How did you get into dubstep?

[bassjamdub]

I bought some new speakers and i wanted to test out the bass...i had skream's in for the kill remix on my laptop so i tried it out... mmm was okay... not to basey...looked up skream live on youtube and he played Emalkay - When I look at you... Wow i liked that song ... so i got the soong
CRANKED UP THE VOLUME

mmm that's when i knew .... I (L) DUBSTEP

[shankstep]

When my mates told me about this new genre I looked it up. Listened to Blipstream by Skream and loved it. Bought Dubstep Allstars 5 and never looked back.

[spirenz]

I used to go to these fantastic Bass Factory parties at this epic warehouse/flat around 2006. It had an indoor BMX track that got turned into the dance floor on the ground level, there was a bouldering room upstairs and they used to host a second zone up there as well, sometimes in the kitchen lol. I was playing psytrance, prog and breaks at the time and played in the second zone at a few gigs. I used to think dubstep was bloody silly and took the piss out of it pretty regularly but I remember one night where me and a mate got really into it on the floor between our sets. I then did an NYE road trip not long after with Distance - My Demons on my ipod and decided it was actually a really cool sound. I've gotten more and more into it since

[brent]

in my evil mp3 pirating of dnb, i came across Skream, Benga, and some other releases in 2006. i loved it, but didn't think there was much of it in the start. i kept pirating for another year or 2, then after hearing enough of it...bought 2 Technics, an Ecler mixer, and now have over 400 vinyls. i still won't buy anything digital, but am planning on a CDJ-2000 later in the year. i guess if the vinyl is sold out everywhere, i MIGHT pay for a digital copy. i already got FLAC backups of most of my records, though. i'm sorry, but i can barely afford the vinyl! it's kind of amusing that i don't actually listen to much Skream and Benga after hearing almost everything else. ;X

[V-dub]

I got into it through bassline and 2-step back in 2006.

And from there, there's no going back!

Dubstep > ALL

[noam]

I used to go to these fantastic Bass Factory parties at this epic warehouse/flat around 2006. It had an indoor BMX track that got turned into the dance floor on the ground level, there was a bouldering room upstairs and they used to host a second zone up there as well, sometimes in the kitchen lol. I was playing psytrance, prog and breaks at the time and played in the second zone at a few gigs. I used to think dubstep was bloody silly and took the piss out of it pretty regularly but I remember one night where me and a mate got really into it on the floor between our sets. I then did an NYE road trip not long after with Distance - My Demons on my ipod and decided it was actually a really cool sound. I've gotten more and more into it since

LOL u listened to psytrance, prog and breaks and you thought dubstep was silly

hahahahaha

soz, had to, i feel better about myself now

[Pada]

Erm well I was like 12 in 2005 and first heard stuff like DND, Dizzee Rascal and Stanton Warriors and got into my garage, grime and breaks. In 2006 I was listening to loads of JME/Skepta sets with plastician of barefiles and heard loads of skream tunes etc. through google found this article;

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A10695684

Booom. 4 of the greatest dubstep tracks there in one place lol.

[Nauty]

Was scrolling through search looking for a certain kode9 mix and saw this.

I'm still EXTREMELY new into dubstep and everything it came from but... I was desperately searching for a new music. Always been in love with electro-house but there wasn't enough bass in it for me. Bass lines were always what i found in any song. I wouldn't singularly seeking out bass lines but they would always grab my attention and thats always what I fallowed. Then I made a friend on facebook(god damn facebook) and was discussing my dilemma. Didn't realize it at the time but that friend owns a dubstep record label, so of course they recommended something dubstep. Like I would expect anyone to do when introducing a new guy, they recommended something not too strong but popular too, a quick reference look. The songs were Skreams In the Kill remix, Funtcase - Take The Piss, and a few others that I forgot.
I didn't have any good headphones or earbuds at the time so of course i couldn't pick up much of anything on the In The Kill mix but I did hear Funtcases song and INSTANTLY fell in love with the sound. It was all bass! Exactly what I needed in my life!
Of course coming from a dance scene of new disco(thats my label for the genre, not an actual label, music elitists) and electro-house I was extremely interested in the jumpup brostep style. But that was outlasted pretty damn fast. Now I'm trolling through many many mixes from getdarker and dsf and finding out how amazing these low key slow paced (I'm in love with slow jams, so its perfect) dubstep producers and labels really are. The more I listen to what I imagine is the more original, real dubstep, the more interest I gain. I still am really really ignorant in this but man I haven't been so interested in something in a very very long time.
And thats how I got hooked.
/rant

p.s. i forgot to mention that not only is the bass awesome, the percussion lines in these songs are FANTASTIC. Bass and percussion is throwing my mind into a mind-bending-then-melting whirlwind and I CAN'T get away!

[Hurtdeer]

the wire voted burial's first album as album of the year so i got a hold of it

at the time i was pretty much just listening to breakcore, idm and noise. i thought it was okay. kind of too slow and too sparse for me at the time. then next year, the wire voted burial's second album as runner-up album of the year, and a close friend of mine started saying this shit was the best thing ever. so i tried it out again and eventually i agreed

then we listened to everything we could find in the genre, and me and my friend realized the amount of freedom the genre had to work in, so we started making it. eventually we found other people and before i knew it brunel uni had a nice little collective of odd sounding dubstep producers

it's all about bass, son

[bukezfinezt]

a friend who´s dj played some loefah and dmz stuff and i loved it BÄNG ..into it!

[wayoftheworld]

first heard dubstep dropped in a dj rupture mix around 2006 i believe it was. i remember being extremely blown away by ruptures ability to mix everything from timbaland to japanese white noise and everything in between. but dubstep and grime stuck out to me a lot, and then i heard a streaming set on rinse i think, of plastician/mrk1/slaughter mob and i was hooked instantly by how weird and dark the beats and bass were. which is what i always wanted to hear from rap and crunk. from there i downloaded the run the road comps, and a set by sharkey major that was just too much. in those days nobody here in the states knew of dubstep and grime wish it was still that way

[icanicant]

Great Thread

Got into it slowly. My mates all started going to subdub in leeds. Finally persuaded me to go 2009 new year where I had one of the best nights ever. Was still mostly into the dub reggae side there though. Had a little listen to the dubstep but didn't really know what I was listening to lol.
As my mates started talking about dubstep more I decided to download some just before going travelling. literally just searched dubstep.
Whilst away i just rinsed what I had, a lot of the standard noobie stuff fabric 37. Really loved ed solo age of dub and Stenchman the number one.

Anyway long story short came to uni and am now unhealthily obsessed

[E-Mission]

I got into dubstep years ago when I realized I hated most of the house music out there!

[Genevieve]

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