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The soundtrack to American Tail 2: Fievel Goes West, I must have rinsed that for about 8 years from the age of about 8 onwards. There's a tune about being a jewish mouse on a train going to a saloon or something, can't really remember the lyrics but I'm pretty sure PSG was playing harmonica on.

And there was that El-B remix of ''When Will I Be Famous'' by Bros, heard that on pirate radio when I was 1, I remember slapping my mother in her face to make her call in to get a rewind.

Since then it's all been ragga mungle and hi-energy.

an old similar thread : http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=142
should be complementary

for the longest time techno / electro / ambient / acid house and the like. Never was into the precursors of dubstep though ie 2-step / uk garage etc. had a brief flutter with d'n'b but for all of a handful of cds, platinum breakz x2 and a couple of other things.

before late 80s/early 90s was an indie kid, ride, slowdive, spacemen 3, grungey/hardcorey stuff (unsane, mudhoney) etc.

In the last few years discovered the likes of Coil, Hafler Trio, Sunn o)))

Spacemen 3 remain my fave band in the world ever though.

It goes like this:

Indie/britpop/trip hop etc courtesy of my older brothers
Hip hop
Punk (including whats now termed 'emo', yeah I know, I was young and in love OK? bwahahaha)
Dnb
Dubstep

haha this goes back a long way.

I only liked indie/metal/punk until I heard John Peel play Grandmaster Flash's "The Message" around the time of its release, and I knew then that I would one day own two turntables.

Went to my first reggae dance in about 1984, while still going to indie/metal/punk clubs and gigs, but it was a glimpse of things to come.

Liked hip-hop/electro from about 1981-1990. Reggae has never really gone away - it's always there even if I don't buy that much of it compared to other genres.

Proceeded through early house/acid/techno/garage/rave (1986-1991) into the music which became Jungle/drum 'n' bass (1990-1998). Was going to garage clubs in the mid-1990s as well, so I remember the period just before it became UK Garage.

Which takes me to where I am these days. I loved UKG from about 1995-2000, but it all went a bit wrong after that, and I bought very little music between 2000-2001. Eventually I noticed that the sound was changing and realised that I was now listening to Grime/Sublow etc (2001-present).

Always found it hard to get into dubstep until the last 18 months or so (I definitely preferred grime), but looking back, I have a few of the early records, as well as dozens of UKG records by artists who are now regarded as originators of dubstep.

Now I would say that the music I buy is split 50/50 betweeen grime and dubstep, but I mostly buy dubstep vinyl whereas most of my grime, sadly, is on CD (but that seems to be the way the scene is going anyway).

So, to sum up, the music which matters most to me is old skool hardcore/jungle, old skool UKG, and grime. badboy tunes! lol

I have no idea what will come next - in some ways, I hope it's something awful, because I really am far too old for all this, lol

the947sw11 wrote:
Went to my first reggae dance in about 1984, while still going to indie/metal/punk clubs and gigs, but it was a glimpse of things to come.

Shit man, that was the year i was born..your longtime!!!

I can remember when TOTP used to be essential Friday night viewing, wicked way to end the week. My idea of an essential selection used to be Now Thats What I Call Music, hehe.

I can remember listening to Jungle on pirate in about 94 or 95, but being too young to realise what it was. I went into junior school singing "wicked, wicked, sen-sational, what they call me?" and some girl said to me "do you know any other jungle tunes". I tried to style it out, but failed

Never really followed that up, and around the same time I used to listen to trance music and stuff like that. That phase didnt last long (thank god) and around 12 (probably secondary school influence...) I got into my US rap and UKG. Loved em both, and since then its just been a natural progression: US Rap to UKHH; UKG all the way through (man I LOVE DJ EZ), 4x4, grime, and dubstep.
I remember listening to Hatcha playing Artwork - Red on Upfront 99.3 and thinking it was absolutely dutty, giving it the one drop to get the reload. "10 missed calls and this one goes back to the edge...." And the Oris Jay remix of 'My Girl' (some UK RnB song). Ahh the nostalgia.

I'm 100% sure this is a music i'm gonna look back on in 10 years and, whether dubstep is still around or not, I'll remember it fondly. Even if (whisper) i don't like it one day (apologies for the heresy) I know i'll remember the good times i've had.

doLLy wrote:

the947sw11 wrote:
Went to my first reggae dance in about 1984, while still going to indie/metal/punk clubs and gigs, but it was a glimpse of things to come.

Shit man, that was the year i was born..your longtime!!!

innit

I don't look it though.

seebs2000 wrote: I'm 100% sure this is a music i'm gonna look back on in 10 years and, whether dubstep is still around or not, I'll remember it fondly. Even if (whisper) i don't like it one day (apologies for the heresy) I know i'll remember the good times i've had.

me too; I wouldn't be seen dead at a d'n'b club these days, but when I play all my old pre-97 tunes, it still gives me a huge adrenaline rush.

btw... if anyone thinks records are selling for ridiculous prices on Ebay right now, wait until it's listed as "old skool dubstep", haha.

92 - oldskool hardcore

95 - jungle

05 - dubstep

79 - 95 listened to a massive variey of stuff because of my old man. Anything from Iron Maiden to Michael Nyman, Jethro Tull to Devo, The The to Neil Young. At secondary school I delved into the usual Nirvana and post rock, shoe gazing with smatterings of old hardcore tapes and Prodigy sets.

