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DUBSTEP


So, What is Dubstep?
Dubstep is one of the fastest growing types of music in the world, Dubstep is a form of electronic music that combines heavy bass with samples, synthesizer, keyboards, turntables and drum tracks. Dubstep originated in South London in 1998, but has quickly spread to other areas of Western Europe and North America after it originally started to gain publicity on BBC Radio. and is fast-becoming a mainstream form of dance music around the world. 
It's early roots are found to be closely linked with UK Garage producers who were wanting to incorporate elements of drum and bass into their typical garage sounds. Dubstep is generally instrumental, showing similarities to grime, the feel of the genre was originally dark and featured frequent use of minor keys however, as it has become more popular and entered into mainstream music listeners, some Dubstep artists have chosen to change this early representation of the genre and altering it slightly to form variants such as Skrillex, who appears to have become the figure head for a new, perhaps more popular sub-genre called Brostep.


Popular Dubstep Artists
Since the creation of what is now known as the Dubstep genre, many artists have come to light and really headlined the rise of the now popular music scene, Artists include:


Rusko

Skrillex

Magnetic Man

Nero

Chase & Status

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SBTRKT

With the genre only now entering the mainstream music scene, you would be forgiven for thinking the genre has only been established within the past couple of years. It has infact been round much longer than that, as stated earlier, the genre originated within late 1998 to early 2002. With many "underground" garage artists opting to use the sound of Dubstep within their tracks, it was not long before it started to get publicity and in 2002, an XLR8R (music magazine) cover story helped this genre of music earn it's name. The term Post-Dubstep is used consistently to describe songs and artists which, although use features associated with Dubstep, do not solely focus on it and instead combine various musical influences together. A well known name in this style is the musician SBTRKT (pronounced Subtract)

Although commercially, this style is perhaps the most popular (teamed with Brostep), many how they've come to been known "Dubstep Purists" dislike the direction Dubstep is going in, with the emphasis more on a "heavy drop" (when there is a build up in a track leading to a deep bassline) than the actual merits of the music. Some artists are also supporting this argument such as Rusko. shown in this interview.



However Skrillex, in a recent interview, disagrees with this view and states that "I love all types of music" along with his statement that instead of Dubstep music moving in the wrong direction, he feels it's "in it's prime". This is of course expected as he is pioneering Brostep and in his opinion, Dubstep has never been better.