Well it originated out of 2-step/garage, which has a sort of erratic and irregular drum pattern as opposed to other genres like Trance and House with their 4 on the floor pattern. It usually features somewhat simple melodies, as opposed to Wobblestep which is almost more focused on the melody than anything else. Wobblestep tends to be considerably more aggressive and, as most like to call it, "filthy". :cool: While I'm at it, if you haven't heard Burial, you need to. He's in the older 2-step/garage style and combines a lot of sampled and altered vocals with a good bit of ambient.







I'm not the best at explaining genres, so hopefully someone else will be able to go into more detail or be more helpful.

Is some of NIN's stuff in any of these explanations? Like could it be an example of anything you explained?

You explained it pretty well, CanwllCorfe imo.

this is one of my current faves



I think most of NINs music falls into industrial

Not that I know of. Like djchameleon said, most of what they make is Industrial. Industrial tends to be more aggressive and rough. In Dubstep there's usually some kind of ambient sound to fill in the gaps of the melodies (which tend to be heavily altered) and make it seem more round, but in some genres, like Industrial, they tend to leave that out. What you get is something that sounds like it came right out of the keyboard; sort of unpolished and gritty. For some reason "analog" always comes to mind.