Life Before Dubstep... .. .

[*decibella~~]

Interesting to find out what music everyone was into and following before they got into the Dubstep......?

I was an garage head (97-99/2000 ish), loved that sound back then...
(tunes like Wookie-Down on me, Y-Tribe-Enough is Enough, Amira-My Desire, Colours-Hold On, TJR feat Xavior-Gets Better With Time, Sunship vs Chunky-Dread Love, Industry Standard-What you Want, Spin Spin Sugar dark mix, M-Dubs Bump & Grind...whoa gettin carried away here, jus quickly Bodykillin, destiny, neighbourhood, Good Rhymes!! etc) ...
It was my 1st love affair with a propa 'scene', then when it got quite MC driven 'Do you really like it', 'sambuca' and so solid/more fire cru era i totally lost intrest.
I found Drum n Bass, loved it and was converted when i went to my 1st rave, Raindance at Brixton Accadamy, loved the whole 'raving' vibe, tunes back then were all sooo sic.... (alien girl, the begininng, dark soldier, out of the game, messiah, up all night, jah sessions, trippin etc etc)
Around this time las year something started lacking for me, apart from the music being too broken up now, techy, liquid, jump up etc, the tunes didnt have they impact they did back then, & didnt really get major hype maybe coz the transition from dub to release was so quick, tunes seemed quite 'throw-away' IMO and sheer volume of shit being put out on crappy little lables etc the scene got flooded i feel .... and i hated pendulum!

From goin off drum and bass i had about a month of diggin out & listening to all my old garage tapes, 88.9 shine fm, de-ja-vu, flare fm etc, and became disheartened about feelin so strongy about a genre of music ever again! I thought it was DnB forever once apon a time and garage had been and gone for me .... haha.....
Then i hear Breezeblock dubwars & get blown away, then DMZ Transmission in Leeds made me an offical dubstepper....
Dubstep became my number one around this time last year,I bought decks, been buyin tunes, out to as many nights as possible, its rekindled my love & passion for music, and the sense of belonging to a scene...

Dubstep ..... i love this!!!!

tell your story......!

[markle]

before dubstep....erm can;t remember the bass at FWD and DMZ has destroyed a large number of braincells...along with

Have a wide range of musical tastes hip hop, funk, jazz, reggae, disco, DnB, garage, techno, house, soul, electronica etc...was into to Broken Beat for quite a while from 2000 -2003 then it got a little stale.

Started diggin for old boogie and jazz records to fill the gap.

Then BOOM!! dubstep hit. Completely obsessed. I've stopped buying anything else...apart from reggae which kinda is a big passion too.

Viba Dubstep.

[tronman]

Interesting to find out what music everyone was into and following before they got into the Dubstep......?

I was an garage head (97-99/2000 ish), loved that sound back then...
(tunes like Wookie-Down on me, Y-Tribe-Enough is Enough, Amira-My Desire, Colours-Hold On, TJR feat Xavior-Gets Better With Time, Sunship vs Chunky-Dread Love, Industry Standard-What you Want, Spin Spin Sugar dark mix, M-Dubs Bump & Grind)

sameways. tunes like dnd-diamond rings, wookie-scrappy, b-15 project-girls like us.. i love the EZ pure garage comps, II was the best by faar, had 138-trek, true vip, basslick, dj lewi-hold tight, (that tune 'i dont want nobody tellin me what to doooo' - bad riddim!)
i loved the so solid era but for me it was all about 2 decks and a mic on radio, not songs they made. i used to rinse out delight 103 and upfront 99.7 on a regular!! red alert, milkymans (LIGHTS OUT!!!-deapoh knows!), so solid, untouchables. love all that.

[markle]

138 trek

[*decibella~~]

Interesting to find out what music everyone was into and following before they got into the Dubstep......?

I was an garage head (97-99/2000 ish), loved that sound back then...
(tunes like Wookie-Down on me, Y-Tribe-Enough is Enough, Amira-My Desire, Colours-Hold On, TJR feat Xavior-Gets Better With Time, Sunship vs Chunky-Dread Love, Industry Standard-What you Want, Spin Spin Sugar dark mix, M-Dubs Bump & Grind)

sameways. tunes like dnd-diamond rings, wookie-scrappy, b-15 project-girls like us.. i love the EZ pure garage comps, II was the best by faar, had 138-trek, true vip, basslick, dj lewi-hold tight, (that tune 'i dont want nobody tellin me what to doooo' - bad riddim!)
i loved the so solid era but for me it was all about 2 decks and a mic on radio, not songs they made. i used to rinse out delight 103 and upfront 99.7 on a regular!! red alert, milkymans (LIGHTS OUT!!!-deapoh knows!), so solid, untouchables. love all that.

haha!!! u kno dis!
b15 projest 'girls like us' is MY TUNE! fukin love that trak!
had them pure garage mix CDs too , EZ is a DON.! Sidewinder & la cosa nostra tapepacks where the one!

whats that trak ... 'ba-by tell-me.... ba-by tell-me..... ba-by, ba-by, ba-by, tell-me....when im not around....thinks he mus be messin around....heeeeey whatcha gonna do......when im not around'

also since gettin into dubstep ive started listening to and appreciating (sp) loads of other styles of music, deep house, tech house, bassline house, reggae and dub, breaks ....its opened my mind x

[dom]

milkymans (LIGHTS OUT!!!-deapoh knows!)

so other people do remember lol

[spaceboy]

i used to be into dubstep - i find it quite boring now. all the same.

but b4...garage! todd the god edwards. tuff jam. grant nelson. 95 north. ez. ice fm.

b4 that:

jungle/dnb. don fm. ed rush and optical. playaz. randall. rider. kenny. etc etc. u know the deal.

