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Got my fair share of dubstep in '06-'07 while studying in Guildford, when it had just started its ascent into the mainstream. DMZ's second birthday bash at Mass in Brixton and the few times I got to be at FWD were particular highlights. It's fascinating to look at this thread in retrospect now, and how little time it took for the sound to blow up from there.
Two years later or so, after Benga & Coki - Night had propelled dubstep fully into the limelight (a tune I always hated, even when it was getting battered on dubplate at parties I went to) it had more or less completely solidified its formula and position in the mainstream, and thus stopped being all that interesting. Unsurprisingly, the people I rated the most within the genre seemed to think the same, as almost all of them escaped to the fringes of the London-spectrum, towards house, techno, funky, just plain leftfield or some combination of them. Guys like Pangaea, Scuba, Ramadanman, Appleblim, Headhunter, Pinch and Kode9 have developed into something quite different from the dubstep core they all grew up in, which actually is more in the spirit of dubstep (subbass + space + whatever you feel like) than the formulaic halfstep/midrange chainsaw LFO-nonsense that passes for dubstep now.
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