funny thing is that skrillex has recently been bringing the genre more down to earth to the roots it came from. He's really pushing the sound, while a lot of other US based dubstep producers are stuck in the 2010's sound. also gotta give credit to labels like Deep Medi and 1985 music that keep focussing on the deep sound; still has a huge following in the underground

Ah yes, my favorite electronic music genre, *SKRILLEXCORE*

My favorite dubstep moment was when Skrillexius Maximus posted the flim track by aphex twin saying he was the reason he got into making music and all his fans were like "YO WHERE'S THE DROP BRO???".

Also just to let you guys know brostep didn’t just birth out the usa it actually started with uk based acts such as rusko and coki. Artist such as these had much more aggressive style of dubstep and sounds familiar with brostep whilst still having that heavy low end bass from old school dubstep. If you check out coki has a track could SpongeBob where he takes SpongeBobs laugh and turns it into a wobbling baseline. Definitely a precursor to brostep.

Just saw Rusko and Skrillex on Sunday at EDC México. That shit was fucking awesome, seeing both sides of the scene is fucking awesome. Fuck you purists, all my homies love Skrillex and dubstep.

Everyone seems to blame Skrillex for "ruining" dubstep even though Rusko had made Woo Boost a few years before Skrillex blew up.

You forgot to mention Rusko & Caspa the "godfathers" of tearout dubstep which was a precursor to early brostep.

Also worth mentioning the glory of metalstep. You know, Korn’s Path Of Totality album, Jiluka etc.

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Dubstep coming from Dub which stemmed from Reggae music

If you were to confine dubstep's history to just the UK you would probably find that it still had a dizzying plethora of styles that were mostly regional, since in London around 2011 Benga, Skream, Coki, Sukh Knight etc. were creating tracks that were focused around singular basslines and minimalist structures, whereas artists on the Circus Records label and the like took more cues from American dubstep as an alternative as this was the less underground and more EDM friendly form of dubstep. Then there were artists in Bristol like Culprate and KOAN Sound as well as Feed Me who were more influenced by Aphex and Squarepusher and later fused dubstep with sounds taken from neurofunk drum and bass and were considered to be part of the Bass Music subcategory

shoutout to Alix Perez and 1985 crew for carrying and constantly setting new boundaries for the darker and more sinister 140, half time, and anything beyond 160

Can we please have an Ignorant Guide to Hard Bass????

1:32 certified burial moment

There's a bridge between the UK dubstep and the Skrillex dubstep, 2009 stuff from Rottun Records (Excision's label)

This would be a great segway into Ignorant guide to Triphop.

honestly didnt expect colour bass to get a shout out, awesome video!

As a massive dubstep fan you've done a pretty good job covering it in a short video. Another thing to note is oddly it dying in the mainstream's eyes has actually been a really good thing for the genre as basically only people who actually want t produce it have stuck around so there's now quite a lot of mainstay name in Dubstep who have been doing it a while and creating quality stuff.

I keep watching dubstep documentaries and none of makers actually seem to have listened to the genre at all since 2012 at all, funnily enough what should be a subgenre of dubstep documentaries is the broad mass. It's a really specific feeling you get when something you like gets so grossly oversimplified again and again in the same way that I think I'm starting to like it, also the comment section proves to be repetitively predictable which is calming in its own way.

As a certified autistic zoomer my primary memories of "brostep" come from Geometry Dash, specifically the boatload of "Nine Circles levels" that flooded the GD community in 2015. Geometry Dash (at least until 2.2) sourced all its music from the Newgrounds audio portal, and there was a guy on there called NIGHTkilla (he also went by "Realistik" and "Rukkus") who was essentially the Skrillex of Newgrounds. He started off making the kind of generic techno music you'd hear in flash games in the late 2000's, but in 2011 pivoted to making brostep after Skrillex blew up. Anyway, fast forward to January 2015 when the ability to pick a custom song from Newgrounds had just been added and Geometry Dash was entering its first golden age. A guy named Zobros made a demon level called "Nine Circles" that used one of NIGHTkilla's songs, and in this level created a gimmick involving pairing the drop of a brostep song with extremely hard wave gameplay decorated by seizure-inducing flashing lights. The GD community went absolutely nuts over this and before long everyone and their grandma was picking a song from NIGHTkilla's discography and making their own Nine Circles remake with it. That trend forever cemented the whole brostep sound as rhythm game music or "gamer music" in general in my mind.

