How did you get into dubstep?

seen · Post by **seen** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:16 pm

in summer 05 Alex Deadman played a youngsta and task rinse mix
(the question task asks in this one is 'what hoody am i wearing' it was lonsdale)
the first tune on the mix was monsoon, when i heard the bass i just flipped my wig.
(we were driving around on a massive float promoting a night at the time)
the very next day i hopped on the first train from sheffield to london to go to blackmarket to buy as much dubstep as i could afford.

i was so in awe of the sound i got youngsta to sign the cd.

defoxster · Post by **defoxster** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:17 pm

hackman wrote:
a mate played me midnight request line early 2006

same here.

This... then bought Skream! which led to the forum which i lurked on for AAAGGESS

ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:32 pm

for me it was moving to london mid-2005, first thing i did was check out the pirates, remember hearing crazy d loads, lots of youngsta sets. then going to first dmz, the one after the first birthday i think. i was evangelical about dubstep once i found out it had a name

dj vk - snakebite ent. · Post by **dj vk - snakebite ent.** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:38 pm

DID wrote:heard my mate's brother blasting twis up from his room in like 2004/5 and wondered what the fuck i was hearing

This will go down as one of the most memorable Dubstep records EVER.

For me, it was in 2004 that the term Dubstep came to life.

dj vk - snakebite ent. · Post by **dj vk - snakebite ent.** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:40 pm

Another big label of the time that in my books is underated is definitely Hot Flush.

ajantis_art · Post by **ajantis_art** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:55 pm

DJ VK - SNAKEBITE ENT. wrote:Another big label of the time that in my books is underated is definitely Hot Flush.

totally agree. also the Scuba sub-label. i recall Tayo playing Timba and Thank you on his breaks show on Kiss, got me bang into it

apathesis · Post by **apathesis** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:59 pm

tercerojista wrote:
DJ VK - SNAKEBITE ENT. wrote:Followed the transition from Dark Garage.
I will be forever gutted that I missed that part of history.

Ditto! So much so

spooKs · Post by **spooKs** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:02 am

in late 2005 i started to cotton onto the murky percussive sounds i was hearing from my brother's bedroom - stuff like Our Sound LP, early Skream + Benga, and random mixes Boomnoise recorded off Rinse FM. Was digging it quite a bit but it took a more "colourful", or maybe just more incredible tune (Mala - Neverland) to really get me properly into the sound. Heard that on a Grimelock & Marcellus Wallace mix, Belgian guys I think - BIG UP Mala, my brother, and those two!

dj vk - snakebite ent. · Post by **dj vk - snakebite ent.** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:05 am

spooKs wrote:Was digging it quite a bit but it took a more "colourful"

EXACTLY THIS!

When I first heard the really minimal stuff Youngsta was playing on Rinse I wasn't entirely on it.

Garage had 'step' which some early Dubstep tunes really lacked at that time.

At the time, I was playing more Grime which if you look back, DJs were fusing the two together.

louder · Post by **louder** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:28 am

I'm a major breaks player here in AZ. My boy Nick from Ultrablack was tellin me that I could mix their stuff into breaks.. I gave it a listen. it took about 4 months to sink in, but I got it... then I find out my buddies Wish and Odeed (hd4000) were rockin some serious remixes and it peaked my interest even more... After a lot of diggin and feelin some incredible basslines, I found a new love as breakbeats have been headed in directions that I can't stand.. and now I am here feelin the positive vibes in half time.

*edit* I guess I should mention that I'm a HUGE breakstep fan and I miss that stuff a lot.. dubstep makes up for it though..I'm satisfied

bagelator · Post by **bagelator** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:28 am

through a back window, with a crowbar, and then i done over his house

mushieslushie · Post by **mushieslushie** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:33 am

submtl · Post by **submtl** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:39 am

