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Hey all,

I did a search and couldn't find anything on this, but I was wondering what people think the first Dubstep track ever was? I've done a bit of research and I've heard Distance's "Horizon"... Even though most of it is Dark Garage, the beat goes half time at one point in the track and it sounds like that is the beginning of the Dubstep sound


Dub Fiend

First dubstep track EVER?
probably a caspa tune..
just kidding almost certainly an el-b or horsepower tune..?

Rusko - Woo Boost innit

Seriously debatable, a lot of people would say A track by Horsepower, but a lot of people could argue and say Horsepower would be UK garage. It's hard to pin point the start of dubstep because it was a transition. In my opinion it is:



Or this:




Like I said it is debatable

fat larry's skank is up there imo.

first Big Apple release - Artwork - Red?

Early Horsepower on Tempa...Ghost/El-B?

Wonder - 'What' was out in like '04. I've never confirmed if that came out before or after 'horror show' did.

Big Apple & Tempa are definitely the first labels though imo.

(Doesn't Darqwan/Oris Jay have stuff back in 02/03?)

What was a good while before Horror Show

Impossible to really pinpoint the first track imo, like most things there was a gradual mutation into what it is today.

NAH M8 IT WOZ DAT SIERRA LEONE TRACK BY MT EDEN. DAT ONES FYAHHHH

but in all seriousness-

unlikely wrote: Impossible to really pinpoint the first track imo, like most things there was a gradual mutation into what it is today.

Hibbie wrote:


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oh snap, forgot about this tune...I was die'n for the RMX to be released...did it ever happen...the rmx OWNS!

Hibbie wrote:

One of the (if not the) first dubstep tracks i heard.

1995 - Scorn "Time Went Slow"? Also, there is a remix he did of Surgeon "Waiting" in 1997 on Tresor as Mick Harris. Both of these tracks may not have the "snare on the 3rd" the we are all so familiar with but the elements are certainly there. More so on the Surgeon remix...

imo this is the very first dubstep tune, made in 1983!!!

not the first but check it, came out on turbo in 2001

any of the ghost records tunes from back in the day

didnt Chase and Status have things on bingo back in 2003?? thats pretty early and i wouldnt have called it Garage, but yeh, no definite starting point, just transition, as with pretty much everything

Wolverine wrote:imo this is the very first dubstep tune, made in 1983!!!

THIS.

brasco wrote:NAH M8 IT WOZ DAT SIERRA LEONE TRACK BY MT EDEN. DAT ONES FYAHHHH

this

Hibbie wrote:Seriously debatable

exactly. it would be impossible to say for sure, because you're talking about a developing sound right on the cusp of UKG,2step and grime. there's about 10 tunes you could name from Zed Bias, Horsepower, Ghost, Groove Chronicles, EL-B and early tempa that would be worthy of calling the first tunes, but to name one as first would be silly.

its the same thing as saying "this is the first ever jungle tune." impossible. there's dozens of tunes at the end of acid/hardcore (1988-1990) days that you could call the start of jungle.