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did you hear it out? stumble across it in a record shop? a mate told you about it? etc...

personally I first heard it by seeing that GRIME LP on REPHLEX and being a huge fan of PLASTIKMAN (Richie Hawtin) assumed it was him, brought it without listening to it and was pleasantly surprised.

Just spent £100 on boomkat with most of it being dubstep.

dvnt wrote:
personally I first heard it by seeing that GRIME LP on REPHLEX

thats the first exposure for me as well!! after trance and dnb got old i turned to Aphex twin which lead me to rephlex and planet mu. Grime 1 & 2 and Vex'd degenerate were what got me hooked. unfortunately i barely even pull those tracks out anymore...

i saw joe nice mabey like a year and a half, mabey 2 years ago in a club.

i walked into the room casually, turned my head and asked my man "who's that??"

he said "that's joe nice".

"what the fuck is he playing?" i asked

to which he replied "i dunno what the hell that shit is called but he's always spinning it and it's always really phat".

and of course the tuning into gourmet beats on occasion. joe nice is the man gettin people sucked in over in the states.

EDIT : in fact, i think i tracked down joe nice via aim and asked him what kind of music it was that he was playing, lol. i didnt even know what dubstep was.

Heard it out and was like woah this is HEAVY not knowing what it was then my mate's brother showed him it and it all kinda went from there. So glad I came across it

In the car, listening to it gradually evolve on Rinse FM.

Props to the pioneers.

i was kinda into grime, then people started mentioning the genre dubstep. then saw a thread on DOA which was "dubstep / grime producers post here" - listened to a few mixes and tunes in that thread and became hooked.

I've been buying some Tempa and Soulja stuff since around 2002, after listening some of that tunes in mixes by Cylob and DMX Krew. I fell in love at the moment.

But the first time I heard the word "dubstep" was with the Grime compilation by Rephlex too, big up Markone Plasticman and Slt Mob for that great album!

first heard it thru delsa summer 2004 we were listening to alot of instrumental grime and them mad bassy garage bits off dubplate.net but delsa started buying it and thats what got us hyped for it, having the plates and hearing it proper

shout to ak for getting me on the proper rubadub bits, good times making clouds in my old yard

Been buying Grime since 2003 and was kinda following Dubstep then with the grimier beats from Big Apple Records. Wonder - "What" really got me into it and also N-Types free mix CD that I got from Big Apple.

was into very much into garage...then grime, but didn't really know the dubstep side of things till meeting joe. Honestly, it took a while to grow on me. It's hard to say where it finally clicked...but at one point I looked up and realized I was buying many many more dubstep records than dnb or 4x4 garge.

erm buying nearly every bass heavy cd in boomkat then moaning to conor that nothing was very interesting. he forced a copy of allstars 2 on me and said to type "dubways blogspot" into google and download some mixes. cheers boss.

edit: just wanted to say it was fuckin weird hearing it to begin with, was the music i'd wanted people to be making for time. All the skunked out vibes man, couldn't get enough, couldn't understand where it had come from either [just my ignorance] which made it all the more interesting.

garage

Deapoh wrote:Wonder - "What"

Such a tune.

found it lying in a gutter one night and took it home. It looked like it needed a place to stay, so i did a good deed and it ain't left yet




































sorry i'll go now.

Seriously tho, through Kode 9 back in 2002 who i met at university, when it was still very 2steppy, dark garage type stuff. Then kept hearing stuff on and off, hyperdub bits, some grime stuff etc... till i bumped into him again in 05 on my bday and saw him and Mala play at the Old Blue Last - i was like wtf the beats are heavy as fuck. and then started listening to stuff more intently and following on it, finding this blog/forum etc...

I was sad, depressed and alone, walking down a dark alley one night and all the sudden dubstep appeared out of the shadows.
She took me in her arms and told me everything was gonna be alright...and you know what?
She was right!
and we've been together ever since.

First exposure was probably a mix from BunZero on Breakbeat Worldwide.

And while checkin my normal sites for new breaks I got a listen to the Our Sound LP. Picked it up chop chop.

used to work in a record shop when i were a yute in kensington market, linked up with deekline and co + the ice fm boys...

deekline then had made dont smoke etc...

quest was about too...made some bangers earlier on...

im from the west london breaks fraternity essentially...not really from the fwd camp...

original darker tunes i can remember off the top of my head were...rephlex action like a snake by zed bias

wasn't really into the early el-b stuff - too minimal and boring...

all about the breaks for me back then

1) Heard the Grime / Horsepower albums... but on a really bass-lacking system (and thought they were just grime instrumentals).

2) Heard the Vex'd album on Juno.co.uk... didn't know what it was, but I liked it.

3) Heard the Breezeblock 'Dubstep Wars' show... I was very interested.

4) Went to DMZ... I was hooked.

jamie vex'd hipped me to it in 2003 or so on a hiphop msg board we both frequented for a good 4-5 years or so. we both had similar taste in jungle and whatnot and then he came with a "this is the new new shit you gotta hear".