Where do you think dubstep is going?

Phigure · July 19, 2015, 9:33pm

incredible

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 9:46pm

Sorry dude. I didnt think about that. Im still new to this stuff. Been listening to electronic for about three or four years. Ive only began getting into the less mainstream stuff in the past year and a half, so i dont really know how popular some people are. At the same time, i dont really know you all very well so i dont know everything you’re into. Trying to listen to different artists, i dont really make much time to research them unless i am crazy about their music. Guess i should have saw that coming considering drake brought the guy out on stage. I was going to say his name as if everyone knew who he was but i didnt want to leave out the people that potentially didnt know who he was. Dammit.

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 9:47pm

Popularity is also easy to mistake when i look at YouTube views and compare them to more popular videos. Any other site i can refer to to find out how popular someone REALLY is?

Cheyne_Taylor_Bush · July 19, 2015, 9:51pm

Have you guys heard this one guy called Mala? Sick producer, really think he’s doing something unique, gonna get big someday.

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 9:57pm

Sounds familiar. Looks pretty popular on YouTube. BBC? Are you making fun of me?

Cheyne_Taylor_Bush · July 19, 2015, 9:58pm

No no, I’m making fun with you

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 10:01pm

Haha ok. Thats cool. Yea i just realized that Mala was one of the first names i saw when i began listening to old school dubstep. I gotta stalk this forum more often so i can get rid of this ignorance. So embarrassing, even if i AM just one and a half years into electronic.

Cheyne_Taylor_Bush · July 19, 2015, 10:03pm

I see it that we’re all students of music right? So whatever, if you don’t know now you know and just keep listening and learning

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 10:04pm

Thats the plan.

Samuel_L_Damnson · July 19, 2015, 10:04pm

I like how there is such thing as old school dub step apparently

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 10:06pm

THERE ISNT? JEEZUS CHRIST. Hm. Are you sure that statement isnt just subjective?

mks · July 19, 2015, 10:08pm

Lol, it goes back 12 years now. I remember the dubstep term being used around 2003, it might have been 2002 even.

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 10:11pm

So twelve years isnt long enough to be considered old school?

Cheyne_Taylor_Bush · July 19, 2015, 10:19pm

would you call Kanye West old school hip hop? Late Registration came out in 2005.

mks · July 19, 2015, 10:25pm

Actually, it was 2001 now that I think about it. I remember going to San Francisco to play a party and I also did a set on Groovetech playing the early dubwise 2-step/dubstep sounds. I also had several residencies in my home city where I was among the first to introduce this sound.

Stuff_iain_ttryingto · July 19, 2015, 10:25pm

I personally say oldschool dubstep, not very consciously or frequently, but because I really don’t like it when I tell people I like dubstep and they expect me to like stuff like this.

mks · July 19, 2015, 10:26pm

No, but he’s been around a long time. Hip-Hop has 40 years of history though, as I’m sure you are well aware.

dj_feend · July 19, 2015, 10:27pm

Depending on how it sounds. If it sounds like hip hop that came out years before it, id say yes. I dont know when hip hop came out, so i cant really say that album is old school. But i feel like old school dubstep is the term for stuff that reminds me of music like stuff by skream and all the other guys. I just dont know what else to call it.

mks · July 19, 2015, 10:29pm

Halfstep dubstep didn’t start happening until around 2005. I was working in a record store during that whole period, slinging those records. 1999 - 2005.

Cheyne_Taylor_Bush · July 19, 2015, 10:30pm

No yeah that’s what I’m saying. I certainly wouldn’t call Kanye old school.

Old school hip hop to me is REALLY old school, like Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, Jazzy Jeff, that kind of stuff. Some people include early 90s, but that’s too late for me to consider old school.