YMuT (yito's music talk)

Reader be warned. This is once again a writing I have written and transferred from audiotool. You might have seen it before. This isn't a reaction to Timbah.On.Toast's video, although I draw inspiration from it. Now, I have to disclose that I was never really part of the fandom of the original sound that emerged in the UK. I only got to know its increasingly more popular sound from the first half of the 2010s - the sound Timbah criticizes - Brostep. My new sense of self was based on EDM and specifically a certain Sonny Moore. My Name is Skrillex (Skrillex Remix), specifically, became the 1st love of my life (lol). Let's hop forward to the last years of the previous decade. I was already browsing around on audiotool (abbrev. AT), big into lo-fi, getting a more varied view of music in general, when I stumbled across the music of TwoSworded's alt account called "in." on audiotool. Suddenly, I heard a side of dubstep I never really knew. Minimalistic, relaxed, hy...

Reader be warned. This is a fairly big read and something I already wrote on audiotool.com (this version should have less misinformation). Enjoy. For ages, we've been taught in art schools that there are 2 types of music/2 types of art: High art and low art. Or in our case here in Slovakia, artificial music (music of someone's own artistic intent, usually attributed to classical music) and non-artificial music (folk music, popular music, music for specific public purposes etc.) From the middle ages and later after the baroque era (as far as I remember), these 2 were always put into separate categories. Though there was always significant crossover until the romantic era. What signified the hard-set difference before the rise of more complex class and wealth structures were sacred music and music for higher feudal class (higher art, consciously developed, financed, educated) on one hand and secular music, lower class (more on the amateur side) on the other. After the significanc...