Dubstep- the Millenial Sound

If there was one consolation for facing a Republican Administration, it was that there would be some great music coming out. Tough times usually equal tough grooves and beats, and after a few years of pop music, trance, and vocal house, maybe it was time for something new, harder, and darker. Somehow this never really took off, and much of this decade's soundscape has lacked the tone which can characterise an era marked by doom. Post-dance-disco-electro punk may sound OK, but it's not nearly the groundbreaking, emotional record of a time period. Despite a few holdouts, hip hop is overexposed, overrated, creatively over with, and totally disconnected from reality. House and trance are staid, breakbeat is phenomenal music, but it's been popular for a long-ass time, and doesn't really capture the moment.

But I was listening to a Dubstep set on Sirius today, and I think I just found one that does. This music make me feel like I just smoked an ounce of chronic and just found out the FBI is at my door. It's as if the world is ending, and all you can do is sit inside and stare at blank walls. It's almost the perfect soundtrack to having a leader who is hell-bent on killing his citizens in wars they don't support. A global climate situation that's making us contemplate apocalyptic scenarios. Seven years into this decade, we finally have a sound that represents the era.
Interestingly, for over 20 years dance music has been linked almost synonymously with E. Yeah, drum and bass wasn't your ideal rolling environment, but it was still fun. And nobody really takes IDM seriously anyways. But Dubstep actually accomplishes this- it's totally divorced from ecstacy. To take E while listening to Dubstep would be to subject oneself to a self-inflicted journey to bad-tripland. If you hated somebody, give them a pill and make them listed to this. You might be watching them being carted off in a stretcher several hours later.