Is there really a genre of music called DOOMSTEP????

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DOOMSTEP

The debut EP for Warp from a new, young rising star in the making. Seven cuts of deep-atmospheric electronics soaked in lo-fidelity crunch and grainy reverb washes. Suffused with nods towards the richly experimental electronica of Autechre and The Black Dog then clouded by an industrial gloom, like the skull-disco operators of Berlin (T+++, Shackleton,) and the jet-black drone step of the Mordant Music collective...

Doomstep doesn't exist, does it?

it should

maybe this is the that grim reapah stuff that one dude was talking abt

couldn't you call all that justin broadrick stuff doomstep? i mean, if you wanted too. probably some review somewhere that does.

i mean his electronic stuff.

brbrbrbrbrbr GRIM REAPAH

seems like there is a thriving sub-genre of "scary" dubstep. i get stuff in the mail that definitely emphasizes the heaviness of the stuff. it never is actually heavy enough for me, but some of it is pretty cool. industrial. lotsa clanking of chains.

Results 1 - 100 of about 14,900 for doomstep. (0.91 seconds)

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=doomstep&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=doomstep&fp=33a9a577caa4e7cb

http://www.last.fm/tag/doomstep

Why is doomstep any more ridiculous than Doom Metal?

soon every fucking electronic song is going to have it's own genre

I can't wait for Sludgestep since Sludge Metal is such a fucking cool subgenre.

Yes, just like every slight variation in tempo in Metal gets its own genre.

brian you hate metal we get it!

doesn't sound esp. heavy, but cool videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4hDBXmQK2U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB1glzJ0C6M

Only commenting on over genrefication and how it extends beyond electronic music. Also, it's pretty hilarious for a forum full of journalists to be complaining about genres created by journalists. Everyone wants the fame of coining a genre name so journalists are eagerly coming up with new ones and hoping they stick. Failing to acknowledge this is pretty ridiculous.

Shoe Step

chubstep

that 1st babe rainbow youtube aint bad but its not heavy or doomy to my ears.

Im waiting for Post-Step

skeeter already made the sludge joke in 2007 on the C8 forum:

Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 9:58 am Post subject:

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doomstep was last week. this week is all about the sludgestep.

Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:41 pm Post subject:

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ok, here are a few variations of the beloved dubstep - PLEASE FEEL FREE TO USE:

ACIDSTEP
HATESTEP
BLOODSTEP
FUCKSTEP
STEPSTEP
INSIDESTEP
ETHNOSTEP
CRYPTOSTEP
MOODSTEP
STRINGSTEP
BACKSTEP
SPLATTERSTEP
FRACTOSTEP
NETSTEP
HORRORSTEP
SCISTEP
BILESTEP
INTASTEP
BRITSTEP
EUROSTEP
BUMSTEP
BOOZESTEP
POPSTEP

Scott is more a deathstep guy

soon every fucking electronic song is going to have it's own genre

^^^^this

make it stop

Shakeystep

Did the genre name only come from a press release? I'm not sure Boomkat or Beatport have catagories for Doomstep.

It may be a press release but there's lots of stuff tagged on last.fm as doomstep plus lots of other google results for it

Results 1 - 10 of about 3,080 for pfunkboy is a cock. (0.44 seconds)

must be true, there's lots of google results

u seem cranky about this

he is cranky about this

big daddy kane really hates halfstep

(jj we're also talking about it in ilxchatz at the same time, plus, you know, he's always cranky)

Very astute observation. I am a bit cranky about this. I think it's pretty ironic that a metal lover like pfunkboy is criticizing a genre named DoomStep when there's a ridiculous metal genre named the same way. In fact, there are a ton of ridiculous metal genres. I also think these genre names rarely stick and are only tossed about by those entrenched in the scene or journalists. I seriously doubt DoomStep will ever be written on a divider card in a record shop or a separate category in the iTunes music store, for example.

the reason i find doomstep funny is because i like doom metal. and just wait until the doom metal fans to get pissy over the name like you are.

I came here only to read m@tt's post, of course

I will be releasing my crabcorestep album later this year and you will all be sorry you missed the boat btw.

But i'm not pissed over the name, i'm pissed at your ALLCAPS DISBELIEF IN THE THREAD TITLE?????

my peals of sardonic laughter will echo at you all from low on the ground where i crouch in total vindication

Will you make a video doing all the crabcore moves?

big daddy kane really hates halfstep

― for HOOM the bell tolls (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, February 26, 2010 1:14 PM Bookmark

don't think he hates it so much as flatly denies its existence

i demand Blackstep!

also, Technical-Blackened-Death-Werewolf-Vikingstep, please.

