HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF A MUSICAL MOVEMENT (DUBSTEP)

Historical Overview of a Musical Movement (Dubstep)

Historical Overview of a Musical Movement (Dubstep)

Introduction

The Dubstep is a genre of music dance that has its roots in London in the early 2000's, in the scene garage of the United Kingdom. It was derived from 2-step, which replaced the battery syncopated rhythms to classic. The time is generally around 140 beats per minute, often involves syncopated rhythms and usually contains a single snare drum hit, usually on the third quarter. This distinguishes dubstep from other dance genres such as House and Techno since the rhythm is less predictable, slower and often more emphasized by the line below that on percussion.

Artists like El-B and Zed Bias brought the garage, around the year 2000, towards a darker and more psychedelic style, shifting it towards the Half step. Musically, dubstep is the recognizable for its 2-step rhythm, emphasis on snare drums similar to those of 2-step garage, and particular attention to the bass lines, which are powerful, dark and very concise. The dubstep sound takes from many genres of music, from electronic music to the House (Joy Orbison) or detroit techno (Martyn). If the genre was initially sounds to dub "incattivite" 2-step rhythms or newly developed in recent years, dubstep has taken an important role in electronics due to the eclecticism of many artists. To give some examples: Burial led to the IDM, Roska has softened towards the housey sounds, Joker has flirted with electronica and Otto Von Schirach has literally bent the dubstep imagination to its porno-horror (listen to End of the world, from the album Magic Triangle). Then, there was one of the genera electronic, outside the mainstream productions.

Description and Analysis

While dubstep is a genre of electronic music in its own right, it is probably rooted in both the Jamaican dub and the culture of the sound system as usual in Jamaica in the United Kingdom. In the dub, it can be the source of many of the hallmarks of dubstep, as well as some of its techniques sound: the use of sub bass (with frequencies below 100 Hz), nervous and unbalanced batteries (typical of the later 2-step) or production effects like echo and reverb. Furthermore, we find typical elements of the culture of sound system, such as using dubplates or reverence for the power of the bass. This combination of elements of Jamaican music culture is in many musical styles that emerged in the UK, as the jungle, the garage and then dubstep (IMO Records 2011, 90).

Characteristics

The characteristics of this music represent one of the dubstep mutations Speed Garage (also known as the UK garage, not to be confused with the garage) and 2-step. The pioneers produce, around 1999-2000, inspirational pieces of its kind and is El-B (half of Groove Chronicles and Ghost label), of Zed Bias (aka Phuturistix, Maddslinky ...) and Steve Gurley. As the grime, another mutation of the garage, dubstep has developed on the basis of urban and futuristic atmospheres and rhythms at a tempo ...