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First heard it may or june 06. First tunes were midnight request line and anti war dub. The second of those was the one that got me. I came across them on the BBC documentary on dubstep and havent looked back since. I was in a transitionary period musically, i was fed up with dnb, not really feeling any other genre until dubstep got its hooks in Deeeeeeeep!!!

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

Stereotyp´s "My Sound" album(2001) was for me his absolute own sound, but now i know it was a dubstep-hybryd!! for me a pioneer like horsepower or Zed Bias but mostly unmentioned
also the stuff of Al´Haca bring me into!! That was 2002 and i thought THAT´S IT, but there was nothing i found again because of i had no idea what´s going on in south-london till the grime-sampler from rephlex...
looking fwd

some time 2004 distinction sent me a live set of mark one,plasticman,slaughter mob with virus syndicate at grime album launch party. as soon as i heard CHA i was hooked!

Probably first heard it when John Peel was playing stuff off the first Grime comp and other stuff from about that era, when everyone still thought it was a branch of grime. Then gradually became more aware of it via the bits and pieces Mary Anne Hobbes was playing in mid-late 2005.

I think Request Line was the first tune I actually bought. Natch.

Phazeman Shy and Skeeze were playin it at some house party a while back so I got Afterdark to thank 4 that......BIG UP!!. Became hooked when Roni Size unexpectedly dropped Caspa - Rubber Chicken @ brixton academy. Fuck me, i'll neva 4get that moment!

yes, stereotyp and al'haca made a big impression on me too. also Stereotyp & Soothsayer - Dub Club Track .. pure bassline pleasure.

i picked up HYP003 [Kode9 + The Space Ape - Kingstown] in september 2005 - the combination of massive bass and clever lyrics - got me.. then also found dmz, tempa and tectonic records, but since i didn't know the term "dubstep", i classified it as a nice new kind of electro-dub or neo-dub. [placed it next to select cuts, burial mix, universal egg, rockers hifi and so on .. in my collection.]
the first time i heard the term "dubstep" was in early 2006 when my friends brought me the breezeblock dubstep warz mp3.

looking fwd

It was either Distance-1on1 or Toasty-The Knowledge ..

I used to hang around at breakbeatworldwide.com (rip) a lot a coupla years ago when Paul (Rose) posted some audio links to these releases. I was hooked to the sound and tempo from the very first moment i heard it. Ben-BunZer0 was one of the daily visitors as well and posted his first mixes over there. I played these all day long -> result: the start of my best musical addiction so far

yeah, the John Peel tribute set by Mala was siiiiiick. STill listen to that all the time, was one of the real clenchers in hearing the music.

maybe ill put that on.

I remember when Mary Anne started playing loads of it i was thinking "Yeah this stuff's ok but she's getting a bit overenthusiastic, it's not that great". Then came DUBSTEP WARZ

first time heard the sound when grime comp was out on rephlex... remember i was thinking how the hell do u dance to this, didnt buy it, couple of days after i meet a friend and he says 'Dizzee rascal is playing tonight, he is a big grime mc' (late june 04 or early july - melbourne - by the way, anybody knows who was that dj playing with him?), i decided to check it...danced like crazy the whole night, next day bought the compilation, and soon after my first 12's, vex'd pop pop on subtext, tasty grits productions on southern comfort and shimano unusual sound on blueprint...

hmm dunno it wasnt called dubstep when i started listening to it .. out to chef.. safe for the recipe fam!

Loved the Zed Bias, EL-B and Horsepower stuff when listening to pirates in MCR in 2001. Then in late 2003 a friend of mine (hello Ste!) showed me an article about Forward>> in Jockey Slut (I think) so the next day I went and bought "Pathways" and was totally blown away.

Ooooh about 2003 (I think, someone may be able to correct) I was always interested in the dark garage stuff and used to get the odd bits and saw Skull Disco 001 Tempa Allstars 1 (White) and the Plastic Man (Now Plastic Ian) remix of some tune on Skint (my first halfstep) all for a quid each in my local Selectadisc, used to drop them into my Tech House sets.

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.

LATE '06 funny thing is, i was walking up to a bar where the homies n i used to resident. a friend was playing a track from the skream lp side c i believe, and as i was walking up first thing i said to him was "what the fuck are you palying bro? sounds like the circus is coming into town.":lol: he skooled me and now dubstep is one of my favorite genres. GANGSTER ASS BEATS!!!

I don't even know if this counts but I was at my favorite record shop in like '02 and was looking for something different. I don't know must not have been feelin the dnb releases that week. Picked up Tempa002 and Vehicle001 plus some other similar things. I thought it was just 2-step, I wasn't that up on 2-step so I just assumed. I wondered why I didn't like all the other 2-step they had. I loved those tunes but it didn't really change my life. Went back to dnb. Got reintroduced to dubstep in '04 after seeing so many threads about it on DOA. Burnt some of the mixes for the car and just got hooked.

Edit err maybe it was '05, I dunno, a couple years ago.

my mum played me a mix with Knowledge and Gamma in it so i slapped her and taxed the cd. Bout a year n a bit ago.

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!

reso wrote:my mum played me a mix with Knowledge and Gamma in it so i slapped her and taxed the cd. Bout a year n a bit ago.

NIce one.

Sometime in 2003 but I didn't get into the whole sound till 2005, was more of a Grime head!

Anyone get into Dubstep through Barefiles?