Dubstep
Dubstep is a bass-heavy style of electronic music at around 140 beats per minute, with sparse, syncopated drums and deep sub-bass.
It came out of South London in the early 2000s, growing from UK garage, 2-step and dub. The original sound is dark and spacious, built for big sound systems. Around 2010 a louder, more aggressive version with harsh mid-range bass and dramatic drops, sometimes called brostep, took off in the United States through artists such as Skrillex.
Artists it is known for: Skream, Benga, Burial, Skrillex.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- South London, early 2000s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have dubstep among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Dubstep artists
Skrillex
deadmau5
ISOxo
Pendulum
Seven Lions
Subtronics
Crankdat
SLANDER
Excision
Zeds DeadThe dubstep artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
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