Dubstep has changed everything. Absolutely everything. It’s crept up from nowhere (i.e. Croydon), turning club music upside down and inside out. It’s confounded theorists at every step and short-circuited old oppositions between street and geek, populist and avant-garde, innovation and tradition, even between what boys and girls are expected to like. It’s provided the missing link between disparate subcultures, reminding us that however rhythms change, raving is still raving. And it continues to change things.
Don’t Panic has an interesting article on Dubstep wondering if Croydon is the new Detroit. Provocative title, but it’s a good read about the qualities and pace of dubstep’s evolution.
