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Okay, now for the real question.


What year did you find out about dubstep, how did you find out about it, and what country do you live in?

I'm trying to find out how many people were introduced to it through a club, a friend, a magazine, a newspaper, through the related video section in youtube, ect

There is no wrong or right answer, one answer does not make you better than someone elses answer.

Also, before anyone asks...."Why does it matter?" Well, it doesn't, it's just a question. Maybe a stupid question but it's a question nonetheless.

I'll go first:

mid 2006, From a friend, US

early 2009ish, not too sure
I just came across Skream- Watch the Ride, really liked Siren and Badman Place and just kept listening to it.
Calgary, Canada

10/01/2006 BREEZEBLOCK dubstep warz

i'd been checking out blackdown's p4k column on and off since about 2007, but i only got into it, seriously, when this mix dropped (still highly recommended, btw). Oh, and USA! USA!

thread title made me lol
"no you ARE actually a towel"
......
"you're a towel"

I got in to it when i saw Rusko/N-Type/Roni Size/Caspa and a few others at Valve!
Not a bad first gig!

2007. YouTube. Digital Mystikz - Haunted. I understood the sound immediately, and realized that it was what I had been looking for. California, USA.

Dubstep's over though.

late 2007, through a friend although i only really got into it a few months later after hearing midnight request line, uk/wales

Late '06-early '07.
Got into dubstep because rinse played less and less grime, and more and more dubstep. Like Yong said, it's over now though.


EDIT: Wrong account.

djelements wrote: EDIT: Wrong account.

Brockolio via message board -> Barefiles -> Benga Essential Mix -> Benga @ Club Love NYC (Trouble and Bass Party), 08

I wanna get high

2005, Sydney, Australia - Used to go to a weekly dnb night down here and once a month a dubstep crew would play, loved it, but the tune that really did it was Distance - Traffic (and the My Demons album). After that it was lights out hahaha

The first track i heard was a 2000F track and it was my brother who wanted me to listen to it. I live in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Late '06 stumbled across Kalawanji.

London.

Around 2002 (if the sound was considered dubstep then), I was only 13 but was massively in to hip-hop, breakcore, jungle, "idm" and other experimental dark tings so was always looking in to expanding my musical horizons. Also, living in incredibly rural wales, and being at a very young age, I was literally the only person to listen to these styles of music so had to discover things on my own. It started when I downloaded ( ) Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style, and I really enjoyed the sound (despite hearing almost no garage beforehand), but having terrible internets and even worse speakers, I never really explored the sound much after that. After hearing it being hyped up more over the next few years I decided to delve back in to the genre. The sound really clicked in 2004 more than anything, Skream & Benga - The Judgement, Digital Mystikz - Twisup and Toasty - The Knowledge being my earliest memories of a new defined sound, as well as the fact my old man was helping me build a decent soundsystem. But again, the genre was still sidelined by the wealth or new hip-hop, techno, breakcore and house I was discovering and was readily more interested in.

2005 was definitely the year I started to take way more notice though. Distance - Empire, Skream - Midnight Request Line and particularly Vex'd - Degenerate (the album) had all become regular listening material. Coming from a primarily super tearout breakcore background at the time, I felt a lot of the music was lacking the energy I required (being a teenager and all) and still, despite a few releases over the next few years taking my interests (Warrior Dubz being a favourite at the time), I was still never impressed by music unless it was in 7/8 timing, had an amen break with shit loads of granular synthesis and being liek a million BPM.

2007 was the year it started to become a bit of an obsession though. I'd stopped drawing for the needlessly aggressive music, and I'd finally got a decent power amp, pre-amp and some monitors, a basic record player and college EMA money in my pocket. I didn't really start collecting records until 2009, and was still a dirty downloading pirate back then, but over the last couple of years I've completely abandoned that route of getting music, and would rather scrape the pennies together to get a new release than pick up a terrible vinyl rip on the internets.
The whole new wave of house and garage (120-135bpm stuff) has really become a staple part of my taste in the past year too.

2004 roll deep was spiting on a dubstep tune cant remember what tune is was tho

last year around january...
my cousin's boyfriend gave me mp3 of the "Dubstep warz" show... it was actually in the summer,year before but i didn't really listen to it back then.
I put in the VLC, whilst doing something on computer and since then i started to like hat i hear more and more

Towards the end of 2008 a friend of mine was getting into Dubstep and encouraged me to check it out. I searched dubstep on the interweb, found this forum and went to the mixes section. Downloaded a Forensics mix that had tunes like Distance - Cyclops and Goat Stare and thought fuck, this is me!

Early 2006 through a 3CD compilation called "The World's Heaviest Dubstep, Grime and Bass" - I thought it would be breaks, and was hunting for heavier bass stuff.

Heard the dubstep CD, and knew it was for me.

I actually knew of Kode9 from a gig he did in Dundee about 4 years prior to that, but short of checking his stuff online, I didn't get any further in to it at the time.

Was a big fan of the Simon Says remix he was dropping in his mixes at the time though - "Monsta" by Virgo. Classic stuff.