Been enjoying some Kryptic Minds again recently
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Bandcamps been sending some vibey stuff to my music feed & the whole time til now did I even realize it was doing it.
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Well well well, look who we have here
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Really cool deep/tribal vibes. Definitely on the spooky side of things, even straight menacing at some points.
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so good
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remember hearing these in that dubplate mix he did a few years back with Distance.
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Sup wid dis?
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I blame Kryptic Minds for ruining dubstep. I reckon that was the pivotal moment, where the scene was divided into either the most boring dungeon or the shittiest horseturd edm music. All the variation was gone and the fun dutty wobblaz or 2 steppy things seemed to disappear overnight
I mean I guess in the same way you could say coki ruined dubstep. Itās a similar thing where kryptic minds came out with their own style and there were deffo producers who made music in a similar vein that was also sick (e.g. Spmc, early lurka & commodo, icicle etcā¦). Problem is it becomes a dominant style and suddenly everyoneās making the same tune without doing anything different with it. The same shit happened with the steppa stuff, the triplet/trap sound etc etc.
But yeah dungeon definitely became a very dry sound and I remember feeling bored with dubstep for a bit
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yeah, that;s kinda my point. The Kryptic Minds stuff was so good everyone was trying to rip it off. People were also leaving the scene, the younger generation werenāt interested in that eyesdown system culture and found the edm stuff more appealing and all of the old heads seemed to go the other way and create the most bland dungeon. Why do you think the same could be said about coki? There was still a lot of variety of styles back then, even when rusko and caspa were going hard on it, there was still heaps of individuality. You could listen to a tune and know exactly who produced it.
In the sense that he was a pioneer of the more aggressive stuff that got big and resulted in people making bland/shitty tear out.
Like kryptic minds were around like what 2009ish (possibly a bit earlier) when you could equally say there were still a lot of variety of styles. I think why its probably more noticeable is because they were closer to brostep getting big and the dungeon stuff was the antithesis of that sound so the scene got flooded with it quicker. Add in a lot of producers and DJs moving into house & techno at the time and it was probably a perfect storm for that sound to dominate.
Are you suggesting that by āruined,ā you mean they actually improved things with superior production techniques?
Not combative btw. But lots of stuff before then sounded abit shit. (in hindsight atleast)
Interested to know your thoughts. But also agree it became samey after awhile
nothing to do with their music directly, it was more the fact that everyone started copying that particular sound and it turned stale and there was little evolution after that
American corporatism āruinedā dubstep. even though i donāt think its ruined its just changed and branched off into different sub genres. same with dnb, house, techno etc
thing that pissed people off is that they remember what dubstep was like and about and then when you tell people you like dubstep. they think oh yeah same svdden death is totally rad my brotendo i love edm (impression of a edm american)
and also it was 20 years ago maybe even longer so you had better times back then and reminisce about the good old days where you bang pills down your throat and smoke weed without getting paranoid.
dubstep was a reaction from the 90ās rave scene that crumbled in the uk and thus came about a darker sound representing the gritty dystopian feeling of reality and shit like that.
btw nothing against americans they did a lot for the orginal dubstep āsceneā i feel like a emo saying that word. but its over now and you can still find good music even today and go to events if you want to relive your past. which you guys obviously know just wanted to say it
iām over the whole elitist snobbery with dubstep i used to hate skrillex and how popular he was getting. but iām over it
this isnt a agressive response to anything just my take ( COS IāM BRIāSH INNIT I DONT LIKE CONFLICT UNLESS ITS THE FUCKING PUB ON A SATURDAY NIGHT YA ā ā ā ā ā )
iām sorry that was very rude of me iām very sorry
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Top tier
It became a bit of a dirty word as well because I remember telling people I liked dubstep and the reaction would either be oh yeah I like skrillex etc as well or acting like it was weird because it was just a fad that everyone had moved on from 
Iāve got past it though and stopped caring about peopleās opinions on it
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Everyone already knows your gay now too tbh