I’m 31 now and discovered dubstep/brostep in late 2011 while in college. I had never connected more with a genre of music in my life and to this day in 2024 it is predominantly my main taste in music. It’s has everything I look for in music. Relentless energy, aggression, colorful melody, abstract patterns and humor, not taking itself too seriously. I’m not alone with these feelings either. My whole friend circle is into this stuff and my girl and I regularly attend brostep raves now in our 30s. It comes off a bit insulting talking only 12-year-olds like this kind of sound. Maybe so in your corner of the world but not here. Skril didn’t blow up for no reason. The sound clearly appealed to people back then and the scene is still very much alive and well. I am curious though. What kind of music do the people trashing on brostep listen to? I pretty much enjoy all music in some capacity and am always looking for new listening experiences!

Man i've really grown to love these videos, always waiting for a new one!😄 Also your soundcloud has some really nice songs, "This shit makes me feel like im walking on air" is so gooood!

Brings back memories of being a young child during my older sister’s dubstep hyperfixation. I swear we watched that one video of the dude dancing to the pumped up kicks remix’s everyday for months.

BURIAL MENTIONED 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

I remember dubstep was the first genre of music I ever really liked when I was younger. Nowadays I never listen to it

pretty good coverage as a whole, although I still have yet to see a lot of talk about the 2008-2010 excision datsik bar9 doctorp flux pavillion type era, it wasn't just coki and benga night and then one day skrillex changed everything, it was definitely a gradual change. There's also so much forgotten to history, like riddim's origins being essentially any song that sounds like subfiltronik's passout until it was changed to a catch all term for repetitive dubstep and that phase where "trench" was a genre and then was collectively decided was out of ideas after precisely 2 months. Tearout was a word at some point and I could have sworn dubloadz tried to make "savage wonk" a thing but this video was nice and good have a lovely day mr coolea

Old dub step used to be sooo good

I love dubstep

Absolutely fantastic video. Really enjoy the concept of this KZfaq channel

I made beats on PlayStation back in the day😂🍻

Me being the only dude who actually likes brostep and metalstep because of the sound design

For a future video, do one on acid house. It's kinda like the OG EDM (if you ignore Chicago). And unlike the common thread of the US ruining everything, time they spawned an amazing new musical style (but then forgot about it).

Been getting into a lot of Riddim stuff that's been produced 2018-pres. I actually like some of it & it shows that it still works. I love the fact that the genre is back to being underground again. Some bangers I listen to max out 50,000 views on here. Aweminus' stuff for example is a great artist for those who like the heavy stuff & want a more consistent darker tone. Really depends on the tone people prefer from it. Some of it, I will say, does sound like crap to me though. I find to be skipping 60% of tracks on my Riddim autoplay. Some of it is a bit too much in some areas, such as overly aggressive drops & builds that last way too long with little payoff when the drop comes.

this mix up of genre names in the general public reminds me a lot of what is happening to the hip hop sub genre phonk for over 2 or 3 years now

Funny, Brostep is what I called Pewdiepie fan music back in the early 2010s.

Bruh that shit you had at 7:40 made me rewind like 6 times 😂

Colour bass fan here, I really didn't expect you to mention colour bass. Thanks

*Coki - Spongebob* was one of the first experiments with focus on the the face-melting midbass. Worth checking out.

broo the reasearch you did one this one is insanee!! would also love to see you cover memphis rap.

Video was so good i went to like it and saw i already had

I very much fuck with the new "dubstep," but lean heavily towards riddim and tearout/deathstep in that case. It's doodoo white noise all around, but brain likey. Half the reason I listen to all the Metal I do, too. Although I'm also a staunch defender of Dubstep being the old-school variety. Fantastic artists mentioned in the video like Skream, Benga, Digital Mystikz and Burial - I would also like to recommend Mala, SP:MC, J:Kenzo, Egoless and Truth. Lots of greats are active to this day, too. Truth's label - Deep Dark & Dangerous - is a great place to find new artists, alongside DUPLOC. Lots of fantastic labels! Personally, I would've loved for Minatory to get a bit more popular. It has been super underground for many years by now, but there's some incredible subgenres being explored. I think dungeon minatory might be a bit esoteric, but it hits a very slow, haunting vibe with lots of lows. Minatory as a whole still leans on lots of jarring noises, due to having some roots in Deathstep/Brostep, but typically it's accompanied by actual instruments and atmosphere. Choirs without end. Lots of video game samples being used for storytelling purposes. Also best snares you'll hear in any music genre, fight me. Few recommendations with two caveats; they're mostly found on Soundcloud or Bandcamp, and you gotta get in the "noise not music" mindset. Carthus - Domain of Reflection, SCARRED - Enshrined Anguish (sounds like the devil talking), Havel x Influx - The Hundred Year War, Malice - Plague Sorry for horrible formatting but ain't nobody readin' alladat. If you did, here's a song I've had on repeat lately. Idk about its genre ngl. retvrn - dawn

