This video, by Toronto dubstep duo Zeds Dead, just happens to star actor Peter Greene, who played the role of Zed in Quentin Tarantino’s classic Pulp Fiction. Turnstyle's Noah Nelson interviewed the director, Andrew Renzi.

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Wreckrob8

A Tarantino connection isn’t going to make me watch a dubstep video.
- http://twitter.com/incarnedine_v Dan Hibiki
  
  they went with the wrong Zed
  
  http://popshifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/zardoz-zed.jpg
UncaScrooge

Back in 2006, I bought the album “Oneiric” by Boxcutter. I was informed that the music on that CD was filed under the genre “Dubstep”. I enjoyed it, but it didn’t change my life. So I can’t say that I was into it before it was despised.

Six years later, I am informed that Dubstep is the latest reason for disinterested parties to categorically dismiss electronic dance music. Dubstep seems to have replaced the term “Rave” as the go-to term for the loud, repetitive, hide-bound and uncreative thumpa thumpa disco that always gnaws at the heels of club music. A computer, some software and a break-out box is all the license anyone needs to manufacture this stuff by the yard, so, what did you expect? Rachmaninoff?

By the way, that Boxcutter album sounded like “Illbient” to me. Whatever happened to “Illbient”?
- Wreckrob8
  
  I am an old raver and proud of it and couldn’t give a fuck who despises me. Of course there were two opposed rave scenes from the beginning.
  Electronic dance music becomes unimaginative when it moves from the party scene to the commercial club scene and becomes formulaic. A lot of DJs and dance styles can neither make it on the party scene or club scene and end up in some youtube no-man’s-land.
  Party music and the party scene are a place for unself-conscious dancing without the constraints of clubland’s admissions policies and posing. It scares governments.
Baldhead

While I’m not immediately familiar with Boxcutter I can see how something could be called Dubstep and be thought of as Illbient at the same time. Kode9 would be similar I think- the agressive synths that Skrillex et al us almost exclusively make rare, if any, appearances.

Anyway I suspect most people just disliked the term Illbient. Electronic music seems to go through genres at a furious rate. This is not helped by artists often making them up in a fit of swell- headedness instead of just saying “Electronic” and letting the audience decide
- EH
  
  Illbient was a conceit for certain NYC musicians who thought themselves separate from trip-hop, which they weren’t. The term was pure marketing, and died the death it deserved.
Paul Bowen

Up to 1.40 I was thinking gosh well maybe I do like dubstep after all but then it all went Pete Tong.
http://twitter.com/JesseYules Jesse Yules

I pitched for this video but wasn’t successful. Here was my idea. It was about a post apocalyptic beach party. http://ideagrave.com/post/24071023498/beachparty
Sparg

Bad 80s soundtrack tune dragged back to the future.

Zed's (not quite) Dead

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