Technical-Blackened-Werewolf-Viking-Deth-Step, rather.

Everyone wants the fame of coining a genre name so journalists are eagerly coming up with new ones and hoping they stick.

This seems wrong to me, actually: I can't think of that many successful subgenre names that people really came up with on purpose. Lots of them seem more like accidents, jokes, insults, or casual turns of phrase that wound up taking off (like "shoegazers"). E.g., someone notices a trend of dark/heavy dubstep, says something like "wow, there's all this stuff now that's more like doomstep or something"; if the trend continues, other people take up the term sort of lightly or ironically ("it's more of that 'doomstep' kind of thing"); and then eventually maybe the term seems useful, and people start adopting it without thinking of it in quotes. Just like any neologism, right? It's a lot harder to successfully coin a term than it is to wind up saying something that turns out useful.

I mean, lots of genre terms lately feel more like a result of critics needing to refer to a trend without explaining it or listing bands every time, so they wind up saying, "you know, this whole trend of stuff that's sort of like TERM"

Art-Progstep for louis obviously

more like the result of critics needing to alert herman g. neuname so he can start an interesting thread about it x-post

whats that kind of dubstep when you step in shit

For an eye opening experience check out this list. Doomstep seems downright reasonable compared to some of the genres on here.

CLOWNSTEP WTF !!???

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres

that list needs its own thread actually

I've heard clownstep used in real life plenty of times.

nabiscore

People have been talking about clownstep for years.

The grime/hiphop/dubstep DJ Spykidelic has been mixing metal and dubstep in some sets that he calls Death Step for a while.

It's all about Skweee now right?

Good sirs and ladies - perhaps I can set your minds at ease, from a functional perspective if such terms serve a purpose then they are as 'real' as any other non-natural kind. Sincerely, Barnaby Plymmyswoode III, Professor of Arbitrary Categorizations and Silly Lists

The super abundance of unnecessary micro genres is a thing of dysfunction not function.

If you've got time to decide that dubstep is clownstep because it's got samples of a Victorian car horn on it then you are wasting your life.

yes, perhaps maybe, unless you are use the term clownstep in order to find dubstep with Victorian car horns in it.....

i mean, how else coud I have found this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H3HYBUD0Z4

I really feel that the best reason to come up with a new name for a subgenre at this point is the rich comedy vakue in sitting back and watching people getting wound up over basically nothing

*value

soon every fucking electronic song is going to have it's own genre

This is pretty much the most tediously overused argument in the world when it comes to electronic music.

In other words, Ewing OTM:

I just want to be positive for a minute and say: sub-genres are SO GREAT. They’re one of the best things about music. These little sceney bubbles of everyone batting round an idea, running with it, trying to cash in, trying to imitate, not caring about being original, not caring about being ridiculous, just this mad goldrush sprint to work through something - it’s brilliant. Especially as no matter how stupid things get the ideas never get used up: every sub-genre, even if it dies out after a couple of years and gets snarked on, is a packet of possibilities, a music DNA branch ready for someone to mess about with years and decades later. They all matter.

And for the fans they’re amazing too. Of course they look stupid from the outside: that’s what ‘outside’ is for. Ones that look great from the outside just become ‘pop’ I guess. Following one from the inside though, appreciating why one ridiculous blog hype is great and other one is crap, and figuring out what you love about a style, not to mention justifying it to the world (and of course maybe making it yourself) - it’s just a really good experience. If you’re a critic I’d say it’s an essential experience. Seeing all these little scenes and never really getting invested in any of them is like going to Disneyworld and just wandering around not actually going on any of the rides because, oh, that queue is too long and that one looks like it would be over too quickly.

Mencap also OTM.

Also "I am so above the idea of all these ridiculous micro-genres" is a bit "actually I don't watch television" for my liking.

I don't watch television. So it looks like you might be on to something.

I'll be hugely disappointed if there isn't a genre called naughtystep.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2310/1502813908_fd54ae0fd6.jpg

(I would like a genre called this, although there is a Christoph de Babalon track, so that's nearly as good)

Coming up with ridiculous genre names/concepts is half the fun of being a music critic/fan/maker.

I mean, it certainly is a way of inspiring creativity, to think of the most ridiculous genre hybrid you can come up with, and then attempting to make it work.

And then you think you've been so funny and original and then you go and search through other tags on Soundcloud and realise some other producer has gotten there ahead of you.