Both are equally viable methods of producing music. Yes there's a lot of easy techno remixes that took minimal effort to cash in on.. but there is PLENTY of that in the acoustic side as well. Just turn on the radio.

One of my better friends from HS ended up learning guitar. His motivations where people like Steve Vai and Satrioni, so I saw how much work that took. I can definitely appreciate the skill it takes.

Most of the electronic stuff I listen to though took some amount of blood, sweat, tears and love for the craft to produce as well.

i thought this was from a radio one promotional concert..
hmmm..guess i was wrong.good to know i was not the only person who likes progressive/house/trance.

Box of Dub: Dubstep & Future Dub Vol.1&2 are both very good examples of today's dubstep movement.

BBC Radio One's very own Mary Anne Hobbs debuts a lot of the newest dubstep releases, and has a pretty intense back-catalogue of in-studio live performances and DJ mixes from a lot of today's most heralded dj's and producers of the genre.

Si Begg and Cursor Miner have been releasing a lot of dubstep recently. Obviously Burial has been the recent breakthrough artist, but I think his first LP was much better than his most recent.

Grab your cameras! It's the "free speech" liberal who's trying to reinstitute the "Fairness Doctrine" to silence talk radio! One of the Annointed who bankrupted California appears in the background.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Pendulum-Live-Propane-Nightmares-Radio-One

Heard this on Radio One at the weekend as part of the 40th birthday celebrations, and thought it sounded as fresh today as it did back in 1981.

Great Sift!