95 - 1999 got into house a la Derrick Carter, Back to Basics, Pagan, Green Velvet. Also picked up on Speed Garage and bits of 2 Step

1999 - 2006 really got into techno and electro through going to Voodoo, The Orbit, Atomic Jam, Lost and HOG. Started meandering into electronica and obnoxious noises. Also got heavily into sound art through my degree...somehow now I'm into dubstep!

phurious wrote:79 - 95 listened to a massive variey of stuff because of my old man. Anything from Iron Maiden to Michael Nyman, Jethro Tull to Devo, The The to Neil Young. At secondary school I delved into the usual Nirvana and post rock, shoe gazing with smatterings of old hardcore tapes and Prodigy sets.

95 - 1999 got into house a la Derrick Carter, Back to Basics, Pagan, Green Velvet. Also picked up on Speed Garage and bits of 2 Step

1999 - 2006 really got into techno and electro through going to Voodoo, The Orbit, Atomic Jam, Lost and HOG. Started meandering into electronica and obnoxious noises. Also got heavily into sound art through my degree...somehow now I'm into dubstep!

yeah loved The Prodigy, liam howlett is a don! Compleatly rinsed out 'Experience' and 'Jilted'... them tunes are timeless..

life before dubstep..?

i dont wish to talk about it.

na when at school everyone listened to garage, dnb, jungle,ragga, dancehall, hip hop...

but i was all ways into breakbeat, house, electro, new wave, techno, on top of that as well.

b4 dubstep I was checking Paradox and Seba, NA ragga, Amit, and digging deep in Jamaican music as usual. Dubstep Warz was my intro. I kept listening to it and soon started to realize that certain sounds were making me bounce. That was at the beginning of the Summer. Now I have a crate that's about half full. It's got that cool and deadly energy that I've always loved.

The very first album I really got into was a compilation of Superted songs I had when I was about five - big up Superted!!! When I was a wee boy I used to listen to my parents music, my favourites were REM and Radiohead. OK Computer was one of the first albums I bought, that was when I was about 13. After that I got into Nirvana and then metal bands like Slayer, Metallica, Sepultura, Korn. I was a total teenage metalhead and lsitened to the Rock Show on Radio 1, and that was when I first heard Mary Anne. When I was about 16 I started listening to the breezeblock and John Peel and got into artists that weren't rock bands, like Aphex Twin, Public Enemy and Squarepusher. It was through listening to late night Radio 1 that I found out about hip hop, drumnbass and more recently the grime and dubstep scenes. These days I'm still a bit of a mosher but also into dubstep (obviously), hip hop (mostly older American and UK stuff) weird electronic music (Warp records type stuff) and reggae and dub.

Early 90's: Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Ice Cube

93-96: Orbital, Old School Hardcore Tapes, EBM, Das Efx, E.Neubauten

97-2000: Scorn, Autechre, Meshuggah, Techno Animal, AFX

2000-Now: Neurosis, Coil, Cutty Ranks, Current 93 +
Tons of Dub and Dubstep

up to '84
(7" Singles I used to play incessantly)
St Winifred's School Choir / Grandma / Pinnochio double A
Paul McCartney / The Frog Song
Ray Parker Jnr / Ghostbusters
(come on I was only a nippa!)

Africa Bambaata & John Lydon / World Distruction (love it still!)

'85-'88
Beastie Boys
Paul Hardcastle
Cameo
Run DMC
Jean Michelle Jarre (late but discovered it in my old man's record collection)
Kraftwerk (ditto)
Eurythmics (ditto)
Third World / Culture / Roland Alphonso / Don Drummond etc (ditto)

'89
Hip House
Soul 2 Soul type stuff
Public Enemy
Summer of Love Dance shiznit

'90
Dub Syndicate
Silver Bullet
various Hip Hop / reggae
Orbital

'91
Ravey Davey (ardcore mate)
The Orb

'92
Trip to Trumpet trousers
Darkside Raggamuffin and Ting
Still Ravin!

'93-'00
Jungle / Drum n Bass

'94 - '96
Massive Attack
Tricky
Mo Wax stuff

'01-02
Tipper style Bass heavy Breaks

'03 - present
Grime/Dubstep/8 Bar

Very condensed, but they're the main things

life before dubstep.. was pretty much grime.. oldskool G and jazz/easy listening... what a mix aye!

E.L.E.C.T.R.O.....!

Satamile, Touchin Bass, DataPunk, Kowalski, Andrea Parker, Bitstream, Rotters Golf Club, Rother, Arpanet, Drexciya, UR, Der Zyklus, Clone, Legowelt...

Before that, No U Turn records.

Before that, Public Enemy.

Before that..... Digital Hardcore. Jesus wept.....

got into music through Punk, Fugazi, Misfits, Minor Threat, At the Drive-in at the age of about 13... always needed something raw and noisey but it took a while to find it.. got really into that, still its my main area of music purchase, love old anarcho punk, 90s emo, 80s hardcore, post punk, artier stuff, really noisey stuff... at the age of 15 I heard BRAINTAX, life changing that was, Biro Funk is still my hip hop bible.. that lead me onto UKHH, still into that as much as i was.. got more and more into those two over the years, in a punk band with my two best friends, am 50% of a hip hop production team with my other best friend, my musical life is sick man, i love it.. recently got turned onto bass, a mate at college about a year ago told me i would love dubstep, but i really didnt know where to get it from, if i only i had found this place! i felt like i loved the steppy dance music but felt no conneciton with Grime or Garage, was really waiting for some like dubstep to come along! went ot my first dubstep rave the other night and now i am hooked.. i love it coz its not defined, its all about music and art, not a look, or a dance..lets hope we can keep it this way!

my musical projects..

What Price, Wonderland - my punk band, 3 7"s out, 1 coming out, some comp appaearances, lp in the writing

Waking the Neighbours - my hip hop production team, EP is being made as i type, this is taking up most of my creativity right now, getting some hook ups with some sic mcs too, I have a great feeling about it