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Before i even knew what dubstep was it was all about punk and ska bands for me. Then i got introduced to DnB and started going to all the raves but i wasn't deeply into the genre itself. This was also about the same time i got into a bit of grime and garage.

Then i saw the light..

at the dubstep tunnel!

I love most tunes regrdless of genre that have good strong vocals on it.

Pop and rock at 11, metal, hip hop and retro rock (Hendrix, Zeppelin) at 13, indie/goth and Depeche Mode at 14, then at 15 I discovered John Peel and anything went: acid house, Chicago vocal house, Soul II Soul, techno, dub, indie, neo-psychedelic stuff like Butthole Surfers and Bongwater, some dodgy crusty bands (Citizen Fish, anyone? I grew up in the countryside, it's what we had!) and seriously into shoegaze (Ride and Slowdive were our local heroes) ... obsessed with Renegade Soundwave, Weatherall, Guy Called Gerald, early WARP, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Dead Kennedys at 16, then Rising High and R&S, lots of hard techno and German trance before the hippies took it to Goa and made it shit, Aphex, Autechre, Underground Resistance, took me a while to get into D&B / jungle but when I heard Renegade Snares and Renegade 'Terrorist' it was game over, got heavily into ragga jungle, but also dirty jacking house from Strictly Rhythm via Relief to Dancemania, at the same time was knocking about in Brighton scene with Cristian Vogel, Jamie Lidell, Squarepusher and people like that so loads of fucked up electronics and wonky techno, and all the while getting more into the history of rock, soul, funk, hip hop, disco etc which took me through the 90s to 2-step which I flipped for... got a bit disillusioned with club culture from 98 to maybe 2005, tho, so although I was picking up dubstep/grime tunes here and there, didn't really appreciate what it meant in the dance for a while, but when I did, and when other underground electronic music started really picking up the baton of rude sub bass around 2005, it made me fall in love with sound all over again.... did I miss anything?

metal
punk, rock, reggae
rock, metal, indie, grunge, some electronic
dubstep, dub
dubstep, techno, house, garage, dub

It's interesting how many dubsteppers seem to enjoy metal. I'm not such a fan.

For me it all started with electronic music generally. started listening to mainstream house stuff like DJ Dan and Mark Farina in like grade 9-10. Didn't know enough about it then to have any real preconceptions... went to my first rave in the summer of grade 10. It was a Hard House/Nu NRG party. dropped my first baum and the rest is history...

got big into the rave scene, listening to anything from hard house, including tidy trax, to trance, house, breaks (like Miami Breaks like tony faline and baby ann n shit) and some marshmellow bassline garage like DJ Jean...

realized pretty quickly once the drugs weren't so debilitating any more, that i much preferred the intimate, smaller rooms with people more dedicated to a specific sound... people in the breaks room, for example... they had a fresh style and had some dancing steez... No more of those flailing assholes in fat pants and glow sticks... got big into popping and locking and all that kind of dancing... still am into it actually. now im 25. I liked that the room was smaller and more spread out and you'd get to know the people you're dancing with... also the sound system was better and you could get right up to the dj and shake his hand. way better vibes.

as soon as i got into drum and bass (toward the end of highschool) i was hooked. stayed that way for 5 years about. then in the last 2 and half years, been almost exclusively listening to dubstep... we stumbled upon this sketchy little warehouse party (after hours) after we had just seen benny page do a set at a nearby club... they were spinning dubstep and we had never heard it before.... got on the internet the next day and started feverishly downloading sets... still like that to this day. love it.

for me it seems like a wonderful combination of all the dance genres to date... there's punchy bass kicks and ripping snares and wobbly basslines... it's like if hip hop, reggae, garage, dnb, techno, breaks and house all got together and had a sloppy cracked out orgy... dubstep would be their illegitimate, love child.

Punk/Hardcore/Reggae
Metal
Progressive/Stoner-rock
Jazz
Dub
Dubstep

Despite all of this I think there will always be a special place in my heart for post-metal, specifically Isis.

Bundy wrote:Punk/Hardcore/Reggae
Metal
Progressive/Stoner-rock
Jazz
Dub
Dubstep

Despite all of this I think there will always be a special place in my heart for post-metal, specifically Isis.

OH HELL YES! its all about ISIS, Cult of Luna, Daturah, Neuroris, and Rosetta.

yeeeeeeeaaaah boi

Classic & Alt rock (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd)-
Punk & SKa (Ramones, Misfits, Rancid, Op Ivy, Bosstones etc)-
Hardcore Punk (Discharge, GBH, Exploited, AGT,Blood for Blood)-
Breaks & DnB-
Dubstep & Glitch Hop & Wobbly House

Was in a couple punk & hardcore bands till 2006 then I got into EDM through Deekline, Krafty and Pendulum. Then progressed to the dirtier Dub & Glitch scenes.

I kind of agree with Johnnyboy.

Bought me first lp when I was about 7 or 8, it was 1976 and bloody ELO's doulble album 'Out Of The Blue' jeesus i dunno what i was thinking.

