First of all, excuse my english, I'm not a native speaker.
This is not (primarily) about dubstep, and I don't want to start a flamewar about dubstep. That said, I have always liked "true" dubstep, subgenres that did not go in the direction of glitch hop, electro house etc. and I hate the fact that it's so hard to discover them because the community rejects subgenre labels.
That's not all though!
"True" dubstep is just one piece of the puzzle connecting to many others and lately I've found that the other pieces are just as much, if not more, interesting, and often give you an insight about genre development and influences. And because the genres are so close to each other, often overlapping, some people started to call that whole group bass music, since the one thing that's usually present is the use of subbass. The label is used loosely and other people may have different definitions, I'm not great with subgenre labels, but I may include dub, juke, UK funky, grime, raggastep (also called dubwise and rootstep afaik), dub techno, post-dubstep, maybe even minimal techno and possibly others (dubstep, of course, as well). I'm not opposed to wobbles in general, but it would certainly not be a place for mainstream dubstep, glitch and similar genres.
I don't intend to have a system, I'd simply submit music as I'm discovering it or stuff that I currently listen to. I'm thinking it might be interesting for others because for me a lot of the music was discovered completely randomly and it's not easy to find good sources.
Possible examples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXLED5HuI8o Filastine - Colony Collapse (dubstep/world music?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIo2MCdRzJE Chik - Lightless (closer to minimal techno) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjQWQselyds Dryman - Occult Riddim (? it sounds like it's in 140 though, so probably percussive dubstep?:)) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0CdQc1zsgc Andy Stott - Execution (eeeeeeh, dub techno?)
The question is: is anyone interested in following #bassmusic and/or submitting their own discoveries?
Hey! You might possibly like to share your stuff every week here. These threads get a fair amount of exposure. Also, just submitting Youtube links every once in a while with the tags #music and #newmusic (if applicable) go a long way toward spreading the genres you want to spread. That said, if you want to start submitting stuff under the tag #bassmusic regularly, if people like your suggestions the tag will gain followers pretty quickly.
Unfortunately it's not -- the first tag is yours to pick but the second is something called the "community tag," which is essentially the consensus tag of everyone who reads your submission and bothers to retag it. It's a cool system but sometimes being unable to dual-tag your own subs is an unnecessary headache.