Now THIS is a Tumblr Worth Tumblr-ing About…

We at the Museum are delighted to share with you ‘Cooking with Skrillex’, a new Tumblr that has surfaced showcasing the infamous dubstep/brostep DJ turned master chef Skrillex.

See more of the chef at work here: http://cookingwithskrillex.tumblr.com/

Trying to still squeeze in last minute holiday shopping?

Still haven’t found the ‘perfect’ gift for that deserving person in your life?

Well God has been quite good to us this holiday season by bringing us one of the best gift options the world has ever seen…

Amazon.com presents to you:

Yes, that’s right!  It’s NOW That’s What I Call DUBSTEP!!! (not necessarily but almost from the people that have brought you the NOW That’s What I Call Music compilation album series)

This awesome brand-new “music” genre, invented by Skrillex in 2010 and never heard of and clearly non-existent before that, has become more and more universally loved thanks to artists like Britney Spears, KoRn, Skrillex, LMFAO and Rosko (or however you spell it).

And NOW That’s What I Call Dubstep gives you all that wobble and grimey bass and bro-tastic head-thrashing you love all in one place, making it the perfect gift for anyone on your holiday shopping list.

Here’s just a small selection of the 50 awesome dubstep tracks that are included in this compilation album:

Yes, it’s that awesome!  You don’t even need to worry about who made the remixes, or if they were actually made by anyone at all.  Cuz, like, who cares, anyway?

Instead, you just get to focus on how awesome it is that all your favorite tunes like “E.T.” and Ke-dollar-sign-ha’s “Blow” have now been dubstep-ified!*

*Note: all these tracks are actually dubstep covers of the original tunes.

No matter who you still need a gift for, they’ll love showing off how cool they are when they bust out the sickest “Dubstep Remix”es in the car, at the frat party, in the country club clubhouse, or on the way to school.

Click here for ordering information and to listen to song previews of these sick bangers. (Seriously, listen to these tracks)

Merry Christmas to us all!!

This is the merch on sale at the Identity Festival, the US’s first touring electronic music festival.

Everything is mediocre. / Everything is a frat party. / They’ve taken everything from me.

P.S.:
 

Yes, it has happened, memers of the world.  

The SkGrillex meme you’ve all been waiting for while you made your parents angry as the Bose speakers they bought you for Christmas now has “filthy” “beats” aka “music” (but not really) blasting from them… finally appears.

(Note: The only reason we’re actually posting this is for the silly rainbow background, not because the George Forman Grill Co. might be paying us to promote their grills via making fun of dubstep)

(via ary)

The Museum would like to share an article about how Skrillex and other Amurricans are murdering the genre you fratboys know and love as DUBSTEP.  While this article isn’t post-ironic or a fallacy itself, we feel that it serves well as a centerpiece for conversation of “what is music?”, “Art is Dead, rather, Dubstep is Dead”, and “<3 <3 SKRELLIX (sp?) <3” in 2011.

Please enjoy; thanks to BlagSound.com and LessThan3 for posting it.

So it’s been taking the world by storm for a while now. Dubstep is everywhere. We all know about it, many of us love it, but there’s a massive problem brewing……the yanks have got hold of it!

At the moment there is a wave of American producers coming into Dubstep from other genres. These producers are flooding the genre with horrible mid range wobbled melodic shit, they have an addiction to the almighty ‘filth’. It’s gored-out mosh music as opposed to dance music. Not to say these beatmakers don’t have talent. Take Skrillex for example, some of his intro’s are rare, the melodic trancey intro for ‘Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites’ is extremely well produced and is something not a lot of artists can do. His production is tight…….then comes the drop. The song turns from a catchy, trancey rhythm into a violent racket of overwhelming wobbles.

His sound after the drop is plain and simple and there is a fairly long list of American producers I could say the same about. The bass is growly and reminds me of nails on a chalkboard, it’s just all a little silly and a million miles away from the garage and dub inspired scenes here in Britain that we all know and love.

