Hah I'm not a fan of Radiohead at all, but I get what you're saying. Same kind of dark ambient atmosphere. Good on you for trying something new.
Exactly what I meant, Skrillex is a good artist but he should drop the dubstep label. Because people call his music dubstep, all the traditional dubstep gets left behind and the heavy shit gets all the attention. And kids, that is why the pure dubstep community hates Skrillex.
Oh, don't get me wrong. Skrillex is still considered dubstep. By all definitions of the genre, he and artists like Rusko are still considered dubstep. And who's to say that one kind of dubstep is pure or not? Or that fans are not pure?
Most Skrillex songs aren't even 140 bpm though. Closer to electro house or something than dubstep. Rusko at least keeps the snare on three and the tempo at 140, while still having more of an emphasis on ~bass than synth leads.
True, dubstep is a very multi-dimentional genre so there can't be any pure dubstep. But really, american dubstep is nothing like the one that started in England, its much more aggressive. I can safely say that skrillex is not dubstep and shouldn't be considered so. American dubstep should stick with the Brostep tag, they are giving a bad name to all those that want to make the traditional british dubstep.
I know you're PERMABANNED, but just because one form of the genre is 'nothing like the one that started in England' doesn't mean it isn't deserving of the title. The Beatles were the progenitors of the form of Rock we know now. Does that mean bands that sound nothing like The Beatles are undeserving of the 'rock' tag? Also, PERMABANNED.
Dubstep started as a fairly specific genre, whereas Rock afaik started as pretty much "music based around electric guitar" which has pretty ~endless possibilities. Your point here would only make sense if people were saying that Skrillex isn't electronic dance music. Or in reverse it's like asking why *band who uses lots of guitar pedals* aren't shoegaze even though they don't have any other characteristics of shoegaze - where in the case of Skrillex, is a producer who uses heavy bass sounds while his music isn't at 140bpm/half tempo, has no shuffly uk garage hi hats, no really audible deep bass and zero dark atmosphere.
"Not ... dubstep" indeed, because, like many producers of his kind, Skrillex works in several electronic dance sub-genres, all of which have, at some point or another, become infused with dubstep-style basslines. ;P
I haven't listened to much of the EP yet, I've only heard "Break'n a Sweat" so far, and it's not bad.