ha! I got Like #666. I deserve a medal. I remember checking out the early dubstep back around 2007-08 when I was first really exploring electronic music in depth. Skream and Burial were very interesting, but that brostep movement came along so fast that I pretty much stop checking out any artist with dubstep as a description.

I need a guide to trap metal. As a fan of the genre, that would be hilarious

The ecto and berrix clips are absolutely perfect in placement.

I'll admit I was one such 12yo that got waaaay to much into the genre in the 2010s, simpler times they were.

I was little surprised with no mention of Rusko, who i remember being the first one i ever heard of, couple of years before Skrillex blew up. Rusko was also one of the creators of the brostep sound. Another one was Datsik.

Spent a lot of time in high school listening to brostep and its variations, but eventually moved on. In more recent years I began to explore 90s genres of rave music and their modern counterparts such as Breakbeat Hardcore>DnB, or Gabber>Uptempo Hardcore. Perhaps my former love of brostep explains my current obsession with some of these genres. For example I find some extratone feels weirdly similar to brostep.

such good conclusion. thankyou

This video reminds me of that video called "all my homies hate skrillex"

Thank you for making this

you should do a video on uptempo , if skrillex is too ridiculous for you

You should maybe do an ignorant guide to one of my fav dance genres of all time - acid house

Even Skrillex has made some 2step shit back in 2014. Let's just not only talk shit about the guy. He contributed a lot to EDM.

Damn, I got into dubstep and electronic music in general because of geometry dash

It would be soo cool if u can make a playlist

there's a construction site near a bus stop i use and recently i heard them playing some brostep noise and I was like 'wow, i haven't heard that shit in years'

Bauhaus (the truth) when?

Can you do a video on industrial metal or groove metal

8:39 OMG you are so right, damn, I loved it before this!!!

I'm seeing more and more people talking about what dubstep really used to be and I like that.

riddim mentioned ❤‍🔥

hehe i love brostep i think its fun ive got a local band that does hardcore straightedge dubstep super fun bunch of death metal influence

Do trance and house next!

I am once again asking for *an ignorant guide to jungle*

A couple of things, 1) prior ro the whole thing taking off in Croydon, Mick Harris, the drummer of Grindcore legends Napalm Death had been taking his electronic solo side project in some very strange directions from the dank industrial-y trip-hop that had characterised his earlier work into what is recognisably dubstep a good couple of years ahead of the scene kicking off in London. The extent to which any of the croydon guys or later artists knew or cared about their precursor is debatable but that's still kind of cool to know. One might arguably say the same about some of Kevin Martin's various projects 2) Not all the facemelting mid-rangey stuff is shite! Specifically UK artists like 16 Bit, SKiSM, Broken Note et al, and some from further afield, Akira Kiteshi, Loops Haunt, the industrial producer Hecq had an album and a couple of EPs in that style and they was 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥. 3) There's a lot of stuff missed out on, sure you know yourself. Bristol was and remains a huge centre for Dubstep and bass music in general, the Bristolean "Purple" dubstep was some of the best, see Joker, Ital Tek et al. My favourite was the heavy dark techno infleunced stuff like The Bug (who was also releasing stuff that has all the hallmarks of dubstep through the late 90s), Vex'd, Distance For a more thorough dissection Timbah On Toast's seminal video essay All My Homies Hate Skrillex is very much worth the watch.

Burial is one of very few electronic music producers than can make me cry

good video but I also don't like how you framed the whole sonic shift of Dubstep as this sudden American shift when in fact it was moreso a completely natural progression of the sound. It wasn't just Americans causing this either - artists like Coki and Flux Pavilion for example definitely road the wave of Dubstep but steadily added more wobbly basslines and drop structure to their songs and Skrillex was simply a fan who saw the progression and took it just that one step further

Let's gooooo dubstep 🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏

You should do industrial music next

I love you guys

8:05 That's like the most funniest fictional story I have ever heard of their was one not gonna lie.

great vid ! just a little thing i found confusing : this video lacks some actual music examples, would have been much more comprehensive for those who are not familiar with theses genres, other than that nice work man keep it up !

