Dubstep was sonically far closer to minimal - if you consider a genre to be the sum of its parts as opposed to a loose grouping of individuals who are not neccesarily connected and don't neccesarily share the same musical goals - two or three years back than it is now. Its far more cluttered these days and theres far more mid and alot less subltety.
Surely every good producer is aware of other musics and allows them to influence their style, i don't think just because Shackleton and Villalobos share a penchant for good percussion it means the two scenes are in any way merging. If producers stop looking for influence in the other interesting genre's and only listen to the type of music they make you get self imitating genericism.
Skream likes electro house and uses apreggios but no one talks about crossover in that direction, though because Pinch doesn't use many instruments - after all dubstep is minmal music - and different kick drum placement at times theres a lot of hype about.
Also what kind of crowd are you gonna get at a minimal/dubstep gig. Sure theres plenty of open minded heads who'll go purely for the musical experience, but theres gonna be alot more people who draw their identity from being part of a scene and the standard demographs of the two musics couldn't really be more opposite. The only way i could see it working is on a very small scale and at that point it isn't really a crossover anyway.
Didn't mean for this to be a miserabilist rant
