WowMico Viejo wrote:I'm playing devil's advocate a bit, but heres something to think about:
We're starting to see Dubstep's influence spreading to other areas of music now, with people outside the scene mixing the sound with other genres, what might be considered the second stage of a scene, for example check:
www.myspace.com/spuek
www.various.co.uk
This aint neccesarily a bad thing (I'm personally feeling some of this), but stage 3 can't be far off: a David Bowie dubstep LP or some shit.
Secondly, I'm starting to wonder if Dubstep didn't die already the moment the name was coined. There's a lot of talk about how exciting the scene is cos it hasnt been locked down to any one thing yet, hasnt become formulaic. And yeah, maybe that was the case in the beginning. I bought some of the early Horsepower, Darqwan, Zed Bias stuff when it came out and din't really know what music it was, and I get the impression that they dint either. They just did it. And that stuff was exciting.
I'm rambling here, but what I wanted to say was that if u just check the first dubstep allstars LP it was diverse, exciting, more of a dark 2-step sound, but check allstars no.4 and 90% of it is pretty weak and samey. Kind of a wak white-man's reggae; hardly fukcing groundbreaking.
Its like once the name dubstep stuck everyone went "oh yeah, gots to stick some stupid skanking sounds and echoing vocals in now or it isnt dubstep".
Apart from that, I'm a little dubious as to whether its a real scene like grime is. Seems a little artificial to me, like its all just a fuss created on the internet. But maybe thats how all new forms are gonna develop now?
So, anyway, dubstep's dead, yeah: debate....
You can't take a piece (Dubstep AllStars from 3 to infinitive
) and writing about dubsteps' dead. This scene is too large for that. Tempa is dying, maybe, dubstep, not!!
Garanateed you have never heard Dubstep outside of your bedroom 
