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Dubstep

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.

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Cultural origins
Early 2000s, London, England, United Kingdom
Derivative forms
Brostep · future garage · post-dubstep · riddim · trap music (EDM)
Stylistic origins
2-step · UK garage · dub · breakbeat · grime

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related to 2005–2008: Growth · 55
Dubstep → Americans JuJu, Ammunition, Baltimore DJ Joe Nice, Barcelona, Best, Blackdown, Building, Burial's, Children, Denver, Digital Mystikz, DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, DJ Pinch, DJs, DMZ, Doppelganger, Dubstep Allstars, Dubstep Warz, Ena, Finnish
related to 2009–2014: Mainstream popularity and Brostep · 34
Dubstep → April, At, Benga, Blackout, Britney Spears, Bulletproof, City Limits Vol, Coki's, December, Deep Medi Musik, Freakshow, However, I'm Not Your Toy, In, Interview, Joker, Kill, Kode9, La Roux, London
related to 1999–2002: Origins · 27
Dubstep → Ammunition Promotions, An, Around, Bingo, El-B, Forward, Founded, Horsepower Productions, Lifestyle, London, London's Soho, Neil Jolliffe, Oris Jay, Plastic People, Road, Shelflife, Shoreditch, Soulja, Steve Gurley, Tempa
related to 2002–2005: Evolution · 24
Dubstep → All, At, Benga, Chef, Coki, Cyrus, David Carlisle, Digital Mystikz, DJ Hatcha, DJs, Filthy Dub, Forward, FWD, It, Loefah, Mala, MC Sgt Pokes, Plastician, Playing, Rinse FM
related to External links · 18
Dubstep → April, Birthday, DMZ, Drowned, Dubstep Archived, GetDarker An, Grime/Dubstep Columns, Interviews, Kode9, Loefah, Mala, Martin Clark, PitchforkBBC Collective, Skream, SoundThe Month In, Wayback Machine, Years, Youngsta
related to Characteristics · 15
Dubstep → According, AllMusic, B-side, Basic Channel, Compared, Dubstep's, Photek-style, Phrygian, Reynolds, Similar, Simon Reynolds, Some, The, These, UK
related to 2014–present: Decline in mainstream popularity · 14
Dubstep → Alan Fitzpatrick's, Artists, Beginning, DJ, James Blake, Loefah, Mount Kimbie, Pioneers, Skream, Skrillex, Swamp81, UK, United States, We Are The Brave
related to Rhythm · 12
Dubstep → Anti-War Dub, In, Invisible Jukebox, Kode9, Loefah's, Mala's, Many, MRK1, The, The Wire, Truly Dread, With
related to Cultural elements · 10
Dubstep → Because, DJ, DJs, If, Jamaica's, MC's, Rewinds, Taking, U-Roy, UK
Stylistic origins · 8
Dubstep → 2-step, breakbeat, drum and bass, dub, grime, jungle, reggae, UK garage

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music bass sound also uk early garage genre grime producers artists skream style dj dub brostep album radio post-dubstep drum

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DubstepCultural originsEarly 2000s, London, England, United Kingdom1.00infobox
DubstepDerivative formsBrostep1.00infobox
DubstepDerivative formsfuture garage1.00infobox
DubstepDerivative formspost-dubstep1.00infobox
DubstepDerivative formsriddim1.00infobox
DubstepDerivative formstrap music (EDM)1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic origins2-step1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsUK garage1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsdub1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsbreakbeat1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsgrime1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsreggae1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsjungle1.00infobox
DubstepStylistic originsdrum and bass1.00infobox
Dubstepis agenre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s0.90text
Dubstepis awobble bass0.90text

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