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Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:41 pm
by lyons238
scspkr99 wrote:OP, I'd look at the responses in this thread and consider a couple of questions, is Dubstep an actual industry or merely a genre within a wider music / electronic music industry? How can we identify who the industry leaders are?
What defines an industry, where is the innovation coming from, if it's not a product thing or an artistic thing it's the type of stuff that happens when people start using different standards of marketing that product is dubstep merely leveraging innovation in other areas such as soundcloud, myspace, youtube etc?
I know how enticing it can be to try and write a paper on something that you feel passionate about but I also know the dangers of trying to shoe horn the subject matter of that passion into something it doesn't really fit.
Something else you may want to consider, how much of the information required if you identify an industry leader as someone like Kode9, who appears to my less than knowledgeable self a reasonable candidate, is actually going to be available? You're not going to be writing about his contribution to the sound but about his contribution to the industry and how available is that information?
i agree man thats why i came on here first to see if anyone knew of anything an actual producer did to influence people. merely just making good music is not a leader, it may be a pioneer. but im looking for something like say if skream held a huge event premiering dubstep for free to spread the music. or something along those lines.
but i may not write my paper on dubstep, it was just an idea i had because i wanted to do my presentation on something different and be able to talk passionately about it. but if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. that doesn't mean i cant try and see if it can work.
originally i was thinking skream/coki. mala i believe is a pioneer but he seems like he remains a bit low key compared to others.
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:23 am
by _boring
bunzero is a don no doubt
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:24 am
by _boring
@lyons, low key is a huge part of what dubstep is to me hence why i choose mala
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:41 pm
by dotman
mala
geenus
kode9
blackdown
mary ann hobbs
skream
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:40 pm
by audioaddict1510
Skream for me
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:28 pm
by herbalicious
Hatcha - For telling everyone to make it darker.
Soulja & The Ammunition/ Tempa Crew - For giving the sound a bass..I mean..base on which to grow.
Geeneus & The Rinse gang - For enabling the sound to ring out worldwide.
(I know that's a cop-out coz you wanted one name...)
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:55 pm
by cpt.pollution
hatcha or mala
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:11 pm
by Autocrat
Nice and simple really. Kode 9!
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 12:02 am
by wilson
As someone said you are kind of shoe-horning dubstep into the context of your paper. But I guess DMZ and FWD were created to provide outlets for dubstep to thrive, so the guys behind those raves could be seen as leaders. To be honest this isn't even an industry, you'd def be better off pursuing something else.
Re: Who do you think has been the best dubstep leader
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 10:02 am
by pikeymobile
Artwork, Geeneus, Kode9 & Neil Jolliffe (guy who runs Tempa) were leaders at the start. The sound might not have taken off if it wasn't for them.
Mala, Hatcha, Pinch & Scuba were all people who led and shaped the scene when it started getting bigger. Vex'd help bring in a lot of breakcore/experimental electronica fans in to the scene thanks to big releases on Planet Mu. Mary Anne Hobbs needs no mention.
Joe Nice is also the leader in the US too. As much as people hate the guy, Excision also helped spread the sound pretty far with his early mixes (his 06/07 mixes were pretty seminal on the internet)