On 10 Oct 2007, at 08:21, klaus boss wrote:
It directly evolved from Grime and 4 X 4 ( 4 by 4).
This is completely wrong, it came from the garage scene before the scene became more urban/commercial and probably because of it. When it first hit it was called New Step around 2000 and then started getting called 8 Bar, which was taken up by Grime later.
As for sounding samey - well, do you honestly believe that the so-called "Neo-Detroit" offers something new except for better production?
The problem in the Dubstep scene is that people are just using the same beat, dropping the bass and wub wubbing on LFO2 but Pinch/Benga/ Loefah are still pushing forward with some good stuff.
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