2010-2019: THE SOUNDS THAT DEFINED THE DECADE

For better or – often – worse, these techniques and sounds dominated the decade in electronic music.

Massive bass wobbles

A bastardisation of the sub-focused British dubstep sound, the 2010s’ version of ‘dubstep’ was dominated by mid-range heavy bass patches characterised by sync’d, LFO-driven wobbles. Skrillex, often seen as the driving force behind the sound, revealed he used FM8 to create most of his patches, but the sound is most often associated