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I invented Dubstep

Post by ResetTheAtari » Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:33 pm

How's that for a cuntish General Levy like statement? :wink:

Here's a tune I did back in 1998...

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It was featured on UK-Dance.org's 2nd Compilation at the time. Totally forgot all about it until I was looking through old CDs this morning. I had to rescue it from my CD copy which was degrading badly, hence the light crackle. UK-D was a small but influential community back in the day - was the first music website in the UK, and the first dance music site in the world believe it or not. Had folk like Kode9, Grievous Angel, Darren Underworld, Dub Kult, Hostage, Suddi 'Together' Raval, etc on it.

I was a bit sick of the all the techstep dnb at the time and wanted to experiement with a slower different kind of sound, without going Garage so came up with that. Also did a remix of Toya's 'I Do' in a similar vein and another much more dub/reggae thing with Hostage. We were calling it 'Cyber RnB' back then though, not dubstep :lol: Despite getting some great comments on the web at the time for the Hostage collab, we abandoned the sound thinking it wouldn't take off.

Kind of wish I had stuck with it now :wink:
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by wilson » Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:36 pm

What is that, 130Bpm?
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by truefiktion » Mon Jul 05, 2010 4:55 pm

If this is the beginning of dubstep then I invented the wheel :wink:
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by fractal » Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:26 pm

i'd play it, nice find!
sub.wise:.
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by promo » Mon Jul 05, 2010 6:35 pm

Interesting piece. Yeah, I can hear the rhythm we now largely associate with dubstep etc. I mean its not like people haven't been exploring these rhythms I guess. For instance I mean I was doing half time tunes back in the late 90s more experimenting with latin and funk tho too but I guess you could say all this stuff is the roots of what's to come.
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by INSa 241 » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:21 pm

like it...u should give it a relick ;)

i was also doing slower music back in my 1 synth a sampler and a 4 track days (remember them??)...was calling it ambient tekhop lol and it was basically hiphop beats with jungle basslines and techno synths...at 70 bpm i wouldnt say it was exactly like dubstep but there were enough similarities for me to remember it now

gonna have to find out if my m8s still got the tape lol
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by dubctep » Mon Jul 05, 2010 9:34 pm

Interesting.
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by ResetTheAtari » Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:14 pm

Seems to be around 125, too long ago to remember what BPM the track was at, but I tapped it into Ableton.

Could probably grab the accapella again and do a refix :)
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by WatchYourStep » Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:15 am

Haha I know where that piano line is from:

Emo vocals cut themselves
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by ResetTheAtari » Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:27 am

Yup :lol:
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by aleksi » Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:46 am

funny guy...

This is from '84...

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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by ResetTheAtari » Tue Jul 06, 2010 12:13 pm

Never heard that 242 tune before, good stuff! :)
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by gravious » Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:23 pm



Gnarly half-step...

:!: :D
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by fractal » Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:29 pm

gravious wrote:

Gnarly half-step...

:!: :D


gravious edit please!
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by force1 » Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:30 pm

aleksi wrote:funny guy...

This is from '84...

Boof :t:
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by alphacat » Tue Jul 06, 2010 6:52 pm

NICE 1 on that Front 242 tune... there was an old Coil song that was very, very proto too.
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by f4tmusic » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:02 pm

Well, singular experimentation is the source of musical trends ! Drum & Bass was invented in the 70's remember :mrgreen:

Nice archives you dig up here (242!), wouldn't have been surprised to hear it in somewhat "autonomic" podcast :e:
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by Big MD » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:17 pm

i'm a pioneer too :'D


i made a remix for a competition in switzerland it's on my myspace (seven - eyes)

i was feautured on radio NRJ. didn't know this time what i was dooing, but it sound pretty much like dubstep! :D
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by ResetTheAtari » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:32 pm

gravious wrote:

Gnarly half-step...

:!: :D
That is straight up qual!
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Re: I invented Dubstep

Post by matta » Tue Jul 06, 2010 11:45 pm

gravious wrote:

Gnarly half-step...

:!: :D
That music used to give me nightmares, that guys voice and the stories he told were just freaky, used to always catch it cos it was after the Simpsons or Prime Time Wrestling, cant remember which, and just had to switch channels...
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