[boomnoise]

lol

[keith p]

UKGarage, Grime and onward.

I made the transition out of dn'b almost two months after I got my first tables.

I've always listened to various styles of music and Garage encompassed that. Dance music in general acted as a gateway into other forms of music such as punk, ska/reggae/dub, indie etc(I had always listened to or been familiar with them but it gave me the initiative to really delve into alternate genres). I've always listened to hip hop and thats obviously incorporated into genres like grime and 2step.

I basically listen to everything and play a wider range of music everyday but I constantly find my foothold in different forms of Garage.

[je:5]

I'm still a very multi genred person, but past progression has been Death Metal, Grindcore, Industrial, Hip Hop and Britcore, Hardcore Rave, Techno the list goes on and it still does. I'm still mainly into techno though.

[bagga]

Dope idea DeCiBella!!

Man i started out with pop radio when i was 12
then i got Scour, onea the first P2Ps, and started downloading like mad. Real Slim Shady came out, I knew and still know all the words to that. i was initially into lotsa the mainstream radio tunes. then that got all sugarcoated an waterd down, i went searching the internet and came up on lotsa hiphop. became a hiphop head.

then one day browsing the internet I stumbled my young ass on "..::SWITCH.::..MUSIC FOR BEATHEADS" it was a linux howto/192kbps shoutcast stream with requests, and it was pure BAD ASS Jungle . I banged that shit for a day straight out my old yamahas.. I had no idea what it was but through the selections on that site I learned what i liked and didnt like in drum n bass. I found Bassdrive and exposed my 14 year soul to all the drums I could. Tha Defcom and Biotic labels stuck out to me so I found Soulseek and went seeking, luckily the drum'n'bass chat room was huge at the time. Eventually a music sharing junglist buddy from the internet turned me onto DnB on IRC and FTP and my DnB has since blown up to now 40 gigs, sorted by label. 40 gigs from 2002>2006. cotdamn I got too many shitty labels..

I moved in with my girlfriend (the Junglewoman (she's from LA) this summer and she brought me to my first raves and parties spread all over the Bay Area. We hit breaks an jungle nights.

One saturday night in the end of this August (2006), me n her knew we were going to the city (frisco) to dance but didnt know what event. we checked up on Groundscore and it had: "Full Melt 4: DUBSTEP". we looked at eachother like wwut the fuck is dubstep. we're both reggae heads and familiar with 2step so we knew it prolly good shit. I searched up dubstep online record stores and we heard some 32kbps dubstep samples and were like WUT THE FUK LETS GET OUT THERE!!!!

We arrived abut 1130 and strolled in through the little bright breaks room into the 3000square foot warehouse room with 40kw dubstep. I could immerse u for 2 pages on this night but basically I rallied myself in the dubstep room, my girl pulling me into breaks way frequently, and i falling back into the front of dubstep room , until 6 am -- security cuts the sound - they roll up the doors on the dubstep room and I'm still buried, melted 20 feet below the ground and the sun is rising on san francisco.

any, way, my girl who i was very tight with (she's a 25 year old junglist from LA) complained for weeks that the music that was so heavy and unhappy and I agreed with her that it was a downward feeling dance. I agreed with her at the time and dissed on dubstep for a month or so. Funny thang iz, my little sister (14) heard us listening those dubstep clips online at my parents house after some birthday dinner before we bounced that first night, she went out and bought Dubstep Allstars 2, and kinda liked it, so next time i saw her she showed it to me. I told her what my girl and i thought of dubstep and no one really listened to the poor cd for a while. It kept pulling me back and eventually i ripped it onto my computer burned myself a copy and listened to it OFTEN.

I since have broke up with my girl of that time. I've realized I can still be my extremely positive self while im beat through the floor by dubstep. Its a very heavy music; you gotta fuckin realize it aint negative, for the most part.

The majority of drum n bass has become dead boring to me, i aint feelin many producers these days. Vibes like Current Value, some Gein, and the noisia/phace/misanthrop/upbeats shit is mainly all im feelin these days. most of the Dylan/FreakRecordings camp has gone over the edge: no, im not into trimming my penis with rusty scissors.

