Quote (xvmurdacb @ Mar 31 2011 06:59pm)

dubstep is easy to tell on the standard 3/4 measured kick and 140bpm with, of course, the bassy focus but the darker deeper side of dubstep is typically very very very downtempo and what you'd imagine would be played in the darkest quietest corners with no party, maybe just one person.  Bruial is one of those artists loved by the true dubstep heads even though he doesn't follow the true pattern (even though a lot of his is very two-step percussions).  Another would be phaelah and inofaith who don't follow the same pattern but have the very downtempo bassline music.

TRUE dubstep follows 3/4 measure on 140 bpm, but there is so much leeway with this genre that so much of it doesn't follow the true rules.  If anything the best thread for stuff like burial's music would be this, since its a bass oriented downtempo sound.

ps.  the high octane brostep stuff isn't what most in the dubstep world consider to be good music, but that is what is the most popular side of the genre.

Quote (Andross1 @ Mar 31 2011 07:07pm)

The rules of dubstep are starting to sound like the rules of poetry. This thread's starting to get really pretentious.

Quote (Andross1 @ Mar 31 2011 08:07pm)

The rules of dubstep are starting to sound like the rules of poetry. This thread's starting to get really pretentious.

Quote (xvmurdacb @ Mar 31 2011 07:26pm)

this thread is actually very open considering that REAL dubstep is only on 140bpm with a 3/4 kick.  barely any of these songs follow that guide (which is really the only true guide to dubstep).  Granted a lot of them have the 2step garage percussion or the dub bass from which dubstep is truly oriented from.

the dude asked a question and i answered it.  Nobody asked for a weenie, but you still threw your words in.


side edit:  on burials website he lists 2 step, garage, hardcore as his music styles.  he doesn't even consider himself dubstep but more ambient 2step/gragey