and how did you guys get here? (to duBstep music)

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:07 am

so what's yer story?
i listened to jungle from 96 til now, but became bored of the "nu skool" fromm 2000 forward... til i discovered sublow!!!! i never listened to house, though i likes some tekno and gabba and breakcore (where jungle was meant to go!). plus i love duB music!

worldy d · Post by **worldy d** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:32 am

I've been addicted to electronic music ever since I heard Basement Jaxx's "Red Alert" in '99. Then I went through phases of being into different subgenres- french house, speed garage, 2-step, old skool, dub, italo... But the biggest was IDM. In '03 I heard about the Grime comp on Rephlex and saw Wiley's video for Wot Do U Call It and was HOOKED. It was mainly from being so infatuated with the mystical "hardcore continuum" (underground British electronic music) and excited to- for the first time ever- be into a scene at the same time that it was big. I got into dubstep cuz I liked dub and 2-step and like the dark atmospheric vibe. I didn't get seriously into it until this year. This summer I listened to almost nothing but dubstep mixes. I'm probably about ready to move onto something else.

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:38 am

word? imma kickin it here for a while... it's nice and doomy, but fun, too!

amnesia · Post by **amnesia** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:56 am

been heavy into electronic music since Buffalo Girlsand Rockit, Egyptian Lover from that into Industrial/EBM=Nitzer Ebb, Skinny Puppy, Severed Heads, then 1988 LFO,Aphex etc - then 95 Jungle/Drum n Bass then Experimental electronic usic/avantguard Tod Dockstader,John Cage, GRM etc and improv electronics = Erstwhile records , Mego etc, then back into Drum n Bass last year and now Dubstep

or

my parents

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:01 am

got into techno in '94, then promptly switched to jungle as soon as I heard it in '95 (in the middle of a trance party in the L.A. desert, no less!). I managed to stick with it til '03 or so, when I just got fed up with the lack of creativity and soul. Spent most of '03 - '05 listening to all sorts of stuff - minimal techno, some breaks, some really heavy rock (!), old dub, jazz, etc.

Then earlier this year I read a tiny mention of something called 'grime' in a magazine. Two weeks later, I heard "I lou you" at a techno party (could it have been Luke Slater playing it???), and just instantly knew that it was 'grime'. Did some looking about, realized there was something beyond grime called dubstep that is even better, and there ya go.

Never did like house, tho

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:06 am

well!
big up yooseff
(seriously!)
big up severed heads! oh yeah! i left out a ton of stuff!!!
i did like the first orB record, nuserat fateh ali khan... throbbing gristle, coil, severed heads & public enemy when i was in my late teens(1988) ,
before that... art of noise, run dmc, slayer, ll cool j, motorhead (in 1984-85, before rapmetal (gross!)) some time i want to make a map of all the musics i've rocked over the years...
now i just want to ply my head with "knowledge", "fallen" and "root"!!!
cheers!
craig

ghettobot · Post by **ghettobot** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:09 am

i love dubstep soo much right now... i feel like finally something new and fresh is happening... i am overjoyed! thanks everyone!
hoorayyyyy!

who want the reeeeeeloooooooooooooad?

(derrrrrr!)

subframe · Post by **subframe** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:15 am

ghettobot wrote:i love dubstep soo much right now... i feel like finally something new and fresh is happening... i am overjoyed! thanks everyone!
hoorayyyyy!

I couldn't agree more. It's so nice to hear something fresh and good, very exciting.

gutter · Post by **gutter** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 7:56 am

I got into experimental/underground electronic music around 1984/85. It's been a natural progression from there.

vexin · Post by **vexin** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:11 am

Hardcore rave for me in 91 (Belgian hoover business), then heard We are E at Interdance Sterns in the same year, from then on, veered towards the breakier side of hardcore at the time, got on the protojungle train, stayed on it til 2002, had a cup of tea at the nubreaks station, got back on the train and here we are.

pete_bubonic · Post by **pete_bubonic** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 10:27 am

Since about 94 I have been a hiphop and dnb lover. Drum and Bass was without a doubt one of the most forward thinking, soulful and imaginative genres out there, I love it, but I share a feeling many dnb/jungle heads have had over the last 3 or more years.

'Where did the soul go?'

No longer could I go to club and listen to an Andy C set or (personal heroes of mine) Krust and Die and be in inspired by the music they played. It all sounds a bit too formulaic and just standard. Only really get excited now when these poeple, or people like Loxy or Dom and Roland do 'old school' sets like 97/98 techstep and earlier jungle stuff. Obviously there are new and established producers and labels doing their thing and doing it well (Fanu, Paradox, Seba, Fracture and Neptune etc.) but they get swamped and subsumed by an ocean of, in my mind, mediocre dancefloor fodder. So about a year and a half ago I started looking for more new stuff, I had always been keen on some Garage (would never admit it out loud though) but the UKG stuff was a little too concerned about it's image rather than beats for me to really enjoy. When it all imploded and grime took it's place it started catching my ear, then I heard a couple of dubstep mixes and I was sold. It has all the same energy and vibe that DnB has, but with oozing with soul.

