video Suggestion: DRUGS AND rock.. Correlations to Trends/artists and well eras current dug being overused! Not for not but Skrilix is forever tied in with molly epidemics (yep) no by fault butt .... People. A band or too with coke... Aww yaa uh lsd and punk
Hey man! I think a video about the electronic music in metalcore/screamo would be awesome. Attack attack, I see stars, issues, asking A, the devil WP, the list goes on
A few months ago, this guy saved Lollapalooza Brasil. Drake was supposed to perform, but said he couldn't because of health issues and Skrillex came up short notice to play. It was then discovered that Drake was in Miami at a party, apparently he just didn't want to perform. So, basically, many in Brazil like Skrillex much, much more than Drake because of shit like that.
Skrillex is the most influential music artist in my life. He opened up my horizon to EDM, especially Dubstep as he made it, and to this day the most intense experiences I've ever had in my life so far was a Skrillex concert I went to with my best friend.
I wouldn't go that far for me, but I was the perfect age for it I graduated in 2012. It really bridged the gap at like HS and college parties because the jocks and nerdy/music kids both liked it.
When I heard Skrillex, I was like "oh! Electronic music for punkers and metal heads..." I had a similar reaction to The Prodigy and Aphex Twin back in the 90s.
For anyone interested in this kind of idea, I suggest checking out drum and bass, particularly neurofunk! It's basically exactly what you're talking about haha.
Listening Prodigy's Fat of The Land, and Skrillex's music in 2011 felt the same to me too. Like "I never heard anything like this before" I was mesmerized. I wonder anyone will ever do the same effect to me, I hope so.
If you haven't heard the Noisia remix of The Prodigy Slap My Bitch Up and Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, you need to. Noisia hardly made any dubstep, but every single time they did it was too good. The Noisa remix of Raise Your Weapon Too.
We filmed From First to Last for the Van's Warped Tour back in the day. We worked closely with Sonny. Nothing but a sweet polite kid. We all thought he was going to be bigger than life some day... wasn't surprised one bit for his success.
@@TheDonOfficial804 Yeah, we filmed a lot of bands on that tour. I didn't even know half of them when we started, those guys included. We did a video series called Beyond Warped... it came out awful but we were pushing HD at the time.
That's the point, he's an awesome guy and his music is good, but a lot of people are lazy fucks that don't dig deeper and give him hard time for no reason
It’s always good to read stuff like this. I followed Sonny most back in the day with the two FFTL albums, but always took an interest in his career because of his surprising talent and range as a musician.
Use to Run into him at Shows.. always great, we met , making fun of the, then My Space, poser scene girls, taking Selfies hahaha.. ran into at Breather Resist at Chain Reaction, Warp Tour,, Seeing CONVERGE at the Glass House,, Always like Note to self.. never heard much else.. Also...calling this era Emo and even worst ScreamO.. these labels were for Wannabe poser kids and Bands . Real Emo bands like Engine Down, Casket Lottery.. embrace the style and.. labels like Deep Elm.. Modern labels mold history.. and wrong . Cheers from Southern California @∅
I definitely bought into the Skrillex hate when he first blew up. I was big into stuff like Burial, Aphex, Squarepusher, etc, and saw him as a real slap in the face to electronic music and club culture. Now I have nothing but respect for the guy. Apart from being an absolute class act of a human, it's been pretty incredible how he consistently manages to stay one step ahead of trends in dance music, much the way BMTH has in rock. I also love that he also uses his influence to amplify the voices of developing artists and regularly collaborates with people who have way smaller profiles than him. I think the fact that he is now best buds with Four Tet and is playing b2b with Blawan at Draaimolen (which I'm sure is not paying him anywhere near his normal festival fee, he's probably just doing it because he's stoked about it) really says it all. It took a while but the underground scene has finally come to appreciate everything he did for dance music, even if it brought some bros into the scene. Skrillex is a legend.
@@rimat007 im honestly surprised how you people can hear some noise and think of it its kind of music which is crushing it. yea for sure he is crashing non sense music into dumb spheres of art. god bless murica
@@delboy6699 you need to open your mind a bit man. i understand if its not for you, but writing off all dance music is just ignorant. it was the sound of liberation in the black and queer communities of the 70's and 80's. it has transcended into pop music (and even rock - korn, bmth, many others), and it has provided incredible, life-changing experiences for dancers and listeners the world over for decades. every genre has good and bad music, you can't write off an entire one just because you don't understand its cultural value.
@@delboy6699 Dude some of the sounds that Skrillex made back in the day baffle even the best producers. His most iconic growl/roar sound from his Scary Monster and nice sprites EP has never been reproduced even with enitre subreddits and discords trying to figure it out. On top of that unlike many current dubstep artists despite using insanely agressive and distroted and choppy sounds his music still had actual melodies and good song structure. Many artist in the genre now just use one or two screeches wwithout any real melody during the drop. Skrillex's song writting and production ability is above most other mainstream electronic artists
As a guy who never got that good at guitar, but got pretty decent at DJing and making beats, I agree with ya. It was much more confusing to learn the foundations of how to make a DAW make sound, let alone how to get it to make the sound I 'want' without the need of samples.
i truly believe that Skrillex is one of the most influential and creative produsers in the last 15 years or so. he is one of my favorite producers for sure. i enjoy both his iconic old stuff and new stuff (esp quest for fire). and i find all the hate for him to be insane. he never called himself dubstep, he was always more than that. just because many people know him as one doesn't mean he is. some people hate him because he "killed real dubstep" (bruh) and now some hate him because he is "not so dubstep" (bruh) and none of them want to dig dipper into his music. anyway, i love that he is back. this man is increadably talanted.
He literally destroyed Dubstep, but I guess you won't understand if you are from America. The Dubstep scene was huge in Europe and once Skrillex came and made his weak attempt on Dubstep mainstream it was literally over. This dude made it uncool over night
@@attk177 he didn't destroy shit, he just made music that he loved and that's it. he never even called it dubstep. never. it is not his fault people called it dubstep. it is also not his fault there many people who like his music. no one took the dubstep from you. no one took other producers from you. i still do not understand why yall "real ones" keep crying about it to this day. not skrillex's problem you couldn't make burial relevant at the same level as him bruh. and i am european tho, im just not a hater
@@attk177 There's always bland music that goes more mainstream. I don't blame Skrillex anymore for brostep than I blame AK1200 for jump up. Both awful subgenres that people seem to like 🤷🏼♂️
For me Skrillex is definitely one of the artists that put me onto dubstep and other sub genres of edm when I was 13. At the time I didn't even care for music. But its been a solid 14 years of listening to the genre ever since
As a huge metalcore / deathcore kid back in 2009 (still am), when I heard Scary Monsters, it changed my life. I didn't give a shit about EDM until that came out, it had all of the energy of all the metal I listened to. When he played coachella in 2011, it was one of the biggest mosh pits I'd ever seen, and most of the attendees were stunned and had never seen anything like it, nor understood. And everyone loved Sonny in FFTL, so it was a perfect blending of genres when he did the Korn stuff. I'm not sure metal has seen anything quite like it since. Good times!
@@felixftw4702 Then you would also like Metalstep and Tearout djs since they do the exact same thing but heavier. For example, PhaseOne or Marauda or Nimda
@@datapusher- no one is the gatekeeper of dubstep. Stop acting like other prior acts are “more pure”. Music is always a progression. You can love benga and skream and distance and still love skrillex. Just like you can love slayer and also love make them suffer or some shit, the gate keeping on what’s “pure” holds music back
This dude has been a music idol for me my entire life. Dude went from being in my favorite emo band, to getting me into EDM, collabing with BMTh, and now he collabed with Bladee and Yung Lean. It's crazy how much influence this guy has. He has arguably more influence than BMTH, but it seems no one talks about him.
The dude is mad talented. I was a freshman in high school back in 2011 when scary monsters was released. Had a friend that did EDM production and he would break down all the unique noises and sounds in the Skrillex songs like the voices for example. A lot of it went over my head but I guess that's what happens when you hear truly unique and new sounds.
What I think everyone actually misses about skrill is he writes excellent Melodies. Even his crazy sound design stuff there is something melodic about it.
I’m just glad he gave skream his flowers, even if he used the wrong name lol. Skream is the dubstep god and there’s no contest. Burial is just plain god
Path of totality is actually one of my favorite Korn albums, because it stands out, yet still remains Korn. Even years after their career took off brings some serious innovation and demonstrates their ability to work with different sounds.
i was really disappointed when they said they toned down teh electronic sound cause of fan backlash for the follow up album, korn evolved a ton when they first started out, path of totality felt like the natural direction to go on
As someone who was really into the late 00's early 10's dubstep in Europe and still am to some extent. I would like to point out some missing info which are crucial imo. -In 2009 before he wrote "Scary monsters and nice sprites" he convinced legendary Dutch producers Noisia to allow him to visit. He spent 5 weeks with them learning to produce and even partly wrote that EP there. Many people are convinced this played a role into his breakthrough as a DJ/Producer. -I disagree with the fact that he was solely responsible for changing Dubstep to this more aggressive sound. Producers like Rusko, Caspa and Benga were already adding more and more mid-range sounds to make it sound more energetic. It was natural progression of the music already, he just gave his own spin on it and became very popular. A small mistake I would like to point out is that you mention a Burial track at 7:26 but then play a track from Skream!