Dubstep has found an encompasing place within all my dimensions that I'm gonna pursue heavily starting now. I really am a fresh steppuh , introduced in August, loved it except my girl and myself turned me against it, now im lovin it and seeing it as the fall of drum n bass as my main single number one music. I'm glad for that as I was becoming close minded to a degree, dubstep made me want to listen to Pink Floyd again, to say the least.

aight if u made it this far!!!! HAHAHA SUCKERRR! thanks!

I gotta get my ass to monthly(i think) NarcoHz that Juju's puttin on in the city. I'm stoked Argon records is based here in SC, I still havent met nick yet tho..

I'm 18 from santa cruz and you just learned alot about me.

DAYUM IM DONE!! ima go listen to Goat Stare!

[psycho]

Got into the hardcore-metal scene as a kid (14 years I guess), moved on to jungle/dnb, then discovered breakbeat (which still is one of my fav styles around, the harder stuff (ctrl z, quest, ed209, breakfastaz, mutiny etc, unfortunatley there's too little good stuff being released in that scene lately) and 'bout two years ago I got a deep passion for the dubstep vibezz, which is absorbing me more and more again.

[rachel]

whats that trak ... 'ba-by tell-me.... ba-by tell-me..... ba-by, ba-by, ba-by, tell-me....when im not around....thinks he mus be messin around....heeeeey whatcha gonna do......when im not around'

x

once waz nice 'messin around'. biiiig tune

[BaronVon]

Got into Hardcore in around 1991 at the tender age of 11 used to stay up all night taping of the pirates,with my Dad shouting what the fook is that noise and asking my Mum if i needed some Psychiatric help.Then Jungle hit,carried on my Pirate obsession till i went to my first rave at 14.Always listened to other music but purely went clubbing to Jungle.Till about late 2001 when i completely lost interest.The creativity seemed to fall out of the scene completely every tune started to sound like bmmm tss bmmm tss bmmm tss bmmm tss.
Gave up clubbing as a lost cause.About 2 years ago started getting into the whole Broken Beat thing.Still love the sound and going to Broken nights open up my ears to lots of other sounds.Broken nights tend to play lots of different beats from House to Techno.One of my local DJ's played a tune by Geiom about six months ago and ive been obsessed by Dubstep ever since.Infact im finally going to my first Dubstep night on Saturday.Cant fookin wait Geiom,N-Type and Benga.bring it on.
Ive got that feeling back that i had when Jungle first came out.Pure creativity and so much variety in the music.

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I have been into bass for as long as i can recall....

[dolly]

Im gonna really murk myself here now but fuck it...it started off from the age of 11-mid 14 that i loved nothing but cheesy boybands (only those close to me know what bands, but trust me they were cheese man)..was finally shown the light at 15 to Garage thanks to my Sis..started to hit all the happening clubs at that time using her I.D..

Over the next 4 years started to realise that garage just werent for me anymore..,then, thank fuck, it was my mates bday so i joined the crew and headed down to Brixton Academy - ONE NATION - my first ever rave - my god i had the time of my life!!! When the night drew i was gutted, i wanted to carry on - DnB was it, this is IT!! I continued ravin, hitting Fabric every single Friday without fail, every rave that i could make i went, every tape pack that came out, i got!!

For some reason i then slowed down on the ravin. Not cos i werent feelin it, just cos i was hearing some new, strange, bass weight music that caught my attention. I started to go Fwd, went to first DMZ and wasnt sure if i really felt the music...but i continued and carried on going to DMZ, listening to Rinse and searchin the net. The rest is history, i'm a Dubaholic....

[benjybars]

into drum and bass first, then started listening to grime sets non step on rinse from late 2003 onwards... used to catch dubstep when i left the radio on... heard dubstep live for the first time kind of by accident earlier this year,, and then... BOY! that was it... basically taken over my life

[deamonds]

started listening to old garage tapez i nicked from my aunties 1 day, (badman garage nation halloween tapes from way back!! big!!), then bought my 1st record, ms dynamite boo!,

once i had followed up to the evolution of the sound up to that point, started checking slimzee on a sunday 3-5 rinse 100.3fm checking the mc's he used to get up deya (d'naeo, tinchi, dizzy n wil), then trying my hardest to get my hands on his plates.

found dubplate.net before it closed and i can just remember hearing horror show as a preview plate and wondered if i might go that dark 1 day, kept listening to grime till about a year ago then it got really stale, sounded the same all the time, and now the only crew i really check are OT only because there from near wer i live. I eard i one of skreams mixes he put out their and i was eventually converted to a better place........"grimes older brother"

[ekstrak]

Before dubstep there was metal, stoner, post, minimal techno/house, jungle, hiphop and dancehall.

During dubstep there is metal, stoner, post, minimal techno/house, jungle, hiphop and dancehall.

After dubstep there shall be metal, stoner, post, minimal techno/house, jungle, hiphop and dancehall.

[Rob H]

LIGHTS OUT!!!

sweatbox business

yeah i was into garage around them sort of times, listening to delight, flight etc. then got kindof caught up in the grime sides of things when (imo) it still seemed much more exciting (pay as u go, eskimo etc). Ive also always been heavily in to hip hop, especially uk stuff such as poisonous poets etc.