Simultaneously, the genre was receiving extensive coverage in music magazines such as The Wire and online publications such as Pitchfork Media, with a regular feature entitled The Month In: Grime/Dubstep. Dubstep started to spread beyond small local scenes in late 2005 and early 2006 many websites devoted to the genre appeared on the internet and aided the growth of the scene, such as dubstepforum, the download site Barefiles and blogs such as gutterbreakz. In 2004, the last year of his show, his listeners voted Distance, Digital Mystikz and Plastician (formerly Plasticman) in their top 50 for the year. Ī very early supporter of the sound was BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, who started playing it from 2003 onwards.

It was labels Big Apple, Amunition and Tempa that began circulating the 'dubstep' term.

The term 'dubstep' in reference to a genre of music began to be used by around 2002, by which time stylistic trends used in creating these remixes started to become more noticeable and distinct from 2-step and grime. In 2001, this and other strains of dark garage music began to be showcased and promoted at London's night club Plastic People, at the 'Forward' night (sometimes stylized as FWD>), which went on to be considerably influential to the development of dubstep. The earliest dubstep releases date back to 1998 and 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 B-sides of single releases.

How dubstep was discovered.