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I know quite a lot of you heard dubstep through the hardcore continuum, especially you London heads. So it sort of goes with what you've always listened to.
Though my music taste before i heard dubstep was worlds apart from what i listen to now.

Stuff like - Deftones, Incubus, Pearl Jam, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage against the Machine, Shit like that.

Then early 2009 rolls around and a uni friend of a friend was putting on a night at a tiny little club/bar place in Glasgow, with a quality system playing some seriously deep tunes.
I had heard of 'dubstep' but it was just brostep shite that didnt really do it for me. But after that night in Ivory Blacks I was hooked.

All the other music I was into before got pushed to the side and kind of has been since then. I still listened occasionally, but the more 'bass music' I heard, the less I cared about the other stuff.

Then a couple of months ago a mate bought me Deftones first album Adrenaline (percy) on vinyl for my 21st. Just reminded me about all the amazing music i used to love. Was such a shame I didn't keep following all that stuff. Just seemed like a didnt have time for both at the time

Since then Adrenaline has been getting rinsed and I've been reminding myself why i loved those types of music...


tl;dr Just wondering what you guys listened to before dubstep and if you kept listening to it or just did what I did and sort of forgot about it.

drum and bass, pop punk, grunge, metal, thrash, indie (death cab for cutie, dashboard confessional not the shite in the charts) and some gabber, breakcore, 8bit and maybes some sneaky electro
i'v always had quite a broad taste, dubstep took over everything for a good while but im coming round to real instruments again haha

Went something like like :

Punk and shit generic dance rap/hip hop trip hop IDM drum & bass Dubstep

oh yeah trip hop aswel

and trance ...

first genre of music to really grab me was jungle, but as i got older i was listening to more reggae, indie, punk, dnb etc, got very bored of dnb after a while, so when mr bad news first entered my eyes i was impressed.

its always been reggae/ska as my number 1 though.

reggae, ska and dub
i didnt know bass existed outside of dub before i heard dubstep. was never into 2step or jungle, or even dnb. i still listen to ska heavily, all kinds - from first wave to the pseudo college rock/punk junk.
because i can get hold of so little dubstep, as i dont live in england, i still go through genres. dont get me wrong i am in love with oh so much burial and loefah but over the last few years especially ive gotten into hiphop but mostly classics like nas and de la soul.
also still listen to rock too, but it is pretty much just rage against the machine, they were on repeat for a looooong time. system of a down and metallica are good too

it went like this for me..

shit metal - hippity hop - dubstep - stopped listening to just one sound and embraced anything with a good vibration (jah bless)

I used to listen to linken park all the time Only bands i like now from early age are Queen and RHCP. And of course i had a brostep phase.

Adrenaline album is one of my top of all time, such a classic. I was (and still am) big into rock and punk, jungle and hip hop before dubstep.
Now I pretty much listen to everything. I'd say it's both of a mixture of me getting older and discovering dubstep, that lead me into discovering so many other types of music.

Mainly hard / progressive rock, but mainly the original, old stuff...

Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple


But then also Krautrock like Tangerine Dream.


Folk rock sorta stuff in the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young frame along with Joni Mitchell


Jazz (various types) - Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Louis Armstrong (mainly his Hot Five stuff from the '20s)...


Industrial / EBM - Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Front Line Assembly
Warning, weird video...


The only thing that really coincided with the 'hardcore continuum' was a vague interest in early techno / house / acid / rave tunes, from seeing documentaries about that sorta thing, but I had never known any song names or artists until later on.

teamhobson wrote:Just reminded me about all the amazing music i used to love. Was such a shame I didn't keep following all that stuff. Just seemed like a didnt have time for both at the time

Yeah, I don't listen to my other tastes as much as I should maybe, but I always love the occasional times when I'll turn off my 'bass' mode and indulge in my original loves...

yea i spose sabbath, hakwind, deep purple etc were a bit of an influence when i was young aswell

My musical tastes started out being that of my parents (what was played in the car) - The Beatles, Cream, classical, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Tina Turner, The Eurythmics, The Rolling Stones, Cab Calloway, Glenn Miller, Blues, Rock n Roll, Genesis, Soul and R&B and so on.
Then in the 90's I found my own tastes in the form of (in no particular order) acid house/breakbeat hardcore, bigbeat (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Fluke, The Crystal Method), jungle/drum & bass, but then also stuff like Oasis, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, RATM, Hip Hop (Tupac, Biggie, Nas, DMX, Dre, Wu-Tang, Big L etc), RHCP, Massive Attack, Portishead, Garage... it goes on. The 90's was a good time for music!
Was predominantly listening to D&B till 06 when I first heard Dubstep.
I still listen to all of the above (not so much Glen Miller, The Beatles or Genesis) but D&B and Dubstep are the only two genres I keep up with.

A wide variety of things, which I still listen to. My first love was hip-hop, which made me start DJ'ing - then house, trance, techno, drum & bass, grime, UKG and eventually dubstep. It was just a natural progression I guess. Outside of 'dance' music, I always listened to pop-punk/punk/hardcore, metal, and post-rock. Ambient music as well. I went through a period where I listened to only things associated with Brian Eno.

But I also played in a couple hardcore bands in high school. Think more along the lines of Charles Bronson or Scholastic Deth than From First To Last, lol

never listened to much growing up, but from like 12 onwards it was something like trip hop > hip-hop > garage & dub & reggae and whatever else i could pirate (i lived in a rural town) > hip-hop > warp/rephlex sort of stuff > > hip-hop > techno > hip-hop > breakcore > hip-hop > drum & bass > hip-hop > dubstep > house > r&b

used to be so in to hip-hop it was unreal, yet now i probably couldn't even name 5 dilla songs, need to step up my game again

Oh yeah, can't forget reggae and dub as well - my friends were in a ska band and that heavily influenced me.

thread number 5000 about this lol.

love how everyone listens to the cooler music than the other. and everyone used to dig deeper thatn the others.

i'd end up the same, thats why i'm not gonna tell my musical history haha

My first CD was Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving. before that my first tape was the "Free Willy" soundtrack. Bad tunes.

Didn't really listen to music until I found minimal / techno etc.. Now I take a little dubstep on the side too.

I guess *just* before I got into bass music, I was listening to a wide-ish range of stuff (Hip-Hop, Soul, Folk, Rock, Classical etc) but a big chunk of what i'd listen to would fall under 'Indie' (though i hate that word) stuff like Belle and Sebastian, Wilco, Pavement, Sufjan Stevens...

I definitely listen to that sort of stuff less than I used to, but it all certainly gets a look in (despite dubstep etc being my main focus these days, The Antlers and Laura Marling were my favourite albums of last year). Though I'm not sure if i'm listening to less indie music because there is less good music coming out at the moment, or whether I think there is less good music coming out because I'm not taking the same amount of time as I used to to search out new stuff...

Even though bass music's been my 'thing' for a good 4-5 years or so now, and I've been obsessed with it for a good 3 years, I'd say most of my "all time favourites" would still be indie/soul/rock musicians (no danger of anyone infiltrating my Beatles/Belle and Sebastian/Blur/Neil Young/Wilco top 5).