What is your main musical background/genre?

jhemstone · Post by **jhemstone** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:45 am

Ok, I know this is a tricky one to answer because we all like many types of music...

However I can say that I started off with Hip-hop, moved to grime then moved to dubstep, so you could say I am a hip-hop dubstepper...

I also know there are people comin into dubstep from D&B, techno, dance etc etc, but what was/is your main musical background as a producer (or music lover) before you became involved with dubstep?

legend4ry · Post by **legend4ry** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:59 am

Bit of everything? I mean I was bought up in a pretty weird time..

I was quater-jungle quater-britpop quater-80/90s pop quater-hiphop.

My taste in music has always been quite broad...I take my main inspration from my tunes from Triphop and Rock but everything kinda melds together and what happens in my beats is that I get quite a contrast in everything I do.

I'd say my "main" music has been Brit-Rock/pop/indie though, its always been there in my life and it still is to this day.

Disco Nutter · Post by **Disco Nutter** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 12:15 pm

jhemstone wrote:I started off with Hip-hop, moved to grime then moved to dubstep?

Something like that, though i never left any of those genres.

And i like to experiment.

zillion · Post by **zillion** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:22 pm

For me its dnb. Been listening to it for years and wanted to broaden my horizons a bit so started listening to dubstep and more experimental tunes. I make more dubstep tunes now than dnb which is weird for me.

zion cluster · Post by **zion cluster** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:34 pm

Good idea for a poll, but you should include an option for classical music or Jazz. I learnt about the more traditional music styles before I ever got into rock or electronic music.

djake · Post by **djake** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:36 pm

i was bought up on classic rock, pop, dance

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:45 pm

Where the fuck is the breakcore option mate?

djake · Post by **djake** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:46 pm

Daft tnuc wrote:Where the fuck is the breakcore option mate?

how old where u went u started listening to that?

i didnt no about till i was at least 15-16

junglist · Post by **junglist** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 4:08 pm

I only started making music when 15 because I remembered in school when we had to make music on a program called Magix Music Maker and present our songs to the class. Me and my mates would add as many layers as we could including lots of these terribly corny vocal loops.

What we would end up with is what I could only describe as trip-hop acid jazz spliced with heavy metal. So for the first 2 years I had no clue about making music and would drag as many loops in as I could to make songs for shits and giggles.

But after that it was Drum & Bass for half a year then onto Dubstep.

__________ · Post by **__________** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:26 pm

where the fuck is reggae? where the fuck is dub? shit poll mate

oh and aren't techno, grime, hip hop, trance and drum and bass all 'dance'?

fuagofire · Post by **fuagofire** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:57 pm

where the fuck is disco

press · Post by **press** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 11:40 pm

was heavily interested in music at a young age, 8-9 i always aksed for tapes cds for x-mas and stuffm a mix of popular stuff but gravitated twords old school hip hop and rnb. then into my early teens and teens i was 100% all about the hip hop and rap, lots of eastcoast, lots and lots of westcoast, soem early southern like rap-alot and ugk and then i was into the backpacker sound for a bit. Then went raving and fell in love with dnb (2000) about 2002 i just stopped listening to anything else and got really into dnb exclusivly then 2 years ago i started to realize that was dumb and opened my ears to hip hop and and other electronic music then it hit me dubstep was pretty much the perfect combo of the types of sounds and rtyhms that i had always been into and the sounds i had been into for the last 6 years or so.

now im about 90% dubstep,making listening mixing etc. and about 10% dnb and hardly ever ever listen to hip hop even though i still consider it my third favorite music.

jheri · Post by **jheri** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:19 am

'Got any jungle in guy?'

Before that, mainly old skool hip-hop and rock tbf.

abZ · Post by **abZ** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:29 am

late 60's and early 70's music. Rock, disco, soul, funk, etc.

miss_molinari · Post by **miss_molinari** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:34 am

Daft tnuc wrote:Where the fuck is the breakcore option mate?

im going to make you a song.

serox · Post by **serox** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 8:53 am

I started mixing old skool Techno 91/92 and early rave from Belguim/Holland.

Since then I went on to get into Hardcore TEchno and Doom.

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:00 am

miss_molinari wrote:
Daft tnuc wrote:Where the fuck is the breakcore option mate?
im going to make you a song.

Yeah with lots of hip-hop, dance, d&b, grime & shit as the intro, then the voice comes "where the fuck is the breakcore?!" and you unleash your most devastating breaks.

fixation · Post by **fixation** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:09 am

hardstyle, hardcore techno/gabber, d&b, trance, pretty much anything..

but hardstyle was my first taste of electronic music

jhemstone · Post by **jhemstone** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:24 am

ok how do you edit the poll to add classical, jazz, breakcore, jungle and indie

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:27 am

jhemstone wrote:ok how do you edit the poll to add classical, jazz, breakcore, jungle and indie

Can't