whats next for dubstep

[hankerins]

http://www.urb.com/2010/10/07/predictin ... r-dubstep/

[pompende]

that really is shockingly bad writing...

(trust us, d’n'b was huge on college campuses throughout the ’00s)

shit i went to college in the 00s but i must be remembering it wrong...urb definitely knows best.

[fractal]

How embarrassing for them

[apmje]

[Sexual_Chocolate]

please tell me that this person doesnt get payed to write articles

[blackdown]

Jungle was invented in Bristol???? Dubstep (140) is halftime d&b (170)???

Perhaps this shows you what happens if you measure everything using tailgate parties and frat boys lol.

[legend4ry]

That blog is really hipster and has spelling mistakes all over it.

[sub-tropical]

americans spoil everything

[LA_Boxers]

Americans ruin writing.

[sub-tropical]

Americans ruin writing.

its not hard to learn how to spell is it even i can do that

[duck]

whilst he's kinda wrong about it mirroring d'n'b exactly (the internet made it spread internationally much quicker for a start) and he seems to be writing about it from a very US point of view...

I think he does have a point of sorts....

The Magnetic Man album and the first few chart hits will probably result in a bunch of cheapskate chart rip offs and the "core" sound getting played out. At the Big Chill this year someone asked me while I was DJ-ing "is this dubstep? can you play some dubstep? I love dubstep!" - the time of dubstep being the cool thing to like even if you don't know what it is will be limited. It happened to garage, I would not be surprised if in a year or two after a few more chart crossovers dubstep goes a little "back underground" at all. The people actually into it won't go, but the media hype/popular appeal might. Pop music will grow tired of borrowing the production and then it'll morph into something else again (I mean, it's already been happening for some time hasn't it?). That's not a criticism, but the bass music/hardcore continuum/whatever seems to work on this uneasy on/off relationship with mainstream pop music.

IMO. Ymmv. etc.

[pikeymobile]

That was embarrassing to read

[tomassive]

Shockingly bad article. I cringed when i read the 'kiddies' part at the end.

This guy clearly doesn't know much about this genre and his language skills, assuming English is his first language, are terrible.

If I (or anyone really) were to get drunk and write an essay on how the economic crisis affects massage parlours in Laos, without doing any research, the end result would probably be at the same level.

Anyway, bottom line: do not 'predict' anything about subjects you know fuck all about. Thanks.

[decappp]

what and awful read

[AntlionUK]

i don't think it's really that possible to predict the movement of a musical genre.

[jarmzeyboy]

'Since it’s inception, dubstep has mirrored the pop-cultural arc of drum’n'bass almost identically. And not just because the former is pretty much a half-tempo version of the other.'

For a start dubstep and dnb have a completely different beat arrangement + dnb hasn't disappeared (...yet) and with the internet its hard to tell what will happen to either genre

[Foul Matta]

Massive doosh. he fails instantly (i havent watched the documentary, but i don't need to)

[truefiktion]

Wtf was that i just read? it didnt even make sense

[ashley]

Shit article.

Doesn't talk about the important stuff.

[FSTZ]

wow, typo city

that first paragraph was murder on the eyes