It's Dubstep Week!

Paedantic Basterd · 03-11-2012, 09:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Dubstep (/ˈ d ʌ b s t ɛ p /) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London, United Kingdom. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals".[1]

The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998 and were darker, more experimental, instrumental dub remixes of 2-step garage tracks attempting to incorporate the funky elements of breakbeat, or the dark elements of drum and bass into 2-step, which featured B-sides of single releases. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylized as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep. The term "dubstep" in reference to a genre of music began to be used by around 2002, by which time stylistic trends used in creating these remixes started to become more noticeable and distinct from 2-step and grime. It was labels Big Apple, Amunition and Tempa that began circulating the "dubstep" term.[2]

A very early supporter of the sound was BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who started playing it from 2003 onwards. In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz and Plastician (formerly Plasticman) in their top 50 for the year.[3] Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006; many websites devoted to the genre appeared on the internet and aided the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz.[4] Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media, with a regular feature entitled The Month In: Grime/Dubstep. Interest in dubstep grew significantly after BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs started championing the genre, beginning with a show devoted to it (entitled "Dubstep Warz") in January 2006.[5][6][7]

Dubstep - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

RYM's top Dubstep releases

Howard the Duck · 03-11-2012, 09:40 AM

only really listen to Flux Pavillion and Burial

Alfred · 03-11-2012, 05:13 PM

I only listen to Burial, but damn do I love his music.

jackhammer · 03-11-2012, 08:13 PM

Dubstep is absolutely everywhere now and 90% of it just annoying 'wobble wobble' cliched crap that is just about selling records and it's kind of ironic that Dubstep as a genre in underground clubs has been and gone already!

I much prefer the early incarnations of the sound and this is not because it is now popular and therefore I must feel the need to knock it. That is not it at all.

Every other remix of many popular songs now are given the Dubstep treatment but that just means upping the tempo and trying to get as much bass effect out of the track as possible but the original sound is just as described in the OP. DUB (yes DUB!) remixes of the 2 step sound that created this weird hybrid of dark yet hypnotic sounds that relied on texture much more than what has become annoyingly commonplace in Electronic music which is the breakdown/drop or build that admittedly works well in clubs but it's not Dubstep.

Posted before but this is actually Dubstep people!

Burial of course whom a lot of people know and they (he) are much more Dubstep than what you hear these days even if it is very Ambient.

**Janszoon** · 03-11-2012, 11:26 PM

As Jackhammer hinted at, I feel like the style is getting extremely overexposed at this point but here are a few tracks I've always liked:

Engine · 03-11-2012, 11:49 PM

Leaves by DATA

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 03-12-2012, 07:24 AM

Dubstep is being anal raped by stupid DJ's who think taking a song and mashing it up with some heavier bass and wobbles makes great dubstep. Ick. I'll take Liquid Stranger and Flux Pavillion over that manufactured dubstep any day. With Skrillex as an exception, he is bro-step but it still feels good to me.

Engine · 03-12-2012, 12:13 PM

I'm happy that I stopped paying attention to this stuff before there were debates about what's true dubstep and what's not. I have my few favorites that I discovered in the last 5 years or so and haven't really listened to anything recent. I hadn't even heard the term brostep until I saw it popping up on MB not too long ago. Hadn't even heard of Skrillex 'til very recently. Lucky me.

Distance - Night Vision

Freebase Dali · 03-12-2012, 06:31 PM

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Originally Posted by getinthepit

I'm probably just being hateful, but I just can't do this dubstep stuff. Its awful. I want the REAL Korn back. A.D.I.D.A.S. Korn. Falling Away From Me Korn. Life Is Peachy Korn. I want dubstep to go away and I want real music to come back. Where people have to actually PLAY instruments.

Then this is the wrong week for you to be participating in the weekly genre threads. Check back when it's awful 90s nu-metal week.

Engine · 03-12-2012, 11:57 PM

More o' the good stuff: Bug Octet and Foxy by Boxcutter

03-11-2012, 05:13 PM	#3 (permalink)
Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	I only listen to Burial, but damn do I love his music. __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

03-11-2012, 08:13 PM	#4 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Dubstep is absolutely everywhere now and 90% of it just annoying 'wobble wobble' cliched crap that is just about selling records and it's kind of ironic that Dubstep as a genre in underground clubs has been and gone already! I much prefer the early incarnations of the sound and this is not because it is now popular and therefore I must feel the need to knock it. That is not it at all. Every other remix of many popular songs now are given the Dubstep treatment but that just means upping the tempo and trying to get as much bass effect out of the track as possible but the original sound is just as described in the OP. DUB (yes DUB!) remixes of the 2 step sound that created this weird hybrid of dark yet hypnotic sounds that relied on texture much more than what has become annoyingly commonplace in Electronic music which is the breakdown/drop or build that admittedly works well in clubs but it's not Dubstep. Posted before but this is actually Dubstep people! Burial of course whom a lot of people know and they (he) are much more Dubstep than what you hear these days even if it is very Ambient. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

03-11-2012, 11:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	As Jackhammer hinted at, I feel like the style is getting extremely overexposed at this point but here are a few tracks I've always liked: __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

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Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	Leaves by DATA __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.

03-12-2012, 07:24 AM	#7 (permalink)
Scarlett O'Hara Make it so Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 6,181	Dubstep is being anal raped by stupid DJ's who think taking a song and mashing it up with some heavier bass and wobbles makes great dubstep. Ick. I'll take Liquid Stranger and Flux Pavillion over that manufactured dubstep any day. With Skrillex as an exception, he is bro-step but it still feels good to me. __________________ "Elph is truly an enfant terrible of the forum, bless and curse him" - Marie, Queen of Thots

03-12-2012, 12:13 PM	#8 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	I'm happy that I stopped paying attention to this stuff before there were debates about what's true dubstep and what's not. I have my few favorites that I discovered in the last 5 years or so and haven't really listened to anything recent. I hadn't even heard the term brostep until I saw it popping up on MB not too long ago. Hadn't even heard of Skrillex 'til very recently. Lucky me. Distance - Night Vision __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.

03-12-2012, 11:57 PM	#10 (permalink)
Engine air quote Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: pollen & mold Posts: 3,108	More o' the good stuff: Bug Octet and Foxy by Boxcutter __________________ Like an arrow, I was only passing through.