Can someone explain dubstep to me?

[photojojo]

I look for the wobbly to make it into top 40 rap here pretty soon, if it hasn't already. I don't listen to much top 40 rap so I may be off a little. Soon after that it'll move to pop. Soon after that the cool kids will find something else to smoke to and the cycle will repeat.

[Ciar2001]

I see it as an electronic version of Dub aka Reggae which I used to listen to lots as a kid but that's because i don't buy or follow the scene so when i hear that's what pops into my head, it's all about the bass!

[R2D2]

yeah i get that, and if i look at the pure garage discs i had (thanks music magpie! ) there were a couple of tracks on the bass, breaks and beats 2003 disc that then had that feel to them. but prob nearer to grime

it's just the sound itself, as in how the fuck did we get from this

Flowers

to this

street fighter

ok, extreme examples, lol. but you get my point

i see the similarities in drums and bass. but it just feels like a devolution of music, grime made more sense. this feels like a snarling ball of 'wannabe gangsta' aggression with no real soul to it.

also, would this be dubstep? like 9 years old i think now....

So Solid - Dilemma

The Last Vid you posted was the beginning of Grime / Dubstep Basically alot of producers in the UKG scene grew up listening to Jungle /Oldskool hardcore so they started to make Darker beats

Esp when some UKG tunes made the charts like that flowers tune you posted it always happens if a scene makes the charts then the producers make harder more underground tunes well in the UK any way .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdFt510A5mQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPZ5...eature=related

So Solid Kicked of Grime they put out the more MC based sound on it

Most Grime comes from East London which can be very moody in parts hence the Angry Vocals !!

[photojojo]

I see it as an electronic version of Dub aka Reggae which I used to listen to lots as a kid but that's because i don't buy or follow the scene so when i hear that's what pops into my head, it's all about the bass!

+1 I think it does get it's inspiration from reggae.

[Ciar2001]

The Last Vid you posted was the beginning of Grime / Dubstep Basically alot of producers in the UKG scene grew up listening to Jungle /Oldskool hardcore so they started to make Darker beats

Esp when some UKG tunes made the charts like that flowers tune you posted it always happens if a scene makes the charts then the producers make harder more underground tunes well in the UK any way .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdFt510A5mQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMPZ5...eature=related

So Solid Kicked of Grime they put out the more MC based sound on it

Most Grime comes from East London which can be very moody in parts hence the Angry Vocals !!

lol that last sentence made me chuckle says it all about East London very true as well.

[TommyQuiet]

[QUOTE=BradCee;123840]yeah i get that, and if i look at the pure garage discs i had (thanks music magpie! ) there were a couple of tracks on the bass, breaks and beats 2003 disc that then had that feel to them. but prob nearer to grime

it's just the sound itself, as in how the fuck did we get from this

Flowers

wow i remember this i am only 23 and it seams like alife time ago wahat a tune

[V-Hoff]

I never heard dubsteb before, in fact the only place that I heard about it was this forum.
Here at Brazil most of the DJs are migrating to low bpm Housies (Electro, Tech, pure), a lot of Psytrance big names are converting into these genres but none of them are going towards dubsteb.
Anyway, I think we will see some dubstep going on by here sometime near the end of this year.

How do you think that we can classify countries with more Dubstep?
1 UK
2 USA
.....
99 Brazil

Edit: Btw, 400 posts!!! weeee!

[djhipnotikk]

i hear dubstep is blowing it's top all over germany, italy, some eastern european countries (croatia - outlook festival), and russia atm.

just wanted to throw one thing out there: dubstep isn't for dancing - it wasn't supposed to be for dancing like 99% of the other EDM sub-genres. sure people skank around to it, but mainly it's for people who enjoy listening to heavy bass music on big systems. i think that's why the harder stuff rose to popularity so quickly - people wanted to dance around to this kind of stuff, but at it's roots it's purely about enjoying the music, not how huge the drop is or how pumped it makes you feel.

[Ed Paris]

i hear dubstep is blowing it's top all over germany, italy, some eastern european countries (croatia - outlook festival), and russia atm.

just wanted to throw one thing out there: dubstep isn't for dancing - it wasn't supposed to be for dancing like 99% of the other EDM sub-genres. sure people skank around to it, but mainly it's for people who enjoy listening to heavy bass music on big systems. i think that's why the harder stuff rose to popularity so quickly - people wanted to dance around to this kind of stuff, but at it's roots it's purely about enjoying the music, not how huge the drop is or how pumped it makes you feel.

as always i have to disagree at the point that dubstep isn´t there for dancing. sure it is, but it defo depends on the style of the dubstep. sure i wouldn´t dance to burial but i would dance to borgore...even when people say borgore, tomba, 16bit is no dubstep. i love to listen to the "oldskool" more dubby stuff at home but when i go party i wan´t that hard facecracking stuff. do know why? because it still has the same tempo and me having my roots in the hardcore/metal have a good time identifying myself in dubstep cause the music isn´t to far away (patterns, beats, agression...)
my 2 cents

[V-Hoff]

I really like this topic, it's a very good discussion.
Can you put examples of different types of Dubstep?
Like Dubstep music for dancing, for chillout area, for main dancefloor on small clubs, for big open air raves?
I just want to imagine where the EDM's Brazil scene can go with the Dubstep influence...