Nice video👌 but nothing wrong with a good old rewind😂

Caspa and Dubpolice also use to be a thing back then. They had some awesome artists on their books.

What is the name of this Aphex Twin dubstep compilation you are referring to?

Midtempo Bass is next up.

video premise kind of hyped me, but seriously got me pissed me off when halfway through and didnt even hear a single part of any song as an example for what he was talking about, I know about this stuff but how can you go off about a music topic without giving actual examples to listen, even for like 10 seconds bits.

Good video, I have a suggestion for a new video, harder styles

*YES*

YESSS!!! Dubstep!!!

make power metal next i have waited months

Coolea is the best music channel on youtube....well his and Nik Nokturnal. (edit: I think Ajapai did dubstep best, personally)

He's a good lad, called it brostep. Curses on skrillex and transformer noises

colour bass mentioned

please do a video on riddim

GIVE US THE IGNORANT GUIDE TO HARD DANCE i wanna see you rip into some modern xtra raw and uptempo lmao

As much as I love these introspective videos into the genre, they rarely touch on the resurgence of old school style dubstep with the 140 bpm experimental scene coming from labels like Deep Dark and Dangerous with artists like Truth and Distinct Motive, Of The Trees, and much more. Dubstep has evolved but into so many more genres than brostep. Stuff like riddim, experimental, space bass, and so many more. Great video overall though!

Good vid, help keep real dubstep alive. Sucks that hatcha is basically a sexual predator

Brostep (Honestly, as I came to now rather recently, Electro House) was my introduction to... music. First it was brostep, but then I started backtracking to older genres, like the og uk dubstep, 2-step, garage, dub and the reggae side of it. At the same time you'll hear some grime if you explore around. And then there's the more experimental Commodo or "weightless grime" and stuff like that. In that sense I got to love all the different sides of soundsystem music. It's influenced my own production a lot.

An ignorant guide on Bérurier Noir/french punk next pls

my god i already agree

You mentioned skream wow Pretty accurate video

You couldn’t be more wrong about dubstep falling out of the mainstream

I honestly think dubstep just went down because they're trying a bit too hard the same way deathcore did to their genre. It's blatant boring nowadays and just want to sound hard for the appeal of being hardcore. It was so cybernetic, dystopian & alienated sounding during 2002-2018 it was sucha different genre, it felt so nasty during those times but now, idk what can i say to it, buncha random laser noises and weird wobble that i think it's better if you put that a sidefx into a goregrind album. It's overlyproduced and trying so hard that i would rather listen to gorenoise and blacknoise than this. While one of it's most famous subgenre (Deathstep) has stayed on it's roots and i like it that way, deathstep is still my go thru since they don't try so hard, they really want to appeal something, they just make something cinematic, gothic & creepy and just drops, they don't overlyproduced it, same thing goes thru minatory, the genre has it's harshest during 2014-2016 and it wasn't also overproduced, now modern minatory mostly now focuses on occultist atmosphere and I still quite like it Forgot to mention many great genre died Like: Robostep Neurostep Drumstep Complextro Deep dub And Glitch-hop(Moombahcore) Due to its tryhard progression

please do phonk next we need more people to know what actual phonk is like

3:09 Excuse me wtf is that, this has no business being this funny xd

Is it wrong to enjoy old school dubstep pre Skrillex, early Skrillex and even the newer stuff nowadays? I feel like there’s space to have appreciation for it all and just enjoy seeing it evolve and change over time. Whatever it is, bass music in all forms is still the best

Off the top of my head stuff i would of added Midnight request line Katy b Nero Dj fresh Artwork Magnetic man Caspa and rusko fabric mix Maybe that korn album? Maybe outlook fest? Maybe mkat? Maybe Skream announcing quitting the genre? Maybe the "yes bruv" culture, aka don't act like a rude boy when daddy's got a yacht Edit excellent vid though overall

Fuck yeah

Oh yes 13 year old me loved enjoying the sound of my ears absorbing all kinds of dinosaur techno noises.

We went from "Come meditate on a bass weight" to huge festivals with "dubstep" artists that weren't dubstep at all. By the point Untrue was released and Sonny Moore left From First To Last to became Skrillex, things got really different. I spent some friday late nights listening to the Radio 1's Essential Mix between 2007 and 2015, and it was a really interesting downhill. Not really bad at all but still a downhill; the USA artists were somewhat uninteresting, but UK and Canadians (who were an extreme that I particularly liked) didn't disappointed me.