Dubstep is
a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London , England . It emerged in the late 1990s as a
development within a lineage of related styles such as 2-step garage, broken
beat, drum and bass, jungle, dub and reggae. In the UK the origins of the genre can be
traced back to the growth of the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early
1980s. The music generally features syncopated drum and percussion patterns
with bass lines that contain prominent sub bass frequencies.
The
earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998, and were usually featured as
B-sides of 2-step garage single releases. These tracks were darker, more
experimental remixes with less emphasis on vocals, and attempted to incorporate
elements of breakbeat and drum and bass into 2-step. In 2001, this and other
strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's
night club Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylised
as FWD>>), which went on to be considerably influential to the
development of dubstep. The term "dubstep" in reference to a genre of
music began to be used by around 2002 by labels such as Big Apple, Ammunition,
and Tempa, 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 in their top 50 for the year. 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 aided the growth of
the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as
gutterbreakz. 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.
Towards the
end of the 2000s and into the early 2010s, the genre started to become more
commercially successful in the UK , with more singles and remixes
entering the music charts. Music journalists and critics also noticed a dubstep
influence in several pop artists' work. Around this time, producers also began
to fuse elements of the original dubstep sound with other influences, creating
fusion genres including future garage, the slower and more experimental
post-dubstep, and the harsher electro house and heavy metal influenced brostep,
the latter of which greatly contributed to dubstep's rising mainstream popularity
in the United States .
Musically,
while Bangarang prominently uses elements of electro house, dubstep and
progressive house, it is more diverse than his previous material, including
multiple influences of trance, drum and bass, rap rock, experimental rock and
ska.
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