Got into electronic stuff early, Kraftwerk, John Foxx that kind of thing, then went into all different genres, Soul, Reggae, Funk, Two Tone, Rap, 60's rock and so on untill the rave culture exploded. I was lucky enough to be at the start, 'Shoom' and the 'Boys Own' raves with Andy Weatherall and them boys. Classic nights and lovely tunes...'Strings of Life' next to 'Washing Machine' and 'I Feel Love' by Donna Summer.
Then it all started to mutate, got very deep into the Detroit sound, buying tunes from the legendary Fat Cat records in Seven Dials. Also went to Bukems 'Speed' nights and the Metalheadz Sunday Blue note specials, as well as the odd free squat party like the Telepathic Fish one's at the Cool Tan Arts centre in Brixton where you'd catch Coldcut and Mixmaster Morris manning the decks.
The Orb all nighters at the Brixton academy, where Weatherall DJ'ed and blew the fucking lid off the gaff! and catching reggae Dancehall gigs in Peckham.
Of course it's all different now, but maybe not so different. The current climate has made people more open to a mix of flavours like House next to Dustep/2 Step and D+B Techno still rubs shoulders with Electronica and Hip Hop and the more Ambient flavours. More labels, more DJ's and producers.
Cool.

1980 - 1990: whatever my parents were listening to, which was 60's 70's French music like Mike Brandt and Francoise Hardy, George Jones, Dolly Parton and some other country music, some Haitian music but none of the party music, and whatever was on the easy listening station which was early Beatles, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Billy Joel - that stuff

1990 - 1993: since my upbringing was strict and sheltered, I heard what hip-hop was for the first time, so that means I liked MC Hammer. Hey, I was ten! I liked Madonna and loooved Mariah Carey. And I liked whatever made my head nod on MTV and made sure the parents weren't home when I watched.

1994: Although Nirvana broke through in '92, I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" in the winter of '94. I was miserable at school all we got was snow that year in CT. I heard "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and I was musically born. I dug grunge but I forgot what that Nirvana song sounded like until sometime in April when all the snow melted. And then a few days later, Kurt shot himself. My life was changed.

1995-1998: Soundgarden, Fiona Apple, Erykah Badu, classic rock, Portishead and Tricky. Basically the Bristol sound led me to a Roni Size Reprazent show, which led me to dnb, which led me to dubstep.

Apologies for the autobiography.

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mondays child wrote:
Bought me first lp when I was about 7 or 8, it was 1976 and bloody ELO's doulble album 'Out Of The Blue' jeesus i dunno what i was thinking.

Don't knock it! Go back and listen to the production on that record - there's some fucking insane stuff on there. Dance producers could do worse than go back to stuff like ELO, Wings and 10CC and hear how genuinely weird a lot of the stuff behind the pop melodies was, and appreciate how that was done with zero digital technology.

The first LP I ever bought was BBC Radiophonic Workshop Science Fiction Sound Effects Vol 1. I was born for techno I think. Actually recently I DJed just before Jerry Dammers, and he was using that same record to provide dubwise effects as he changed between his reggae 7"'s

bagelator wrote: Fat Rick of X Factor

Tsk, it's "Fat RIK". Are you a true fan? I think NOT

If I skip a whole lot then it looks like this...

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Dubstep.

Hmmmm.

i started off with hardcore/gabba when i was 10 . ruined me. then came loads of hiphop a bit later i was all about drum&bass and various electronica (aphex twin, warp recs). as well as dub-techno and some minimal techno at about the same time.

started listening to almost everything during the napster/audiogalaxy period, discovered lots of interesting artists there! and then came dubstep.. now i feel there's too much good music from different genres to stay updated. also started listening to more and more reggae over the last year through my friends who put up reggae nights.

Joe Muggs wrote:Pop and rock at 11, metal, hip hop and retro rock (Hendrix, Zeppelin) at 13, indie/goth and Depeche Mode at 14, then at 15 I discovered John Peel and anything went: acid house, Chicago vocal house, Soul II Soul, techno, dub, indie, neo-psychedelic stuff like Butthole Surfers and Bongwater, some dodgy crusty bands (Citizen Fish, anyone? I grew up in the countryside, it's what we had!) and seriously into shoegaze (Ride and Slowdive were our local heroes) ... obsessed with Renegade Soundwave, Weatherall, Guy Called Gerald, early WARP, My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Pop Will Eat Itself, Dead Kennedys at 16, then Rising High and R&S, lots of hard techno and German trance before the hippies took it to Goa and made it shit, Aphex, Autechre, Underground Resistance, took me a while to get into D&B / jungle but when I heard Renegade Snares and Renegade 'Terrorist' it was game over, got heavily into ragga jungle, but also dirty jacking house from Strictly Rhythm via Relief to Dancemania, at the same time was knocking about in Brighton scene with Cristian Vogel, Jamie Lidell, Squarepusher and people like that so loads of fucked up electronics and wonky techno, and all the while getting more into the history of rock, soul, funk, hip hop, disco etc which took me through the 90s to 2-step which I flipped for... got a bit disillusioned with club culture from 98 to maybe 2005, tho, so although I was picking up dubstep/grime tunes here and there, didn't really appreciate what it meant in the dance for a while, but when I did, and when other underground electronic music started really picking up the baton of rude sub bass around 2005, it made me fall in love with sound all over again.... did I miss anything?

No, You're right Joe, I shouldn't knock it, there is some great production on that lp. It's just that i'm not a huge fan of Jeff Lynn, and him being the lead singer he's unfortunately all over it.
ELO did have two of the guys from the Move in there so that's at least worth something.

If truth be told i only really bought the record for the gatefold sleeve, it was a very cool design.

The music was secondary. That all changed very, very quickly though.

Bang up to today in my gaff where anything is being listened to at any one time...

bagelator wrote:New Kids on the Block
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Atomic Kitten
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Michelle McAnus was my wank factor

death/speed metal, hip-hop
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industrial, trip-hop
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idm, techno
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electro
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dubstep

Capo Ultra wrote:black metal
doom
bassline
funky

I think I feel a new genre coming on!