Turning Belgian Jump Up Into Dubstep…

Belgian Jump Up is one of those styles where the sound design can either hit insanely hard… or completely miss.

So I had a question: what happens if you slow it down and mix it with dubstep?

In this video, I experiment with combining Belgian-style jump up basses (frog bass, 808-driven low end) with dubstep/trap-inspired drums at 70 BPM. From building the drum groove with 909s and 808s, to designing the bass and adding ambient textures, this turned into a surprisingly unique “space bass” vibe.

I also break down:

Drum pattern choices (trap + breakbeat influence)
808 techniques used in Belgian DnB
Pitch bending + distortion tricks
Frog bass sound design references
Adding ambience with resampled vocals + textures

This was a fun experiment and honestly… the Belgian sound design carried HARD.

🎧 Playlist for sound design references:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK7sjxLq56nRebWE7GZzgqluukYKHF9xM

Let me know—should I push this further into a full track?
#jumpup #dubstep #drumandbass #sounddesign #musicproduction #bassmusic #dnb #experimentalmusic

-Transcript-

Belgian Jump Up is a subgenre of drum and bass where, when it's good, it's great, when it's bad, it's annoying, but love it or hate it, you gotta respect the sound design.... So I've been rediscovering it recently, and I just had to ask the question, what if I mixed it with dubstep? So I did the dubstep part first. I put 70 BPM on the BPM counter. I grabbed a 909 kick and did a classic trap breakbeat pattern. Did a clap layered with a snare.. I also put an 808 closed hi-hat hitting eighth notes with a few extra embellishments in there to move it along, and I also dragged in an 808. So Belgian DNB uses 808s as well. They usually leave the first hit blank and start the 808 right under that clap or snare, but I needed something to fill the space, so what I did was I did some pitch bends and I enabled this trap drive so the initial hit of every bar is more distorted and more pitch bent, and then it just goes into a chiller sign bass... Mixing Belgian Jump Up with Dubstep: A Creative for the sound design, I just went on YouTube and looked up how to make Belgian drum and bass, I also looked up how to make frog basses, and I'll just link the playlist here in the description for how I went through the sound design. Now the track was missing a bit of ambience, so I found a science monologue, downsampled that and just put that in to do some psychedelic fills, and for the intro I just did a square wave pluck, some chord ambience, and I found a nice cinematic hom using Omnisphere. *** When you put it all together I got a really nice space bass vibe. I really think the Belgian sound design carried the track quite a bit, but notably it does sound quite different at a slower speed. ^^ ***

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