Dubstep

[bloodcell]

for people who like hip hop you would probably want to check out a kid named "dj nappy"

he knows the dub-step sound can get boring, he has fixed this....but he is no cheap gimmick, the kid does some nice work even though he uses alot of other peoples beats

 

[jonblack]

Personally, I don't think Dubstep had fuck all to do with drum n bass.

This has changed recently, as there has been MANY a ship jumper of late,
I'm not sure that the influx of (some jaded) ex D&B heads is what the music really needed, but it has been pushing some parts of the scene in an interesting direction.

I have had one ear on the evolution through house, garage, speed garage, 2 step, grime side of things for a while now, as there is always someone/something interesting cropping up every now and again, but the most interesting part of that evolution was listening to dubstep work its way out of the London grime sound. Those guys just kept stripping more and more away from grime until it started becoming something else.

I think Dubstep took a lot of it's influences from the same places as drum n bass did (the early UK reggae/dub sound system scene, hip hop, early 90's hardcore) hence the parallels that always get pointed out, but I think on the most part, the sound evolved quite independently of drum n bass.

my 2 cents anyway.

 

[Swayze]

wow this thread is bringing out all sortsa peoples i never hearduh befoing.

 

[bozak]

from talking to kode09 about it dubstep has more to do with Dub music then drum and bass. You have a lot of ex-dnb producers making it who were getting quite tired of the rigidity of the dnb formula that has become fairly set in stone at this point
(aside from some sub-sub genres of dnb like the drumfunk stuff). Also you have a lot of ex-2step and grime producers making it that got tired of how those genres went much more mainstream. but kode was saying very specifically that the music has more to do with the sounds of the carribean then what was already there in london.

because of the backgrounds of many of the scenes early figures you have a lot of sonic similarities to dnb. that can make a person think its just slowed down dnb but it isnt. Dnb is between 160-178 bpm or so with a distinct drum pattern. dubstep, to me, doesnt have to even have drums (sign of the dub as an example) its all about a heavy subbass tone and *whatever else the producer finds necessary to create the intended feel of the track*. now, if that is by addition of sounds or by subtraction of commonly used sounds (such as drums which I mentioned before) then so be it.


I like the stuff. I think dnb is alright, I had a period of really being into it but its just bleh to me right now. dubstep is much more experimental to me and I like that. I think my interest will wain once the scene moves out of this period of figuring itself out and people that want to jump on the bandwagon just copy the lead dudes and everything starts sounding the same.....like dnb

there are us dubstep acts out there. I ran across some at boomkat.com