Your style/genre before dubstep

[zerbaman]

What was it?
Mine was kinda dubstep, just made shit at 140 bpm, but with no real booming sub bass, didn't know anything about that. More leaning towards grime/experimental hip-hop.
Dubstep was the first genre I actually intended to produce, from there, I gained more confidence to work on more Drum & Bass. Now, I just make whatever the mood allows me to

[project midnight]

Dance, drum n bass, garage.

I still dabble but I have enjoyed producing dubstep the most, I find a lot of freedom in it as its a very broad genre

[wub]

I just make electronic sounds. If it turns out to be one genre or another, then so be it.

[Basic A]

I have a dead breakcore/nosiey stuff alias, it's like a proverbial skeleton in my closet.

[lyons238]

i started dabbling with hip hop and just like ambient sort of trancey electronic music. but when i say dabble i mean literally i dabbled with the paramters not knowing what the f i was doing, i believe i used magix which was my friends. then i didn't touch anything for a while. then listened to dubstep for 3 years and decided i want to try to produce it. now i still am pretty terrible but i know its a long process. and i cant expect gold beats from less than a year of experience. now im just trying to practice and research and only time will bring what i want. although, i wish i had more time to produce. between school and work and going out shit gets pretty hectic.

mehh drunk/ish ramblinnn

[Wrigzilla]

Weird electronic stuff, I'm still not sure what it was and hip hop. Before that rock music.

[deadly_habit]

ambient, dnb, hip hop, some house and general edm
pretty much the same as now

[glottis5]

used to be really into dub techno/ambient actually

[DZA]

Started producing because of dubstep then moved on

Dubstep - 2step/garage - then funky and grime which i make now

[Electric_Head]

psychedelic trance
Ambient
big beat chill-out
dubstep

Then again, everything with bass is thrown into the Dubstep pool nowadays.
Amon Tobin was never classified as dubstep before but now it would fall into that category.
Aphex Twin would now also be called Dubstep.
House music with a slight edge and more bass - Dubstep.

[hasezwei]

jungle, and then breakcore. sometimes i miss the old days of just amens, random samples, 909's and reeses. producing was so simple back then!

[benjam]

Death metal and punk

[REAP3RMusic]

Started out dabbling in Scouse House/Donk and Hardstyle when i was about 15. Started seriously producing dubstep.

[synthlf]

started making jungle/dnb back in 2002, then moved to hiphop a bit, and dubtechno and a little bit on minimal techno, then back in 2005 i think started making dnb again, and i think in 2007 started to make my first dubstep tunes, and nowadays i'm basicly making what i want that day, yesterday i worked on my "beats" project, last week finished a dnb tune, and collab with one dude.. a dubstep kinda tune, and everyday at my work i'm making cheesy music for shitty video games lol

[indika]

Started producing because of dubstep then moved on

Same here.

[victor w]

psychedelic trance
Then again, everything with bass is thrown into the Dubstep pool nowadays.
House music with a slight edge and more bass - Dubstep.

I hate when people hear any type of distortion or bass they immediately call it dubstep, just ignorant.

And I've messed around with hip hop beats mainly. Basic loop & sample programs for ages. Got a hold of reason a year and a half ago to actually produce hip hop beats for my own pleasure or as a hobby, and drifted into dubstep. Then moved on, don't make it anymore really. Why do I still use dsf

[-[2]DAY_-]

2000-2004 Ska, punk and blues outfits
2005-2006 Hardcore punk & death metal
2007-2010 Jazz/funk/blues/reggae outfit, hip hop/rap
2010, first shot at dubstep production. Dubstep is the reason i got into synthesis. Hip hop I loved laying drums over whatever melodic stuff i could sample/sequence, tbh wobble bass is what got me interested in programming my own sounds, beforehand i had no clue.

presently, hip hop, reggaeton, dancehall, house and dubstep when i get the chance

[Sirius]

Same as now really, every track was an experiment.

!!chea

[Kes-Es]

Hardcore punk, and whatever sort of cookie cutter metal bands needed a guitar player, for a while there.
I got FL and started doing shit that could be considered breaks I guess, but it wasn't very good and I was pretty frustrated more often than not, so I stopped doing that for a long time, picked it up again to do ambient sleepy tunes and record post rock stuff I was doing at the time, and then learned about dubstep, turns out it's the only electronic genre I'm remotely decent at.

[jaydot]

I only took producing up post-interest in dubstep.