and how did you guys get here? (to duBstep music)

yardie37 · Post by **yardie37** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:26 pm

Me too, got bored with D&B around 2001, got my infos via some articles through the web, bought a Deuce magazine with an Oris Jay interview, listened to Jay da Flex - but my "initiation" came with the To the beat y'all tune by Horsepower. I also love the old El-B & Groove Chronicles stuff.

My best friend ripped that Horsepower record off me. I should give him a slap.

blackdown · Post by **blackdown** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:32 pm

yardie37 wrote:... bought a Deuce magazine with an Oris Jay interview...

yardie37 · Post by **yardie37** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:43 pm

Yup, one of many reasons...most Garage / 2Step stuff wasn't my cup of tea at that time...

djl · Post by **djl** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:50 pm

Been into Jungle/DnB since I started mixing when I was 15. Then got into house due to really good local house club. Then got into UKG due to it crossing both these styles. Then Grime and then through the internet started listening to Dubstep.

datura · Post by **datura** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:21 pm

I came from a roundabout way..i was a gothy indie kid at school, although I always appreciated the blues/soul and some reggae from thr old man's collection..

at Uni the guy next to me was heavily into his jungle/dnb..got a love for the b lines and also got heavier into hip-hop which i'd picked up from the early Wu...

from there. went back home (guernsey) and found a lot of people into the indie hip-hop of the time (all the Rawkus/Fondle Em/Nervous etc) when the scene was revitalising...kinda lost my love of dnb at that tme..never liked the4 'intelligent' side..and the tech-step left me cold..

stated on the hip-hop tip with increased interested in roots reggae/dub/rocksteady/ska etc...started getting more into electronica via Dabrye/Daedelus/Prefuse73 etc..

from therere I moved back to Manc, and picked up a promo of Grime which interested me as seemed like the integration of various music i liked at one time..from there led t picking up as many tiunes on vinyl from the comp, plus research, picking up early Tempa/Texture/Soulja etc tunes..then foud the early DMZ bridged the link between my interest in dnb and my love for reggae and been hooked since..thendevelopment and variety in the last 6 months alone has blown me away..

chimp · Post by **chimp** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 12:18 pm

back in da old days it was 2step / uk garage for me

after this short period I heard a few Grime tracks from the Dutch Grime Dj / producer GOMES & Mc VIN-E!!!! it was a whole another sound, first i didnt get use 2 it

(but i allways loved the beats, the music more than the mc's!!!)

i've started 2 write some bars, just 4 fun...but it became a fiasco haha

and then i heard some tracks from Skream & Benga!!! DAMNZ :shock: it was more energy, more heavy basslines, more mysterious.........then I falled in love with tis new genre called Dubstep

smooth sounds from the far east, sout east asia, south america........it was so much different than the simple & rough beats u hear in Grimetracks

but i still love Grime, sublow, 8-bar

but mah love goes out to DUBSTEP, especially that Skream, DMZ, Hatcha sound get me

jera · Post by **jera** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 1:20 pm

was hooked on 2 dnb but then got sent a few mixes by a mate,ill admit i wasnt keen on the sound at first,eventually i got hooked on it.now its opened up the door 2 many other genres 4 me,such as electro n grime

selector.dub.u · Post by **selector.dub.u** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:47 am

I started listening to reggae, dub, "new wave", punk, metal, hip hop, jazz, jazz fusion and electro around 1983 and 1984 to this day i still love all of those genres . I then got into digital dancehall, house and techno around 1989 still love all that stuff. First heard Jungle in 1995 loved it immediatly and i still love some of it. Basically I am always hungry for music and I first heard of dubstep about three years ago via a remix of elephant man by horsepower productions. I have been craving it ever since.
I just wish I could find more vinyl!!!

gena · Post by **gena** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:09 am

I've been playing techno since 1995, but got a bit tired of it. What can I say, a girl needs more bass!

Anyway, started to play breaks about 2 years ago and that led me straight into dubstep. Today I play breaks/ breakstep (NO funky or acid shit, mind you...) and dubstep. YAY!

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:12 am

Dubstep...

I think i first discovered it when i was looking for more 2Step stuff to mix with the electro/techno/bass stuff i was playing. Went to London record shopping and couldnt find any. Then on the way back home i stopped in at Pure Groove in Archway. Just asked the bloke behind the counter for some instrumental garage stuff that would fit with the kind of stuff im into. He sorted me out some Eski stuff and Big Apple 1 & 2. Never looked back since.

