niedziela, 3 kwietnia 2011

about dubstep.

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South East London. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals".[1]

The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998 and were darker, more experimental, instrumental dub remixes of 2-step garage tracks attempting to incorporate the funky elements of breakbeat, or the dark elements of drum and bass into 2-step, which featured B-sides of single releases. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Forward (sometimes also referred to as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep. Throughout the first years of its development, the musical current was given many aliases by underground music aficionados, being firstly referred to as "dark" or "darker" garage.[citation needed] The term "dubstep" in reference to a genre of music began to be used by around 2002, by which time stylistic trends used in creating these remixes started to become more noticeable and distinct from 2-step and grime.

A very early supporter of the sound was BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who started playing it from 2003 onwards. In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz and Plastician (formerly Plasticman) in their top 50 for the year.[2] Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006; many websites devoted to the genre appeared on the internet and thus aided the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz.[3] Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media, with a regular feature entitled The Month In: Grime/Dubstep. Interest in dubstep grew significantly after BBC Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs started championing the genre, beginning with a show devoted to it (entitled "Dubstep Warz") in January 2006

16 komentarzy:

  1. If you like dubstep check out Zed's Dead, amazing band.

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  2. Dubstep is awesome! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lLqqR2pcws

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  3. I think its hard to pull off dubstep without it sounding like noise, only a few artists can really make it sound good

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  4. Dubstep is great, although a lot of it sounds the same.

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  5. Pretty good for dubstep; I normally can't stand the stuff

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  6. Just okay, not really a dubstep fan

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  7. I like dubstep but more into drum and bass

    going to follow you!

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  8. Very informative explanation. Thanks a lot for the clearer understanding

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  9. I've been largely ignorant of dubstep until I read this article, thanks!

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