I have a radio show on an FM signal that covers Detroit and Windsor. The purpose of the show is, essentially to stay ahead of the pack and bring sounds that commercial radio or my colleges haven't played yet. I am constantly on the search for new sounds, artists and genres. I came across Virus Syndicate vs. Milanese back in the summer of 2006. It blew me away. I started collecting grime and dubstep there after. Playing it on my show regularly. At the start of our Uni's Fall semester the station was asked to dj sets between some really lame indie bands. I played the track from Virus Syn & Milan and though the system was shit I got a touch of the bass for the first time. Only one person came up to ask what I had just played.
Then one day I was at a friends house. He is, http://www.detroitunderground.net/. See http://www.discogs.com/artist/Kero .
We talked allot about music. He had good monitors so I brought some stuff from Skull Disco to his studio. I started with Fear, because I was hooked. It wasn't long before he had me djing around Windsor/Detroit playing out my growing catalog of DubStep. I had to learn allot of tricks quick.
We just did a wicked set on NYE with his monomachine cutting into my set. We were in a cement basement. The sound system was SICK and there was no escaping the wrath. Kero dropped in a bassline and all my gains went up and the room was booming.
Bass makes my heart happy happy happy. A friend who lives in L.A.,now, (where everyone is stuck on minimal, stuff we were hearing in the early 90's), said "dubstep is out, it all sounds the same, the same wobble bass." I said "no, your set sounds the same, as it did 10 years ago!" Dubstep is evolving. So says I. There is no room for debate on this! In our national magazine for Canadian hipsters it has the best for 2008 and at the bottom it says to "watch out for Martyn!" Ha! Just shows how out of touch Canadians are with the rest of the world!
Anyways, that's my answer, as how I got into dubstep.

Mr. Mittens · Post by **Mr. Mittens** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:28 am

My neighbor gave me mp3's of two Juju mixes, august 06 and april 07, kept them on repeat until I found out about dubstep.fm, went to see Hatcha in Denver, been hooked ever since...

monstaman · Post by **monstaman** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:41 am

Around my mid-teens I got introduced to Drum and Bass from my new 'Stoner friends'. After buying several Drum and Bass Arena CD's I started to regularly go on http://www.breakbeat.co.uk/. The transition from D&B to Dubstep was a slow one, but it happened when I found Jakes track '3kout'. It blew my mind. From there I was introduced to the likes of Caspa and Rusko with their Fabriclive CD, and after that I started to discover the other side of dubstep, the more chilled out stuff. I started listening to both big wobbly tracks along with Burial and Kode9 and after a while all dubstep music basically consumed me. Then I went to see Caspa and Rusko followed by Magnetic Man (man that fucked me up

) at Glastonbury 2008. I've been trying to go to dubstep club nights a lot more since then.
So I guess I'm quite a young'un in the dubstep scene, but I've listened to it so much now that I am able to recognize any dub track a mate of mine has just found out and the likelihood would be that I've listened to it on several occasions.

kellydean · Post by **kellydean** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:42 am

Took a ride to respect in Pawns car.
Heard the music.
Thought it was interesting.
Heard 6blocc in LOS ANGELES @ PURE FILTH when it was still at Higgins......

game over.........

swiftguyver · Post by **swiftguyver** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 1:45 am

i used to listen to Hatcha on Upfront FM 99.3 and enjoyed the darker garage he often played...

also used to shop in Big Apple Records when i was like 15/16 years old...i bought alot of garage from there and liked the direction it was moving in when the darker bits started coming through...

i bought and really liked alot of stuff between 2000 and 2004 but it didn't really fully grab me until i heard Digital Mystikz on John Peel's show...

in 2005 i listened to alot of Youngsta sets, bought more records and became more and more obsessed with it...

2006 onwards i have pretty much immersed myself in the sound on a daily basis...

s.i.e · Post by **s.i.e** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 3:04 am

When I heard 'Stenchman - Distress Signal' i was hooked.

Never looked back since !!

madmeesh · Post by **madmeesh** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 4:18 am

funny - was getting into drum & bass, noticed that STEP seemed to be a suffix for the subgenres of drum & bass, i loved TRANCEstep (which doesn't really exist anymore), so in an attempt to find what i now know is ragga jungle, i typed in dubstep, downloaded a mix, and was blown to smithereens!!

dj ill kid 505 · Post by **dj ill kid 505** » Wed Jan 14, 2009 5:26 am

I first heard Dubstep 6 years ago from Joe Nice on Gourmet Beats radio.

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