Isn't it time to divide Dubstep into subgenres?

[fooishbar]

Also: Labels have their sounds. You'll recognize them with time.

this ... no need for the straight-up rudeness, even if it is fairly daft.

just find what you like, then look along those labels and associated artists.

[slothrop]

Tbh people have been three notches past paranoid about naming subgenres of dubstep since the word go because "if you call this sound 'liquid dubstep' and that sound 'jumpup dubstep' then all the sounds will go off into their own little pigeonholes and not interact, like with dnb" and so on.

But it's seems pretty obvious to anyone without a big dollop of wishful thinking that despite the lack of subgenre names dubstep is still seperating into different sounds and different scenes and getting just as fragmented as DnB.

So I don't really get why people still trot out the same line...

[spydee]

ITS ALL DUBSTEP SO JUS LEAVE IT AT THAT

fuck all this sub genres and segregation. there are different styles but its all one sound, one music. thats one of the best things about dubstep compared with other genres.

[slothrop]

Btw, I'm not suggesting that we should prepare our submissions to the United Nations Commitee for Classification of Dance Music Subgenres and explaining why liquid techy funkstep is different from hard techy funkstep, just that the idea that people using words to describe particular sounds is responsible for the existence of those sounds seems to have pretty solid evidence against it now...

[cityzen]

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[DannyDubstep]

I'd say no.

Yes there is ambient dub & filthy dub + all that inbetween but Dubstep needs to be under one genre untill we've taken over completely.
I say 'taking over'... that's where some are taking it. Personally I believe Dub should stay underground... I hate all these posh R&B kids listening to Dubstep and thinking they're cool.

[bass hertz]

its just 140 (ish)

and the resolve snare crackin on the 3rd beat.

[_boring]

waste thread!

[gravity]

But it's seems pretty obvious to anyone without a big dollop of wishful thinking that despite the lack of subgenre names dubstep is still seperating into different sounds and different scenes and getting just as fragmented as DnB.

exactly, dividing things into subgenres will generally lead to segregation between styles, which is generally a bad thing. the cool thing about dubstep is you can listen to 3 dubstep tunes and hear 3 completely different things.

[batrobin]

why do some people feel the need to put a label on everything =/

just enjoy the sound

[mistalime]

stop thinkin so much and just enjoy your riddim.

to many men sayin brostep this breakstep that etc etc.

the good selector will always shine on.

[muttleydubs]

pointless

[youthful_implants]

good thread.

splitting genres into sub genres is long, boring and generally marks the death of the genre in question.

[swiftguyver]

its just 140 (ish)

and the resolve snare crackin on the 3rd beat.

they have tended to be the only 'rules' for the sound so far but even those two specifications aren't always guaranteed nowadays...haha...

i love the fact that the boundary lines for genres have become gloriously blurred over the last couple years...the whole UK Funky movement, the shit Brackles and Shortstuff etc etc are pushing, the Club Autonomic stuff, grime, dubstep...it's all just one big thing really anyway...

[nicenice]

I think all music genres in general are slowly losing the need for genres and names.

[dj 2e]

shortest answer for the OP is NO

[prisoner]

shit has clearly hit the fucking fan...

also..

FUCK OFF to the o.p.

[1017_duck]

the beauty lies in the mystery - finding for yourself is part of the fun of dubstep music,or just music for that matter.i can see where you're coming from but i just think that to maintain the mystery,something which is always appealing to anybody,the vagueness and diversity has to be left at 'dubstep' and too over-classify something just removes the mystique about it and makes it more mechanical and therefore less soulful if you get me..

THIS POST THIS POST THIS POST THIS POST

how do you not get it yet man...? we were all newcomers at some point, DIG IN.

[Sentinels]

I like the following categories:

Good Dubstep

Bad Dubstep.

I'm more into the first one though.

[jiggamanjoe]

Naaaaaaaa sub-genres suck.

eg. Neo, New, Old, Post, Pre............. FUCK OFF