Genre choice and description

Electronic dance music originated in south London, England. Types of electrontic music range from Dubstep to House and Jungle. The genre has evolved from when it first came into the mainstream in the 80s, and its sound is known around the world in many different forms.

DJ stands for "Disc Jockey" and a DJ is someone who person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Now due to the improvement in music technology, DJing has become easier to manage due to certain effects and controls people can use in order to mix songs together. Dubstep DJ's as like any other DJ's have faced the changes of music in the genre of music which they DJ in. As mentioned before, dubstep has gone through alot of changes within the last 10 years and the type of music within dubstep has changed dramatically.

Between 2010 and present day the electronic sub-culture "dubstep" has become extremely popular. Since the early 2000's and late 1990's dubstep has evolved and changed its style to fit a wider audience.  Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals". The main DJ's in Dubstep are as follows:

• Skrillex
• Benga
• Skream
• Nero
• Chase and Status
• Breakage
• Doctor P
• Flux Pavillion
• ModeStep
• Magnetic Man

The year 2009 saw the dubstep sound gaining further worldwide recognition, often through the assimilation of elements of the sound into other genres, in a manner similar to drum and bass before it. At the start of the year, UK electronic duo La Roux put their single "In for the Kill" in the remix hands of Skream. They then gave remix duties of "I'm Not Your Toy" to Nero and then again with their single "Bulletproof" being remixed by Zinc.
 Throughout 2010, dubstep was beginning to hit the pop charts, with "I Need Air" by Magnetic Man reaching number 10 in the UK singles chart. This presented a turning point in the popularity of mainstream dubstep amongst UK listeners as it was placed on rotation on BBC Radio 1. "Katy On a Mission" by Katy B (produced by Benga) followed, debuting at number 5 in the UK singles chart, and stayed in the top 10 for five more weeks.In February 2011, Chase & Status's second album No More Idols reached No.2 in the UK album chart.


In July 2011 DJ Fresh's track "Louder", which hit number 1 in the UK singles chart, becoming the first ever dubstep track to achieve this."Louder", backed by its use in an advertising campaign for Lucozade, managed to remain in the top 10 of the charts for 6 weeks. By mid-August, the UK had a second dubstep number one courtesy of Nero's "Promises". Dubstep is a new genre unlike rock and other genres that have been around for a long while and are very mainstream dubstep is very much an indie genre. It was created around 2000 in London, it was inspired and is allot like grime, drum and bass and electro. The reason the genre is so popular with indie artists is you need no instrumental talent don’t have to worry about space it can be created on a laptop or desktop computer with programs such as fruityloops’ which is just one of the popular programs used when making dubstep music. Dubstep is often a 2 step rhythm with a heavy baseline with around 140 beat per minute. Even though this genre is still very indie and underground you can find sites such as MySpace music full of dubstep artists, more recently dubstep has become bigger with artists such as JME and he has also featured some dubstep artists on his tracks such as Skream.

Due to dubstep being so new and indie they often do not have any high end videos to their music often they just have a picture shown for the time the song is on, this again comes down to funding and the reason people make dubstep is its cheap to make.
Dubstep has now grown and is now recognised outside of London and the UK, due to its dance like rhythms it can often be found to be played in clubs and the involvement of bigger name stars has helped boost dubstep to becoming a much bigger genre within music.
Dubstep also can be split into smaller sub genres as many people take the music in different direction turning them either into dance like tracks or more grime and rap style tracks. A popular theme within dubstep is to use already made beats or old songs and relay the beat allot like many of the newer dance tracks have a original 80-90’s song behind them. It will often use many pre recorded sounds. Typically a dubstep song will have a ‘mc’ or a singer that will lay vocals over the track; however there are many tracks that are just instrumentals.

Recently dubstep has become much bigger with artists such as 'Xzibit' and 'Snoop Dogg' both massive stars in the USA and 'Chase & Status' who are linked with other genres that are related to dubstep. 'Eastern Jam's' was a song that got the publicity and helped boost the knowledge of the genre in 2009.


Doctor P:


Chase & Status:


Magnetic Man (Benga, Skeam and Artwork):


Skrillex: