Who best to Represent.

[bundy]

I stand corrected.

[dj cal cutta]

This thread/topic bothers me...it seems to me that to come out and flat-out ask a question like this is not only too easy, but begging for people to ignore their own bias. You seriously think you're gonna get an honest response from some xenophobe when asking this question(and to go further, do you expect anyone to admit their xenophobia when possibly called out about it? fyi...people rarely do)? I'd seriously hope not...(and you could say the *exact* same thing about old-school hip hop, the Native Tongues dudes don't like being reminded that they were hatin' hard on west coast hip hop when it got popular in the early 90's).

It seems to me, that if you truly care about this subject, that you'd be far better off just reading a lot of different threads about a lot of different subjects/artists on this board, where it's not explicitly put out "hey 'cause this is from ____ do you UK folk think this is shit?!"(or vice versa, or whatever).

edit: Also, one of the beautiful things about dubstep is that it represents so many different sounds/styles to so many different people. Really one of the only universal anchors to dubstep is bpm. Past that, I've made mixes where I'd consider it dubstep and had people tell me "That's not dubstep at all", so it's all in the eye of the beholder. Just 5 artists/labels/etc. may give a somewhat decent gauge of the history of dubstep('cause of labels like Tempa and DMZ), but it's not a "best representation" of dubstep on the whole. There's just too much out there...

[ST100]

Also, one of the beautiful things about dubstep is that it represents so many different sounds/styles to so many different people.

true.

[bunjcore]

One other question: Are there negative attitudes about Dubstep being made outside the UK by non-uk artists

I dont buy anything by anyone born outside of London.

[future thought tapestries]

This thread/topic bothers me...it seems to me that to come out and flat-out ask a question like this is not only too easy, but begging for people to ignore their own bias. You seriously think you're gonna get an honest response from some xenophobe when asking this question(and to go further, do you expect anyone to admit their xenophobia when possibly called out about it? fyi...people rarely do)? I'd seriously hope not...(and you could say the *exact* same thing about old-school hip hop, the Native Tongues dudes don't like being reminded that they were hatin' hard on west coast hip hop when it got popular in the early 90's).

It seems to me, that if you truly care about this subject, that you'd be far better off just reading a lot of different threads about a lot of different subjects/artists on this board, where it's not explicitly put out "hey 'cause this is from ____ do you UK folk think this is shit?!"(or vice versa, or whatever).

edit: Also, one of the beautiful things about dubstep is that it represents so many different sounds/styles to so many different people. Really one of the only universal anchors to dubstep is bpm. Past that, I've made mixes where I'd consider it dubstep and had people tell me "That's not dubstep at all", so it's all in the eye of the beholder. Just 5 artists/labels/etc. may give a somewhat decent gauge of the history of dubstep('cause of labels like Tempa and DMZ), but it's not a "best representation" of dubstep on the whole. There's just too much out there...

I appreciate what your saying & was in no way trying to bring out the beast in people, i was just curious as to peoples attitudes. I brought it up because of a recent topic on an Old School Hip Hop forum regarding the different NY boroughs trying to make a claim as to who & where Hip Hop was started. As someone relatively new to Dubstep, i wondered whether these territorial & origin issues ever came up. Competition, healthy or otherwise, between different communities within a scene has always been there.