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[titchyschneider]

i agree with what duncan w said, pretty much.

[crazydave]

I've been thinking about this too...

On one hand we want to spread the word about dubstep. By doing that, you can strengthen the scene, draw in new producers, promoters, people who are going to take things forward. Which is a good thing.

On the other hand, things could be stretched to breaking point and dubstep could burst at the seams. It may not withstand the trauma of being pushed out of its safe little hole in the underground - as has happened with so many other scenes in the past.

The benefits of expansion far outweigh the benefits of keeping it small. The sheer style of the music (instrumental, radio / ipod-unfriendly) means it'll never be palatable to a mainstream audience. Even if it starts to dominate underground music, I don't see any trauma on the horizon.

If anything it's the media that'll be a double-edged sword. Journalists are keen to oversimplify scenes and coin new labels (the lesson of DnB creates a healthy paranoia of subgenres on this forum), often to satisfy the uber-trendy layer of music fans. But dubstep has its "heads", full-on music geeks, that'll stick around even when the press spit it out.


P.S. - bigups the rorshach avatar..!

[duncanw]

i agree with what duncan w said, pretty much.

Thanks, Titchy.

[titchyschneider]

i suppose being in the guardian or other big papers is good for exposure and all that (although if ppl are honest, theyll admit that most of the guardian readers dont really know or care about urban/black/dance music - just look at how few comments you get in the blogs about those subjects) but the problem i have is that a lot of mainstream people dont think anything is really important they read about it in a broadsheet. thats bollocks.