……and this is what we are fighting for.

The yanks are generally giving the genre a bad name, like they do with everything. No wonder I keep on hearing the words ‘The Death of Dubstep’. Hearing shit from producers such as Skrillex, Excision and Figure is heartbreaking. They are butchering the sound of Dubstep and calling it Dubstep. It’s like sticking your cock in Vanessa Feltz and telling everyone you fucked Shakira.

Skrillex, released his first EP on the Mau5trap label, that helped him gain notoriety very very quickly. Due to the backing of the Mau5 machine all 8 tracks off his first EP were in Beatports top 10. It’s a great achievement but if the core beatport user base (which hasn’t really acknowledged Dubstep that much as yet) is going to finally acknowledge the genre through an artist like Skrillex and his peers, then I worry for the future. The music being produced stateside is doing a dangerous disservice to the genre, to me it feels like the exact opposite to where it all began on the streets of Croydon ten years ago when garage flaked out and evolved into dark garage, which eventually became dubstep.

Now, there could be some producers over in Uncle Sam’s land that don’t produce this terrible gorestep. I don’t know. In fact there are bound to be, but I’m going on the producers that have gained reputations the quickest and are big names over there. Now I’m not picking on these guys, they have found a way to be successful and have hit a chord with Americans between the ages of 16 and 24. They are mad for it over there. Unfortunately they are not mad for the sound us Brits went mad for. I know I’d rather be wanked off by Freddie Kruger wearing a wire brush round his palm, than go out and listen to that trash.

I keep hearing people say that the genre needs to evolve, they are right, it does, every genre does to an extent, especially a relatively new one such as Dubstep. To have longevity, evolution of a sound is a must. The problem is that there is a difference between evolution and perversion. Dubstep is going through both processes at once and the results couldn’t be further apart.

It’s definitely going to be interesting to see where we are heading. This violent pony that Skrillex and co. are producing is not going to go away. Not while the record companies have these money making machines on their hands. Capitalism will rear its ugly head and if they are making money, that’s it and if I’m honest, aslong as the sound doesn’t start influencing young, talented producers here in the UK, I don’t care. There is however, a problem in identifying what dubstep is these days. To me it will always be the garage induced, reggae dub deliciousness we have been hearing from the Benga’s and Skream’s of the world for a few years now. Unfortunately to some, it includes sounds that are so far apart from what I and many others perceive it as. At the end of the day, difference in opinion is what makes the world go round.

Dubstep started in London, in Britain. No it’s not dead, its just dead in the states. In the states, people go to dubstep raves and people die, here, people come to party and be proud of the sound we gave the world. It’s just unfortunate the Americans have butchered it just like everything else they get their hands on.

Follow-up to our last artifact/news clipping, here is a sneak peak of what is to come of everyone’s favorite nu metal band Korn aka KoЯn and their almighty triumphant pursuits into the wonderful world of dubstep (a new weekly programming block coming to ABC Family this fall).

Enjoy the above song by KoЯn titled “Get Up”, featuring your AEPi bro’s favorite “artist” Skrillex, feat. a chorus that simply rants over and over “Shut the fuck up, get up”.

Music…

“This is an Artifact of Modernity” News Clipping of the Day (6/15/2011):

We the Curators will now try to put into clever post-ironic rich-in-language words to describe how we feel about this:
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.

#shutitdown

Also, this music genre is slowly joining Art (via, it’s dead)

P.S. of the Day - We until scrolling down further on Tumblr didn’t realize that this is not just a viral youtube video but actually the biggest full-fledged meme since Charlie Sheen (circa early March 2k11).

We also didn’t realize that this song could only get so much worse better.  Here for all you broskees out there is the Dubstep Remix.

Enjoy the Rebecca Black - Friday (Dubstep Remix) you have to hear now that you watched the music video of the song we just curated.

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Whoever just made this won music.

(Source: teap0ts)