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dubstep
Sign in to saveDubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style, whose roots trace to the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s, emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken beat, grime, and drum and bass.
Key facts
- Music genre.name
- Brostep
- Music genre.cultural_origins
- Late 2000s – early 2010s, United States (mostly), United Kingdom (originally)
- Music genre.derivatives
- Melodic Dubstep • Moombahcore • Hybrid Trap • Hard Trap • Glitch Hop (EDM)
- Music genre.fusiongenres
- Complextro metalstep colour bass reggaestep
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Named after
- 2-step garage
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Based on
- UK garage
- Image
- DJ Hatcha 2008.jpg
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- inception
- 2001-00-00
- Commons category
- Dubstep
- topic's main category
- Category:Dubstep
- described at URL
- 12edit.com/dubstep
- influenced by
- 2-step garage
- name
- dubstep
- significant person
- Mary Anne Hobbs
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Characteristics
- Rhythm
- Wobble bass
- Structure
- Cultural elements
- History
- 1999–2002: Origins
- 2002–2005: Evolution
- 2005–2008: Growth
- 2008: Purple sound
- 2009–2014: Mainstream popularity and Brostep
- <span id="Post-dubstep"></span>2011: Post-dubstep
- 2011: Brostep and American developments
- 2012–2013: Riddim
- 2014–present: Decline in mainstream popularity
- 2016–present: Colour bass
- See also
- References
- External links
Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style, whose roots trace to the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s, emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken beat, grime, and drum and bass.
Dubstep is generally characterised by syncopated rhythmic patterns, prominent basslines, and a dark tone. In 2001, this underground sound and other strains of garage music began to be promoted at the London nightclub Plastic People, at the "Forward" night (sometimes stylised as FWD>>), and on the pirate radio station Rinse FM. The term "dubstep" appeared around 2002, used by labels such as Big Apple and Tempa to describe remixes more distinct from 2-step and grime.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dubstep” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.