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:04 pm

thanks for all the great responses! good to hhear everyone's story!

i just rediscovered the skinny puppy 12's that are really a formative part of my musical upbringing! and severed heads, too. i reckon that was my first exposure to harsh dance music.

tronman · Post by **tronman** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:56 pm

didn't pick up on this thread....

got my first pair of decks at 14 (1999). first record i ever bought was the 'Breakbeat Science EP' on OZ Recordings.. it was all about A&D Sounds in Mitcham back in the day!! mixed garage while a few of my pals MC'd.. mostly instrumentals but moved on to the vocal stuff (2step, 4x4) when i left school..

picked up a track by Ed209 & Quest called 'Atmospherics' (RAT006) around 2000/2001 and that opened me up to the world of dark garage. From there got into El-B, Bias, JSweet & Cameo, breakier stuff like Zinc & Jammin.. kinda got bored of the scene around 2002, just wasn't doing it for me anymore, so went to test my dj'in methods with hip hop which i have no regrets about at all...

always been into grime (or mc-based garage, whatever..) since i skipped french lesson in year 10 to go pick up 'PAYG - Know We'. Skipping lessons to go A&D became quite regular... Those were the days...

my pockets can now fund nothing but dubstep.... and drugs.

prismatic7 · Post by **prismatic7** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:26 am

thought i'd use this to introduce myself a bit, seeing as i'm new'n'all...

been listening to electronics since my dad blew my kiddie mind with Miles Davis' Decoy, Pink Floyd and so forth. Got into industrial tech as a teenager in Melbourne techno's heyday - Black Lung, Snog, Zen Paradox, Amnesia. Also 242, Laibach, Xingu Hill, the teknoid stuff on Hymen/Ant-Zen... Spent wasted years listening to psytrance and was in the middle of coming back to drum'n'bass, [minimal] tech and gabber/hardcore when Dizzee's Boy In Da Corner dropped over here. And I mean DROPPED. Is it just me, or is the beat on 'I Luv U' the heaviest gabber kick ever?!

So, grime, thus dubstep. I still love the heavier end, though - Skream, Vex'd, Mark One's flaky industrial wickedness. I'm trying my hand at producing a bit, too, and I'll upload some tracks for later...

Awesome forum, guys - love yr work + glad to be here

descent · Post by **descent** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 3:32 am

Blackdown wrote:went to a photoshoot in Croydon for The Face magazine spring 2000.

on the way back to the station got talking to the two guys in the back of the photographers' car: El-B and Jay Da Flex.

went to the station and did a quick interview with a third guy. his name was Zed Bias.

that proved to be the origin of dubstep right there...

that Blackdown, is a brilliant story :shock:

vade · Post by **vade** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 5:40 am

Been listening to electronic music since, well, birth. One of my good friends whom I met at a mutual internship at a NYC experimental arts center Djs and introduced me to a lot of music, and pointed me to Gutters blog. I used to VJ, but now I write custom video software and listen to music. I got tired of Vjing because I never could quite get in to the zone with the DJ. Ive yet to VJ to any Dubstep, and id love to give it a shot...

My musical taste has wandered but never strayed too far from home.. Ive listened to everything from Art of Noise to Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Vangelis, Aphex Twin, Dub Trees, Dr Octogon, Rythmn and Sound, Aaron Spectre, Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, NIN, Deltron, Roots Manuva, Mad EP, Astrobotnia, Depeche Mode, Haujobb, in no particular order and leaving out lots of blanks..

I love atmospheric, experimental, music, anything to the extreme of an aesthetic. I love the 'Blade Runner Vibe'. Dubstep sounds remarkably like what I imagine Hip Hop/Dub to metamorphize in the Blade Runner/Post Apocalyptic scenario.

Some of my favorite music lately has been free. Ive been really getting in to Holon, which is not Dubstep, but seriously emotional, introspective eletronica. Very good shit. Heres a link or two for those interested. Im not related/involved at all, just a huge fan of Mark:

http://www.soundlift.com/band/music.php?id=59768
http://www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/Holon/

Regardless, I want to thank everyone involved with the sound. A few months back I felt like I had hit a brick wall and couldnt find anything to satisfy my aural needs. Now ive been swept up in a cocoon of bass and never want to leave. Mad props to everyone producing.

Thanks for reading.

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:22 am

i feel ya, vade!
see you-
cm

mr. messer · Post by **mr. messer** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 2:58 pm

absolutely

mr. messer · Post by **mr. messer** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:02 pm

triac · Post by **triac** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:26 pm

I was first introduced to dubstep by one Mr ThinKing of Bristol a little under 2 years ago, with further enthusiasm inspired by the Context nights put on by a Mr Pinch, and vinyl provided by a Mr Peverelist. Many thanks gentlemen....

paulie · Post by **paulie** » Thu Nov 10, 2005 4:31 pm

Mr. Messer wrote:OH YEA!! TRONMAN GOT ME INTO DRUGS AS WELL!!! safe for fuckin up my head u bastard!!!

Nice! Maybe you can sell eddies at DMZ? Then maybe people will rave past 4am...

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