So my friend put on Mt Eden Dubstep while we were chilling

[ultraspatial]

i felt confused and a bit sad when some 30 smth y.o. dude dropped nympho at some random student night i went to recently

[RKM]

so out of interest m8son and djoe did you get into "dubstep" from the "brostep" that everyone was playing at the time, i'd heard a few tunes like request line before but that brostep stuff was what i first associated with dubstep

[m8son666]

i heard fabriclive 37 probably first of all and a fair bit of other 'proper' dubstep, then i started getting into the more tearout broey stuff but as it got more and more brosteppy i became less interested and stopped listening to dubstep altogether. Then got back into it a couple years ago when i started producing

[wub]

i heard fabriclive 37 probably first of all and a fair bit of other 'proper' dubstep, then i started getting into the more tearout broey stuff but as it got more and more brosteppy i became less interested and stopped listening to dubstep altogether. Then got back into it a couple years ago when i started producing

37 got a lot of people into Dubstep, and conversely it was also a significant milestone in the eventual fracturing of the scene into Dubstep and Brostep, IMO.

[RKM]

definitely true, it had both styles all over it and i've met a lot of people that said that was their first impression of dubstep, particularly my mates that were into it thought that that album got them into it, can't believe that came out in 07

i always thought that brostep craziness people were playing was quite jokes but it didn't do a great deal for me so i kinda just ignored the whole genre until i stumbled into the music almost accidentally a couple years back when i went to a big fwd night with some mates

[exfox]

i heard fabriclive 37 probably first of all and a fair bit of other 'proper' dubstep, then i started getting into the more tearout broey stuff but as it got more and more brosteppy i became less interested and stopped listening to dubstep altogether. Then got back into it a couple years ago when i started producing

37 got a lot of people into Dubstep, and conversely it was also a significant milestone in the eventual fracturing of the scene into Dubstep and Brostep, IMO.

brostep of the time brought a lot of people into dubstep I think
I started listening to it after some dude on the Animal Collective forum posted Swagga, probably the first dubstep tune I've been into, then I gradually shifted towards "proper" stuff

can't wait for the proper brostep revival

[DiegoSapiens]

hey exfox

[wub]

definitely true, it had both styles all over it and i've met a lot of people that said that was their first impression of dubstep, particularly my mates that were into it thought that that album got them into it, can't believe that came out in 07

i always thought that brostep craziness people were playing was quite jokes but it didn't do a great deal for me so i kinda just ignored the whole genre until i stumbled into the music almost accidentally a couple years back when i went to a big fwd night with some mates

The rise of the more bro orientated sounds in the UK (at least) coincides with the smoking ban. Once people couldn't smoke spliffs inside, people started taking more drugs. The MCAT turned up, drugs became legal and cheap as fuck (for a while), so you've got a dancefloor that when once people were having a toke and nodding their head, now are boshing lots of uppers and jumping around. Stuff like Anti War Dub suddenly made a lot less sense.

[Forum]

I enjoyed cockney thug at the time, can't be denied

[wub]

I enjoyed cockney thug at the time, can't be denied

Think we all did. Same as most of us have jumped around drunk to Where's My Money at some point, I'd imagine.

[Forum]

I enjoyed cockney thug at the time, can't be denied

Think we all did. Same as most of us have jumped around drunk to Where's My Money at some point, I'd imagine.

And that awful vinyls dead bruv clipz tune, I used to listen to that at uni with no irony

[Harkat]

Lol back in 2008 or summit I went into a record shop and my mum let me get one CD. I was looking at the shelf and I spotted the Box of Dub compilation, because I thought radioactive signs were cool. I looked at the back and wondered what "dubstep" meant then I bought illmatic instead. Then I heard Katy on a Mission a few years later, found out it was a dubstep tune then went from there. Also found Swagga quiet early on, but grew tired of the electro house featival style that brostep was becoming. I had been listening to some grime stuff though. there was this student radio show that used to play it once a week.

I think the first "real" dubstep tune I rated was Skream - Hedd Banger.

[RKM]

i've thought about this a bit,
i always had the impression (tbh tbf i was not there) that dubstep always had a slightly aggressive element, like distance and vex'd and coki tunes, and when it got more popular and people with less of a garage (nuum etc..) background started moving in they wanted to hear that harder element more and more, leading to the rise of caspa and rusko types and from then on to the outlandish screeching drops it was just a natural process, people like that buildup and mad drop it's cathartic.

as more and more people got into the sound fewer were likely to have good speakers and monitors so they were more likely to be into sounds like borgore where you can still hear most of the song on an ipod dock turned up to full, so that music sold more and began to define what most people thought of as 'dubstep'

i'd never heard that smoking ban theory before so i'd always felt that the reason bro occurred was just a natural progression and helped by an influx of new listeners that didn't have roots in the early sound

[exfox]

hey exfox

yo!

I enjoyed cockney thug at the time, can't be denied

Think we all did. Same as most of us have jumped around drunk to Where's My Money at some point, I'd imagine.

I remember brocking when Skream and Benga dropped Sweet Shop* at Dour Festival in July 2009 haha

* yeh they did that

[DiegoSapiens]

i was into break beat and heard a remix of rusk woo boost looked for the original and really liked it, then looked for dub step in wikipedia and redirected me to skream. big ups the guy who wrote that article. btw i still think woo host is a good tune

[syrup]

this one?

[wub]

What has happened to Rusko? Not seen anything from him since that video of him being dragged out a venue whilst drunk, calling the sound engineer a rude word.

[DiegoSapiens]

no it wash´t that one, i have tried to look for it but i can´t find it, it was on an old breaks mix of a friend.

The last thing i heard from rusko was that he had a stress attack during his murrica tour and fell of while playing

[wub]

[syrup]

as far as i know he went to jump up dnb like half a year ago