History of dubstep, When did you join in?855- 8

[lkd]

First things I heard were Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior, Skream - Watch The Ride and of course Caspa & Rusko - Fabriclive 37.

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And also i heard burial - Untrue through a Dj friend of mine and that was it, just loved to whole sound

[s3nsi]

Discovered a chase and status mix on youtube probably 2 or 3 years ago... instantly loved it, tried pushing out this sound to everyone I knew only to be told they'd already heard of it... i thought i'd discovered a niche because id never heard anything like it before!

[oskar]

after hearing dubstep warz in 2006 in the Breezeblock show!!!

[illandnatti]

Started looking into dubstep in 2007 when it started hitting the music blogs, and decided it wasn't for me. Then I heard Riskotheque - Just You, and that was the first dubstep track I actually paid money for. From there I branched off to Taz Buckfaster, Distance, Bar 9 and Loefah. Then Skream's remix of In For The Kill came out and I was hooked. Started researching it for real, and went through a bro-stepish phase that culminated with Doctor P and Flux Pavilion.

When I realized that they (P and Flux) weren't evolving much past their initial impact, I became disinterested, and went in search of other tunes. Found myself here at the dsf about 1 year ago, and have since gotten attached to the early dubs, and stuff that is made in that spirit. I consider Get Darker to be among the best underground promotional sites/labels out there, and watch GetDarkerTV every Tuesday for new tunes.

As far as the first time I heard dubstep live, it was in 2009 I think, at the Chicago Congress Theater. Some DJ was opening for Deadmau5, and I was probably the only one in there who really knew what dubstep was. Then a year later at the same venue for another Deadmau5 rave, dubstep was the primary music genre played.

[junglebunny]

I first got into dubstep in the summer of 2009. Skream's "Watch the Ride" mix was my first listening experience. Caspa's remix of TC's "Where's My Money?" was my first favorite for quite some time and I still love it. My taste with dubstep changes daily. Some days I'll want something disgusting to headbob to and other days I'll be in a chill mood. My first favorite artist was Skream, then it was Emalkay, then it was Distance and now I find myself addicted to Cookie Monsta and Datsik. I've never had the opportunity to see a dubstep show as I live in Maine in the US and the scene here is relatively small. We are having Bassnectar play here in April though, which I hopefully will be attending. I think dubstep definitely deserves to be well-known as it's unlike anything anyone has ever heard, and it's taking the US by storm. My main complaint about dubstep however is the fact that anything with an evident wobble bass is branded as dubstep, which fools newcomers into thinking this garbage is actual dubstep; mainly the emergence of the bullshit "brostep" scene.