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a message was posted on www.dubstepforum.com last night about the annual awards... tucked innocuously away at the end of the message was this hugely significant little note:
and that's it!
dubstep grew up with the forum (first at dubplate.net, then the new address), and the online atmosphere mirrored its tentative expansion, then its explosion in 2006, its eventual self-consciousness, and in the last year, its increasing sense of self-loathing.
while this sudden closure might be a bit of a fucker for some of the (count them) 20,000 members, especially those who relied on it for club listings, mixes, and so on, well - politically, this is a superb move.
in 2005, dubstep comprised a tight-knit web of djs, promoters, bloggers and enthusiasts, mostly (though not exclusively) based in london, mostly around the dmz and fwd>> club nights. this tight-knit web has been stretched and stretched by the many new and conflicting imperatives brought by the music's global success, to the point you now just have a big ugly woolly mess sprawled all over the floor. closing the forum will call time on this ugly mess, and call time on complacency. it will - we hope - force people to think forward again: where is their music going? what do they want it to become? where, in fact, are all the dubstep blogs at?
we at the spaz have had our share of beefs with 'the dubstep scene' and the forum (homogenous or not), but it certainly served a valuable purpose back in 2005, and hell, it pretty much made dubstep for a while. but now? now it's time to let the bass run free...
And oh yes, we’re also closing the forum. Indefinitely.
and that's it!
dubstep grew up with the forum (first at dubplate.net, then the new address), and the online atmosphere mirrored its tentative expansion, then its explosion in 2006, its eventual self-consciousness, and in the last year, its increasing sense of self-loathing.
while this sudden closure might be a bit of a fucker for some of the (count them) 20,000 members, especially those who relied on it for club listings, mixes, and so on, well - politically, this is a superb move.
in 2005, dubstep comprised a tight-knit web of djs, promoters, bloggers and enthusiasts, mostly (though not exclusively) based in london, mostly around the dmz and fwd>> club nights. this tight-knit web has been stretched and stretched by the many new and conflicting imperatives brought by the music's global success, to the point you now just have a big ugly woolly mess sprawled all over the floor. closing the forum will call time on this ugly mess, and call time on complacency. it will - we hope - force people to think forward again: where is their music going? what do they want it to become? where, in fact, are all the dubstep blogs at?
we at the spaz have had our share of beefs with 'the dubstep scene' and the forum (homogenous or not), but it certainly served a valuable purpose back in 2005, and hell, it pretty much made dubstep for a while. but now? now it's time to let the bass run free...
19 Comments:
can't say I'm too sad about it closing.
Maybe it's just me being a snobby ass but dubstep was way more interesting when it was more of a chore to learn about.
Miss reading all the blogs too (which more or less died after DSF started).
seems like a shame to spontaneously kill all the shared energy. ah well. something else will replace it.
place went downhill fast after i was banned...
death to dubstep. never really liked any tracks apart from the one that goes 'where's my money'? i think that is the only good track in the genre ever.
once again dj venom you are talking breeze please stop
i can tell dj venom likes coke by that comment
caspa = good? west london = good?
venom is a joker.
I'm just winding you up Alex. But TBH dubstep was never as exciting to me as grime was when both genres were in their creative peaks four years ago.
i remember the time when they were one and the same or at least went hand in hand
that was the best time
I agree with that but dubstep now is totally different to then.
I blame the cocaine. I mean seriously - I feel ASHAMED that such a good drug is associated with such bad music!
lulz
i though K was the problem, not coke...
was a bit annoyed at first, but now i don't really care all that much. finding other (better) things to read/listen to on the net.
probably for the best.
I think there's two drug scenes in modern dubstep - the squatter k hole smelly sound and the coked up superstar DJ chavstep sound.
Anyway, no more talk about dubstep - it's dead - time to move on.
man iz catchin bare lols off da commentz
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some tracks will stand the test of time, but very few. I always thought Hyperdub and Souljazz were the only labels
(consistently) worth a shit anyway. Genre pushers/benders. Look at what Hyperdub is putting out now, straight future tracks, heady, bassy, dubby, but without formula. These are the types of tracks that will be the classics of the scene, not some ol' Coki wobbler swollocks. Good producers will push it forward because they never stop noticing / studying other musics.
Ya done know.
true that to the above poster.
the dubstep forum was full of chavs and twats from essex and the like. let's London take it back underground and stop carin what it's called. start booking Detroit techno cats next to somebody playing dancehall / one-drops, next to somebody playing 'dubstep' influenced business, and so on. if they're good and original, they GO, simple as that.
fuck you townies for screwing up the London sound. Seen.
let the hateration commence.
WAIT WAIT WAIT WAIT
i've been agreeing with all this stuff so far but HOLD ON A SECOND
lets not bring class into this becuase if anything dubstep got more middle class and that's 100% part of the problem the way I see it
Let yr townies and your chavs run riot all over that shit
Its your well-off suburban kids you've got watch out for
hahaha..too fucking funny
...three days and the resurrection is complete
just enough time for the dubzombie virus to incubate...
...now sit back laugh and watch it consume its own flesh
I only just came across this:
"Lets not bring class into this...dubstep got more middle class and that's 100% part of the problem the way I see it"
What a ridiculous thing to say.
People of whatever class can listen to whatever they like. Dubstep was always going to 'end' someday, that is the nature of any small scene, eventually it will get big, that does not take any merit away from it. You just have to filter out all crap.
Goddam those middle-class white wankers trying to get down with us bad-men.
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