I've been fanatical about grime for a few years now, pretty much since music was starting to be called grime actually, but very sceptical against dubstep. A pretty common standpoint among grimeheads, I know.
My first contact with dubstep was, of course, Rephlex Records "Grime" compilation. My dissapointment with this record which obviously wasn't grime led me to make further research and I found that those who knew called this type of music "dubstep". So I thought OK, there's something called dubstep which kinda sucks.
But now there are things popping up that I really like, but it seems unclear if it is concidered dubstep or not. That's why I'm now asking you people, who seems to know about this stuff.
First of all, this buzz around Skream's "Request Line" is confusing me, all this talk about it being the first dubstep tune that is being appreciated by grime fans. Since Plasticman is on the Rephlex Compilation I've thought that he's definitely dubstep, and as we all know his tunes "Cha" and "Cha VIP" have been hugely popular to spit bars over on the grime scene. But what, that isn't dubstep? I'm confused. "Request Line" sounds more like grime to me than "Cha". I mean, "Request Line" isn't that far from tunes like Gype, is it?
I'm also wondering about Vex'D. The album, "Degenerate", totally stuns me, but nobody seems to mention them when they talk about new good dubstep releases. Is this because Vex'D is not dubstep? If not so, then what is it?
Is Toasty Boy dubstep? It's brilliant music, but it's pretty far from the kind of music that I'm certain is dubstep (and which I find boring), like the Rephlex Grime compilations or Digital Mystikz and Loefah.
My first contact with dubstep was, of course, Rephlex Records "Grime" compilation. My dissapointment with this record which obviously wasn't grime led me to make further research and I found that those who knew called this type of music "dubstep". So I thought OK, there's something called dubstep which kinda sucks.
But now there are things popping up that I really like, but it seems unclear if it is concidered dubstep or not. That's why I'm now asking you people, who seems to know about this stuff.
First of all, this buzz around Skream's "Request Line" is confusing me, all this talk about it being the first dubstep tune that is being appreciated by grime fans. Since Plasticman is on the Rephlex Compilation I've thought that he's definitely dubstep, and as we all know his tunes "Cha" and "Cha VIP" have been hugely popular to spit bars over on the grime scene. But what, that isn't dubstep? I'm confused. "Request Line" sounds more like grime to me than "Cha". I mean, "Request Line" isn't that far from tunes like Gype, is it?
I'm also wondering about Vex'D. The album, "Degenerate", totally stuns me, but nobody seems to mention them when they talk about new good dubstep releases. Is this because Vex'D is not dubstep? If not so, then what is it?
Is Toasty Boy dubstep? It's brilliant music, but it's pretty far from the kind of music that I'm certain is dubstep (and which I find boring), like the Rephlex Grime compilations or Digital Mystikz and Loefah.