20 most important dubstep vinyls in history

[ariosa]

Theres a VIP?
sick

where u been mate

[Terpit]

I never thought i'd say this but thats better than the original

[garethom]

I'd go for

- Groove Chronicles - 1999/Black Puppet ("Start" of Dark Garage)
- Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style (Arguably the first dubstep LP)
- Roxy vs El-B - Breakbeat Science/Cuba (For me, where UKG and Dubstep converged)
- Artwork - Red EP (First release by Big Apple)
- Various - Tempa All Stars Vol 1 (First Tempa All Stars)
- Benny Ill, Kode 9 & The Culprit - Fat Larry's Skank/Tales From The Bass Side (Early foundation stuff, possibly Kode's first appearance?)
- Skream - Midnight Request Line/I (The first dubstep "banger")
- Benga & Coki - Night (The first dubstep tune I remember getting significant airplay)
- Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub/Haunted (The head's desire)
- Pinch - Qawwali (Pinch's best work, just a significant piece)
- Digital Mystikz & Loefah - Dubsession (Loefah popularising half step)
- Kryptic Minds - One Of Us (Kryptic Mind's re-popularising half step)
- Pangaea - You & I/Router (Hessle's best release, moving back towards UKG, and the label perhaps most responsible for "bass music")
- Burial - Untrue (Dubstep's first globally covered album?)
- Rusko - Cockney Thug (Probably the start of the bro)
- Dr. P - Sweet Shop (The first bro anthem?)
- Skrillex - Scary Monsters (Probably the most heard dubstep tune ever)
- Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo/Wet Look (Bit of a crossover hit, trance DJs playing it at huge parties in Ibiza etc. 12" with the most overlooked B-side in history)
- Ramadanman - Fall Short/Work Them (Ramadanman popularising juke/footwork)
- Girl Unit - Wut (For me, the first huge "bass music" hit, the start of "trap", etc)

[TomatoAndBasil]

^ That's good.

[dsprainman]

- James Blake - CMYK EP (James Blake accelerating the move away from 140)

While I agree that the CMYK EP was monumental, wasn't every track on it 140 bpm?

[Geey]

If people are gonna include mainstream dubstep aswell I would probably be inclined to add - in for the kill (let's get ravey skreamix) which was the first dubstep song to play on daytime radio and Katy b - Katy on a mission which was the first dubstep top ten and dj fresh - louder which was the first dubstep number 1

[Johoosh]

If people are gonna include mainstream dubstep aswell I would probably be inclined to add - in for the kill (let's get ravey skreamix)

I reckon this should be in there.

[garethom]

- James Blake - CMYK EP (James Blake accelerating the move away from 140)

While I agree that the CMYK EP was monumental, wasn't every track on it 140 bpm?

Is it? Not too sure, always thought it was slower.

If people are gonna include mainstream dubstep aswell I would probably be inclined to add - in for the kill (let's get ravey skreamix) which was the first dubstep song to play on daytime radio and Katy b - Katy on a mission which was the first dubstep top ten and dj fresh - louder which was the first dubstep number 1

I was thinking to include the In For The Kill remix, but it's debatable that it got play before "Night" did. I wouldn't bother including the other two because dubstep was already well known about by the time those two came out.

[Feral]

horsepower - in fine style
burial - untrue
kode9 - backwards/9 samurai
zomby - zomby ep
shackleton - soundboy's gravestone gets desecrated by vandals vol. 1 (a weird one i know but of all his works i would say this encompasses a lot of what he brought to the genre)
pinch - qawwali
various - tempa allstars vol. 2
skream - midnight request line
benga & coki - night
DMZ - anti war dub
loefah - goat stare
trg - broken heart
burial vs massive attack - 4 walls/paradise circus (not too sure but any opportunity to show off that i have this )
skream - skreamism vol. 5
skrillex - scary monsters (whatever you say this is the most popular/most widely known dubstep track of all time, and the reason for many-an-exasparated sigh, good or bad, its gotta be here)
burial - burial (first lp on hyperdub)
kode9 - sine of the dub/stalker (first ep on hyperdub)
actress - hazyville
james blake - cmyk ep
dj fresh - louder (fucking hate this track but was first dubstep number 1 -.- this of all things...)
tbh i'm slightly biased and favour a certain side of dubstep, I've just realised I've completely forgotten about distance but can't be arsed to go back and change it now...

