the first time you heard dubstep?

boc · Post by **boc** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 10:19 am

my mate, kebab has a friend from manchester who showed us a mix in late '05 with twisup vip in it

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 12:52 pm

Deapoh wrote:
Anyone get into Dubstep through Barefiles?

Deffo headed there first (after someone pointed it out), downloading skream and n type sets for days...i'd have to give it up to you for giving me somthing to listen to before this forum and before i copped any vinyl.

efa · Post by **efa** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:24 pm

D-Nile wrote:
EFA wrote: As for getting the bug full blown it was all down to D-Nile playing one of the tunes on the Broken Home EP by Burial in about Oct 06 which led me to buying everything he'd done and spending hundreds of pounds on dubstep.
Really? Wow - I didn't realise I had been into it for that long!

Yup, I remember looking at the deck thinking you were playing weird electronica and saying "that would work as Dubstep" to which you replied "it is" made be realize this was the sound of the future I'd kinda thought UKG was gonna be in 98 =]

surr · Post by **surr** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:29 pm

when I downloaded 7 below's dubble mix by accident (i.e. looking for a dnb mix)

daggus · Post by **daggus** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:46 am

September 2005 gravious convinced me to go see Kode9 & spaceape with him.

Club was tiny there were around 12 ppl there the soundsystem was pretty poor. By end of the night we were all standin next to rig to hear the bass.

Still rate it as one of the best nights i've been to

macphellimey · Post by **macphellimey** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:14 pm

Last April or so when I was still in halls a mate came 'round my room with Dubstep Allstars 2 'cos I had a sub hooked up to my computer. Didn't really get it at first but found myself listening to it more and more over the next month or so. It just escalated from there.

jackieboi · Post by **jackieboi** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:28 pm

at fabric in room 2, plastician played merkle man

harkaransg · Post by **harkaransg** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:32 pm

First time i heard dubstep was back in mid 2006, i think it was twis up remix/da warth and skepta spitting over request line and kode 9's 9 samuari

d-nile · Post by **d-nile** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 1:37 pm

I don't honestly know - I taught a load of grime kids dj skills in the meadows here in notts in about 2002/3 and they were playing a lot of instrumentals so they could mc over them.... things like dj narrows, dj wire, el b, zed bias, harry lime, horsepower etc... so I was kind of hearing some of the roots of dustep...

I can remember my students playing me I Love U (I know its grime but...) the OG white with no lyrics and thinking it was pretty raw and new sounding...

Big up the 2 Jeromes from Leicester btw - they were the 2 students who were into grime and bashment who used to bring in all the latest stuff to college...

But I can't say when I first heard a track AFTER people started calling it dubstep?

gravious · Post by **gravious** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 2:00 pm

daggus wrote:September 2005 gravious convinced me to go see Kode9 & spaceape with him.

Club was tiny there were around 12 ppl there the soundsystem was pretty poor. By end of the night we were all standin next to rig to hear the bass.

Still rate it as one of the best nights i've been to

Aye, that was wicked!

That was one of the first "big names" in dubstep that I ever heard play out.

Before that it was all radio business! It must have been early 2004, cos I was listening to Femme Fatale on a wed and J Da Flex on a sat night, and was fucking impressed by the tunage from both camps. Started picking up some vinyl a few months later (waiting eagerly for the release of S&D foodchain!), and chatting on dubplate.net. Started producing some proto-dubsteppy kind of stuff too then - mostly shite...

Thats about it!

Oh, I also vividly remember hearing John Peel play Saddam by SLT Mob whilst I was in the shower one 2004/5(?) evening!

messdup · Post by **messdup** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 4:51 pm

in the room off phonetics

last summer

chutnut · Post by **chutnut** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:08 pm

mrk1/virus syndicate at glade 2005

sand leaper · Post by **sand leaper** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:34 pm

I'd say the first time was on that somewhat famous SLT Mob-set from Rephlex's Grime-launch at The End. Wasn't quite convinced by it at first, but it nevertheless opened my eyes to the sound and got me on the case.

I had been into UK Garage quite a while before this though, liking the more dubby and darker stuff from Zed Bias and Horsepower (all the bling and rnb usually turned me off).

mrtie · Post by **mrtie** » Mon Aug 13, 2007 10:47 pm

4 hours ago, friend let me burrow his copy of Burial, since have listened to Kode9, Benga, and Shackleton. Love it, came here looking for more.

psycho · Post by **psycho** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:23 am

mrtie wrote:4 hours ago, friend let me burrow his copy of Burial, since have listened to Kode9, Benga, and Shackleton. Love it, came here looking for more.

nice1!!

beware of the addictive side of dubstep and welcome @ board.

dub.luv · Post by **dub.luv** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:35 pm

I've been droppin' panties since 06!!

First heard it in the club - LA style.
I couldn't have picked a better place

rekordah · Post by **rekordah** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:42 pm

Thomas wrote:some intersting stories here

I was introduced from a lad called Tee, who i had talked to about Grime and Hip Hop for time before. I was exporling more genres of music at the time, since i was getting fed up with Hip Hop everyday.

Skream and Kode 9 for DLed (sorry), and i have been buying vinyl since Jan 07...about 3 months after first hearing it.

A reason FOR "illegal" downloads i think

thomas · Post by **thomas** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:17 pm

Please note the sarcasm...hard to pick up though with me.

I won't deny i downloaded both albums though, it was certainly the only way i was going to listen to Dubstep at the time, and i dont really feel guilty about it after spending shit loads on 12's since then.

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:23 pm

Used to be a grime head got into it in 5 steps:
-Bought "Scratchy - Shangooli" thinking it was grime n felt the geeneous Refix
-Downloaded three plastician sets a JME 1 and a Skepta 1 thinkin they were grime, and then i got the May 2006 mix. rinsed them. (Thanx to deapoh on tht 1)
-Watched the BBC collective video, downloaded the skream minimix. that started the love affair
- bought white lable copies of Skream! from UKRS
- walked home with loads of dubstep from Crash records in leeds when i went to buy breaks
procedeed to be poor and spend all my money on records since
aint bought anything but dubstep records since....

oh yeah btw im 14 lol. i found this music young lol.
angry i carnt get into clubs lol
good job ma dad has great speakers in our front room

the first time you heard dubstep?

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