock, and dubstep/edm (that's my brother's fault haha). Also a lot of Minecraft parodies like my personal favorite:

[redbuddi]

I think we as a society need to be reminded how good the original Powerpuff Girls was. Here's some of my favorite things about it:

the fight scenes had a level of punchiness and impact that was rare for cartoons of the nineties, and fight scenes that were way better than what one would expect from a comedy

The character writing is so good that a large portion of the show's most iconic episodes consist of just showing how the girls' personalities react to different scenarios, for example in one episode the girls take turns recapping a fight that had just happened, and the tone and art style of the flashback changes depending on whose telling the story

One of the recurring extras is a talking dog that goes about it's day like a normal human

Each girl has mostly the same powers with one special ability that sets them apart. Blossom has ice breath. Bubbles can speak to squirrels and is also fluent in Spanish. Buttercup can curl her tongue.

while the majority of the show is lighthearted comedy sometimes it'll just decide to be nightmareworld for an episode and i think thats pretty cool

The show utilizes a blend of classic upa linework and sixties art deco shapism to create a visual style that is utterly timeless. If the majority of the show wasn't cell animated you would not be able to guess when it came out

The main villain's speaking patterns were directly inspired by The Super Dictionary. AKA, the same book that brought us this:

You can tell.

In the season one finale, the girls fight a giant monster using a mech suit. During the fight, there is a sequence that is literally just 20 uninterrupted seconds of an absurd amount of missiles coming out of every possible orifice of the robot. And then they miss.

There was an anime adaptation made in the 2000's and its actually pretty good, like it does take a lot of creative liberties but its clear that the people making it understood the spirit of the original show and were just adapting it to reflect japanese pop culture in the same way the og show reflected american pop culture.

The show had an insanely kickass soundtrack consisting of early techno so clean it's kind of shocking that it was made in the late nineties and not the early 2010's pre-dubstep era

satan is there and he serves cunt

[vintagegeekculture]

I remember a friend of mine had some LPs that were Star Wars themed disco albums, and it brought back a very weird memory from back in the 70s (yes, I'm old!) of listening to a Star Wars disco mashup on the radio. What was all that about? I also remember something like that for Close Encounters, too.

You remember correctly, and this went on for a long while. In 1983, disk jockeys around the country played a record that involved an Ewok rapping the plot of Return of the Jedi in Ewokese. This made it to #60 in the Billboard Top 100.

This is hard to explain to people who weren’t there….but in the wake of Star Wars in the late 70s and early 80s, scifi was so beloved and mainstream that the orchestral music for nerdy scifi and fantasy movies about outer space were remixed and sampled into Giorgio Moroder-esque Italo-Disco dance numbers. And the most astonishing thing is, instead of being consigned to convention acts the way “horse famous” Brony dubstep acts are, this received national airplay on the radio, reached the pop music charts, and were played in discotheques. And incredibly, this continued for years and expanded from Star Wars into Star Trek, Wizard of Oz, Black Hole, Close Encounters….

All of this was the work of one specific person: Meco (or Dominico Monardo). The term “ahead of their time” is thrown around a lot, but Meco really was: a combination producer-songwriter and Italo-Disco pioneer in the style of Giorgio Moroder, he did several things that are now absolutely standard: he used remixes and sampling before hiphop made that standard for musicians, he wrote “fandom music” on a Moog synthesizer decades before Bronies turned their conventions into cringey dubstep concerts with songs like “Everypony Dance Now.”

It's stunning to me that Meco has not been rediscovered, considering every single trend in the culture essentially went his way.

The most startling thing about Meco’s Star Wars disco album, the one that got the ball rolling on this trend, is this: I always assumed it was some kind of cash in created by a record label mandate, a label executive’s completely cynical choice to hop on a hot new trend. That isn’t a crazy thing to think at all, since Star Wars is and always has been the most merchandized and sold out scifi property ever. But it wasn’t! You see, it was all the product of a single man’s specific vision: Meco had to convince his record label to make the record because they were skeptical.

