Dubstep: The Music I Love
If you know what Dubstep is, it needs not an introduction; you’ll love it when you hear it.
I’ve seen dance floors go absolutely nuts when a bassline hits and not just in a hyped up, flailing scene. Imagine the entire crowd bouncing and bobbing, completely controlled by basslines so thick that it fucks up your vision. Dubstep reaches across all races, bringing together all different styles of music from jazz to grime.
Only having a history of being around for less than a decade, Dubstep is still a very new genre of music. It’s still evolving and finding its foothold on the dance floor.
What’s particularly unique about Dubstep is that it’s generally a young game. Many of the original producers were kids messing around with programs like fruity loops (now FL studio), Reason, Cubase, and the infinite amount of VSTs one can find on the net. It’s a genre which has found its way around the world with the use of video sites like Youtube and social sites like MySpace.
If you were to take a look at a Dubstep producer, it’s incredibly funny and awesome at the same time.
You have these premier producers and DJs making massive tunes, being able to travel around the world spinning their songs but instead of some high tech studio, many Dubstep producers are set up on a simple computer, midi controller and some monitors…basic.
The producers take this music back to electronic basics like in Detroit. Its kids in their bedroom playing with a program, making basslines which don’t even sound correct because they are being mixed on blown out hi-fi speakers and they’re doing what many producers seem to lack these days – a heart for it. It’s a return to some truly dirty, raw music that emits an urban funk which music has begun to lose over the years.
Dubstep also has a way of creating flares of shining producers. Someone will make a massive tune on day and vanish the next. With the speed of the net and ability to install a program to make some tunes, producers can spring up overnight, leave their mark and move back to whatever they were up to before.
But, like most music, you need to hear it for yourself.
Blasting it on your computer speakers or in a car with heavy subs is fine and all, but you should definitely get out into a club or party where it’s being played at deafening levels.
Plant yourself right up on top of the bass bin and let it crush your skull.
Anyway, just wanted to say a bit about one of the genre’s I’ve fallen in love with.
And now, some tunes…
Aight now get outta here!
