Dubstep Defined As Drum & Bass - Official
Dubstep has been added to the latest edition of the world’s biggest single-volume English lexicon the Chambers Dictionary, defined as ‘’a type of electronic popular dance music developed from drum and bass’.
Details of the inclusion of Britain’s biggest next big thing genre of recent years in the dictionary emerged just as leading scenester Skream pointedly labeled himself ‘UK bass’ in an interview with the Independent in which he also stressed ‘‘I want to make sure once this (dubstep) fad dies out, I’m still standing’.
“The word dubstep is being used by a lot of people and there were a lot of people being tagged with the dubstep brush. They don’t want to be tagged with it and shouldn’t be tagged with it – that’s not what they’re pushing,” he pleaded.
When I say ‘UK bass’, it’s what everyone UK is associated with so it would be a lot easier if it was called that,” he argued (Independent: http://ind.pn/o9d3lk )
His decision to opt for ‘UK bass’ came four months after micro-genre expert and Keysound Recordings chief Martin Clark speculated that dubstep could instead be replaced by 130BPM or rival ‘next big thing’ terms ‘wobbly brostep and eyes-down halfstep’.
“Right now, a fierce debate is raging amongst critics and fans of the bassier side of things,” he told Pitchfork Magazine, “Some call it “post-dubstep’ while others call it “bass music” or refer to it by tempo (“130bpm”). (Pitchfork: http://p4k.in/ik1Flu )
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