When Meco went to see Star Wars in 1977 on Opening Day (what an experience that must have been) with his friend and fellow Italian chest hair/gold medallion enthusiast Tony Bongiovi, he was already an experienced producer-songwriter who had worked with Gloria Gaynor, Diana Ross, and formed DCA, the Disco Corporation of America. If you've ever listened to Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out," Meco actually played the trombone solo in that song. Seeing the Star Wars movie for the first time, though Meco thought the movie was nothing short of a religious experience. Originally, he wanted to do Star Wars music as a b-side on a Gloria Gaynor album, but expanded the idea into an entire album.

In Meco’s own words:

"When I think about what I did, nobody came to me, nobody said 'Meco, why don't you do this.' Nobody says 'Here's some money go make a record of this movie.' It was just my own... It was magical, it was just out of this world when all that happened."

Not only did this album hit platinum, not only did it actually outsell the Star Wars soundtrack, his remix of the Star Wars theme also went to #1 in the charts. It’s actually the best selling instrumental single of all time. A record, that, incidentally, it holds to this day.

Dick Clark, host of American Bandstand, had this to say about Meco:

"In 1977, Meco Monardo accomplished something no one else has ever done to the best of my knowledge. He was the first one in history to out-sell the soundtrack of a motion picture with his own distinctive version of a film's music. The music was totally danceable, and broke new ground. It's no wonder the STAR WARS THEME went to # 1. I loved his treatment of music from THE WIZARD OF OZ. Again, Meco created something innovative. The fun and the excitement gave a whole new feel to that totally familiar and well-loved music."

Like a lot of studio producers, Meco had an insane work ethic and hit when the iron was hot: he did an album about Close Encounters that exact same year, but also did a Star Wars Christmas Album, one of the strangest pieces of Star Wars kitsch around.

One of the most interesting things about the Star Wars Christmas album is that one of the songs, “R2D2’s Wish You a Merry Christmas” is the first professional vocals by John Bon Jovi, who was Meco’s friend Tony Bongiovi’s seventeen year old younger cousin (he was initially known as John Bongiovi). It's incredible to hear a squeaky voiced teen Bon Jovi on a kitsch album about a robot Christmas.

1978-1979 was really his best year. Meco made an Italo-Disco remix album entirely devoted to Superman, and at this point, Meco had the pull to get access to John Williams's sheet music for the score before the music even came out. In my personal opinion it's the best of them because he has to recreate it entirely with his own instruments, leading to a very unique sound.

He also did an album based on the Wizard of Oz:

And a combination album of Star Trek/Black Hole. It's probably the earliest remixing date of Goldsmith pieces of music: the Motion Picture Theme (which is now associated with the Next Generation - hearing it done in Italodisco is uncanny) and the Klingon Theme:

Incidentally, I think the design here of the Meco Enterprise, which had to be modified for legal reasons, would make a wonderful canon starship if anyone wants to be inspired by it. It reminds me of the same concept that would be used in the very next film for the Reliant-class of ships.

Meco eventually retired from music in 1985, but unfortunately he is no longer with us, as he passed into the next dimension in 2023. I think he showed us that creativity is often about transformation, and was inspired to make his art by a legitimate awe of space, the cosmos, and human imagination that the scifi movies of the 1970s and 80s provoke.

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Camellia - WYSI (When You See It) 2021

Camellia, also known as Cametek, KamelCamellia, or real life name Masaya Oya, is a Japanese musician, composer, and DJ who gained recognition primarily focused on rhythmic music such as hardcore, speedcore, and dubstep. Born in September 28, 1992 at Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan, he began creating music since the age of 10 by making tracks for Yume 2kki. Ever since, he has made hundreds of songs, with his discography having 28 albums and 4 EPs. During the early 2010s, Camellia began making Vocaloid songs and music for Touhou Project. He joined numerous BEMANI music contests and began composing for rhythm games in 2012. He gained a lot of recognition among the rhythm gaming community, being popular in certain rhythm games like Osu!, Beat Saber, A Dance of Fire and Ice, alongside being featured in other rhythm or music-focused games like Friday Night Funkin', Geometry Dash, RoBeats!, and more.

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