Dubstep appealing to Aspie's?

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So do I.

Seriously went doooownhill in the last decade. Or im just getting old

My friend, who loves all that noise, told me he read a "funny conspiracy" that dubstep contained frequencies that were considered weapons by the military. Or something like that.

The thing is, I can hear dog whistles and WAY beyond that (my friend pulled out his phone to check this years ago). I wondered if my sensitivity to high frequencies made me more aware, maybe, of something in this painful music? Are YOU? Can any of you hear dog whistles, and does that make one more sensitive to this music, either positively or negatively?

I still can hear up to 20KHz. And goddamn RF emissions, like from old CRT televisions.

I think the pain threshold comes more from dB level.

I can hear that stuff, too.

Definitely not the volume. I like to listen to music loud enough to feel my organs vibrate. I loved going to shows before having kids. It's the sounds. Like I said, I want to vomit. It makes me nervous and sweaty. My husband loves it. Sometimes I can make it 1/3 of the way through a song before a particular sound happens and I lose it. "Make it stop! No more robot sex!"

I really, really do not like dubstep, dance, electronica, etc. AT ALL. It makes my ears hurt and my brain want to fall out.

I'm not into it at all. I'm sorry. It's too loud with too many aspects to focus on in my opinion which makes me get overwhelmed quickly.

I like some Dubstep but it's not my favorite kind of music. I don't like the "brostep" like Skrilix that is super aggressive. It sounds like heavy metal to me. The idea is to be as loud and rough as possible. I'm in my 30's and I remember a time before Dubstep was mainstream and the artists back then did not have that same sound.

Just like N.T.'s, it appears to be a polarizing genre among aspies.

I can see sensory problems being associated with dubstep.

It use to be my favorite genre of Electronic before I discovered House and then Trance.

I've still got a soft spot for some of it, and it's alright in short bursts, but too much of it and I'll quickly be getting a headache, even if I don't want one.

I honestly think I prefer Drumstep (fusion of Drum n Bass and Dubstep).

I've never really liked dubstep. I like music that has an actual tune to it. Every time a dubstep song starts to hit a rhythm it just goes and ruin it with more random, incoherent noises.

It's actually a combination of multiple layered distorted basses (yes, an electronic song can have more than one 'bass' sound, usually a Sub, Mid and Upper Bass), usually with massive and quick filters on them moving up and down and on and off at fast rates, the percussion of course, and a whole lot of other random robotic sound effects and ambient noise to fill-out the rest of the space.

I can't for the life of me do it.

Melodic Dubstep does exist, but it's relatively rare in the genre.

Sabreclaw: If you like Electronic but not Dubstep, have you tried Nero or Pendulum? They are Dubstep and Dnb. These are two of their most pop-sounding songs, so if you give any of these a listen go in with low expectations:

I'm one of those people who orget they like something, until they play it back to a time they can remember..

No, it gives me a headache. When I'm watching tennis, I have to put on the mute button, when that techno pop music comes on in the time between sets.

In my opinon the darkest possible dark electronic music appeals to me perfectly. I don't like the way that most of music sounds like, like they are so happy, so light only made to appeal the most of people, because they don't affect me in any positive way, but only in empty. Breathtaking music in my case needs to be psychedelic, dark, shocking, controvential and alienlike. Then I experience it as a beauty, like it's a true shocking-beautiful revelation for me.

You'd probably like 1997-1999 dark drum n' bass a lot.

I started seeing dubstep on DNBA back in 2004 or 2005, didn't really like what I was hearing. I think it took me until maybe 2008 or so and around that time I started hearing sort of loony/artsy stuff by guys like Dubchild, Benga, Skream, Rusko, Zomby and I also stumbled into Mala and Coki's stuff - Mala's pretty close to the center of a lot of what I like in the genre. I also liked the more techno-leaning stuff that guys like Skuba, Pinch, Peverelist, and 2562 were doing.

As far as what I'll still listen to of it today - some of the older Digital Mystikz stuff, also I get a lot of mileage out of Silkie's City Limits 1 and 2. One of my favorite tunes by him:

I wouldn't be surprised if people on the spectrum were drawn to it. One of the key symptoms is sensitivity to different sensations, and dubstep is one of the few styles of music you can literally feel. When it's done right, you don't just feel the bass in your body, but also in your head. It's actually disorienting. It can be such an intense sensation that I actually find it really enjoyable.

Of course, this is only for real dubstep, when it's done right. Unfortunately, when most people think of the genre they only know manic, annoying BS like Skrillex, where the bass is just midlevel, so it doesn't have the appropriate effect. Fans of the genre have actually come up with a derogatory term for that sort of thing, "brostep."

As far as EDM goes, I like the rave genres (goa, breakbeat, progressive house, DnB). I like the heavy, dark dubstep. But in general, the only electronic genre I've really immersed myself in is the experimental/noisy part of industrial (Test Dept., SPK, Einstürzende Neubauten, Skinny Puppy, Factrix, Ministry).