TRAP vs Dubstep

[BreakingJesse 111]

Trap music and Dubstep music are so much alike.

I mainly consider Trap music to be Dubstep if it were pubertized.

 

I honestly could prefer Trap music over it, and Dubstep over Trap.

But I love both. It can be agreeable that Trap music is underrated because none of my friends exactly know what it is. It's like Dubstep with a hardcore mix that you'd hear at a club or awesome parties.

 

What do you guys think?

 

Edited March 26, 2014 by PINKIEirific

[wildpaw 45]

I mainly like Dubstep because I only have one trap song I listen to time-after-time on my computer, but I have nearly 50 dubstep songs on my computer.

 

(Trying to shoot for at least 100 songs)

[Hansel 1,512]

I dislike them both.

However, I am amused at how the mainstream music industry has finally decided to stop raping Dubstep and has turned it's attention towards Trap.

 

Brace yourselves for the inevitable over-saturation of Trap-esqu bass lines.

[Fluttershyfan94 5,742]

I like both dubstep and trap, though I do like almost all music genres so that's not strange. Can't say I prefer one over the other.

[Ribbonfree 2,383]

I think that dubstep at it's core is tenuous to connect to trap, one focuses on sparse drumlines and careful sound design (either subtle or ridiculously harsh) and the other has more bombastic... everything, really. On top of the two musical styles having different roots, one in UK garage/hardcore metal and the other in Southern hip-hop and rap. That said, I enjoy both genres immensely. I sort of prefer trap personally because I've always been inclined to favor music based on the complexity of it's percussion line and the amount of syncopation it possesses.

[caramba2654 602]

I'm sorry for the necro, but is anyone able to give me a few links on good Trap music? I tried searching, but I've never heard about it and I can't tell the good stuff from the bad stuff.

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Dubstep and trap are hooked together. They both involve high-end synths and crazy stuff. 

[Scootalove 10,689]

I like both of them, can't have one without the other.

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

I don't really like either of them, thanks to media oversaturising the music market for EDM in both sub genres.

[Espy Vibe 4,278]

Oh wow, Dubstep (the Brostep variety) and Trap of the time period actually both bounced ideas off each other. At some point though it got the pop treatment, because Trap used to be really, really, really dirty in more ways than one.

IDK why it has the same name as Trap, which is rap/hip hop style. It's more like "Electronic Trap" due to it sounding the "same" but also not being lyrically driven.

 

On 2014-05-08 at 10:18 PM, caramba2654 said:

I'm sorry for the necro, but is anyone able to give me a few links on good Trap music? I tried searching, but I've never heard about it and I can't tell the good stuff from the bad stuff.

I remember way way back when I was into the whole Big Room, Brostep, Trap, etc. stuff during this time. Artists like Flosstradamus, Keys N Crates, Boaz van de Beatz, UZ, and Yellow Claw were basically leading this sound. I think what they made is now known as "Festival Trap" because it was quite aggressive, dark, edgy in sound. It got a really light sound to it since then, probably because of Marshmello doing really well. (TBF, Keys N Crates already were doing that before Marshmello came in).

YT promo channels were king back then:

• Trap City
• a different Trap City
• TrapMusicHDTV (which just reminded me of cartoon theme songs being remixed)
• Trap Nation
• All Trap Music
• All Things Trap (can't find this one, looks like it got taken down but there are some that reuploaded/copied the promo channel)

Basically sort by "Old" or "Popular" and pay attention to the date. That's basically what the whole trap thing was all about. IMO it peaked around 2014, but it goes back to 2011 (maybe even earlier).

Not really something I listen to anymore. It doesn't scratch the itch for me right now and hasn't for a long time. I'm not up to speed with what's hot anymore anyways.

I think I started listening to Flume, Petit Biscuit, XXYYXX, and Hippie Sabotage around 2016 or 2017, which was around the time I stopped listening to so much trap and brostep.