Exactly! Being huge into the music scene around the same time, I loved seeing dnb artists like noisia, chase n status, spor, pendulum and Andy c, etc. Because of Skrillex I was able to experience artists like Caspa B2B rusko and skream B2B Benga shows. Without the emergence of Skrillex and some other dubstep artists the US got to enjoy the UK artists, letting promotion companies know there was a huge market for it. If anyone can say he killed the genre they're just being ignorant. Attention was brought to the genre which was rightfully deserved, and it gave some artists the ability to tour the world.
All BRITISH: Teminite, deathstep Zomboy White Eyes, Deathstep Nimda, deathstep, minatory, and tearout dubstep Flux Pavilion Fox Stevenson Chime Caspa Funt Case Dodge Fuski SKISM Trampa, tearout dubstep British producers like Rusko and Caspa inspired Skrillex. Probably American Babylon System too. Skrillex always had dub influence.
You really shouldn't disagree with that. Caspa and Benga were not aggressive at all. We all know the story about Rusko's joke intro introducing a more ignorant sound, but the barrage of sounds and the different tempos Skrillex used are on a whole different level... ..and my fav dubstep track of all time is Woo Boost, but even that track has very little to do with what skrillex did. If anything, you should give Borgore his flowers if that is the way you think. Check out Relaxation Dub from 2008... However, that's not how things work, it's about the person who gets the biggest with a more realized sound.
Like it or not, skrillex definitely had a part in changing dubstep to a more aggressive sound which has always been more electro than actual dubstep. You're right, people like Rusko and others were starting to layer more mid-range tones in their music, but when skrillex was at the height of popularity all these other copycats came along like Zomboy that tried recreating the exact same sounds and growls skrillex was using. There was a point in the early 2010s where the most popular dubstep songs sounded like skrillex but were made by someone else. No one was getting famous by copying UK dubstep artists. Also yeah, this video talked about a Burial track and then played Skream, and also played a Jack U track and said it was from 2006. That's a bit careless on the editing part.
@@Poomayne It's not nuanced at all. He gets things completely wrong. Burial left dubstep behind and made all kinds of other genres. The old style continued and never even died. There is new dubstep in the old style that just got released last month, and will be released this month. The creator of the video even said he regretted uploading it in his interview with Nawtystep, and in the comments of reply videos. The most extreme dubstep today is made by British people like Nimda and White Eyes, Russian producer Evilwave, German producer Code: Pandorum/Evilwave, and Austrians like D'LION and Marauda.
I have to say, One of the reasons I am 100% loyal to this channel is that even if the artist Finn is talking about isn't really my thing, I am ALWAYS coming out of the video with some amazing new recommendations!!! For that I am down for life!!
I'll admit that if it wasn't for Skrillex and some of the other "brostep" groups I would never have discovered awesome dubstep and EDM artists like Rusko. It's also really cool to listen to the last emo album he did with From First to Last because you can hear the start of his dubstep sound in the production and mixing of those songs.
@@natschaefer1044 Emo music had a lot of backlash. There were segments on the news warning parents about emo because they sing about cutting, self-harm, depression, and suicide. Plus the way emo kids dressed. Boys wore girl jeans. Everyone had crazy black hair and piercings. Emo sparked a lot of backlash. It’s not like now how everyone looks back and celebrates My Chemical Romance
From First to last was considered post-core: a subculture which has mostly been forgotten. Emo was like nu-metal in a way that a manufactured label was used to overhype the movement in the underground.
I was a huge fan of Dear Diary, and it bummed me out when Sonny became Skrillex, but the guy has managed to build a career doing what he loves and I can't knock him for that. He is an incredibly talented lyricist, composer, producer, and I'm especially grateful for his time with FFtL.
same exact scenario. i was obsessed with Dear Diary in 04/05 etc and didn't wanna hear any other type of sound, especially from Sonny. now i respect the hell out of him for creating Skrillex and rising to the absolute top of that world. who wouldn't want to live a trajectory like that. sounds fun as hell
Skrillex is the embodiment of a 21st century rockstar, IMO… in the way that most people and bands in the rock scene just aren’t… He understood how to move in the modern landscape in a way that very few do… took his artistry to an entirely new level, doing something progressive and unique. Out of the box, which is what punk rock is all about. Like punk just ain’t “punk” anymore… That’s truly how I feel now, the punk ethos is alive and well in the electronic scene. His new album has been my biggest jam all year.
I haven't seen anybody mention but he inspired what I call the young Karen haircut that women adopted in the 2010s. The one with the shaved side of the head. I haven't seen that cut in a while but if you saw a girl with that haircut then you knew she was trouble.
Facinating as always. Never hated Skrillex he just never floated my boat. Probably because I'm a bit too old. It's interesting seeing how EDM hit the US so late in the day. In the UK in the 90's there were some huge acts that really bridged the gap between the Dance music and Metal/Rock fans as well as making it big in the mainstream. The albums "The Fat of the Land" and "Music for a Jilted Generation" by the Prodigy and "Dig Your Own Hole" by The Chemical Brothers were huge, hard and aggressive and were just as comfortable being played in rock clubs as on commercial radio. I know you said that Skrilex laid the blueprint for crossing metal and electronic music in the mainstream and I think that's definitely true from the perspective of mainstream recognition, but I think some of the 90's industrial scene, specifically stuff by the likes of Trent Reznor with Nine Inch Nails really paved the way for a lot of it Great as always
Fat of the Land was pretty much the first big electronic album that broke big in the US. Same time as Chemical Brothers was coming out here and then people discovered Daft Punk who had been around for a while, all around 97
I'd even say Dubstep was the last huge impact to the music industry sound-wise. The last real new genre. Everything else afterwards were Microgenres which happens only in small cultural bubbles.
I've had that exact same thought. I don't think we're ever going to get a new genre like that blowing up into the mainstream. Dubstep/EDM was the last of it's kind.
It's true. I went from Shpongle and Infected Mushroom into Dubstep and there is really nothing else after that but hybrid stuff like Griz or like the electro swing stuff.
Come on now. It was just an evolution of UK Garage, which in turn was an evolution of Jungle, which was an evolution of Rave and Breakbeat. North America is not the whole world.
I'll never forget it was May 6th 2011 when Get Up by Korn ft. Skrillex dropped! My younger teen self was mesmerized on how they made such unique sound. It just blew my mind hearing something like that it really stood out and that was how I discovered Skrillex
Skrillex (along with Porter Robinson and Ephixa) was my gateway to EDM. He was MASSIVELY influential in my discovery of dance, house, and everything in between. And yes, he somehow lead me right to Pendulum.
As an OG 90s rave kid I have 0 beef with the direction Skrillex helped catapult electronic music. It has given a lot of the original underground DJs a chance to soak up some limelight finally and attracted a massive generation of new followers. Hopefully they all dont OD.
Skrillex was big when I was starting to really get into music, he’s what made me want to produce on my own and not just write songs. His immense talent and insane range has always been very refreshing and inspiring to me.
He’s even moved past dubstep at this point he’s touched many genres of electronic music. The new album GANG with Four Tet and Fred Again… is absolutely phenomenal.
Skrillex didnt kill anything. He actually brought attention to a genre that deserved notoriety. Because of him and other artists like nero and 12th planet, artists like skream, Benga, caspa and rusko could show off their side of the genre.
amigo, all of those other artists were already representing their genre way before Skrillex. He indeed destroyed the genre by making all of his songs the same and caricaturizing the whole concept.
All he did was upset gatekeepers. Sure, he brought the genre to more audience and a different dubstep than what the elitist finds to be real dubstep. Like in any genre, if you cant accept any evolution to your so called pure music. Just gtfo of the internet and live in your cave
in a way he sort of did. He took "dubstep" mainstream and changed the sound and from that pivot it exploded. If it wasn't him, it would have been some one else as the sound was changing anyway. But as with any underground genre with a strong purist vibe, the one who takes it mainstream, does in a way kill what it was
@@killTheHawk he also produced un-clean sound. He isn't a sound engineer and it shows. As Deadmau5 (who is one) described Skrillex producing bad sound "just cranking the bass to the max volume". Instead of focusing on producing a cleaner sound quality. I used to enjoy OG dubstep and even a few Skrillex tracks until a couple of his songs blew out my subs. I had some customized EQ settings and his tracks damaged my sound system. No other DJs at the time damaged my speakers. I switched from Dubstep back to DnB and have not looked back since.
The big reason his music connected for me was I was into rock and metal that had lots of electronic aspects to it. Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, Disturbed, etc. I also loved electronic music in general, like: The crystal method, the prodigy, hardstyle, etc. Stuff that was usually heavier than the typical house or trance track. For me, Skrillex was really the only artist at the time doing anything truly unique. He mixed everything, bent tempos, he didn't care what it as, as long as it made you bang your head. He also remixed a lot of famous artists. He made it both heavy and melodic. It was like heavy metal met dance music. That's how a lot of people put it back then. I saw him live in 2012 and saw Kill the noise the same year. It was something very different and special that I am glad I had the chance to experience it.
When he was 15 my band opened up for his band (From First to Last) and 18Visions here in Iowa. After the show we had a huge party and all the bands all came. However young Sonny knew the drill it seemed and was totally cool about a bunch of adults not wanting to party with a 15 year old. Chatted with him and the bands awhile before they headed to their hotels/busses. The story turned into "The night we kicked Skrillex out of our part" but really it was the night that young Sonny politely left when asked. It will forever be a funmemory from the 2000s rock scene. Like watching the drummer from Fall Out Boy spray his butthole with pepper spray and hitting his eyes also. Or doing a little partying on the Paramore bus at Boston Warped and looking over at 15/16 year old Hayley looking very uncomfortable with her shirt pulled up over her face. Some fun and wild days.
