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by aes256 4927 days ago
> lol You've succeeded. Well it sounds awful. Just the way dubstep does.

In defense of dubstep, wobble bass is not a defining characteristic of the genre.

It was popularized by later, more club-friendly strands of dubstep (a precursor to the current 'brostep' trend), and is largely absent in the older, most critically acclaimed dubstep productions (e.g. Burial's Untrue or self-titled album)

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Yeah, yeah. Genetic fallacy, no true Scotsman and all that.
Don't see how this is an instance of the genetic fallacy. When a sound evolves significantly beyond that of an existing genre, it makes more sense to create a new genre for it than expand the existing genre to encompass it.

My comment was intended simply to lament the fact that people a) consider offensive wobble bass the distinguishing feature of dubstep; and b) dismiss the entire genre as 'sounding awful' seemingly on the basis of this association with wobble bass.