Sonny Moore
 

Once a part of From First to Last, Sonny Moore and his band were the perfect definition of what many consider to be "emo":

http://i383.photobucket.com/albums/o...08/sonny-7.png

After Sonny quit, he decided to move on to what he says was his true passion, electronica. Although his style of singing has not changed a bit, which I love, his style of music definitely has. I have yet to listen to a good chunk of his music to give my opinion. I can definitely say that when "emo" was my thing, I was not at all happy to hear Sonny's new music. Now that I'm a bit more open minded and now that he's made more than just a few first songs, I can safely say I'm liking what I'm hearing, and that it does bring me back to my high school days when I would listen to Sonny's voice in From First to Last all of the time. Has anyone else listened to Sonny Moore's music? What do you guys think?

Here are the songs I've listened to tonight:







Like I said, I like his voice. And I know it may be a little too post-hardcore (is that the genre?) or scene for most of the people here, but let me know what you think nonetheless. I'm not a fan, I actually just listened to these songs today and I began to wonder what everyone else would think about this.

Yeah I remember hearing some of this a little while back. It's definitely not bad, but not my thing. I wonder if he'll ever go back to this or just stick with his Skrillex alias.

It would've been nice if you had put the song titles above the youtube vids you posted because I can't see them right now....you need to fix them.

hmm that was interesting....I might have to look up his Skrillex stuff...looks like he released two EPs late last year.

I'll post my thoughts on those two in this thread after I listen to them.

Sorry, is that better?
Yeah, I probably should have posted the names of the songs and I'll edit that now. You coulda just quoted my post and found the link in the embed code, tho. ;]

And CanwllCorfe, what do you mean "go back to," is this stuff older and the Skillrex newer?
Cause from what I heard, the song "Lustbug" is new. May be false info though.

Well most of the stuff he released as Sonny Moore is a bit older, cause I think he's had his Skrillex alias for only about a year. I'm not sure about Lustbug as I'm only familiar with the stuff he's made as Skrillex. There's not too big of a divide really, it's all fast paced and dancey. That being said though, the stuff he makes as Skrillex seems a bit more oriented for certain scenes. Some of it sounds like pure Electro, and some of it sounds like pure Dubstep. Pretty much, it's his DJing alias.

Ah. Not really sure about dubstep. What are some good examples?

I'm really bad with genres.

Well there's stuff like:







Which is nicknamed "wobblestep", to distinguish it from the original kind of Dubstep:







Wobblestep is HUGE right now. Especially with Skrillex and Deadmau5 starting to create it. The original kind is insanely hard to find, and isn't nearly as popular.

What makes it dubstep?
Like what's (what are) the defining factor(s)?

Well it originated out of 2-step/garage, which has a sort of erratic and irregular drum pattern as opposed to other genres like Trance and House with their 4 on the floor pattern. It usually features somewhat simple melodies, as opposed to Wobblestep which is almost more focused on the melody than anything else. Wobblestep tends to be considerably more aggressive and, as most like to call it, "filthy". :cool: While I'm at it, if you haven't heard Burial, you need to. He's in the older 2-step/garage style and combines a lot of sampled and altered vocals with a good bit of ambient.







I'm not the best at explaining genres, so hopefully someone else will be able to go into more detail or be more helpful.

Is some of NIN's stuff in any of these explanations? Like could it be an example of anything you explained?

You explained it pretty well, CanwllCorfe imo.

this is one of my current faves



I think most of NINs music falls into industrial

Not that I know of. Like djchameleon said, most of what they make is Industrial. Industrial tends to be more aggressive and rough. In Dubstep there's usually some kind of ambient sound to fill in the gaps of the melodies (which tend to be heavily altered) and make it seem more round, but in some genres, like Industrial, they tend to leave that out. What you get is something that sounds like it came right out of the keyboard; sort of unpolished and gritty. For some reason "analog" always comes to mind.