With the tense, negative-space drama of his eponymous debut album haunted by his own palpably vulnerable voice, James Blake has played the coy illusionist, transforming dubstep – perhaps the most ...

Circa 2007, an obscure underground UK sound called dubstep erupted like a volcano. And it left behind a crater flooded with the molten elements of bass music that have since solidified into ...

I recently stumbled upon a blog that, despite its newness and modest stature, might represent one of the most important conservation efforts in electronic dance music right now. Instead of preserving ...

Just half a decade after its initial wave of popularity, still swaddled neatly in the glow of a relatively new genre, dubstep has been granted the game changing pre-fix of "post." The phrase ...

The British DJ-producers who concocted dubstep over the past decade have watched from afar as America suddenly discovered what irregular jolts of deep, wobbly bass can do to a dance floor. American ...

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It's already time to celebrate the best of 2009, and we start with a look at the top records in the worlds of dubstep, wonky, grime, and funky. No summary of the year in dubstep would be complete ...

This weekend, a new series of events for "electronic music" kicked off in London. In the short essay below organiser Glenn Max, who founded the Ether Festival and who runs East London's Village ...

But it hides a rather more positive truth, which is that dance culture is intrinsically participative, that the line between industry and punters is so blurred as to be non-existent, that those ...

What is soul? It's a difficult question to answer—especially with regard to music. One person's soul is another's hollow bombast, unbearable bellowing, or heinous whining (Hot Topic emo bands, I'm ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The producers of the DJ-Kicks compilation had to know what to expect ...