I was at the From First To Last Reunion set at Emo Nite and it was pretty amazing! They performed the entirety of Dear Diary along with the new song Make War. I can definitely say Sonny's still got it vocally! I've been to a handful of Skrillex raves also and everytime they've been pretty amazing
Same. I'm a big proponent of hallucinogenic and music so I have tried to get into these kinds of tunes... but they mostly just annoy my ears lol. Kid is undeniably talented and I am happy for anyone who makes it in life doing what they love. More power and awards to the young man... doesn't really matter if his music isn't for me.
Every time Dub comes back into my earshot these days , I’m reminded of just how much I like that shit. It just hits perfect. Even all these years later.
I've been waiting for you to make this video. Great video overall and really loved it. Also I would like to mention that I don't think people realized Sonny's situation during that time. Can you imagine being in a successful post hardcore band and getting more popular, for then to have to leave because of vocal injuries. I would personally be scared and saddened if I had to go through that, so I'm happy for Sonny that he was able to push through and continue his music career given the obstacles he had to face. Also from my understanding, after he left From First To Last, he wasn't financially in a good place, so I'm all the more glad he was able to find success in Skrillex. He's really an example of someone who worked hard and his work that he put time into was staring to pay off. Also can we talk about how BMTH pretty much discovered Sonny before he even put out any music under the name Skrillex. Sonny did a remix of a BMTH song and he was also a part of working on the band's third album. Goes to show that even way back then, BMTH really cared about working with new/up and coming artist and discovering new and talented artists no matter the genre they played.
As a European and having seen dubstep make its jump from England to the mainland, there was a lot of misunderstanding with both fans of Drum and bass off which it seemed a derivative and DJ’s at the time. Though the sounds where rough and cool, it was difficult to dance to in those early years. This was around 2006 I recon. But when Sonny entered the scene he produced this songs more like an ensemble. Lots of great Melodie’s followed by insane drops with good dub beats to bob your head to and get the pistol fingers out. Equinox and bangerang come to mind! So to me; he saved Dubstep or at least contributed to that. And though it is another story, I very much like and enjoy what he does nowadays, with Fred and Keiran. Proper evolution and ping ponging off of each others knowledge and styles. Crazy times to be fan! 🤘🏼
Bro this guy is the most influential artist in electronic dance music of the 10’s idc what anybody says. In the 90’s we had Daft Punk, Carl Cox. 2000’s we had tiesto, david guetta, calvin harris, Eric Prydz. this dude took the 10’s by storm! Just look at all his accolades (8 grammy awards, multiple hits/collabs with big time artist, sound designer for transformers movies, multiple other music awards, and played at places most dj’s never will. Hate all you want he did it all and recently made a huge comback with his coachella/MSG sets with fourtet and fred again. There’s not many artist that I hear anymore from 2011-2016 era of dubstep music that are still big and relevant today.
As a high-school metal head who went to college and joined a fraternity Skrillex was a God send. I could play "heavier music" at our gatherings that was aggressive like dubstep was and people could party and enjoy it. Til this day his mothership tour in 2014 is one of the best shows I've seen and includes hip hop, rock, metal, emo, alternative etc. I really think Path to Totality is still one of Korns best records. Well done Finn!
I was tragically scene in the early 2000s MySpace era and followed Sonny Moore through his two albums with FFTL. As someone immersed in that scene at the time, I agree that there was always something different about them. Sonny’s singing voice was very unique and he had an excellent range for any singer, let alone someone with no training. There was no mistaking it was him when you heard their songs playing. Their second album Heroine I remember being very experimental and progressive. It didn’t have the mass accessibility that some other bands like Underoath had at the time, but you could tell it was quality music and not inaccessible because it was bad. I never got into dubstep, but I always had a fondness for Sonny and followed his career from time-to-time. I was always impressed with his immense talent and thought it was really cool that someone from the scene in the early 2000s really made a name for themself.
I really like your perspective when you talk about "edm" artist's just pushing buttons. It's so much more than that. And I just wish every quality musician would recognize that!
What's funny is Skrillex hibernated at the peak of Brostep then woke up brining his hybrid dubstep album that became a big music trend till now for Kpop to inflencing the Pop music with the Diplo/Bieber era. And now, he's back with the techno like his project DogBlood with Boys Noize and DnB-ish sound like Noisia who he casually hangs out with.
I guess you could say he had a massive impact on metalcore too, considering a lot of the 3rd wave was electronicore. The earlier bands were mostly just doing oldschool techno synths, like Attack Attack and Asking Alexandria, but later in their career, some of them went on to incorporate more intricate electronics, like Abandon All Ships, Enter Shikari, and my favorite one, I See Stars.
I remember telling my friends about his "My Name Is Skrillex" album when it had just come out. One of them was actually the one who knew about From First to Last and had told me about it, he didn't know about the Skrillex thing and was blown away (and vice versa, I had no clue about the emo background). I saw him perform at the Rio casino in Las Vegas in some small theater right before he really blew up. I'd end up seeing him perform several times over the years, but that one was the smallest venue by far. I remember he was talking to the crowd about working on "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" in his hotel room right before he dropped his first song of the set, but what really stood out to me about that show was this one girl who was clearly rolling her ass off on some MDMA. She spent the whole Skrillex setlist just writhing and grinding on a giant speaker near the front of the DJ booth. Makes me think if stuff like that was ever an inspiration for the line in one of his other songs that says "Bass makes that bitch cum". Good times. Got a bunch of fun and wild memories from my 20's with this guy's music as a big part of that era.
I was one of those who hated on Skrillex because he was popular. But once I heard the constant progression in his music, I became an instant fan. I still don't know how he's able to produce the cleanest drums in electronic music. These days, he's producing drum and bass, techno, Brazilian funk, UK garage, and dubstep that goes back to the genre's origins that purists might even love it. It's very clear that gets influence from so many artists and makes sure his stuff doesn't get stale. I saw Skrillex at Coachella and Second Sky, coincidentally both were last second fill-ins, and it was such a good time. Super talented individual and I know he will always up himself when we least expect it.
The first time I heard Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (and listening to some dubstep/brostep), as a punk/hardcore kid, I was blown away of how similar those dubstep drops with hardcore/metal breakdowns. I started dabbling with FL studio. Now, I'm playing synths for a local metalcore band which, by the way, synths are now a regular part of the modern metalcore sound.
He also produced Incubus' 8 album! Not my favorite album, but he really showed his range over the years. Definitely can't be held to one thing, this guy! I admire him for that. Everyone I work with in the EDM scene in my town had met him and has the best experiences as a person with him, yet I turned down my only chance in life, so far, to shoot a fundraiser event for a Burning Man art installation that he headlined back in 2015. That was big for my city. I think that's when we knew EDM was massive, but also modern American Dubstep was unstoppable. Love these deep dives!
I never liked EDM that much, but hearing Skrillex for the first time blew my mind. He and Deadmau5 remain basically the only electronic music I listened to.
🚓🚨🚓🚨, That original UK Dubstep track is by Skream, Burial is a Post-Dubstep/future garage artist, for people wanting to listen to original UK Dubstep I would recommend Skream- Midnight Request Line Benga - Night Kode9 - 9 Samuria Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub Loefah - The Goat Stare
As someone that has Dj'd and been involved in the scene for 25 years, this is an unbiased and accurate (if not overly americanised, which is fair enough) view on the Skrillex phenomenon. Excellent job mate, especially considering this isnt your genre of specialty... One thing to note that you may not be aware of, 2 of the founding memebers of Pendulum spent their formative years in my home town playing in a metal bad called Xygen, just another one to add to your list at the end of your video.
ive loved "skrillex" since from first to last, his myspace demos, to gypsyhook, and his mainstream sucess. one of my biggest art and music inspirations. he's a true legendary music icon. to think i couldnt love him anymore, his new album features two... TWO songs with bladee, which has engrained him into my rock and roll hall of fame forever.
I know you're a real fan when you mention Gypsyhook. Such an obscure part of his musical history that nobody talks about. I have a copy of it somewhere in storage. It's not his best work by today's production standards, but to my 16 year old ears back in 2008, it was fucking magic.
I met Skrillex when he had just recently left his band and was a solo artist. He put on a great show that night and was so gracious and kind to everyone that saw him standing outside of the venue.
I may only know Burial's "Untrue", but their music is EXTREMELY different from Skrillex's. It's like Discharge complaining about Blink182 ruining their music.
Basically what happened was that sound came to predominate all the clubs that played Dubstep, like if all the venues DIscharge could play just decided it was pop punk or nothing from now on.
His influence, talent and creativity will be long remembered. I saw him live for the 1st time in 2016, it was absolutely insane. Saw him again this year, last week, and it was even better. His comeback with these 2 new albums was epic. The man is a GOAT in the electronic music scene and it's a well deserved title.
No disrespect to Skrillex but I wouldn't credit him with being the first to marry the metal and electronic music crowds when Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and Slipknot's first album all preceded him.
I'm so glad you made this, I just commented on your BMTH video but those two are kind of the goats for me in terms of range. they dont care about what their fans know them for, and you never know what their next album will sound like but you know it'll be good
I gotta admit I used to hate him for what he did to Dubstep but he is actually very talented and his recent releases are impressive. He is not a one trick pony by any means.
I still listen to Reptile from the MK9 soundtrack. Definitely still holds up, because it wasnt overplayed like his hits were. Scary Monsters is obviously the magnum opus, everything else now feels like it was featured in some film, tv show, or advertisement one way or another.
