Defining My Target Audience

Dubstep is a early 2000's underground genre. Formed in underground clubs it was later discovered and made more public after and around 2005. The unique sound of Dubstep has been described as "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals" The earliest dubstep releases, which date back to 1998, were darker, more experimental, instrumental dub remixes of 2-step garage tracks attempting to incorporate the funky elements of breakbeat, or the dark elements of drum and bass. Drum and Bass is closely related to Dubstep however the main difference is that you could class Dubstep as being a lot "heavier" with the use of bass. Also the genre of Drum and Bass does not use a Sub-bass.

Dubstep rhythms are usually syncopated, and often shuffled or incorporating triplets. In its early stages, dubstep was more percussive. A lot of producers were also experimenting with tribal drum samples, a notable example being Loefah's early release "Truly Dread". Over time, key producers at the time started to experiment with the half-step rhythm which created more of a spacious vibe, and head-nodding rhythm, a feature which started to be used more and more and has become a signature of the genre. Similarly, the half-step rhythm also started to dominate grime, and producers started to lose the more complex and jerky rhythms influenced from 2-step, and started to work with more hip-hop influenced beats.

Popular artists include Rusko, Datsik, Excision and Nero. Which all have a different and unique styling to the music however each are different in their own way.

My target audience are those who like a mixture of Drum and Bass and Techno, or those who are looking into finding a new different genre. It would be suited to those who visit clubs regularly.

Clothing is not important when it comes to this genre of music, anything is "accepted" from jeans and t-shirts to banana costumes. "Nothing is frowned upon and long as you are dancing to the heavy bass line"-quoted by Primitive Dubstep. The dancing technique is also unique as it is probably one of the most random kinds of dance. You can not choreograph any dancing techniques to the music as the rythmns and beats change through every song, tempo and the key its made in switches very swiftly and so the dancing must be erratic. One simple type of movement is that the people put their hands up above their heads slightly bent at the elbow, and heads down or up but also jumping, this then causes others to bump into each other and this then can cause a "mosh pit". Also known as moshing is it the act where people push/ slam/ hit/ punch others in a kind of riot usually that ends up in a small crowd of people. This is common at live concerts for genres such as Heavy-metal, Hardcore Punk, and Dubstep. This act is sometimes enjoyed by people no matter what the consequences are. Although it's not as grumsome as it may sound, moshpits at concerts or clubs that play Dubstep, the moshing can be less violent, this is called "safe moshing" where the crowd just runs around in circles and give the occassional push, however no hitting is usually involved and this is a lot calmer to the moshing that can happen.