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Late '06 - early '07

Mate of mine was into grime and got me listening to rinse mixes.

'07 really was the pinnacle year for me tho. Especially Big Chill that year - DMZ dropping serious bass weight, enough to make the jelly in your eyes shake; Skream with the blackout in the DubShack (mmmm overproof rum)

Currently - Manchester, UK

DFRNT wrote:Early 2006 through a 3CD compilation called "The World's Heaviest Dubstep, Grime and Bass" - I thought it would be breaks, and was hunting for heavier bass stuff.

This CD sold it for me.

Like its been said, the best looks like it's behind us now

Was in Blackmarket recs buying some Grime instrumentals late 2005 methinks. He put Loefah 'life dub' in my pile. Life changing

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a 2004 mixtape by DJ Remedy
HP, Plasticman, Wunder, Wizzbit, kode, Benny Ill, Mark One, DMZ etc
didn't grab me at first cos was into live shoegazer but the bass was infective
and then garage pressure came along...

End of 2008 but didn't really bother too much with it til this year. On Last.fm!

must of been mid to late 2007 that i really started to click with it, but had been hearing tunes from early 2006 cos alot of me pal were heavy into their grime. another pal started playing a skream mix tape in his motor. thats when i knew it was going to be a slippery slope. deep suburbs of sw london.

Late 2007 when a mate of mine have me a YouTube link to Burial - Archangel over MSN.

trapeez wrote:Late 2007 when a mate of mine have me a YouTube link to Burial - Archangel over MSN.

EDIT: Could've been late 2008 actually, but I'm sure I was listening to stuff in 07.

2006 - through a mix posted on this forum.

late 2007, introduced by a friend on here when i got to college.

i was first introduced in late 07 early 08 by just checking out artists people would tell me about (skream, ntype, benga etc.). then in 09 a friend gave me a mix by http://www.myspace.com/djtinhead.
after that i did a little searching and found the minimixes by whoa-b and the live sets from sonar on youtube, and it's been on ever since.
oh and i'm from the us.

Halloween '08, My mate was like, 'check this skream toon out', turns out he was playing that night anyway. EPIC gig, got my first dubplates after that.

Leeds, UK

End of 2009, from my older brother, Antwerp (Belgium)

2008, I think it was Skream - Midnight Request Line off Youtube possibly Benga - Night, USA

early 2007, a mate played me skream - stagger and benga - evolution, London but im at uni in brighton

First tune i heard was "Camel Ride" by Plastician. I got through a french magazine. I loved that tune. But at that time it was just called grime. It was September 2004. Then i just knew few about that scene, bought Mark One first album in March 2005. Very good album. But i've been really hooked when Digital Mystikz, Plasticman, Mark One came in Brussels in the summer 2005 accompanied by JME and Skepta (i think)... I was blown away by every tune i heard and i didn't know hardly any of these. I remember "Dipset (Santana's Town)" by Juelz Santana has been rinsed this night, so was a tune that later became the first classic of this genre : "Midnight Request Line".

After that, i spent all my week ends at my friend DJ Skar house, listening to the records he bought, the mixes he made and the mixes by Grimelock, Bunzero he gave me.

Namur, Belgium

2007 - went to a technicality all nighter with some friends for the drum and bass but saw loefah mixing and was amazed by this new bass heavy sound. never heard anything like it, was well impressed. During this time also heard the Vex'd album and bass suddenly became one of the most important things in music.
Because of dubstep i've listened to a lot more dub, reggae and other music that has inspired dubstep artists. Sounds corny but dubstep has really opened my eyes.

mid 2007. opening dj for Amon Tobin. California.

Last summer a friend talked me into dropping the cash to see Benga at Dubocracy in Atlanta. I had never heard bass that loud and remember smiling the first 30 min of his set because my chest wouldn't stop rattling.

What year did you find out about dubstep, how did you find out about it, and what country do you live in?

2008, my friend is a local DJ and spins it, USA