I was in my mid 30s when he became popular and was one of the first artists that I "didn't get" and I started feeling old and looking at kids' music from an old timer Grandpa Simpson perspective 😂
Good video, honest take on the sides of what people feel about him. There are even more large groups of people that hate on skrillex than were mentioned as well. One being, when he first started playing live he wasnt using CDJs to play his music. He used this tiny m-audio midi controller and his laptop ( as shown @ 7:58 ) to play his tracks, and DJ purists in the electronic music scene considered this to be "cheating." So there was even a large group of dubstep fans that hated skrillex because of how he played his live shows. So he really was catching it from every angle. He has obv learned to DJ since then. Also gotta mention.. Skrillex may have been the first major artist to specifically mix metal with dubstep so he can have credit for that, but Sid Wilson of Slipknot was DJ'ing drum n bass into metal in 1998. So skrilly certainly wasn't the first big link between electronic music and metal more generally :)
I really like Skrillex music, he is really genius. THo only thing that bothers me is the association with dubstep, to which he has very veru little in common a part the wobble bass on some early tracks. he comes culturally from a very very different place. I never understood why people started to call his music dubstep in the first place.
Skrillex got me into electronic music , he is a big reason as to why i started producing music myself. His album bangarang is one of my fav from him and it opened doors for me into broader genres of music. Shout out to Sonny man, huge inspiration. Skrillex is actually a very talented musician, mixing engineer. He can play multiple instruments and in his new album he went back to the roots of Dubstep with the more minimal underground OG UK Dubstep aesthetic.
I got into dubstep around 2008 when it was a very different sound. When Skrillex was on top of the world I absolutely thought he was ruining the genre. But with hindsight, he was honestly a big gateway for a lot of new fans to find both the 2010's style and the 2000's style of the genre, and bringing more people into the kind of music you care about shouldn't be maligned. It was also hilarious to see myself and other elitists backpedal when he started putting out occasional, really really good UK style influenced dubstep releases. Sure, it made me feel great to have a superiority complex about how it "wasn't real dubstep" compared to the deeper UK sound, but man did I put a lot of effort into hating something for no real benefit or reason. That said, your UK dubstep example was by Skream, not Burial :D
I’ve been a fan since fftl and it’s been incredible seeing his progression, especially recently with fred again and fourtet - that Coachella set when frank dropped out was absolutely amazing to witness 🙌
As an electronic music listener (and electronic rock maker) I appreciate a lot that someone coming from the rock culture does recognize an EDM producer as a protagonist even in rock music. Skrillex has indeed shortened the distance between two worlds that often don't talk to each other but could do a lot together, of course he's found his own way and it makes no sense to copy him, but remembered us once more that which instrument is playing shouldn't matter as long as you get a cool tune, a cool groove and a message.
I was at a festival and a friend wanted to go to the other tent to see Skillex. I was like, "Why, doesn't everybody hate that guy?" (Didnt know much about him) I went with my friend. Everyone on the internet was stupid. He was mindblowingly great live. I left that tent drenched in sweat from dancing my ass off and having a blast.
Skrillex definitely broadened the range of sounds that EDM would sample from, and overall I think that influence on modern upbeat "party" music is a monumental achievement.
Really good video. One little thing I'd like to mention is that Deathstep is actually a bit older than people think. It started with mobthrow around 2007 and got bigger in 2009 thanks to substep infrabass. Then later artists like Bratkilla, Mantis, Moth, Kram, and Inhuman were progressing the genre. Inhuman is currently one of my favorite producers and he just did a collab recently with the deathcore band Distant.
7:25 "classic uk dubstep track by Burial" **plays Skream!** Also I personally consider Skrillex very overhated, it's not his fault that everyone tried and failed to emulate his sound. He was very talented even in his earliest days but you can clearly see how much he grew as an artist now.
The craziest part is that the man isn’t even close to being done releasing music as far as this year goes. There are 2 more projects (Contra & SKRLX) & a “string of singles” announced for the rest of the year!
@@xXChaoticRavenXx name one thing he's done that wasn't taken from a musicians work...........his short lived stint as a Singer doesn't count (awful singer as well) dude literally just thought oh wait..........my music sucks so I'll steal from thousands of talented bands/people to make everyone think I'm good...
Most people fail to realize that Skrillex is the biggest contribution to music in general that the Emo scene ever produced, not Fall Out Boy, not MCR, it is Skrillex
Actually Thursday - Full Collapse was released in 2001 and was the biggest earlist influence on this style of emo! Then came... The Used - The Used 2002 Taking Back Sunday - Tell all your friends 2002 MCR - Three Cheers 2004 From First to Last - Dear Diary 2004
I think you overlooked the contributions of 2 movie sound tracks to combine the energy of electronic dance music and metal. The first is the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack which featured a mixture of metal and dance artists. The second is the Spawn movie soundtrack from 1998 (I think?) which actually had songs that were remixes, collabs and/or mash-ups of metal and EDM songs/genres. The most famous example of this would be the Filter and Crystal Method version of "Can't You Trip Like I Do". But yeah I guess Skrillex did it first. Edit: Oh yeah and there was The Prodigy
Skrillex’s music has a special place in my life. His music was the soundtrack to my existential crisis and saving through some crazy experiences that defy the mind and rationality. Thank you, Sonny. And cool vid sir. Just found your channel, love the topics! Best to all.
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Not for not but Skrilix is forever tied in with molly epidemics (yep) no by fault butt .... People. A band or too with coke... Aww yaa uh lsd and punk
Bro, that’s a Skream track. Not Burial…
🥀🥀⛽️🎭⛽️🥀🥀
Wait till you hear the
Bluegrass
version of Dubstep..
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R. C. G. M.
@@Roses_R_redeR lordy loo. Someone getting hurt.. Hillbillies dont play them games.. Ohh nooo lolerr uhhh
Hey man! I think a video about the electronic music in metalcore/screamo would be awesome. Attack attack, I see stars, issues, asking A, the devil WP, the list goes on
A few months ago, this guy saved Lollapalooza Brasil. Drake was supposed to perform, but said he couldn't because of health issues and Skrillex came up short notice to play. It was then discovered that Drake was in Miami at a party, apparently he just didn't want to perform. So, basically, many in Brazil like Skrillex much, much more than Drake because of shit like that.
Drake is a hack
similar situation with skrillex headlining Coachella this year because Frank Ocean decided to pull out last minute
@@Flockem666 I genuinely dont get all the love for that guy he seems a complete douche in person (also predator for minors) and his music is just shit
That set was incredible too, he had that crowd wrapped around his finger
Nice.
Skrillex is the most influential music artist in my life.
He opened up my horizon to EDM, especially Dubstep as he made it, and to this day the most intense experiences I've ever had in my life so far was a Skrillex concert I went to with my best friend.
I wouldn't go that far for me, but I was the perfect age for it I graduated in 2012. It really bridged the gap at like HS and college parties because the jocks and nerdy/music kids both liked it.
When I heard Skrillex, I was like "oh! Electronic music for punkers and metal heads..." I had a similar reaction to The Prodigy and Aphex Twin back in the 90s.
For anyone interested in this kind of idea, I suggest checking out drum and bass, particularly neurofunk! It's basically exactly what you're talking about haha.
Exactly!! I remember hearing Spitfire 05 version by The Prodigy as a kid, I got the same feeling discovering Skrillex in 2010
Listening Prodigy's Fat of The Land, and Skrillex's music in 2011 felt the same to me too. Like "I never heard anything like this before" I was mesmerized. I wonder anyone will ever do the same effect to me, I hope so.
If youre interested, the dj Sullivan King mixes rock with dubstep. Dude plays live guitar during his sets
If you haven't heard the Noisia remix of The Prodigy Slap My Bitch Up and Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, you need to. Noisia hardly made any dubstep, but every single time they did it was too good. The Noisa remix of Raise Your Weapon Too.
We filmed From First to Last for the Van's Warped Tour back in the day. We worked closely with Sonny. Nothing but a sweet polite kid. We all thought he was going to be bigger than life some day... wasn't surprised one bit for his success.
dude you got to work with them? i was such a big fan of their band and followed him into the EDM scene.
@@TheDonOfficial804 Yeah, we filmed a lot of bands on that tour. I didn't even know half of them when we started, those guys included. We did a video series called Beyond Warped... it came out awful but we were pushing HD at the time.
Sonny is an undeniably good guy, does heaps for the scene and always has, never heard bad things from crew that have worked fests and shows for him.
That's the point, he's an awesome guy and his music is good, but a lot of people are lazy fucks that don't dig deeper and give him hard time for no reason
It’s always good to read stuff like this. I followed Sonny most back in the day with the two FFTL albums, but always took an interest in his career because of his surprising talent and range as a musician.
he's a scientologist.
Use to Run into him at Shows.. always great, we met , making fun of the, then My Space, poser scene girls, taking Selfies hahaha.. ran into at Breather Resist at Chain Reaction, Warp Tour,, Seeing CONVERGE at the Glass House,, Always like Note to self.. never heard much else..
Also...calling this era Emo and even worst ScreamO.. these labels were for Wannabe poser kids and Bands . Real Emo bands like Engine Down, Casket Lottery.. embrace the style and.. labels like Deep Elm..
