Dubstep
Dubstep is a genre of dance music that comes from Britain and has its roots in the more popular Drum & Bass and Garage music genres. It sounds dark and sinister, often features wobbly bass lines, and has a loose, scattered sounding rhythm. It's over a decade old but has only been popular since the mid 00's. You could have gone your entire life never needing to know any of this had the music not been a perfect fit for viral videos.
- Dubstep Penguin
This dubstep-dancing penguin hated Happy Feet because he felt it didn't adequately reflect the musical preferences of today's young penguins. I mea... - Dubstep Jarface
Just when you thought dubstep music couldn't get any more annoying, this kid uses the wonders of technology to add another layer of WTF to it. This...
Dubstep videos predate Break’s first dubstep post, but Break’s first dubstep video was a doozy. Baby Eating Chili To Dubstep was the first dubstep video we ever posted, published Sept. 29, 2010, and it was perfect. It featured a baby jamming to a dubstep track its parents were producing. Eating chili with a mean look on her face, the baby seemed to perfectly represent the exotic feel of the music. You knew you didn’t want to come between her and either her dubstep or her chili.
Using that as our jumping off point, you can see how the almost ridiculously dark music could work as the perfect counterpoint to a perfectly benign video. Take Dubstep Penguin, which is part of a popular subgenre of dubstep dance remix videos, for an example. This video took an already popular video of a penguin dancing, and made it appear that the penguin were dancing to moody dubstep music, transforming the already-pleasant video into an awesome one. Dubstep makes everything better. Or at least weirder.
Five dubstep artists to know:
- Chase & Status
- Rusko
- The Widdler
- Benga
- Skream
