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It found its way to me!

Always been into electro/bass stuff, liked some of the garage beats youd get in the charts, but not the cheesy vibe, new there had to be stuff that sort of mixed the two, then around 2002 andy weatheralls biwire shop started getting in tempa, running, soulja stuff,didnt even know that it was called dubstep, i just new it as 'that new london shit', from the back of the first horsepower album got the address for dubplates.net, typed that in every week waiting patiently for it to open proper, at the same time found, drumz of south and blackdown blogs, biwire shut, so bought a shitload of crap records online-thinking they would be the sound i wanted, found hyperdub which was like a revalation, then DMZ 001 came out, bought that and my melon was lifted clean off!! Lot more mixes/tunes around now makes it much easier being a stepper, but i tell ya, i wish in glasgow we had the luxury of going into a shop and there being new tps every week, you wouldnt find me moaning about to many releases, let me tell ya.

A friend I knew through d&b passed me a mix with some tunes by Toasty, Boxcutter, and Distance. It was love at first snare.

tronman wrote:garage

same here

id heard bits of it before n then seen vex'd n distance at subdub n tnuc get over how sick it was n ma loves jus keptgrowin from there.

Deapoh wrote: N-Types free mix CD that I got from Big Apple.

Yeah man, also a J da Flex 1xtra mix cd for duece mag and a free J Da Flex vs Oris Jay cd called future garage that came with some article on garage, think it was written by martin clark, in Sleazenation (the only time ive ever bought it)

But i didnt actually start regularly buying more dubstep than grime till relatively recently, sort of lateish last year

dubstep warz.

Grew up on Hip Hop as a kid, started loosing the love for it. Had a bit of a flirt with DnB and a bit of Garage when i moved out of the sticks but was still looking for something to fill the gap, started hearing a few tunes which i liked but didnt fully grab me. Got hold of a Thinking mix from 2004 which just made me look for more. Went to an early Pinch night, cant even remeber if it was called Dubloaded back then or not... But i was hooked

First mix I heard was a ThinKing mix I think I d/l'd from www.junglescene.com while looking for some new dnb mixes in 04, I think. Thought it was some variation on dubwise dnb. I liked it for chillin and for driving, but couldnt quite hear it on the dancefloor. I remember thinkin there was a lot of potential and hoping that it progressed and matured before it died out. Got a few mixes here and there, but it wasnt till I heard a DJ Unit mix about a month ago with some of the newer Skream, Distance and Vex'd type stuff that I was hooked. Expect a mix and some tracks soon...

Strangest thing is I cought myself beatboxing a dubstep rhythym and realized Ive had that beat in my head for years and years...

I was into Garage and Grime first. I found some Rinse sets googling "Slimzee" and from that I found the Rinse Forum and there I found out about the Dubstep Blog.

Funny, me and my mate were chatting about this the other day!

Was well into the grime scene, then got a bit bored of it all and tried to find as much dark grime/garage beats as poss. A lot of plasticman, Wiley, Eastwood, Narrows, Wonder etc. I somehow stumbled across a sick Forensics mix cd and dubstep allstars vol.1, and by the time request line was being rinsed by karnage and maximum, I was hooked.

Texture Recordings

big up Oris Jay, Slaughtamob, Mark One, Geeneus...

i first heard that stuff about 5 years ago, and subsequent attempts to find similar beats resulted in me stumbling across the likes of Soulja, Hotflush etc.

admittedly it was all 140bpm at this time, and i wasnt convinced when it went all halfstep, but ive since had the chance to hear that stuff work in a club so i'm won over now.

its the most exciting bass music around right now IMO.

Was heavily into "speed garage" and Steve Gurley, Chris Mac, Confetti & El-B stuff. Always loved the darker side of things so the early Soul Ja, Bingo, Ghost, Tempa, Vehicle etc really blew me away.

found thru listening and going to Grime nights, thanks Grime!

Mary ann !!!! On radio1, Never heard this kinda music before. Benga and N-type are the best!!

Nuff respect to you

j da flex sept 2003 deuce magazine mix was the first time I heard it.

Was well into my drum&bass until about 2001 when it all began to get a bit silly, all those big bouncy castle basslines and effects, meh....

Was already checking ealy Bingo/Zed Bias etc but became interested in breakcore: Shitmat, kid606 etc, via them the Bug, via him Mystikz and hence FWD and a real love for a sound I haven't felt since I first fell for Jungle. The Kode9 Invisible Jukebox in the Wire a couple of months back was the kiss that sealed the deal and proved what musical depth/heritage this music really has.

Biggup Loom in Notts for putting on Dubstep while I was up there when no one else really was, and biggup everyone in the scene, respect.

Last year via a couple of Forensics sets posted on dnb forums, also found my way to a vex'd live set via breezeblock and Slaughter Mob Grime/Rephlex sets. Listened to it for a change from the drum and bass started lurking here back end of 05 for a couple of months didnt feel to join until I heard the Dubstep warz radio show when after months of preparatin it all clicked into place.

was on grime properly from around 2002, always though dubstep was its plodding cousin but i'm liking the direction it's taken in the last year or so

I too owe my finding dubstep to the US ambassador of dubstep, Joe Nice. I was a dirtbox radio house party and he was playing upstairs. It really grabbed my intrest as it was far different that anything else. I sat there and just listened to it. then I sent him a message asking what it was and he talked my ear off. great guy.

my girlfriend pushed me towards it