Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks, ….

Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local cultures to find an….

The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple..

A one-word book does appeal to me..

When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through in….

Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has a habit of usin….

Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music cu….

There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype..

Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label..

The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situat….

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture..

Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly….

I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a ….

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics..