A character called Kosta Elcher, described in today's Arts & Books as an "LA music marketeer" (whatever that is), thinks there is a "fundamental need" to fuse British dubstep and American hiphop. I ...

Back in the early 1990s, the Wu Tang Clan's Ol' Dirty Bastard opened his track Shimmy Shimmy Ya with the lyric 'off on a natural charge, bon voyage'. A decade or so later, the sample found its way ...

Of all genres with complex legacies, dubstep ranks as one of the strangest. It’s less than 20 years old, yet already feels like it’s been through more ups and downs than a low-frequency oscillator. A ...

Intricately woven broken beats, textures both gritty and cosmic, a haunting but inviting motif with sub-level bass that at times rattles the entire atmosphere. We are of course talking about the ...

Queasy Games will add new sounds this week to Sound Shapes, its well-received musical platformer, with sound packs for '80s and dubstep music, publisher Sony Computer Entertainment announced today.

With the Skream (above) remix of La Roux's In For The Kill having become one of the anthems of this year's Glastonbury, dubstep is taking further steps towards the mainstream. Beats are crucial to the ...

For the past two years, there's been a word, an iconic American EDM phrase, that's been largely missing from significant mention in the conversation regarding dance's mainstream American presence: ...

Born out of a merging of garage production and grime rudiments in the early 2000s, dubstep emerged with a small but devoted following centred largely around the seminal London dubstep night FWD>>.