[dubstepper]

shun u talking about that shit electro wobble in the air tonight tune thats on youtube? surely that shit would never get released on deep medi

Its hardly shit tho is it

i'm just shocked it's on deep medi thats all. what i meant was in my opinion it's shit.

[Maccaveli]

[ehbes]

I'd go for

- Groove Chronicles - 1999/Black Puppet ("Start" of Dark Garage)
- Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style (Arguably the first dubstep LP)
- Roxy vs El-B - Breakbeat Science/Cuba (For me, where UKG and Dubstep converged)
- Artwork - Red EP (First release by Big Apple)
- Various - Tempa All Stars Vol 1 (First Tempa All Stars)
- Benny Ill, Kode 9 & The Culprit - Fat Larry's Skank/Tales From The Bass Side (Early foundation stuff, possibly Kode's first appearance?)
- Skream - Midnight Request Line/I (The first dubstep "banger")
- Benga & Coki - Night (The first dubstep tune I remember getting significant airplay)
- Digital Mystikz - Anti War Dub/Haunted (The head's desire)
- Pinch - Qawwali (Pinch's best work, just a significant piece)
- Digital Mystikz & Loefah - Dubsession (Loefah popularising half step)
- Kryptic Minds - One Of Us (Kryptic Mind's re-popularising half step)
- Pangaea - You & I/Router (Hessle's best release, moving back towards UKG, and the label perhaps most responsible for "bass music")
- Burial - Untrue (Dubstep's first globally covered album?)
- Rusko - Cockney Thug (Probably the start of the bro)
- Dr. P - Sweet Shop (The first bro anthem?)
- Skrillex - Scary Monsters (Probably the most heard dubstep tune ever)
- James Blake - CMYK EP (James Blake accelerating the move away from 140)
- Ramadanman - Fall Short/Work Them (Ramadanman popularising juke/footwork)
- Girl Unit - Wut (For me, the first huge "bass music" hit, the start of "trap", etc)

i agree with most of this, but for first bro anthem I'm more inclined to go with the Flux remix of Cracks over sweet shop

[HaddaUK]

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[garethom]

Completely missed Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo off my list. Massive crossover that was. Had major trance DJs playing it as well.

[joeki]

Garethom's list is probably as close as I'd get. Good shout. But I'm hipster enough not to include bro. It's not dubstep you see;

[ariosa]

i'd ake off sweetshop.. i know it was widely popular, but so was that eyes on fire song.. even more so, thats one of the ones that really carried it forth to the mainstream.. i've got friends whose mothers listen to it

[garethom]

i'd ake off sweetshop.. i know it was widely popular, but so was that eyes on fire song.. even more so, thats one of the ones that really carried it forth to the mainstream.. i've got friends whose mothers listen to it

Don't know it man. Sweet Shop was the same for me. The first tune I really saw bros on facebook, etc. posting.

Not a definitive list, just my take!

[J__J_90]

Horsepower Prod - Sholay/On Tha Run
El-B - Dancehall EP

[Sexual_Chocolate]

i'd ake off sweetshop.. i know it was widely popular, but so was that eyes on fire song.. even more so, thats one of the ones that really carried it forth to the mainstream.. i've got friends whose mothers listen to it

Don't know it man. Sweet Shop was the same for me. The first tune I really saw bros on facebook, etc. posting.

Not a definitive list, just my take!

sweet shop should deffo be on there.

it brought the bros & hoes into dubstep.

[MasterA]

as much as I dislike the tune, I think TC - Where's My Money (Caspa remix) has a fair shout of being in there. seemed to get a lot of people into the sound where I live, for better or worse.

edit: especially jump-up dnb "heads", one imagines.