Dubstepforum.com

Hey everyone

I am a student researching for my dissertation which looks at dubstep forum in the context of the internet, music culture and peoples “online” and “offline” social relationships, asking chiefly whether there is a convergence.

I wanted to get an idea of forum users views, positives, negatives about the forum through a questionnaire, and through threads left on the forum

If anyones interested in taking part just number your response to the following questions i.e.
1) I think that ...
2) ......
3) ......
and I can use the responses in the thread as part of my research.

let me know what you think or any questions

1. how often do you use the forum

2. generally speaking are the people you talk to people you know in person, people you met online and speak with or strangers

3. what if anything does dubstep forum enable you to do that you could not with previous ways of communicating (i.e. sharing music through AIM, production tips etc).

4. Can you think of example of what you do online (socialising, sending / receiving music, viewing events etc) has shaped or influenced your offline dubstep experience? (i.e. going out, buying records, producing / playing music)

5. Do you think dubstep music is shaped by or reflects the areas it comes from (i.e. is there a “London / Croydon Sound”, “Bristol Sound” or a difference between UK and US, Dutch, Venezuelan, Romanian produced dubstep)

6. Does dubstep produced in your area have a particular sound (i.e. something different to dubstep from other regions)?

7. Does the sharing of music (and its influence) serve to make the music more varied or more uniform?

8. Do you feel dubsteps musical influence is shaped by its surrounding, if so how?

9. What are the consequences for different places music being able to be shared (and influence) people in disperate locations through the internet or dubstep forum

10. Do you have any other comments you would like to add?

1. Everyday

2. Strangers

3. Got loads of tips from production forum, found out about artists who are unsigned who I like, Mutual feedback on tunes (give out and recieve)

4. Had some great feedback off people on tunes which has helped me to improve, found out about nights I wouldn't have before.

5. It's more to do with groups of producers who know each other than geographical locations people working together to push the dubstep sound in there area. But really Leeds sound is best (haha)

6. Dubstep in leeds/bradford... they're is a lot more experimental acts I feel - but most of them only came up here for uni anyway - they're is also a tradition of soundsystems/reggae here so thats an influence and as always there is lots of jump-up

7. Both. Prety obvious answer to the question, people with open minds it will help, people who just want to be BIG or whatever will copy what's popular

8. My music is more based on feelings & emotions than physical stimuli

9. Faster expanding scene, more bandwagon jumpers, more good music, more wider influences

10. no

it used to be pretty good, but now it's just people promoting there own tune or saying 'OMG CHECK OUT THIS NEW 16BIT TUNE, WHEN'S IT ON WAX?'

kinda has always been like that

1. basically, everyday.

2. Strangers and people I know online.

3. Learn genre specific production techniques and tips, find more obscure producers, grab mixes I wouldn't have otherwise heard of, hear tunes I wouldn't have heard of otherwise.

4. Will buy tunes I've heard of from trawling the forum.

5. I don't think the actual place influences it much but I do think that specific areas have their own sound, mainly because someone started off doing that and that's what the producers in that area are hearing so they're doing their own take on it.

6. I'm the only producer in my area I know of.

7. Varied.

8. No.

9. Rephrase this.

10. Good Luck with your dissertation.

1. how often do you use the forum

Everyday.

2. generally speaking are the people you talk to people you know in person, people you met online and speak with or strangers

Strangers.

3. what if anything does dubstep forum enable you to do that you could not with previous ways of communicating (i.e. sharing music through AIM, production tips etc).

Keep us with releases on a global basis, encountering and meeting people with very specific similar interests.

4. Can you think of example of what you do online (socialising, sending / receiving music, viewing events etc) has shaped or influenced your offline dubstep experience? (i.e. going out, buying records, producing / playing music)

Clearly, DSF has pretty much introduced me to production and DJ'ing as a whole, which have been my main interest for the past couple of years.

