i agree man thats why i came on here first to see if anyone knew of anything an actual producer did to influence people. merely just making good music is not a leader, it may be a pioneer. but im looking for something like say if skream held a huge event premiering dubstep for free to spread the music. or something along those lines.scspkr99 wrote:OP, I'd look at the responses in this thread and consider a couple of questions, is Dubstep an actual industry or merely a genre within a wider music / electronic music industry? How can we identify who the industry leaders are?
What defines an industry, where is the innovation coming from, if it's not a product thing or an artistic thing it's the type of stuff that happens when people start using different standards of marketing that product is dubstep merely leveraging innovation in other areas such as soundcloud, myspace, youtube etc?
I know how enticing it can be to try and write a paper on something that you feel passionate about but I also know the dangers of trying to shoe horn the subject matter of that passion into something it doesn't really fit.
Something else you may want to consider, how much of the information required if you identify an industry leader as someone like Kode9, who appears to my less than knowledgeable self a reasonable candidate, is actually going to be available? You're not going to be writing about his contribution to the sound but about his contribution to the industry and how available is that information?
but i may not write my paper on dubstep, it was just an idea i had because i wanted to do my presentation on something different and be able to talk passionately about it. but if it doesn't fit, it doesn't fit. that doesn't mean i cant try and see if it can work.
originally i was thinking skream/coki. mala i believe is a pioneer but he seems like he remains a bit low key compared to others.
