Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in south London, England. Its overall sound has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals"
The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998 and were darker, more experimental, instrumental dub remixes of 2-step garage tracks.
Dubstep's rhythms are usually shuffled. It doesn't follow the common patterns in other styles of electronic dance music. It relies of longer percussion loops. Dubstep features the wobble bass.
2009-present is when dubstep has become mainstream, particularly in the UK. The US are fast becoming dubtep followers as well.
It is compilation of many popular underground genres, such as garage musical contemporary rap, UK rock, electro and house. It takes into account various conventions of some of the best genres of music which enables Dubstep to become so versatile so that it can be incorporated with all most any type of music. This is one of the reasons as to why Dubstep has become popular amongst so many different social groups based on their musical preferences, people that are into heavy metal, electro, grime and house music which all greatly differentiate from one another, all have Dubstep as a common genre preference in their music choice. The relationship between the lyrics and music is different to other genres, not due to the music overpowering the lyrics, but the music having the same effect in the track as the lyrics would, meaning that people that love good music, listen to the lyrics for example the lyrics from Bob Dylan. But with dubstep, the music has meaning as well, as it makes you feel as if adrenaline is passing through you whilst you listen.
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