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If you are new to a specific genre of music and would like to find out more, below is listed a few jey names and labels on which to start your journey.

Feel free to suggest additions, removals and switch ups!



Dubstep
dmz
Mala
D1
Coki
Distance
Burial
Loefah
Darqwan
J Da Flex
Darqwan
Hatcha
Cyrus
Pinch

Labels: DMZ, Tectonic


Breakstep
Toasty
Search & Destroy
Vex'd
Milanese
Boxcutter

Labels: Hotflush (many years ago), Destructive


Purple Sound
Joker
Gemmy
Ginz
Guido
Silkie
Swindle
J:Kamata & 2000F
Rustie
Starkey

Labels: Kapsize, Numbers


Tearout / Brostep
Zomboy
Skrillex
Coki
Sukh Knight
Rusko
Emalkay
Jakes
Lost
Kromestar
Widdler
16bit


Dungeon
Benton
LX One
Commodo
Thelem
Kryptic Minds


Ambient Dubstep
Burial
Ghost Ark
Clubroot
J-One
Swarms
Faib
Synkro
Dauwd


Garage
El-B
Dark Sky
Horsepower
Dj Ez
Dj Q
Wookie
Oris jay
Anthill Mob
Bump & Flex
Sunship
Grant Nelson
Masterstepz
Ramsey & Fen

Labels: Locked On, Ghost


Future Garage
Ghostek
Detz
Atsubox
Sorrow
Roof Light
Mirror State
Sentinels
Whistla
KingThing

Labels: L2S


Millenial Garage / Techno / Grime
Wen
Logos
Beneath
Mumdance
Visionist
Epoch
Filter Dread

Labels: Keysound


Grime Vocal
Footsie
Skepta
Wiley
Riko Dan
D Double E

Labels: TerrorRhythm, Dirty Stank


Grime (Instrumental)
Wiley
Silencer
Faze Miyaki
samename
Big$hot
Alias
Spooky
Splurt Diablo
Jammer
Jon E Cash

Labels: Black Ops


Juke / Footwork
DJ Spinn
DJ Nate
Traxman
Artifact
Om Unit
Addison Groove
RP Boo
DJ Rashad
Leatherface


Millennial (Deep) House
Julio Bashmore
Disclosure
Dusky

Labels: Broadwalk Records


Deep House
Frankie Knuckles
Moodyman
Pépé Bradock
Little Louie Vega
Danny Tenaglia
Kenny Gonzales
Theo Parrish


Millennial Instrumental Hiphop
Clams Casino
Flying Lotus


Trap
Baauer
Hudson Mowhawk
Flosstradamus
Shlomo
Lunice
TNGHT
Rustie


Uk Funky
Hard House Banton
Lil Silva
Crazy Cousins
Dj Q


Breakcore
Venetian Snares
The Industrialism
Drumcorps
Autechre
FFF
Shitmat


Techno
Jeff Mills
Basic Channel
Porter Ricks
Lee Gamble
Perc
Truss
Surgeon
MRSK
WooYork
Mike Dehnert

Labels: Skudge, Drumcode, Ostgut Ton


Dub Techno
Rhythm & Sound
Basic Channel
Pole
Sven Weisemann
Federsen
Sandwell District
Porter Ricks
Deepchord
Rrose
Deadbeat

Labels: Silent Season


Modern Techy DnB / Autonomic
dBridge
Instra:mental
Stray
Frederic Robinson
ASC
Sam KDC
Bop
Venture
Loxy
Reza
Consequence
Method One
Indigo

Labels: Exit, Darkestral


Ambient
Sangam
Bruised Skies
Glossata
Cass
JABU

Label: Silent Season


Jungle
Grooverider
Mickey Finn
Ellis Dee
Randall
Kenny Kenn
Brockie
Bladerunner
Tom and jerry
Congo Natty


UK Hardcore
Hackney Hardcore
Sy
Top Buzz
Ratpack
Danny Breaks


Millenial / Modern Hardcore
Special Request / Paul Woolford
Sully


Early DnB
Goldie
Peshay
Hype
Aphrodite
Slipmatt
Doc Scott

Happy Hardcore
DJ Paul Elstak
Technohead
Party Animals
Dune
Mark Oh


Ambient
Bvdub
Kontext
Ultracode



Obviously there will be grey areas and it's certainly not a bible, just a starting point to search from.

Throw some categories and examples at me!

Techno: Surgeon/MRSK/WooYork/Mike Dehnert

Early Dubstep:
Darqwan

Dungeon:
Benton
LX One
Commodo

Juke/Footwork:
DJ Spinn
DJ Nate
Traxman
RP Boo
Artifact

Brostep:
Sukh Knight
Rusko
Teknian (also makes glitch hop and other genres)
Emalkay (has some really good old dubstep tunes too)

ARE YOU INTO...

