Funny though. Dubstep was about in Manchester about 15 year back. Along with Hardstep, Dubbase, Hardcore blah blah blah..........
I think a new scene of music came out on a weekly basis back then lol
The constant fracture of genre & sub genre baffles me at times.
In the 80s/90s, anything from Ce Ce Rogers' "Someday" to Model 500 was "house", and that was all there was to it.
I lean more to the introspective, dub-like side of dubstep (and there's probably a name for that subgenre, somewhere) favouring the likes of Burial over the increasingly self parodic "WOBWOBWOB" heavy tunes (Rusko's "Cockney Thug" for example, which I secretly quite like).
There's some interesting stuff, some pedestrian, but listenable stuff, and some worthless cash ins around, just like in any genre I guess.