Modern labels mold history.. and wrong . Cheers from Southern California @∅
@@kevinlagarean4930ik his dad is but I’ve never heard anything about skrillex actually being a Scientologist
I definitely bought into the Skrillex hate when he first blew up. I was big into stuff like Burial, Aphex, Squarepusher, etc, and saw him as a real slap in the face to electronic music and club culture. Now I have nothing but respect for the guy. Apart from being an absolute class act of a human, it's been pretty incredible how he consistently manages to stay one step ahead of trends in dance music, much the way BMTH has in rock. I also love that he also uses his influence to amplify the voices of developing artists and regularly collaborates with people who have way smaller profiles than him. I think the fact that he is now best buds with Four Tet and is playing b2b with Blawan at Draaimolen (which I'm sure is not paying him anywhere near his normal festival fee, he's probably just doing it because he's stoked about it) really says it all. It took a while but the underground scene has finally come to appreciate everything he did for dance music, even if it brought some bros into the scene. Skrillex is a legend.
I agree, a lot of my friend at the time, hated it on Skrillex. Can't hate on him now, he is still crushing it.
@@rimat007 im honestly surprised how you people can hear some noise and think of it its kind of music which is crushing it. yea for sure he is crashing non sense music into dumb spheres of art. god bless murica
Wait, you defended Electronic music and club culture lmao
@@delboy6699 you need to open your mind a bit man. i understand if its not for you, but writing off all dance music is just ignorant. it was the sound of liberation in the black and queer communities of the 70's and 80's. it has transcended into pop music (and even rock - korn, bmth, many others), and it has provided incredible, life-changing experiences for dancers and listeners the world over for decades. every genre has good and bad music, you can't write off an entire one just because you don't understand its cultural value.
@@delboy6699it was and probably still IS more popular than metal.
Nothing will ever feel as epic as the Skrillex x Korn collabs. It blew my mind when it came out.
I thought that I was the only one. Some of my favourite Korn songs
Highly underrated album...& I do not like EDM
I never managed to listen to a whole song from this album, korn had better and worse moments, but this album is by far the worst of their career
@@krzysztofdeoniziak5618 you would have to ignore their actual worst album, RWYA, for that to be true
YES!
As a guitar guy who recently started playing with synths and samplers, I can confirm that it's not easy.
Well not easy to make crap music. For sure and to force it to look cool to somebody.
@@delboy6699 Dude some of the sounds that Skrillex made back in the day baffle even the best producers. His most iconic growl/roar sound from his Scary Monster and nice sprites EP has never been reproduced even with enitre subreddits and discords trying to figure it out. On top of that unlike many current dubstep artists despite using insanely agressive and distroted and choppy sounds his music still had actual melodies and good song structure. Many artist in the genre now just use one or two screeches wwithout any real melody during the drop. Skrillex's song writting and production ability is above most other mainstream electronic artists
As a guy who never got that good at guitar, but got pretty decent at DJing and making beats, I agree with ya.
It was much more confusing to learn the foundations of how to make a DAW make sound, let alone how to get it to make the sound I 'want' without the need of samples.
i truly believe that Skrillex is one of the most influential and creative produsers in the last 15 years or so. he is one of my favorite producers for sure. i enjoy both his iconic old stuff and new stuff (esp quest for fire). and i find all the hate for him to be insane. he never called himself dubstep, he was always more than that. just because many people know him as one doesn't mean he is. some people hate him because he "killed real dubstep" (bruh) and now some hate him because he is "not so dubstep" (bruh) and none of them want to dig dipper into his music. anyway, i love that he is back. this man is increadably talanted.
He literally destroyed Dubstep, but I guess you won't understand if you are from America. The Dubstep scene was huge in Europe and once Skrillex came and made his weak attempt on Dubstep mainstream it was literally over. This dude made it uncool over night
@attk177 Skrillex created his own style.
He didn't destroy it, he crushed it and there's no going back to that boring ass "True" Dubstep.
@@attk177 he didn't destroy shit, he just made music that he loved and that's it. he never even called it dubstep. never. it is not his fault people called it dubstep. it is also not his fault there many people who like his music. no one took the dubstep from you. no one took other producers from you. i still do not understand why yall "real ones" keep crying about it to this day. not skrillex's problem you couldn't make burial relevant at the same level as him bruh. and i am european tho, im just not a hater
@@labbeaj he didn't really create it tho. and uk dubstep is still good, skrillex himself took more true to the roots path with his new music
@@attk177 There's always bland music that goes more mainstream. I don't blame Skrillex anymore for brostep than I blame AK1200 for jump up. Both awful subgenres that people seem to like 🤷🏼♂️
For me Skrillex is definitely one of the artists that put me onto dubstep and other sub genres of edm when I was 13. At the time I didn't even care for music. But its been a solid 14 years of listening to the genre ever since
As a huge metalcore / deathcore kid back in 2009 (still am), when I heard Scary Monsters, it changed my life. I didn't give a shit about EDM until that came out, it had all of the energy of all the metal I listened to. When he played coachella in 2011, it was one of the biggest mosh pits I'd ever seen, and most of the attendees were stunned and had never seen anything like it, nor understood. And everyone loved Sonny in FFTL, so it was a perfect blending of genres when he did the Korn stuff. I'm not sure metal has seen anything quite like it since. Good times!
Bro you would love Metalstep and Tearout then. It's even heavier.
@@victorheras5882 i'm a big metal fan too but i like skrillex since he can mash a bunch of computer sounds together and make it sound amazing
@@felixftw4702 Then you would also like Metalstep and Tearout djs since they do the exact same thing but heavier. For example, PhaseOne or Marauda or Nimda
@@victorheras5882 oh for sure dude I like them and most riddim guys
@@datapusher- no one is the gatekeeper of dubstep. Stop acting like other prior acts are “more pure”. Music is always a progression. You can love benga and skream and distance and still love skrillex. Just like you can love slayer and also love make them suffer or some shit, the gate keeping on what’s “pure” holds music back
This dude has been a music idol for me my entire life. Dude went from being in my favorite emo band, to getting me into EDM, collabing with BMTh, and now he collabed with Bladee and Yung Lean. It's crazy how much influence this guy has. He has arguably more influence than BMTH, but it seems no one talks about him.
The dude is mad talented. I was a freshman in high school back in 2011 when scary monsters was released. Had a friend that did EDM production and he would break down all the unique noises and sounds in the Skrillex songs like the voices for example. A lot of it went over my head but I guess that's what happens when you hear truly unique and new sounds.
What I think everyone actually misses about skrill is he writes excellent Melodies. Even his crazy sound design stuff there is something melodic about it.
Rutten is by Skream. He’s a separate artist from Burial
Burial is good. And that is actually dubstep... as is Skream.
Came here to say this. Was expecting Untrue to be played as an example of a UK Dubstep tune, not Rutten by Skream lmao
I’m just glad he gave skream his flowers, even if he used the wrong name lol. Skream is the dubstep god and there’s no contest. Burial is just plain god
I came here for this comment.
This! Also I'd argue he also chose it to compare with Bangarang which is arguably not one of Skrillex's dubstep songs, but moreso electro house.
Path of totality is actually one of my favorite Korn albums, because it stands out, yet still remains Korn. Even years after their career took off brings some serious innovation and demonstrates their ability to work with different sounds.
i was really disappointed when they said they toned down teh electronic sound cause of fan backlash for the follow up album, korn evolved a ton when they first started out, path of totality felt like the natural direction to go on
As someone who was really into the late 00's early 10's dubstep in Europe and still am to some extent. I would like to point out some missing info which are crucial imo.
-In 2009 before he wrote "Scary monsters and nice sprites" he convinced legendary Dutch producers Noisia to allow him to visit. He spent 5 weeks with them learning to produce and even partly wrote that EP there. Many people are convinced this played a role into his breakthrough as a DJ/Producer.
-I disagree with the fact that he was solely responsible for changing Dubstep to this more aggressive sound. Producers like Rusko, Caspa and Benga were already adding more and more mid-range sounds to make it sound more energetic. It was natural progression of the music already, he just gave his own spin on it and became very popular.
A small mistake I would like to point out is that you mention a Burial track at 7:26 but then play a track from Skream!
Exactly! Being huge into the music scene around the same time, I loved seeing dnb artists like noisia, chase n status, spor, pendulum and Andy c, etc. Because of Skrillex I was able to experience artists like Caspa B2B rusko and skream B2B Benga shows. Without the emergence of Skrillex and some other dubstep artists the US got to enjoy the UK artists, letting promotion companies know there was a huge market for it. If anyone can say he killed the genre they're just being ignorant. Attention was brought to the genre which was rightfully deserved, and it gave some artists the ability to tour the world.
All BRITISH:
Teminite, deathstep
Zomboy
White Eyes, Deathstep
Nimda, deathstep, minatory, and tearout dubstep
Flux Pavilion
Fox Stevenson
Chime
Caspa
Funt Case
Dodge
Fuski
SKISM
Trampa, tearout dubstep
British producers like Rusko and Caspa inspired Skrillex. Probably American Babylon System too. Skrillex always had dub influence.
You really shouldn't disagree with that. Caspa and Benga were not aggressive at all. We all know the story about Rusko's joke intro introducing a more ignorant sound, but the barrage of sounds and the different tempos Skrillex used are on a whole different level...
..and my fav dubstep track of all time is Woo Boost, but even that track has very little to do with what skrillex did.
If anything, you should give Borgore his flowers if that is the way you think. Check out Relaxation Dub from 2008... However, that's not how things work, it's about the person who gets the biggest with a more realized sound.
@@christiantaylor1495 Someone wasn't around back then, haha. Rusko lived in america, signed to diplo for years.
