I can't remember if I have typed this thought before but for me everything past Grime is Rave music eating itself. It came to the end of the line with Dubstep (the death of rave.)
If you think of modern art and an analogy....
Impressionism>Pointillism>Fauvism>Cubism>(say)Neo-Plasticism>Minimalism = Pop Art/Post Modernism/Neo-Expressionism.
If your not familiar with art type each of those movements into a search engine, its crudely chronological but it shows a pattern of reductionism. In my thoughts, Dubstep is the final reduction of the darkside strain. Kode 9 Feat Daddy G- Sign of the Dub is say Barnett Newmans zip paintings (thats one white line on a Black canvas) It is the end of the line for the contiuum.
Most people on this post aint arguing that the theory fits Hardcore>Jungle>etc... up until Grime and Bassline and the new stuff. What I am saying is that the theory ends with dubstep. Grime and bassline and funky are underground dance music's entry to post-modernism.
If you think of modern art and an analogy....
Impressionism>Pointillism>Fauvism>Cubism>(say)Neo-Plasticism>Minimalism = Pop Art/Post Modernism/Neo-Expressionism.
If your not familiar with art type each of those movements into a search engine, its crudely chronological but it shows a pattern of reductionism. In my thoughts, Dubstep is the final reduction of the darkside strain. Kode 9 Feat Daddy G- Sign of the Dub is say Barnett Newmans zip paintings (thats one white line on a Black canvas) It is the end of the line for the contiuum.
Most people on this post aint arguing that the theory fits Hardcore>Jungle>etc... up until Grime and Bassline and the new stuff. What I am saying is that the theory ends with dubstep. Grime and bassline and funky are underground dance music's entry to post-modernism.