5. Do you think dubstep music is shaped by or reflects the areas it comes from (i.e. is there a “London / Croydon Sound”, “Bristol Sound” or a difference between UK and US, Dutch, Venezuelan, Romanian produced dubstep)

Yes. There's the US showoff/obnoxious in your face sound, the uk deep stuff, etc etc. However it's not an absolute rule or pattern and it does vary

6. Does dubstep produced in your area have a particular sound (i.e. something different to dubstep from other regions)?

Nope, I think there are tops 10 producers including me in the city


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1. Daily.

2. Don't know them in person, just chat on the forum.

3. It keeps everything in one central place and you can access information that you had nothing to do with.

4. I find out about a lot of new music through dubstepforum, which I end up listening to and buying. I also find out about events that I attend.

5. I don't think every artist from a certain area has a similar sound. However, in some artists you can tell that their location has heavily influenced their production.

6. No.

7. Varied.

8. For certain artists, yes. For other artists, not really.

9. Dubstepforum allows people who would never hear the sound in a club or at a festival to hear the sound and become somewhat involved with the scene.

10. Let me know if you need anything else.

1. Everyday and a lot in that day ha

2. Strangers, People I have made friends with online because of DSF and friends in real life.

3. Find out about newest releases, new songs, new artists, production tips, free songs, mixes, event date's, locations and line-up's.

4. It's helped me to better my production skills and gives me something else to talk about with my friends "did you see that thread about blah blah".

5. I wouldn't say the area's reflect the music but just the artists as there are producer's in Bristol or London that could sound the same as someone anywhere else in the world.

6. I don't have Dubstep in my area . The majority don't know what it is!

7. No because you could here something that someone else has done and this could trigger influences off in your head and making you go in different directions with your music.

8. Yeah you could say it is. Like the fact it came from Croydon and that's a very grey, concrete area and Dubstep can be very dark and gritty but then again there is people from not nice area's created beautiful music.

9. More people could be copying others and not finding there own style therefore creating a boring scene.

1. how often do you use the forum

2. generally speaking are the people you talk to people you know in person, people you met online and speak with or strangers

3. what if anything does dubstep forum enable you to do that you could not with previous ways of communicating (i.e. sharing music through AIM, production tips etc).

4. Can you think of example of what you do online (socialising, sending / receiving music, viewing events etc) has shaped or influenced your offline dubstep experience? (i.e. going out, buying records, producing / playing music)

5. Do you think dubstep music is shaped by or reflects the areas it comes from (i.e. is there a “London / Croydon Sound”, “Bristol Sound” or a difference between UK and US, Dutch, Venezuelan, Romanian produced dubstep)

6. Does dubstep produced in your area have a particular sound (i.e. something different to dubstep from other regions)?

7. Does the sharing of music (and its influence) serve to make the music more varied or more uniform?

8. Do you feel dubsteps musical influence is shaped by its surrounding, if so how?

9. What are the consequences for different places music being able to be shared (and influence) people in disperate locations through the internet or dubstep forum

10. Do you have any other comments you would like to add?


1. Everyday!

2. A few people I know, a few more are acquaintances, and a lot I don't know at all.

3. It enables mass conversation with people from anywhere it the world, which is usually a good thing. I would say it has helped my production, and exposed me to a lot of music that I wouldn't have heard otherwise.

4. I think that in many ways the two are seperate, but definitely influence each other, I occasionally meet people I have spoken to online / hear tunes out that I have discovered online etc.

5. To a certain extent, definitely, but not excessively. Your surroundings are always going to influence many aspects of your life, and the culture of one place is going to sway your production, definitely. People making tunes in the middle of nowhere and people making tunes in big cities are going to have different influences.

6. I wouldn't say Bristol has a particular sound, but rather that bristol dubstep heads tend to be rather more open minded than certain other locations, and this leads to a diverse and exciting scene. There's still loads of wobble crew though

7. Both, undoubtedly. The wider music spreads, the more copied and derivative it becomes, the more it acquires a mainstream direction. Conversely the wider it spreads the more intresting musicians hear it and interpret it in their own way, thus it becomes more varied.

8. Surely this is the same as Q5

9. Amalgamation and collision of musical ideas.

10. Can't think of any