101 introductory tracks to dubstep under its various guises
So I've gone from a slight interest in dubstep (I've listened to it since 2007) to it being what I listen to roughly 90% for the past 6 months. What changed? Well I bought a pair of bass heavy earphones and realised I had been missing out on roughly 75% of what there was to most dubstep tracks. Some more in depth research into the scene taught me that the original purpose of dubstep was as music to be played on a system so that you not only listen to the music, you also feel it through the sub bass. You can get this also to a lesser extent on high quality headphones that properly pick up sub bass or even better a subwoofer. And so I arrive at where I am today, much more well-versed, where I thought I'd post up a few links from Youtube (unfortunately therefore not the highest quality audio as it's Youtube and doubly unfortunately the spam filter won't let me post links for all of them so I've limited the links to my ten favourites; all others can be found by searching on Youtube) to introduce some people to the sound. Like I said though, it's fairly pointless to listen to these without the sub bass so at the minimum please listen to them at a good volume on headphones, not on laptop speakers. And if you really want to hear these in proper quality where the bass etc can be fully appreciated you'll need to track them down.
Also, I have limited it to 1 tracks per artist to try and create a bit more variety and stop me posting everything Loefah's done though you may see an artist's name more than this through collaboration projects. These will usually sound different so I will allow this. Therefore these do not constitute my favourite 101 dubstep tracks as I've tried to go for a bit of variety, even within a single artist's work. Onto the tracks!
1. 2562 - Enforcers
2. Addison Groove - Footcrab
3. Amerie - 1 Thing (French Fries Remix)
4. Amit & Rani - Stay With Me
5. Artwork - Red
6. Benga - eyeTunes
7. Benga & Coki - Night
8. Benga & Skream - The Judgement
9. Benny Ill & Hatcha - Highland Spring
10. Benny Ill, Kode9 & The Culprit - Fat Larry's Skank
11. Benny Page - Rank
12. Benny Page & Zero G - Pan Pipes
13. Blawan - Getting Me Down
14. Boddika - Acid Jackson
15. Boxcutter - Brood
16. Brenmar - Let's Pretend
17. The Bug & Flowdan - Skeng
19. Calenda - Forever
20. Caspa - Rubber Chicken
21. Caspa & Rusko - Custard Chucker
22. Coki - Officer
23. Cooly G - Landscapes
24. Cotti & Cluekid - Sensi Dub
25. Cyrus - Indian Stomp
26. D1 - Boiler (Given away by D1 as a freebie and available here)
28. Deep Impact - Carpet Muncha
29. Digital Mystikz - Neverland
30. Distal - Attempt at Yellow
31. Distance - Fallen (Vex'd Remix)
32. District - 3.5grams
33. DJ Abstract - Touch
34. DJ Madd - Life You Chose
35. Dusk & Blackdown ft. Target - Darker Than East
36. El-B - Express
37. Eric H - The Lights
38. Geiom - Overnight Biscuits
39. Girl Unit - Wut
40. Goth Trad - Itinerant Priest
41. Headhunter - Clone
42. High Plains Drifter & Goldspot Productions - Sholay
43. Hijak - Tears
44. Horsepower Productions - Voodoo Spell
45. Ikonika - Please
46. J:Kenzo - Ruffhouse
47. Jack Sparrow - I and I
48. James Blake - CMYK
49. Jammin - Go DJ
50. Joker - Digidesign
51. Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo
52. Joy Orbison & Boddika - Swims
53. Killawatt - Mystic Vocation (dub)
54. Kode9 - 9 Samurai (I prefer this version without The Spaceape)
55. Kode9 & The Spaceape - Kingstown
56. Kromestar - Kalawanji
57. Kryptic Minds - Badman VIP (dub - the original is released)
58. Kryptic Minds & Youngsta - Cold Blooded
59. L-wiz - Girlfriend
61. Loefah & Skream - 28g
62. LX-One, Ben Verse & Youngsta - Exodus (dub)
63. Magnetic Man - Alright (dub)
64. MarkOne - Lost Gold
65. Martyn - Velvet
66. Massive Music - Find My Way (Kode9 Remix)
67. Matty G - 50,000 Watts
68. Menta - The Soul (Skreamix) (dub)
69. Milanese & Virus Syndicate - Dead Man Walking
70. Mosca - Bax
71. Mount Kimbie - 50 Mile View
72. Mr Lager & Alys Be - Tell Me (Silkie Remix)
73. Mungo's Hi Fi - Babylon
74. Omen - The Rise (N-Type Remix)
75. Oris Jay - Salute (dub)
76. Peverelist - Infinity Is Now
77. Phaeleh - Lykasea (Given away as a free download)
78. Pinch & P.Dutty - War Dub
79. Pinch & Yolanda - Get Up
80. Pinch & Distance - Memory Loss
81. Plastician - Japan
82. Quest - The Unknown
83. Ramadanman - Work Them
84. Roxy & El-B - Cuba
85. RSD - Pretty Bright Light
86. Rusko - Jahova
87. SBTRKT - Pharaohs
88. Search & Destroy - Candyfloss (Loefah Remix)
89. Shackleton - Blood On My Hands
90. Silkie & Skream - Untitled
91. Skream - Disfunktional Mindz (dub)
92. Steve Gurley - Hotboys
93. TGS - On tha Run (Horsepower Productions Remix)
95. Trolley Snatcha - The Future
96. Truth - Babylon London (dub)
97. Tunnidge - Brixton Bass
98. Untold - Stop What You're Doing
99. Vex'd - Fire
100. Von D & Phe Phe - Show Me (Skreamix)
101. Zomby - 1-UP
Dub in brackets means the track in question has not seen an offical release/giveaway and so only features on mix cds or dj mixes. This explains why some of the videos are named incorrectly. The names I provide are the generally accepted name for these tracks.
I'm not going into this much but there will be not be any brostep featured on this list except the Trolley Snatcha track which is a borderline case. If you like that track and none of the others by all means explore that sound further. But don't expect Flux Pavillion, Dr. P or Skrillex suggestions from me.
WHERE IS JOY ORBISON?