Skrillex
Then you might like:
Steroids
Vest tops
Popping molly

Capture pt wrote:Techno: Surgeon/MRSK/WooYork/Mike Dehnert

fuck man don't get me started with techno, i could go on for days unless you guys want me to

Why is Coki in bro and not just early and tearout?

Garage. Horsepower? Dj Ez? Dj Q?
Grime. Spooky? Preditah?

I guess you could have 808Trap stuff as Hudson Mowhawk/Lunice/ TNGHT / Rustie/ Baauer/ Araabmusik(?)

Intrumental hiphop like Clams Casino and Flying Lotus?

Cool Idea, but you should change thread's name to "Newbies Introduction to subgenres" or something similar.
Also, couple youtube links (links, not videos tho) for each artist?

I'm only aiming for catergories/genres right now and using a few examples to get people thinking in the right directoin, I'll have a big name all the artists thread in the next iteration.

The 3rd thread will be the final all formatted nicely.

pete bubonic wrote:I'm only aiming for catergories/genres right now and using a few examples to get people thinking in the right directoin, I'll have a big name all the artists thread in the next iteration.

The 3rd thread will be the final all formatted nicely.

Fair enough.

Racking my brains for more genres

Techno:
Jeff Mills
Basic Channel
Porter Ricks
Lee Gamble
Perc
Truss

I don't think this is gonna be too successful. the main problem can be simply demonstrated when looking at house: carl craig? l.i.e.s? theo parrish? swedish house mafia? boddika? deep dish? what's house and what's not?
same goes for dnb and every other genre. is netsky pop?

It not like it hes limited to sub genres? I wouldnt place Jamie Jones next to Theo Parish but yeah they both play house, diffrent types though.

Jurkhands wrote:I don't think this is gonna be too successful. the main problem can be simply demonstrated when looking at house: carl craig? l.i.e.s? theo parrish? swedish house mafia? boddika? deep dish? what's house and what's not?
same goes for dnb and every other genre. is netsky pop?

Categorising all artists is not the aim, not even within the genres we do like, only to give a guide to newbies of the sound to other artists they may like. Doesn't have to be exhaustive, and the chances of someone coming this forum out of all the alternatives looking for Netsky or SHM is pretty slim.

Jurkhands wrote:I don't think this is gonna be too successful. the main problem can be simply demonstrated when looking at house: carl craig? l.i.e.s? theo parrish? swedish house mafia? boddika? deep dish? what's house and what's not?
same goes for dnb and every other genre. is netsky pop?

maybe discern between the sub genres?

like swedish house mafia is electro house, l.i.e.s. is micro and deep house, boddika is uk funky? but then uk funky can also be garage and dubstep, shit

you're right, this may not work

lies have also released some ghetto tech & nyg though. so it gets tricky even on the most basic level. if someone's into house after listening to 3 chairs, recommendations like bod or dusky or beneath or dark sky just won't cut it. and I doubt a newbie will be able to tell the difference in genres. I get where you're coming from, pete, but I just don't think all the effort would be worth the outcome. diffrent story if you focus on purely dubstep, since there are more or less 200 guys that are noteworthy. and it wouldn't be too much trouble listing them and maybe give a starting point for the affiliated genres as you already did (juke, jungle [om unit? really?] asf).

Ambient Dubstep/ FG

Detz
Ghostek

Yeah definitive categorisation is never possible, because genres are flexible as are producers. but if we suggest the 10-20 top artists known for a genre with a couple of youtube / soundcloud clips to guide newbies then we're on the right track and they can take it from there.

The exercise is not to create ' COKI IS CLASSED AS EARLY DUBSTEP YOU FUCKING NOOB' style bible, only to give people some names and links to search if they like that 'breaky old dubstep sound that my mate played at a house party'.

The problem with doing only dubstep, is simply dubstep isn't the in thing, the majority of us on this very forum listen to other dance musics primarily, so having related genres and suggestions is a must. We can also add 'if you like xxx genre you might also like yyy genre'. And artists don't have to be pigeonholed into just one as per the Coki example above.

if someone were to come to the forum and say, 'Da faTT3st beA7s R BI AVICII <>, WH0 ELS3?!' then I'm happy for you all to tell them to do one.

I hate to be "that guy", but I just don't see the point. the people that have been here for a couple of months/years already know their shit and know where to find new stuff, including where to find new music on this board (snh e.g.).

new fellas don't come on here to search for techno. they register because it's called Dubstep Forum for a reason.
don't get me wrong (still a class tune btw). I admire that you'd be willing to sacrifice your energy and time to help those guys out. I just don't think that anybody on here would be able to create a decent "starter's list" that people couldn't simply find on wikipedia.

to stick to my earlier example; if somebody wanted to dig deep into the classic house stuff, you'd be better off to direct them to their nearest record store. discovering music is an activity. not a "passivity". get me

what with genrecrossing tunes/artists?

edit; I could give a lot of artist names who are all "OG"'s in their respective "genre" so this can be a long list. What's the point of doing this if I may ask? What do you want to do with this?