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I started out listening to rock/indie music I guess you could call it, bands like At the Drive-In, Sunny Day Real Estate, then it was on to Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Bjork. Then came time for DJ Shadow, Portishead, Massive Attack. Then I found GOOD hip hop: Wu-Tang Clan, early Nas, Big L, Outkast. Then I bumped into electronic ambient artists like Tim Hecker (amazing), Fennesz (amazing as well). Then I heard Untrue by Burial and that opened me up to dubstep. I still listen to A LOT of genres of music though...

Had no real direction production wise until I got into dubstep a few months ago. Used to listen to a lot of hip hop, so there was definately that influence, though I can't MC for shit, and instrumental hip hop is really very dull. So I tried making trip-hop kinda stuff like RJD2 etc. and even went through a bizarre 80's phase.

The strange thing is, I was listening to some old projects a little while ago, and found some stuff that sounded a lot like dubstep, waaaay before I had ever heard anything even like dubstep.

Spoken word soundscapes
Industrial
Noise
TripHop/Dub
DnB
Tribal
Psy-Trance
Psy-dub
Dubstep

dnb mainly for me. that's where I learnt my skillz. But once I started producing dubstep no going back. It's so much more free and expressive IMO

Tryed to make grime when i was younger want happening the started making dubstepish tunes this year

I started with scream tracker 3, which worked on DOS
maked something-like-techno with that one as a kid.

then later started using Acid ( I think the version was 4 )
and got in to hiphop.
( I used to rap too, in finnish )

Then I started to listen all kinds of interesting music
indie rock, alternative, electronica, etc and not so much
hiphop. I had one post-rock project in this era of my life

My friend introduced me
to dubstep and dubtechno in the 2006.
I fell in love with both and started making own tracks.

Nowadays its mainly only dubstep.

And folk I have a "band" with my girlfriend.
Im planning to make
some dubstep-remixes maybe

In this order through my life:

90s rock grunge some 80s punk, some reggae
electronica / techno
alternative rock
punk / drum and bass
metal and progressive rock
indie rock
electro & progressive house
dubstep

still keep alittle of each in my playlists, its nice to be well rounded

Metal, techno, hardcore/gabba, drum 'n bass, dubstep.
I still make techno once in a while, but it's mostly dnb and dubstep these days, and occasionally some hardcore when i'm in the mood. I'm done with bands for now though, too much bullshit having to deal with 4 or 5 other guys, had too many bad experiences.

idm>ambient>electronicish post rock> post rock>dubstep

WTF!!!

classic rock>rock>jam bands>
ibiza when i was 19>hardhouse>techno>breaks> dubstep
I never could get into drum and bass and still to this day can't but you slow that shit down 25 bpm and its on like donkey kong..

I used to drum in a thrash metal band, but metal got stale with all the guitar solos and i just preferred to be in control, started producing.

House at first, then onto dubstep cause i liked the variation in beats instead of just a straight 4 to the floor

used to play guitar in funk and jazz bands.

got sick of the self serving solo attitudes so i wanted to focus on vibes

got into breaks and jungle

then ambient electronica

and then found dubstep in 2006

quite surprised at the mention of gabber, hardcore techno etc. call me new fashioned but i was quite sure those genres had no redeeming value, wouldnt mind being corrected though?

got into oldskool jungle from reggae etc, then to new dnb, then got utterly bored of new dnb and dwelled on electro house for a long time, moving in and out of more housey stuff to fidget which is its last bastion for me now. got into dubstep very gradually, now it controls my life.

Started out experimental, progressed to trip-hop and was producing that for 3 years then eventually moved on to drum and bass, found my place in dubstep and have been producing it since then.

Enjoy all forms of music, gather influences from house, dub, reggae, and the list goes on.

d1rt1989 wrote:quite surprised at the mention of gabber, hardcore techno etc. call me new fashioned but i was quite sure those genres had no redeeming value, wouldnt mind being corrected though?

Happy to. You see, the value in those sounds - whether or not you feel 'em - is in their aesthetic.

While a lot of dance/electronic music that was contemporary with gabber and hard techno was focused on peace, love, & disco biscuits, those 'mainstream' sounds were kind of shallow for not acknowledging what we'd now call Darkness. House music had a "ungh, jack your body higher... feel the love... wooowoooowoooo" vibe - but if you live in the 'hood and your existence isn't privileged enough to be able to afford tickets to a rave, $20 pills, or brand new color-coordinated overall/sneaker outfits - or you're trying to come to grips with being increasingly alienated from everyone in a world that's more and more technologized - then all those happy major piano chords and soul divas giving you aerobics instructions start to sound really, really fucking annoying. At that point nothing sounds better than a heavily distorted 808 kick, no vocals, and a deadly serious minimalism almost bordering on autism.

Now, that said: I could only ever take about 20 minutes or so of gabber because I have a short attention span, and hard techno can be weirdly limiting after a while - you start to crave a little more sonic variety and warmth. But the point is that those sounds had a place in the evolution of our somewhat shared 'dark' aesthetic these days - they weren't afraid to get ugly and mash down the sounds dem while everybody else was trying to make cotton candy fluff.

I wanna do some spoken word type shit. just throw the thoughts on wax, warp my voice...need to get out of my head

86 Position wrote:I wanna do some spoken word type shit. just throw the thoughts on wax, warp my voice...need to get out of my head

Spaceape type shit?

petS buD wrote:

86 Position wrote:I wanna do some spoken word type shit. just throw the thoughts on wax, warp my voice...need to get out of my head

Spaceape type shit?

yeah now that I think about it would be like that....

I suppose doing that I don't have to make the beats to busy...it's about the words more.

PHASEten wrote:1)DnB
2)Breaks
3)Dubstep

Ive been in a few metal bands too.

This ^

petS buD wrote:

86 Position wrote:I wanna do some spoken word type shit. just throw the thoughts on wax, warp my voice...need to get out of my head

Spaceape type shit?

Im sorry if this offends anyone but SPACEAPE IS FUCKING BOLLOCKS. He has no flow, his accent is hammed up and false and extremely annoying, his "lyrics" are boring, nonsensical and in no way follow the rhythm of the track.

Cant remember which Dubstep allstars he shat all over (4?) but he ruined it for me......

Sorry that was a rant wasnt it