Like it or not, skrillex definitely had a part in changing dubstep to a more aggressive sound which has always been more electro than actual dubstep. You're right, people like Rusko and others were starting to layer more mid-range tones in their music, but when skrillex was at the height of popularity all these other copycats came along like Zomboy that tried recreating the exact same sounds and growls skrillex was using. There was a point in the early 2010s where the most popular dubstep songs sounded like skrillex but were made by someone else. No one was getting famous by copying UK dubstep artists.
Also yeah, this video talked about a Burial track and then played Skream, and also played a Jack U track and said it was from 2006. That's a bit careless on the editing part.
27 now and i could still almost cry at how beautiful cinema remix was
“All My Homies Hate Skrillex” has to be one of the best youtube documentaries on dubstep, I must have seen it like 5 times
Yo same here, I literally added to my queue to rewatch when I saw the thumbnail for this vid 😂
Agreed. It is so nuanced.
@@Poomayne It's not nuanced at all. He gets things completely wrong. Burial left dubstep behind and made all kinds of other genres. The old style continued and never even died. There is new dubstep in the old style that just got released last month, and will be released this month. The creator of the video even said he regretted uploading it in his interview with Nawtystep, and in the comments of reply videos. The most extreme dubstep today is made by British people like Nimda and White Eyes, Russian producer Evilwave, German producer Code: Pandorum/Evilwave, and Austrians like D'LION and Marauda.
@@christiantaylor1495 yes people that shit on others for music taste should not listen to any music ever 😂 just leave them alone
yes it is veryyyy good!
Bangarang is a certified classic. That shit still hits so hard. 🤘😛🤘
I have to say, One of the reasons I am 100% loyal to this channel is that even if the artist Finn is talking about isn't really my thing, I am ALWAYS coming out of the video with some amazing new recommendations!!! For that I am down for life!!
I'll admit that if it wasn't for Skrillex and some of the other "brostep" groups I would never have discovered awesome dubstep and EDM artists like Rusko. It's also really cool to listen to the last emo album he did with From First to Last because you can hear the start of his dubstep sound in the production and mixing of those songs.
Sonny Is part 2 of generes that had massive waves of backlash on the internet
History always repeats itself
What was the first one?
@@natschaefer1044 the early mall screamo stuff he did
@@natschaefer1044 Emo music had a lot of backlash. There were segments on the news warning parents about emo because they sing about cutting, self-harm, depression, and suicide. Plus the way emo kids dressed. Boys wore girl jeans. Everyone had crazy black hair and piercings. Emo sparked a lot of backlash. It’s not like now how everyone looks back and celebrates My Chemical Romance
yeah id seen a video made by a metal elitist around 2007 mocking from first to last and repeatedly calling sonny moore a midget and gay
From First to last was considered post-core: a subculture which has mostly been forgotten. Emo was like nu-metal in a way that a manufactured label was used to overhype the movement in the underground.
He was my main inspiration to become a producer back in 2012. I actually learned how drum-fills worked from his tracks.
I was a huge fan of Dear Diary, and it bummed me out when Sonny became Skrillex, but the guy has managed to build a career doing what he loves and I can't knock him for that. He is an incredibly talented lyricist, composer, producer, and I'm especially grateful for his time with FFtL.
Dead Diary is objectively horribly written..
@@notreally-sf3df how so?
@@notreally-sf3df you mean "subjectively" horribly written. I dont think it was horribly written at all.
same exact scenario. i was obsessed with Dear Diary in 04/05 etc and didn't wanna hear any other type of sound, especially from Sonny. now i respect the hell out of him for creating Skrillex and rising to the absolute top of that world. who wouldn't want to live a trajectory like that. sounds fun as hell
@@notreally-sf3df It's objectively not.
Skrillex is the embodiment of a 21st century rockstar, IMO… in the way that most people and bands in the rock scene just aren’t…
He understood how to move in the modern landscape in a way that very few do… took his artistry to an entirely new level, doing something progressive and unique. Out of the box, which is what punk rock is all about. Like punk just ain’t “punk” anymore…
That’s truly how I feel now, the punk ethos is alive and well in the electronic scene. His new album has been my biggest jam all year.
Skrillex literally changed the world of music. He effected everything
Ong lol
@ghost mall Because we hate that shit.
yeh, no
I haven't seen anybody mention but he inspired what I call the young Karen haircut that women adopted in the 2010s. The one with the shaved side of the head. I haven't seen that cut in a while but if you saw a girl with that haircut then you knew she was trouble.
@@based_circuit lmao
Skrillex never fell off… He was just in the studio cooking up all of that fire! 🔥
For real dude. Quest for Fire is still as fresh as it was when it came out.
7:30 is Skream's Rutten literally the guy on the cover art not BURIAL
How and the hell did he miss that?! It's literally right there on the cover.
@@TheABElia He is a professional marketing guy. My guess is, that was purely engagement bait and he knows full well. Manipulative, eh? :)
Facinating as always. Never hated Skrillex he just never floated my boat. Probably because I'm a bit too old. It's interesting seeing how EDM hit the US so late in the day. In the UK in the 90's there were some huge acts that really bridged the gap between the Dance music and Metal/Rock fans as well as making it big in the mainstream. The albums "The Fat of the Land" and "Music for a Jilted Generation" by the Prodigy and "Dig Your Own Hole" by The Chemical Brothers were huge, hard and aggressive and were just as comfortable being played in rock clubs as on commercial radio.
I know you said that Skrilex laid the blueprint for crossing metal and electronic music in the mainstream and I think that's definitely true from the perspective of mainstream recognition, but I think some of the 90's industrial scene, specifically stuff by the likes of Trent Reznor with Nine Inch Nails really paved the way for a lot of it
Great as always
Fat of the Land was pretty much the first big electronic album that broke big in the US. Same time as Chemical Brothers was coming out here and then people discovered Daft Punk who had been around for a while, all around 97
I'd even say Dubstep was the last huge impact to the music industry sound-wise. The last real new genre. Everything else afterwards were Microgenres which happens only in small cultural bubbles.
I've had that exact same thought. I don't think we're ever going to get a new genre like that blowing up into the mainstream. Dubstep/EDM was the last of it's kind.
It's true. I went from Shpongle and Infected Mushroom into Dubstep and there is really nothing else after that but hybrid stuff like Griz or like the electro swing stuff.
Come on now. It was just an evolution of UK Garage, which in turn was an evolution of Jungle, which was an evolution of Rave and Breakbeat. North America is not the whole world.
@@dan44zzt231 that has nothing to do with what he said 😂
@@dan44zzt231 what are you talking about 🤦
I'll never forget it was May 6th 2011 when Get Up by Korn ft. Skrillex dropped! My younger teen self was mesmerized on how they made such unique sound. It just blew my mind hearing something like that it really stood out and that was how I discovered Skrillex
Skrillex (along with Porter Robinson and Ephixa) was my gateway to EDM. He was MASSIVELY influential in my discovery of dance, house, and everything in between. And yes, he somehow lead me right to Pendulum.
As an OG 90s rave kid I have 0 beef with the direction Skrillex helped catapult electronic music. It has given a lot of the original underground DJs a chance to soak up some limelight finally and attracted a massive generation of new followers. Hopefully they all dont OD.
Skrillex was big when I was starting to really get into music, he’s what made me want to produce on my own and not just write songs. His immense talent and insane range has always been very refreshing and inspiring to me.
"talent" 😂
@@andygilson3562 I don't like that music either, but you gotta admit it takes talent to do all that yourself
@@andygilson3562 dudes been in 3 different successful bands...
7 club #1's and 3 billboard world #1's...
He's pretty talented...
@@andygilson3562 you seem very envious. Ever tried to play any instrument? No? Oh.
@@andygilson3562 hilarious 😐
He’s even moved past dubstep at this point he’s touched many genres of electronic music. The new album GANG with Four Tet and Fred Again… is absolutely phenomenal.
Skrillex was never dubstep.
go on...@@VitaKet
Skrillex didnt kill anything. He actually brought attention to a genre that deserved notoriety. Because of him and other artists like nero and 12th planet, artists like skream, Benga, caspa and rusko could show off their side of the genre.
amigo, all of those other artists were already representing their genre way before Skrillex. He indeed destroyed the genre by making all of his songs the same and caricaturizing the whole concept.
All he did was upset gatekeepers. Sure, he brought the genre to more audience and a different dubstep than what the elitist finds to be real dubstep.
Like in any genre, if you cant accept any evolution to your so called pure music. Just gtfo of the internet and live in your cave
12th planet b2b skrillex 2012 is a fucking amazing show.
in a way he sort of did. He took "dubstep" mainstream and changed the sound and from that pivot it exploded. If it wasn't him, it would have been some one else as the sound was changing anyway. But as with any underground genre with a strong purist vibe, the one who takes it mainstream, does in a way kill what it was
@@killTheHawk he also produced un-clean sound. He isn't a sound engineer and it shows. As Deadmau5 (who is one) described Skrillex producing bad sound "just cranking the bass to the max volume". Instead of focusing on producing a cleaner sound quality. I used to enjoy OG dubstep and even a few Skrillex tracks until a couple of his songs blew out my subs. I had some customized EQ settings and his tracks damaged my sound system. No other DJs at the time damaged my speakers. I switched from Dubstep back to DnB and have not looked back since.
The big reason his music connected for me was I was into rock and metal that had lots of electronic aspects to it. Nine Inch Nails, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, Disturbed, etc. I also loved electronic music in general, like: The crystal method, the prodigy, hardstyle, etc. Stuff that was usually heavier than the typical house or trance track. For me, Skrillex was really the only artist at the time doing anything truly unique. He mixed everything, bent tempos, he didn't care what it as, as long as it made you bang your head. He also remixed a lot of famous artists. He made it both heavy and melodic. It was like heavy metal met dance music. That's how a lot of people put it back then. I saw him live in 2012 and saw Kill the noise the same year. It was something very different and special that I am glad I had the chance to experience it.