I never intend to make dubstep or grime when I sit down in the studio, but it seems that the particular flow, riddims and pace just feel more natural.

Post by **dubway** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 11:50 am

dub -> dancehall -> jungle -> underground garage (breakstep) -> dubstep

funny thing is that i "invented" dubway before i heard for dubstep

it was a destiny

capsule · Post by **capsule** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:29 pm

Started listening Drum&Bass in '98. I was sold, what a sound. Then i discovered Garage, I loved the 2step kinda beats with happy basslines. I always had more interests in the dark side of Garage, remember Slimzee

. Fast, strong beats and phat basslines. That side started to evolve and suddenly they called it "Grime". Searched for Grime on the internet when i accidently bumped on a "Grime" (what they called it) mix of Kode9. It was different, it wasnt Grime. Started to explore and found out they called it Dubstep. Since that moment i tried to find this sound more and more. My love for Grime started to fade away and had more interests in the Dub sound. The Hatcha Practise Hours Mix did it all. What a special sound. And now, i LOVE Dubstep!

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 12:40 pm

Started on hip-hop.house as a young kid (early 90's), discovered hardcore/jungle on priate radio (92-93), started collecting (starting with Ruffige Kru- Terminator), got bored of too much ragga + hip hop samples (95), got into techno - mainly the deep detroit end of things, then got back into D&B around 97 when it got more techy, then lost interest in the D&B scene around 2000 when it got boring. Got into the breakbeat garage thing around 2002, also got into breaks for a bit but it quickly got boring ... discovered Rinse only in summer 2004, caught a Search & Destroy show, and knew I had found the sound i'd been looking for. Since then I've also fallen for the deep and heavy sounds of DMZ.

bze · Post by **bze** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:32 pm

Hardcore/rave in the early 90's, chemical/bigbeat in the middle, dnb in the late 90's. Then (something like '99-03) I discovered IDM, stuff like Squarepusher, Boards of Canada, Max Tundra, Luke Vibert, the guys at Hymen Records and most importantly Âµ-Ziq and Planet-Mu. Got seriously addicted to nu-breaks a couple of years ago, constant posting and reading various message boards led to wider knowledge of the scene and what's bubbling under.

Beginning of this year I heard about this thing called Hotflush and found out that Planet-Mu is releasing this sick, angry, slow breakbeat-type-stuff called "grime / dubstep". Then I ran into Kode9's amazing mixtapes and Rephlex's Grime-compilations. Not to mention various dubstep blogs, big up dubway, gutterbreakz, sid & paul!

... Later on (this summer) I started to experiment with the style myself and found out that it was very 'natural' and easy to produce dubstep-ish soundscapes. Now I just can't get enough.

kymatik · Post by **kymatik** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 1:47 pm

Ez all! (alright Pete, had to follow ya here

)

Recently been getting into the sound so heavily, in no small part thanks to Bubonic for that

. I've been into dance music since about late 1990, and been Djing since '95. 1st record I ever owned was "The Show" by Doug E Fresh and have always loved Hip Hop but I started out spinning deep minimal and acid techno, and followed the emergence of D+B, and have loved any basis of breakbeat led music and all the bass driven forms too ever since. Long as music has bass, breaks and a dark slant I'll love it

distortedmind · Post by **distortedmind** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 2:22 pm

like most here i came from dnb & jungle. i still love dnb but there aren't enough of the older (pre 2000) "simpler" dirty bassline, strong beats and dark atmospherics tunes made anymore imo, which is where dubstep comes in

r33lc4sh · Post by **r33lc4sh** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 3:38 pm

been in jungle, dnb, breakcore, hardcore, idm since middle of 90ties
this march we've made a party in city we live with dj scud (if know anything about breakcore u know this one for sure

) and he played about half an hour sth i've heard for the first time

so i asked him "hey what was that wierd bass stuff with a little of garage flow at the end of your set" and he said "that was dubstep - new sound from london" and here i am

rickyricardo · Post by **rickyricardo** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:35 pm

Got into electronic music in the late '90's =>

Started spinning drum'n'bass around 2000 =>

Got into 2-step UK Garage around the same time =>

Caught Hatcha, JDa, and Darqwan at a local outdoor party...totally changed my perspective on the darker side of garage =>

Joined 2-charming crew along w/ Joe Nice, who introduced me to more dubstep =>

Rocked Dubstep All-stars Vol 1. until resistance was finally futile...

stealth · Post by **stealth** » Sun Oct 16, 2005 4:43 pm

Hmm...

Got into the tech-step side of DNB around '99, when Ram, Bad Company, etc were at their peak and the music was just miles ahead of anything around at the time.

I'd been producing music since I was 16, so I started to (attempt to) produce, but when garage imploded and all the attitude started coming into DNB events and the music changed into Clownstep, there didn't seem much point in it anymore.

Switched to Nu-Skool breaks for a bit, but it was just too sugary for me. Then I heard Kode 9 & Daddy G's 'Spit' and it blew me away, I hadn't heard anything that good in years, so I started buying dubstep and the rest is history I suppose ...

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