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Official RAGGASTEP Thread, combining the two best genres of music...

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Jaymon
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As many of you know Dubstep was created as an attempt to modernize and add electronic sounds to traditional Jamaican dub music. Dub music is essentially instrumental reggae, and has been around far longer than reggae or even the Marcus Garvey Rastafari movement. It is the basis of all modern reggae music and was created by early 1920s jamaican "music men". It wasn't popularized until the 1960s however until guys like lee "scratch" perry brought it to the masses. At this point it was often the instrumental tracks behind reggae that was then sped up form 70to 140 BPM, giving it its distinctive jungle like romp. See example of modern Dub below:



Both Dubstep and reggae/Dub music have the same base. A beat around either 70 or 140 BPM in a 4/4 pattern with emphasis on the 1st and 3rd notes, unlike most music which the primary beat is on the 4th note of each bar. with the development of dubstep it brought these simple ideas of simple instrumentals to the masses and droning reggae like beats to people who previously never would listen to music that was so downtempo and bass heavy.

For some reason very few artist ever took the time to do a father and son like reunion of Reggae and Dubstep genres of music. It is unfortunate but the truth. I love what little Raggastep i have found, and think its a shame such a great new branch of music be so kept from the masses...

So NS i know with the creative minds out there you guys have got to know some great Raggastep songs. Post em up!!!!

Heres a couple of my favourite...







Post up your faves and pass it on!!! Always remember, ONE LOVE GIVE THANKS TO I AND I JAH RASTAFARI!!!
Oct 27 2010 1:04AM
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spliff.Life
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i never knew this was raggastep ive been loving this music ever since esthetic evolution
Oct 27 2010 1:21AM
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Jaymon
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^^^i've never been ( i assume you're talking about the festival in idaho) but the artist lineup looks solid. post up one of your favrite tunes if you say you know your shit! i wanna get tons of tracks on here.
Oct 27 2010 2:26AM
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Hodor
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anything by OSC is solid

Oct 27 2010 6:11PM
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95959
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Jesus fucking christ
Oct 27 2010 6:19PM
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kzrstf
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Oct 27 2010 8:33PM
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triebby
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This stuff is sick! Good thread man, I'm gonna be checking back here often.
Oct 27 2010 8:55PM
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nutsnbolts
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good stuff, thanks for posting guys!
Oct 27 2010 8:58PM
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Dragonite
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i always thought dubstep was a thread of ragae, so my understanding is that they were always combined... but as i see, my understandings were uncorrect.
Oct 27 2010 9:05PM
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panojibber
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I LOVE this kind of stuff. I've heard the last song in your post before, but I had no idea an entire genre or sub-genre even existed. If you know of any download links, please post up! +K to OP.
Oct 27 2010 9:37PM
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ChucklesNorman.
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Threads! I'll post some later if possible.
Oct 27 2010 10:11PM
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Sklar
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Download links please
Oct 27 2010 10:52PM
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Jaymon
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the reason i made this thread was not only to spread the word but to hopefully get good tracks from other people because its so hard to find. DL links seldomly exist.

in saying that if i cant find it on itunes i generally just http://www.video2mp3.net/ it. its not great quality but but when dealing with remixes and such its usually the easiest.
Oct 27 2010 11:03PM
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panojibber
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http://www.mediafire.com/?mqtwnymywdi

That's an hour and a half raggastep mix made by some guy on youtube. Check it out, pretty good stuff.
Oct 27 2010 11:18PM
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Bloom.
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http://soundcloud.com/dj2d/give-a-little-love

check that link if you like scientist
Oct 27 2010 11:22PM
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Jaymon
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thanks... now i need to change my pants, and possibly repaint the walls
Oct 28 2010 12:51AM
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maxro
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BOH!

yes, I know this first track is by Rusko, but give it a listen, skeptics.









I like this thread :)
Oct 28 2010 3:13AM
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shea.
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No it wasnt. Dub and Dubstep are two differnt genres evolving from 2 different types of music.
Oct 28 2010 8:04AM
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Jaymon
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"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 into 2-step, which featured as B-sides of single releases"

i honestly dont really know where dubstep came from but that was understanding and here is wikipedias
Oct 28 2010 11:29AM
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Sklar
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damn, if people do get DL links up that would be amazing
Oct 28 2010 7:42PM
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207
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this is such sick shit.
Oct 28 2010 8:36PM
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Jaymon
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Kep it at deh top
Oct 29 2010 2:28AM
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Dan.
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down beats in most music are the first quarter note in each bar, not the 4th.
Oct 29 2010 2:50AM
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EH_DUBS
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Real music! if your a dubstep hater and you like this stuff more...it kinda teaches you how to listen to the harder stuff aswell.

anyway tunes. if you like these check out our blog i love Raggastep and just general reggae dubstep (not to sure if there is a diffence) www.skistep.tumblr.com

DUBPLATE (feat. Singin`Gold) by SYMBIZ



Call Pon Dem (Krood Dubstep Remix) by Krood

cant wait for this one to be released! the sub is relaxing as...well...
The Spit Brothers - Violet Dub (Roommate's Remix) (preview) 11/15/10 Release by Dubs Alive Records

and some downloadsss
SUNSHINE IN DUB-Soft Wasp vs Hostile Hams by Soft Wasp
DONT STOP THE MUSIC (rmx) by DJSEC@NUCLEARCHILD
turntables Mix DubStep by DJSEC@NUCLEARCHILD

Oct 29 2010 3:46PM
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