When he was 15 my band opened up for his band (From First to Last) and 18Visions here in Iowa. After the show we had a huge party and all the bands all came. However young Sonny knew the drill it seemed and was totally cool about a bunch of adults not wanting to party with a 15 year old. Chatted with him and the bands awhile before they headed to their hotels/busses. The story turned into "The night we kicked Skrillex out of our part" but really it was the night that young Sonny politely left when asked. It will forever be a funmemory from the 2000s rock scene. Like watching the drummer from Fall Out Boy spray his butthole with pepper spray and hitting his eyes also. Or doing a little partying on the Paramore bus at Boston Warped and looking over at 15/16 year old Hayley looking very uncomfortable with her shirt pulled up over her face. Some fun and wild days.
i miss the old 2007s times
I may not have interest in Dubstep but I have lot of respect to Sonny Moore. Emily is still one of staple song in my playlist.
Emily is a classic!
7:29 thats not Burial lol thats Skream it clearly says it on the album cover
I was at the From First To Last Reunion set at Emo Nite and it was pretty amazing! They performed the entirety of Dear Diary along with the new song Make War. I can definitely say Sonny's still got it vocally! I've been to a handful of Skrillex raves also and everytime they've been pretty amazing
Id want a two night run with dear diary and heroine with a failure by designer jeans encore on one of the nights.
@@irvinbursiaga7687 That would be really amazing!
Though not a fan of his music I did enjoy the biography. Thank you
Same. I'm a big proponent of hallucinogenic and music so I have tried to get into these kinds of tunes... but they mostly just annoy my ears lol. Kid is undeniably talented and I am happy for anyone who makes it in life doing what they love. More power and awards to the young man... doesn't really matter if his music isn't for me.
Every time Dub comes back into my earshot these days , I’m reminded of just how much I like that shit. It just hits perfect. Even all these years later.
I've been waiting for you to make this video. Great video overall and really loved it.
Also I would like to mention that I don't think people realized Sonny's situation during that time. Can you imagine being in a successful post hardcore band and getting more popular, for then to have to leave because of vocal injuries. I would personally be scared and saddened if I had to go through that, so I'm happy for Sonny that he was able to push through and continue his music career given the obstacles he had to face. Also from my understanding, after he left From First To Last, he wasn't financially in a good place, so I'm all the more glad he was able to find success in Skrillex. He's really an example of someone who worked hard and his work that he put time into was staring to pay off.
Also can we talk about how BMTH pretty much discovered Sonny before he even put out any music under the name Skrillex. Sonny did a remix of a BMTH song and he was also a part of working on the band's third album. Goes to show that even way back then, BMTH really cared about working with new/up and coming artist and discovering new and talented artists no matter the genre they played.
As a European and having seen dubstep make its jump from England to the mainland, there was a lot of misunderstanding with both fans of Drum and bass off which it seemed a derivative and DJ’s at the time.
Though the sounds where rough and cool, it was difficult to dance to in those early years.
This was around 2006 I recon.
But when Sonny entered the scene he produced this songs more like an ensemble.
Lots of great Melodie’s followed by insane drops with good dub beats to bob your head to and get the pistol fingers out.
Equinox and bangerang come to mind!
So to me; he saved Dubstep or at least contributed to that.
And though it is another story, I very much like and enjoy what he does nowadays, with Fred and Keiran. Proper evolution and ping ponging off of each others knowledge and styles. Crazy times to be fan! 🤘🏼
Im sure Sunny saw this and he has a big smile on his face.
Good shit Finn
Bro this guy is the most influential artist in electronic dance music of the 10’s idc what anybody says. In the 90’s we had Daft Punk, Carl Cox. 2000’s we had tiesto, david guetta, calvin harris, Eric Prydz. this dude took the 10’s by storm! Just look at all his accolades (8 grammy awards, multiple hits/collabs with big time artist, sound designer for transformers movies, multiple other music awards, and played at places most dj’s never will. Hate all you want he did it all and recently made a huge comback with his coachella/MSG sets with fourtet and fred again. There’s not many artist that I hear anymore from 2011-2016 era of dubstep music that are still big and relevant today.
As a high-school metal head who went to college and joined a fraternity Skrillex was a God send. I could play "heavier music" at our gatherings that was aggressive like dubstep was and people could party and enjoy it. Til this day his mothership tour in 2014 is one of the best shows I've seen and includes hip hop, rock, metal, emo, alternative etc. I really think Path to Totality is still one of Korns best records. Well done Finn!
I was tragically scene in the early 2000s MySpace era and followed Sonny Moore through his two albums with FFTL. As someone immersed in that scene at the time, I agree that there was always something different about them. Sonny’s singing voice was very unique and he had an excellent range for any singer, let alone someone with no training. There was no mistaking it was him when you heard their songs playing. Their second album Heroine I remember being very experimental and progressive. It didn’t have the mass accessibility that some other bands like Underoath had at the time, but you could tell it was quality music and not inaccessible because it was bad. I never got into dubstep, but I always had a fondness for Sonny and followed his career from time-to-time. I was always impressed with his immense talent and thought it was really cool that someone from the scene in the early 2000s really made a name for themself.
Breathe Carolina are still huge djs too. Skrillex speaks for so many people in my generation and continues to grow. It’s fun to watch
I really like your perspective when you talk about "edm" artist's just pushing buttons. It's so much more than that. And I just wish every quality musician would recognize that!
What's funny is Skrillex hibernated at the peak of Brostep then woke up brining his hybrid dubstep album that became a big music trend till now for Kpop to inflencing the Pop music with the Diplo/Bieber era. And now, he's back with the techno like his project DogBlood with Boys Noize and DnB-ish sound like Noisia who he casually hangs out with.
Great video man. Sonny rolls my eyes and makes me smile at the same time. He’s a real fella for sure.
I guess you could say he had a massive impact on metalcore too, considering a lot of the 3rd wave was electronicore. The earlier bands were mostly just doing oldschool techno synths, like Attack Attack and Asking Alexandria, but later in their career, some of them went on to incorporate more intricate electronics, like Abandon All Ships, Enter Shikari, and my favorite one, I See Stars.
Well yeah i’d say any band after 2010 attack attack got influenced from enter shikari
I remember telling my friends about his "My Name Is Skrillex" album when it had just come out. One of them was actually the one who knew about From First to Last and had told me about it, he didn't know about the Skrillex thing and was blown away (and vice versa, I had no clue about the emo background).
I saw him perform at the Rio casino in Las Vegas in some small theater right before he really blew up. I'd end up seeing him perform several times over the years, but that one was the smallest venue by far.
I remember he was talking to the crowd about working on "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" in his hotel room right before he dropped his first song of the set, but what really stood out to me about that show was this one girl who was clearly rolling her ass off on some MDMA. She spent the whole Skrillex setlist just writhing and grinding on a giant speaker near the front of the DJ booth. Makes me think if stuff like that was ever an inspiration for the line in one of his other songs that says "Bass makes that bitch cum".
Good times. Got a bunch of fun and wild memories from my 20's with this guy's music as a big part of that era.
I was one of those who hated on Skrillex because he was popular. But once I heard the constant progression in his music, I became an instant fan. I still don't know how he's able to produce the cleanest drums in electronic music. These days, he's producing drum and bass, techno, Brazilian funk, UK garage, and dubstep that goes back to the genre's origins that purists might even love it. It's very clear that gets influence from so many artists and makes sure his stuff doesn't get stale. I saw Skrillex at Coachella and Second Sky, coincidentally both were last second fill-ins, and it was such a good time. Super talented individual and I know he will always up himself when we least expect it.
The first time I heard Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (and listening to some dubstep/brostep), as a punk/hardcore kid, I was blown away of how similar those dubstep drops with hardcore/metal breakdowns. I started dabbling with FL studio. Now, I'm playing synths for a local metalcore band which, by the way, synths are now a regular part of the modern metalcore sound.
Synths were a regular part of metalcore in 2008....
Sonny is very talented and a nice guy. I'm a huge fan of him!
He also produced Incubus' 8 album! Not my favorite album, but he really showed his range over the years. Definitely can't be held to one thing, this guy! I admire him for that. Everyone I work with in the EDM scene in my town had met him and has the best experiences as a person with him, yet I turned down my only chance in life, so far, to shoot a fundraiser event for a Burning Man art installation that he headlined back in 2015. That was big for my city. I think that's when we knew EDM was massive, but also modern American Dubstep was unstoppable. Love these deep dives!
It's not American dubstep. It was founded by British producers Coki, Caspa, Benga, Flux Pavilion, Doctor P, Rusko, and Canadian Excision.
2015 would've been about 4 years after it got massive.
@@christiantaylor1495 You missed the point, he's separating it and talking about the one that was actually big, lol.
I never liked EDM that much, but hearing Skrillex for the first time blew my mind. He and Deadmau5 remain basically the only electronic music I listened to.
🚓🚨🚓🚨, That original UK Dubstep track is by Skream, Burial is a Post-Dubstep/future garage artist, for people wanting to listen to original UK Dubstep I would recommend
Skream- Midnight Request Line
Benga - Night
Kode9 - 9 Samuria
Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub
Loefah - The Goat Stare
As someone that has Dj'd and been involved in the scene for 25 years, this is an unbiased and accurate (if not overly americanised, which is fair enough) view on the Skrillex phenomenon. Excellent job mate, especially considering this isnt your genre of specialty...
