How did you get into dubstep?

properauthority · Post by **properauthority** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:06 pm

Exactly as you read, how did all of you first get into dubstep?

azair · Post by **azair** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 8:24 pm

I'm not sure if I ever got really into dubstep, since I've never been to a dubstep concert and I've never made that many tunes that you would categorize as dubstep. I mainly joined this forum to get advices and inspiration and I might admit that it has helped me a lot.

I still love dubstep and I listen to it very often, even though I mostly make electronica/ambient/2-step stuff.

I started listening to dubstep for about a year and a half ago I think. I heard Burial first and then I moved on to Truth, DMZ, Pangaea, Shackleton, Sully etc. But I've primarily been listening to Burial and I still do and I still love his music.

aftee · Post by **aftee** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:08 pm

Quite unlikely actually, met a guy on a game who was talkin about DnB with me then showin some tracks he made, 1 of them bein dubstep. Fell in love with that, then he showed me more, explained what it was how it was done, showed me dubstep.fm ect.

Changed my life, lol

dubsteptim · Post by **dubsteptim** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:17 pm

mid/late 2006 tuned into a dnb radio show and they were playin dubstep instead... downloaded some mixes a few days later & by early 2007 went and saw scuba... good times!

hackman · Post by **hackman** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:23 pm

a mate played me midnight request line early 2006, didnt really like it at first but grew massivley on me
then got some other early skream tunes like glamma, traitor, angry
just kept growin from there

rob_booth · Post by **rob_booth** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:32 pm

Religious listener to the John Peel show ....

On the 16th December 2004 some producer by the name of Digital Mystikz played a set ... you could say the rest is history .....

I had heard early horsepower, but it wasn't until I heard Digital Mystikz that I started to take note of this sound.

ben freeman · Post by **ben freeman** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:44 pm

I was on the bill at a local party opening for Joe Nice. (Hell at that point I didn't really even know much about dubstep tbh) I was spinning mostly ragga jungle stuff, then he came on (to a lame turnout crowd) but it didn't matter, I was floored. the next weekend I went up to Dubwar with Digital Mystiks and I will say that that show was still one of the best parties I ever went to in my life. Absolutely floored by the basslines coming outta this sound.

beerz · Post by **beerz** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:50 pm

thru grime pretty much. heard midnight request on a set or summit....n then got bare skream and benga cos they were the only 2 guys i knew.

sri · Post by **sri** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 9:51 pm

a few years ago one of my friends was spinning dubstep every sunday at the local bar. i thought the sound was interesting. then he rounded up a bunch of us to go to dub war. i honestly had no clue what it was to be honest but im always up for an adventure so figured id go along on the bus trip. it was dub war meets dmz at tonic. from that night on i was hooked. hearing the music live in a place like tonic and seeing the dmz crew live! oh my! bangin!

drokkr · Post by **drokkr** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:05 pm

a few years ago, in my mates kitchen, he goes "listen to this, it's called dubstep"

toasty - "the knowledge" comes on. i lose my mind. haven't looked back since...

frodo · Post by **frodo** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:09 pm

My mate played me some Vex'd bits in 2005.

Luke Yeah? · Post by **Luke Yeah?** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:15 pm

I got into the dubstep sound when burial’s ghost hardware was single of the week on iTunes. This is going to sound stupid I know but the reason I checked it out was because I liked the artwork. I downloaded it and thought it was amazing, brought the album and listened to nothing none stop for the next month or so. Since then my love for the sound has grown and I know listen to a large spectrum of the sound.

apathesis · Post by **apathesis** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:33 pm

First heard dubstep as instrumental grime in grime mixes, a friend was like 'actually it's called dubstep...'

sines · Post by **sines** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:36 pm

hackman wrote:a mate played me midnight request line early 2006

same here.

tercerojista · Post by **tercerojista** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:45 pm

Xmas 2005, and Rob Sparx played me some new dnb tunes he'd been working on, together with 2 Faced Rasta. And he said: "Yeah, dubstep was pretty much invented by some guys I went to college with (the Mystikz), and it's blatantly gonna be the biggest thing since dnb." I was into instrumental hip hop from Montreal at the time, and had never really known about the London scene.

A couple of months later I was bored, and started looking for whatever it was that was so special about dubstep. I didn't quite get it, but started collecting dubstep tunes anyway. I liked it because it was different, and I liked anything that was different. It wasn't until October 2006 that I first went to a show - Skream's album launch party - and I discovered why everyone had been saying: "You need to hear dubstep in a club to understand it". It was then that I started to go really nuts about the genre.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:46 pm

vexd glade 06

Hibbie · Post by **Hibbie** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:48 pm

Late 2006 mate gave me a n-type mix recorded of rinse fm, still one of the best mixes ive heard

dj vk - snakebite ent. · Post by **dj vk - snakebite ent.** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:49 pm

Followed the transition from Dark Garage.

Even though it wasn't really called Dubstep, I think I properly got into the sound hearing it on Rinse and DJs such as Youngsta and Distance were really pushing it.

tercerojista · Post by **tercerojista** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:09 pm

DJ VK - SNAKEBITE ENT. wrote:Followed the transition from Dark Garage.

I will be forever gutted that I missed that part of history.

did · Post by **did** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 11:14 pm

heard my mate's brother blasting twis up from his room in like 2004/5 and wondered what the fuck i was hearing

How did you get into dubstep?

How did you get into dubstep?

Who is online