What tune originally got you into dubstep?

Skank is the one :gunfinger:

Also it’s a bait thing to say but I genuinely wasn’t that into Norwood until I heard it out

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Norwood has got that different groove! Loved it from day

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Loefah has the baddest dubplates of all. Imagine dmz releasing a 4x12" boxset of loefah dubs and all the dubstep labels and producers decide to call it a day collectively and that being the most legendary end to a genre in history.

lighters & gunfingers, please

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lol all the dsf heads in the comments

Big up lol, loefah dubs keeping the scene alive

dubstep allstars 6. before that some i only heard tracks stoned and had no idea what i was listening to

U kno, dat Skream - Midnight Request Line :loud_sound:

I guess I’m lame but this got me into dubstep.

that or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6WJYe6n-l8

I know, basic af.

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I’m not sure. I hung out at a youthclub where one guy was playing loads of dubwise. Must be about 2007/8.
Most of the time I would just lounge next to the system on a couch being high. I guess the first solid release I got into outside of clubs would be Rusko and Caspa’s fabliclive CD. After that I found out about Ramadanman and was hooked on dubstep and the non-4x4 techno-y sound. Since about 2012 I started to collect vinyl and ended up with this so far:

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The first tunes that really struck my attention were Make Me by Skream, Sweetshop by Doctor P, and Sierra Leone by Mt. Eden. Eventually I found Deep Medi, which led me to DMZ and got me to dig deeper into Tempa. Since then it’s been an obsession.

earlier, I posted Plastician’s Camel Ride
but thinking about it,
that was what got me into Breakstep in 04.
but I kept listening
and came to this in 06:


and I truly fell in love with Dubstep.
Skeam + D1 perfection.

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D1’s remix of Warning truly is an all time classic. Listening to Tempa Allstars in class today reminded me of that one, some of D1’s best work in my opinion.

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I feel so ashamed due to all your guys’ awesome answers! For me it had to be Porter Robinson’s ‘spitfire’. I was 13 at the time it came out and it pretty much trickled down into 12th planet, KTN, Noisia type stuff:)

Great tune. Makes for a stellar mix into Lowfah - Goat Stare.

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I had a listen to it.
Was it the first 1.35 and other laidback bits you liked,
the standard bro from 1.35- 2.40 and 4.20-4.45
or the contrast?
Whatever, no shame, particularly at 13.
I was listening to pop music on the radio at 13…
listening for inspiring sounds.
If this is the one that moved you away from a trajectory
towards crap rap or video hits music
so be it.
And if you’ve come to appreciate Warning,& such proppa,
then man, imo, you’ve developed impeccable taste
and you’re on the way to the loungeroom.

Skreams mix of la roux: going in for the kill, is what opened my eyes to the genre.

Hello to everyone btw, this is my first post.

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Hi slug boy

The track that got me into dubstep wasn’t actually dubstep. I had come across the song Bubble by EL-B which is more UK Garage. Which was another genre that up until then I had not heard of despite being a very avid electronic music fan. While in search of songs similar to Bubble I stumbled onto other artists like Zed Bias and Steve Gurley which was more dubstep without actually having the name dubstep yet.

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These two. I was reading wiki articles regarding electronic music, somehow travelled into “uk garage” territory and found them as examples. Still love them and consider both quite unique. After that I think I started looking both for some “future garage” and “uk garage”, and found FaltyDL, Burial, and stuff from Gorgon Sound era like Dub War, DJ Hatcha, Skream, etc.


I wandered into the local Dubstep night Sunday, It was all a blur but I went and bought “I love dubstep” and definitely the whole mixs, I don’t think I was aware initially that the tunes were done by different people, but it turns out of couse I had bought basically 2 mixes of lots of the original classics