Heavy Days and Heavier Drops

I kind of had a bad day today. I dropped my phone in a freshly-made Michigan snowbank today and it won't play sound on its speaker anymore. I misplaced my glasses and had to go to class and work while dealing with my nearsightedness. I lost a glove, which just so happened to be on the first day of snow and one of the windiest days this year. Sometimes, life is a bitch.

Through all that though, there's probably one kind of music that I'm recently becoming more interested in, and it can turn around a bad day instantly. Denizens of the internet, whether you've heard it or not, I give you...Dubstep.

Now, I won't say I'm an all-knowing master of the art, let alone a self-proclaimed one. That said, I have no freaking clue how they make this stuff. It's incredible. The beats, the mixing, the lyrics you sometime can understand but most of the time can't, the random internet meme inserted before the drop, and the actual drop.

Oh my GOD that drop. >.<

Lame puns aside, some people can't stand the genre just because of said drop, and I can understand. It really does sound like a bunch of random noise in a way, or if you were to turn up a radio really loud and fiddle around with the frequency knob, then distort the resulting noise into an incredibly low pitch. In my opinion, however, there's a deeper appreciation to be had here. Sure it might sound like random noise to anybody, but the electronics and guitars behind it are making it sound like a noise that's just completely out of this world and like nothing else you've ever heard before. To me it almost sounds natural being part of a fast-paced racing game or a retro sci-fi game. Being the outrageously nerdy alternative-metal-rock lover that I am, that's something that I can bang my head to, or at least give a fist-pumping rock-on hand gesture.

Skrillex is one of the most well-known artists that I've found on Youtube (again, I'm not an all-knowing mastermind), and they have several more awesome remixes and tracks to listen to. If you enjoyed the above video, go see more of it. You probably won't be disappointed.