bassnation said:
even my appreciation of dubstep is filtered through a bunch of other earlier sounds, all of which were to do with ecstasy. i'm not sure you can get it 100% without knowing about the earlier stuff - although i could be wrong - maybe people coming into it fresh get something different altogether.
i reckon you're right there, to an extent, it was certainly a filter,
but then is'nt distance's background in new metal though, even beltram used to boast about black sabbath beign his biggest influence, that coulda been some pr though.
Also agree with you about burial being close to idm, but it's also the closest to some kind of post garage cosolidation,where it still carries the memes of garage, rhythm and vocal but it's definitley changed..
Alot of dubstep seems to be almost just pre-hardcore in mood to me, the euphoria in dubstep is quite different, it's hard to measure what it is, but one partis definitley to do with crowds recognising dubplates and getting a rewind, the part the audience play in the fracture and flow of the set is one of the most important things, that's why dubstep demands smaller spaces in a way.