One thing to note that you may not be aware of, 2 of the founding memebers of Pendulum spent their formative years in my home town playing in a metal bad called Xygen, just another one to add to your list at the end of your video.
ive loved "skrillex" since from first to last, his myspace demos, to gypsyhook, and his mainstream sucess. one of my biggest art and music inspirations. he's a true legendary music icon. to think i couldnt love him anymore, his new album features two... TWO songs with bladee, which has engrained him into my rock and roll hall of fame forever.
I know you're a real fan when you mention Gypsyhook. Such an obscure part of his musical history that nobody talks about. I have a copy of it somewhere in storage. It's not his best work by today's production standards, but to my 16 year old ears back in 2008, it was fucking magic.
I met Skrillex when he had just recently left his band and was a solo artist. He put on a great show that night and was so gracious and kind to everyone that saw him standing outside of the venue.
I may only know Burial's "Untrue", but their music is EXTREMELY different from Skrillex's. It's like Discharge complaining about Blink182 ruining their music.
Basically what happened was that sound came to predominate all the clubs that played Dubstep, like if all the venues DIscharge could play just decided it was pop punk or nothing from now on.
@@kohhna Hmm I see. That makes more sense.
Beautiful episode, my man. Great job.
His influence, talent and creativity will be long remembered. I saw him live for the 1st time in 2016, it was absolutely insane. Saw him again this year, last week, and it was even better. His comeback with these 2 new albums was epic. The man is a GOAT in the electronic music scene and it's a well deserved title.
What are these 2 álbuns called?
thanks a lot for making this video.. i now know why i loved so much skrillex and metal scene at the moment..
No disrespect to Skrillex but I wouldn't credit him with being the first to marry the metal and electronic music crowds when Rammstein, Nine Inch Nails and Slipknot's first album all preceded him.
Industrial has been around way longer than those bands.
@@vivisector9999 of course! :) I just found his statement pretty reductive.
I'm so glad you made this, I just commented on your BMTH video but those two are kind of the goats for me in terms of range. they dont care about what their fans know them for, and you never know what their next album will sound like but you know it'll be good
I gotta admit I used to hate him for what he did to Dubstep but he is actually very talented and his recent releases are impressive. He is not a one trick pony by any means.
The one armed boxer vs. the flying guillotine is still one of my all time favorites.
Skrillex is one of the best producers of all time. His influence in music production is unparalled.
I still listen to Reptile from the MK9 soundtrack. Definitely still holds up, because it wasnt overplayed like his hits were. Scary Monsters is obviously the magnum opus, everything else now feels like it was featured in some film, tv show, or advertisement one way or another.
I was in my mid 30s when he became popular and was one of the first artists that I "didn't get" and I started feeling old and looking at kids' music from an old timer Grandpa Simpson perspective 😂
Good video, honest take on the sides of what people feel about him.
There are even more large groups of people that hate on skrillex than were mentioned as well. One being, when he first started playing live he wasnt using CDJs to play his music. He used this tiny m-audio midi controller and his laptop ( as shown @ 7:58 ) to play his tracks, and DJ purists in the electronic music scene considered this to be "cheating." So there was even a large group of dubstep fans that hated skrillex because of how he played his live shows. So he really was catching it from every angle. He has obv learned to DJ since then.
Also gotta mention.. Skrillex may have been the first major artist to specifically mix metal with dubstep so he can have credit for that, but Sid Wilson of Slipknot was DJ'ing drum n bass into metal in 1998. So skrilly certainly wasn't the first big link between electronic music and metal more generally :)
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I really like Skrillex music, he is really genius. THo only thing that bothers me is the association with dubstep, to which he has very veru little in common a part the wobble bass on some early tracks. he comes culturally from a very very different place. I never understood why people started to call his music dubstep in the first place.
I agree
yes. This is true. His music was more an electro house/metal crossover, imo
Skrillex got me into electronic music , he is a big reason as to why i started producing music myself. His album bangarang is one of my fav from him and it opened doors for me into broader genres of music. Shout out to Sonny man, huge inspiration. Skrillex is actually a very talented musician, mixing engineer. He can play multiple instruments and in his new album he went back to the roots of Dubstep with the more minimal underground OG UK Dubstep aesthetic.
I got into dubstep around 2008 when it was a very different sound. When Skrillex was on top of the world I absolutely thought he was ruining the genre. But with hindsight, he was honestly a big gateway for a lot of new fans to find both the 2010's style and the 2000's style of the genre, and bringing more people into the kind of music you care about shouldn't be maligned. It was also hilarious to see myself and other elitists backpedal when he started putting out occasional, really really good UK style influenced dubstep releases.
Sure, it made me feel great to have a superiority complex about how it "wasn't real dubstep" compared to the deeper UK sound, but man did I put a lot of effort into hating something for no real benefit or reason.
That said, your UK dubstep example was by Skream, not Burial :D
I’ve been a fan since fftl and it’s been incredible seeing his progression, especially recently with fred again and fourtet - that Coachella set when frank dropped out was absolutely amazing to witness 🙌
Skrillex was the game changer in electronic music. His influence is still felt today.
lol what? Sorry, but that is absolute bullshit
Exactly! He created another genre! He didn't ruin anything.
As an electronic music listener (and electronic rock maker) I appreciate a lot that someone coming from the rock culture does recognize an EDM producer as a protagonist even in rock music. Skrillex has indeed shortened the distance between two worlds that often don't talk to each other but could do a lot together, of course he's found his own way and it makes no sense to copy him, but remembered us once more that which instrument is playing shouldn't matter as long as you get a cool tune, a cool groove and a message.
I was at a festival and a friend wanted to go to the other tent to see Skillex. I was like, "Why, doesn't everybody hate that guy?" (Didnt know much about him)
I went with my friend. Everyone on the internet was stupid. He was mindblowingly great live. I left that tent drenched in sweat from dancing my ass off and having a blast.
Skrillex definitely broadened the range of sounds that EDM would sample from, and overall I think that influence on modern upbeat "party" music is a monumental achievement.
*_I will never, NEVER, forgive him for coming in at the 11th hour and fucking up Incubus’ last album._*
What’s the Story behind this? I listened and thought the production was tight but the song writing was poor.
Really good video. One little thing I'd like to mention is that Deathstep is actually a bit older than people think. It started with mobthrow around 2007 and got bigger in 2009 thanks to substep infrabass. Then later artists like Bratkilla, Mantis, Moth, Kram, and Inhuman were progressing the genre. Inhuman is currently one of my favorite producers and he just did a collab recently with the deathcore band Distant.
As a massive Skrillex fan, i think he's the biggest influence on music in the 2010s and even now.
Lol that’s a funny
7:25 "classic uk dubstep track by Burial" **plays Skream!**
Also I personally consider Skrillex very overhated, it's not his fault that everyone tried and failed to emulate his sound. He was very talented even in his earliest days but you can clearly see how much he grew as an artist now.
I can’t get into dubstep, but I will fight someone in Sonny Moore’s honor.
I was in my teens back the day and i was loving this kind of dubstep very much. This was future for me.
The craziest part is that the man isn’t even close to being done releasing music as far as this year goes. There are 2 more projects (Contra & SKRLX) & a “string of singles” announced for the rest of the year!
You mean profiting off of music he didn't make? He literally just uses a computer to mashup existing music........that's not talent, it's theft.
@@shadowgl9 ok boomer
@@shadowgl9 yikes. Such an ignorant comment lmao
@@xXChaoticRavenXx name one thing he's done that wasn't taken from a musicians work...........his short lived stint as a Singer doesn't count (awful singer as well) dude literally just thought oh wait..........my music sucks so I'll steal from thousands of talented bands/people to make everyone think I'm good...
The korn skrillex collab was and still is one of the most massive collabs in music, and probably some of the best songs skrillex had done
Most people fail to realize that Skrillex is the biggest contribution to music in general that the Emo scene ever produced, not Fall Out Boy, not MCR, it is Skrillex
Actually Thursday - Full Collapse was released in 2001 and was the biggest earlist influence on this style of emo! Then came...
The Used - The Used 2002
Taking Back Sunday - Tell all your friends 2002
MCR - Three Cheers 2004
From First to Last - Dear Diary 2004
@@182greeny read my comment again man, you did not understand what I was talking about
I think you overlooked the contributions of 2 movie sound tracks to combine the energy of electronic dance music and metal. The first is the 1995 Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack which featured a mixture of metal and dance artists. The second is the Spawn movie soundtrack from 1998 (I think?) which actually had songs that were remixes, collabs and/or mash-ups of metal and EDM songs/genres. The most famous example of this would be the Filter and Crystal Method version of "Can't You Trip Like I Do".
But yeah I guess Skrillex did it first.
Edit: Oh yeah and there was The Prodigy
Yep ! Prodigy and rabbit in the moon!!!!!
"that's not real metal, *this is real metal!*"
"that's not dubstep, *this* is dubstep!"
Classic 😚
Like every genre ever 😂
Gatekeeping is good actually no I will not elaborate
Skrillex’s music has a special place in my life. His music was the soundtrack to my existential crisis and saving through some crazy experiences that defy the mind and rationality. Thank you, Sonny. And cool vid sir. Just found your channel, love the topics! Best to all.
I’ve never liked emo or whatever, but I give mad props to him for being so dedicated to the art versus the money.
“Mall Screamo” is a hilarious label but also the most accurate description.