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Hey there,

I'm writing an article about Dubstep for a student paper and I'm kinda keen to give it the fairest and most accurate representation I can - I came here as this is pretty much the hub of the Dubstep scene on the net.

I was wondering if any of you active in the scene could let me know what they think Dubstep's mainstream exposure starting a couple of years ago has (or hasn't) done for the genre, and where you think Dubstep is currently heading?

Thanks in advance - hell, if I don't get shot down too badly I might even stick around.

In before someone blames Rusko.

All I know is Surface Tension ruined dubstep

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String wrote:All I know is Surface Tension ruined dubstep

This.

What happened to drum n bass has happened/ is happening/ will happen to dubstep.

Neville Bartos wrote:What happened to drum n bass has happened/ is happening/ will happen to dubstep.

so its gonna get larger....sell more records....continue to do fine, and yet people will piss an moan over it on the computernetz and claim its failing is what you are saying ?

claw wrote:

Neville Bartos wrote:What happened to drum n bass has happened/ is happening/ will happen to dubstep.

so its gonna get larger....sell more records....continue to do fine, and yet people will piss an moan over it on the computernetz and claim its failing is what you are saying ?

Yeah that must be what he meant

claw wrote:

Neville Bartos wrote:What happened to drum n bass has happened/ is happening/ will happen to dubstep.

so its gonna get larger....sell more records....continue to do fine, and yet people will piss an moan over it on the computernetz and claim its failing is what you are saying ?

Spot on homie

It'll get better and more diverse as time goes on, but at the same time we'll all be nostalgic about when we first heard it and how even though it was a lot simpler back inna di day, it was better etc..

Also, it's probably going to get loads more popular as time goes on aswel, whenever i see a shitty dnb flyer, there's allways some room on the night with all the tear-out dubstep producers in there.

Dubstep will make an allegiance with Beyonce and rule the world once again!

claw wrote:

Neville Bartos wrote:What happened to drum n bass has happened/ is happening/ will happen to dubstep.

so its gonna get larger....sell more records....continue to do fine, and yet people will piss an moan over it on the computernetz and claim its failing is what you are saying ?

exactly

ships of pessimism, no worries

rusko and kanye west will do a superhit and then noone will ever make dubstep again

dubstep is sooooooooooooo last year.

its all about grubsubstubrubstep nao


that shit is just NEEEEXT level.

Surface_Tension wrote:

String wrote:All I know is Surface Tension ruined dubstep

This.

lol at the sig

Abs wrote:It'll get better and more diverse as time goes on, but at the same time we'll all be nostalgic about when we first heard it and how even though it was a lot simpler back inna di day, it was better etc..

Also, it's probably going to get loads more popular as time goes on aswel, whenever i see a shitty dnb flyer, there's allways some room on the night with all the tear-out dubstep producers in there.

Reading things like this I always feel guilty for listening dubstep and buying a mainstream 12" sometimes. I always have a feeling I'm destroying the scene because I only discovered dubstep in 2007 and am already a DJ.

But yeah, it will grow bigger and bigger, becoming less or more mainstream, known all over the world. We will get more and more new producers, and all the old producers who had the biggest influence will be forgotten (like Horsepower Productions, El-B etc.).

I'm not saying this is a bad thing, or dubstep will become a "shit-scene", but in a few years it will be totally different.

mate don't feel guilty, and don't feel like you owe the old producers anything, we have fond memories of the past, but things change innit, we're all shaping the future sound of the scene.. and to be fair it's not like you're really that late to the game, dubstep hasn't even been around for that long in the grand scheme of most musical genres.

Can someone tell me why Rusko ruined Dubstep?? I like Rusko!!