Pitchfork time again

[blackdown]

http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2 ... 4156618584

[boomnoise]

another landmark piece, on point as ever; good to have rinse management representing after all the defamatory stuff over the past week. might be worth forwarding to the head of ofcom!

[autonomic]

France, Germany, Spain, America, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Brazil, Slovakia, and Australia are all repping the sound.

Ahem... You forgot Canada dude.

[blackdown]

ahaha. i bet i forgot loads...

[autonomic]

No big one. We just don't like getting lumped in with the US.

Very good on the Rinse stuff

[r33lc4sh]

France, Germany, Spain, America, Belgium, Holland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Brazil, Slovakia, and Australia are all repping the sound.

Ahem... You forgot Canada dude.

and Poland

[m9918868]

What concerns the worldwide growth of this genre, I can only add to this nice article that it seems to me that blogging (of which this forum is a rather welcome spin-off) is another of the major forces behind this growth.

Dubstep, so it seems to me, is one of the few movements that has embraced the digital quite fast. Not only by using the web for announcing information otherwise limited to the few at the center of this movement, but equally by accepting or even encouraging the continuous efforts made by some members (here boomnoise springs to my mind, indeed) to share new material (like mixes or dubs) immediately online. Without both elements, this worldwide interest would certainly be non-existant.

[dq]

nice one martin. raising some tough questions as dubstep finds itself at a crossroads.

[phoze'l]

Always a great read!

[elemental]

On point. Big up for getting the views of Rinse management.

[man and machine]

Dubstep, so it seems to me, is one of the few movements that has embraced the digital quite fast. Not only by using the web for announcing information otherwise limited to the few at the center of this movement, but equally by accepting or even encouraging the continuous efforts made by some members (here boomnoise springs to my mind, indeed) to share new material (like mixes or dubs) immediately online. Without both elements, this worldwide interest would certainly be non-existant.

for real. i've just signed up, so greetings! followed the pitchfork article here. (great article btw!) only just arrived in london (orginaly from cape town, sa) and found getting around the dnb side of london pretty easy but would never have discovered dubstep had it not been for the internet.

there are few really good blogs going around. i spotted some great party pics on flickr, pulled a few sets off the net and was hooked!

checked out dmz for the first time this weekend. it was fucking mad! best dance i've been too in years

[autonomic]

That's a nice blog you've got man_and_machine. Just put it in my bookmarks

[dubmugga]

make way for de new gunz...

...we been repping our sound since before we knew what to call it

we ain't from London, we aren't following anybody, we don't do culture, we just make beats...

...are we then a catastrophic misjudgment or backwards looking revisionists, anomalous distraction or the future norm ???

[geoff]

we don't do culture, we just make beats...

too late. you are here promoting your beats to a community and making t-shirts with dubstep on them. you're doin culture, you muppet.

now shaaat it, you kiwi fool

[casino addict]

Thanks Martin, that was a good read.

[dubway]

"DMZ's Loefah, in a yet unpublished interview" looking fwd to this

[boomnoise]

dubmug, leave the rebel shit. i thought we'd sorted this.

[r33lc4sh]

dubmug, leave the rebel shit. i thought we'd sorted this.

ROTFL!

[gutter]

What concerns the worldwide growth of this genre, I can only add to this nice article that it seems to me that blogging (of which this forum is a rather welcome spin-off) is another of the major forces behind this growth.

Yeah, my first thought when Martin asked the question 'how did dubstep go global' was - what about the bloggers? Although the situation is changing, it seems to me that dubstep is succeeding globally in spite of itself. I don't think DMZ as an organisation are responsible for its international growth. They started operating along very traditional lines (soundsystems, dubplates/vinyl only releases) with a very London-centric attitude. It was other people outside of their circle who started reppin the sound on the internet and spreading the word across continents. How many people would even know about the Rinse stream without blog support?

I'm not suggesting that blogs are the main thing, but I think they're a major contributing factor. The fact that many artist like Plasticman, Vex'd, Hotflush and Loefah (sort of!) have chosen to use the blog medium to communicate shows what an important channel of communication blogs have become. I certainly wouldn't have got into any of this music without them.

[dgg]

I agree. I can't imagine how I would have discovered this music without the Internet. Browsing sound clips in online record stores was my way in, but it was blogs with mix mp3s that got me interested enough to start buying vinyl again.