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dubstep

138–142 BPM High energy

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the early 2000s. The style, whose roots trace to the Jamaican sound system party scene in the early 1980s, emerged as a UK garage offshoot that blended 2-step rhythms and sparse dub production, as well as incorporating elements of broken beat, grime, and drum and bass.

emerged ~2002 · spawned briddim ↗ see in graph

Sound of dubstep

Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Skrillex
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Bonfire
Knife Party
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Make It Bun Dem
Skrillex
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Bangarang (feat. Sirah)
Skrillex
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I Knew You Were Trouble.
Taylor Swift
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Found In

Post-Dubstep

Related Tokens

Alternative Ambient Bass Beat Beatboxing Big Breakbeat Breaks Broken Brostep Chillstep Classical Complextro Crunchy Crunk Dance Dancefloor Dark Detroit Downtempo Drum Dub Electronic Electropop Experimental Filth Folk Footwork Funk Future Ghetto Halftime Hardstyle Hip Hop House IDM Illbient Juke Jungle Leftfield Melodic Metal Modern Nu Pop Post Post-Dubstep Progressive Psybient Psytrance Reggae Rock Scottish Singer Songwriter Soul Synthwave Tech Trance Trap Tribal Trip Tunnel Turntablism Uk Vocal [edm] club dance-pop drumstep electro electronica garage glitch grime industrial minimal other riddim techno

Also Known As

dubstep dubstep house

Sources & Attribution

Source Entry Name Confidence Link Notes
edit.music library Dubstep Derived from data — Imported from genre-map.json; variant: dubstep
Last.fm dubstep Derived from data —
Wikipedia dubstep music Derived from data ↗

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