lil bit disappointing w this one after Skrillex's collab w RHR earlier this year (v good tape on PAN)

sooo I finally listened in full - opening 4 track run is great, after that it's a bit inconsistent imo. lots of fun highs but also some whatever bits

what rly elevated the Warhol tape was him letting Varg/Eurohead take care of the sequencing and putting it together like one big mix, constantly keeping up the energy and momentum with never a dull moment, there's a ton of great ideas on here too but there's some more repetitive and meandering songs and it doesn't quite come together as well as an album

why did apple music label this “brazilian phonk” in their description just cuz there’s a few brazilian collabs

This s*** is a summer vibe 😎😎😎

No, Ye, Don Toliver through Ye-Ai filter is not an instrument

Somehow this actually takes me back to old skrillex just wo the trademark growl and his approach to vocals is a lot like what recent producers do now, more sophisticated and meshed compared to 2010s edm trend. Enjoyed this but yeah i think the 2025 one is my fav, he's so elevated there

revisited QFF yesterday, "Tears" still stands out so much, one of his greatest tracks for sure and tbh og version slaps harder than the Warhol one too

Man @op that description of Skrillex is kinda funny. He stopped being a meme to anyone actually into edm after like 2012 or maybe 2013 and even then had insane props from musicians on his sound design and s***

By 2015 when howsla was out nobody actually held that kind of perspective except outsiders. Even by then it was pretty known Skrillex was doing a massive amount for the genre/scene by putting on hundreds of talented nobodies even by then

Outsiders being the vast majority of the people who knew his name

I would argue 4th or 5th

• scary monsters era + recess era

• label running era

• future bass/pop breakthrough explosion 2015+16)

• early 2020s era

• quest for fire up to now

You can split that first one too imo

Idk it just feels super weird to base that opinion off like, YouTube comments and s*** from people who don't listen to any of this music

I never really knew anyone that found skrillex to be a meme after the 2015-17 run for example outside the snare joke

It's so weird to base public opinion off of the public

Unrelated to everything but is your avi a Gucci Mankey?

2016 era was crazy

is that courage the cowardly dog drums on the intro

lol I mean I never time-marked the meme phase

it also def sounds like you were v much in a skrillex-positive bubble of ppl who would attend mainstream EDM fests (def not me at the time)

I can only rly speak from my broadly experimental-minded bubble and like music writer discourse that I did clock him working w ppl like Kelela and FKA twigs over the late 10s but I still don't think I ever really took him serious as an artist until 2023 with those comeback albums and to me very surprising collabs like Drain Gang.

when he played his notorious berghain debut for PAN I ran into MESH who played on the lineup and another DJ at McDonalds after and they made fun of him - from many other artists I've been in contact w around that time the discourse was definitely that they weren't feeling his rebrand as a serious artist yet. I think that only over the past couple years the majority has been slowly accepting him in.

I definitely think until about 2023 he was still the type of artist that people would make fun of you for listening and it's mostly younger/ newer gen artists that were influenced by him early on that have been changing this discourse. the OWSLA diehard camp was definitely very separate from the music critic discourse before

For a lot of that period I was just in college. Tons of people in college in the 2010s liked edm and Skrillex was a big name.

It's not like any of these releases were small either, and fans of that sound in the 2010s was anything but a bubble. He had a ton of radio hits even

For real. Dude was a menace in the mainstream that year

Hell yeah

Im the one taking about the public here though. This is one of those conversations where sales don't lie, Jack u alone was one of the most massive records in the 2010s. There's also the whole part of Skrillex headlining an ass load of festivals worldwide whether they were edm specific or not

Skrillex is nowhere near as famous as he was in the early 2010s. It's his reputation which has improved.

You're trying to use search info to argue Jack u was a lesser success than scary monsters?

It held multiple world wide mega hits

Streaming era is fake. Polo G has 23 platinum songs and gets 100 viewers on Twitch.

I can’t believe im about to see skrillex headline a festival in 2 days