Dubtep outta Croydon

[mathildaleo]

Hi there!

My name is Mathilda and I am a third year student at Kingston University studying the television & new broadcasting media with sociology programme.

I am currently writing my sociology dissertation about Croydon and dubstep.
As I believe, and according to many other sources, dubstep originated in Croydon.

I was wondering if you would be interested to answer a few short questions about this topic?
It would be very helpful and I would be very grateful for your time and help.

If you don't have time to answer these questions - don't worry they are only a few and you can write as short/long answers as you like

1. What is so interesting about dubstep as a music genre?

2. Croydon is a suburb to the inner city of London, what would you say is contributing to its unique genre?

3. Big Apple records, what has it done for dubstep?

4. Would you say that dubstep was more 'original' in the past and has become more mainstream today?

Cheers! Mathilda

[Harkat]

1. You have to view this in the context of other urban UK dance music, as it evolved from there. Dubstep is (was?) quite a diverse scene, but broadly speaking there's a sense of tension, edge and darkness that was missing from what UK Garage and Drum and Bass were offering to ravers at the time it came about, which was early 2000's. That's what set it apart. It still had that groove from Garage in it, but it wasn't so vibey and lovely.

2. Dunno, not from the UK

3. Brought a lot of the original dubstep talent together.

4. For the most part, yes. Not necessarily because it became mainstream, but it's of course less original now, as with any scene that's been around for over a decade. The sound split off into very defined paths, there's the ultra aggressive ragey stuff, there's the festival stuff thats really cheesy, there's the really techy dark shit that's a bit too vibe-less for its own good IMO. But that happens with everything, doesn't it.

[jrkhnds]

aren't you supposed to work with scientific methods?
just read Hatcha's most recent interview in FACT, and listen to Mala's speach at RBMA, aswell as Artwork's, which offers a lot of information on the scene's begginings. at least you can quote these without being a total knob.

[m8son666]

Dubstep came from england cos it rains all the time

[Func]

Wouldn't it make more sense to interview someone in the scene? rather than a bunch of people on a forum

[Marcus]

I seriously would recommend you watch this & bassweight if you can find the video.