Music in the LCS and the Image of Esports

The All Tomato·2/19/2014, 10:55:19 AM·2 votes·903 views

I enjoy the music of LCS. It's exciting, and having watched tons of LCS, I like the feel of familiarity it brings. However, MonteCristo shared an interesting opinion in his live AmA Rift Review. He feels that the constant dubstep is immature, and I can't say I disagree, although I like dubstep.

His opinion got me thinking. Riot is responsible for music that is beautiful, stirring, epic, fun, and edgy. Just think of pieces like the Freljord theme, Diana's theme, and the Worlds 2013 theme. I would really like to see more symphonic, professional, original music make its way into the LCS, alongside the cool dubstep.

5 Comments

Newbert Newman2/19/2014, 7:46:43 PM2 votes

E-sport's image may be "improved" by this change, but isn't your target demographic a group of youngle people that like Dubstep/Electronic music? Why would you change the music to something that isn't overwhelmingly popular with the demographic?

Not disliking your post but I don't necessarily agree that classical/symphonic music would appeal to the typical e-sports watcher.

windspear52/19/2014, 11:23:33 PM2 votes

This

This is the closest you'll get to what you're asking for, and while it may not be an original composition by Riot Games it does have an "instrumental" feel if you can call it that.

Keiran133/12/2014, 5:26:29 PM2 votes

I haven't heard more than a couple dubstep pieces, though I plead guilty to actually using most of the between match breaks to leave the computer.

I don't care for dubstep much myself, but some of it's alright. It's better than rap. (Nobody shoot me. ^^)

I listen to some of the collected LCS playlists on Youtube, and there's not that much dubstep that I hear. I could be wrong about what defines dubstep? It's mostly the WUBWUBWUB that offends my ears, so if it doesn't include that I probably don't parse it as dubstep.

That said, this LCS music http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF42c6MaE9k is for sure not dubstep, and I wish it was much, much longer.

Dubstep. Dubstep. What a strange name.