Dubstep.

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Dubstep.
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The Genre

• Dubstep was born in London in the early
  2000s. It originated from the UK garage scene.
  Characteristics of the genre include emphasis on
  bass, synthesized sounds and samples of other
  songs or vocals. Dubstep tracks usually have a
  140BPM pace, which allows various tracks to be
  mixed together much more easily. Although drums
  are an important part of dubstep, it is usually
  the bass line which governs the rhythm of the
  sound.

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Track conventions. Tracks in this genre usually
start with an intro, which progress to a drop,
which is where the bass usually kicks in. Tracks
often have a second drop throughout the song
where the bass and drums ease of and then kick
back in dramatically. Drops are usually used to
get the crowd going as it is often the most
dramatic and well known part of the song.
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History and modern day The genre has expanded
rapidly since its birth, and may prove to be the
latest trend in youth music. It already gets a
lot of play time at various raves and in radio
programmes, as well as many websites having been
set up specifically for dubstep. Many mainstream
artists have also put their sounds in the hands
of various dubstep artists to remix them.
Examples of this are La Roux in for the kill,
and The Prodigys Omen. Hip Hop artists like
Xzibit and Snoop Dogg have also recorded onto
dubstep instrumentals, helping to further expand
the scene. Well known Artists in the genre
include Plastician, Rusko, Skream, Benga, Coki,
Burial and Kode 9.
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Audience
The core audience is aged between 15-24 with a
faithful fanbase in the 25-35 bracket. Males
generally listen to it more but raves tend to be
half and half male/female split. The audience
within the UK tend to live in or around the
larger cities such as London, Leeds and Bristol.
Audiences abroad are also generally in the larger
cities around the world. Europe has a large
following mainly in Germany and Norway, which all
produce a lot of dubstep. America also has a
large dubstep following in cities such as San
Francisco. Dubsteps communities generally
circle around regular events such as Rinse _at_
FWD in London's 02, however due to the
accessibility of dubstep peoples location isnt a
limiting factor.
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Mood
Dubstep can heighten the mood you are in, and
artists tend to have a style which is either
uplifting or dark. There are other artists that
produce more party-focused dubstep with the
emphasis of the track on getting people to dance.
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Record labels
Dubstep has a huge range of labels, some of the
largest are
The majority of the labels have names that would
appeal to Dubstep's main audience, and they tend
to use just black and white in their logos. A lot
of the labels exclusively deal with the dubstep
genre.
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The competition. As far as other dubstep
orientated magazines go, there are very few, but
the genre often gets publicity and regular pages
in magazines such as The wire, and the genre
has been reviewed by various magazines and
newspapers such as The Sunday Times and the New
York Times. There are various dedicated online
magazines such as Get Darker. Printed magazines
for the genre are limited, many feature atricles
about dubstep but none cover dubstep exclusively
an example of this is Woofah.