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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction
And this is from a guy who absolutely lives for Drum And Bass, Trip Hop, IDM, and Electronica.
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it doesn't make a lot of sense to me to be honest; but considering your listening habits it's not surprising either, since dubstep is an amalgam of these genres with UK garage, dub and the West Indies culture in general.
UK garage introduced the essential two-step drum pattern which is a foundation of dubstep and all the pioneering producers started off making dark garage, before anyone could think of a name for it.
The importance of the bass carrying the melody is not something that features heavily in any of the genres you mentioned, and is a hallmark of dub music (except early d'n'n but it still wasn't so sub-sonic). Maybe this is why you can't 'relate' to the genre?
I have heard the 'slowed-down-dnb' thing a lot and I think this only applies to stuff that has been coming out in the last 2 or 3 years with dubstep's increasing worldwide popularity, there are scenes all around the globe now.
As such there has been stylistic divergence, initially the stuff I cut my teeth on was very dark, downbeat and experimental... now you are likely to hear bombastic synth lines and other traits of the crass and de-evolved drum and bass sound.
To illustrate, in the city where I used to live, dubstep took off and the big weekly drum and bass night quickly absorbed dubstep into the events as part of the night's music, they make good bedfellows. For me good drum and bass ended with jungle for the most part, lol
Every genre of music that has gotten so big is going to be more than the sum of its parts, you couldn't call dubstep 'dub-garage-bass', it's not, it's dubstep. Just like drum n bass isn't 'breakbeat-hardcore-techno-dub'...