Deep Medi Musik was founded by the DMZ forefather Mala back in 2006. A fundamental figure, it’s an iconic label still pushing the old school stylings of early dubstep, with dark and tenacious cuts ...

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 ...

If you were looking for something to believe in this last decade, you couldn't have done much better than that zone of music some of us have taken to calling the hardcore continuum. In the noughties, ...

When Matt Mason left last year as editor of RWD magazine, the UK’s foremost urban publication and one that supported grime even before it was called grime, he delivered a prediction: funky house would ...

These are the words of ZHA. As the DJ and producer behind cult hybrid bass label Fent Plates and White Peach, a label and distribution company that specialises strictly in dubstep and grime, his words ...

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 ...

London-based dubstep pioneer Caspa first performed in Denver at Cervantes’ Other Side in 2009. Since then, he has played big stages at the Ogden Theatre and the Fillmore Auditorium. The intimacy of ...

Dupstep/pop artist Katy B performs at this summer's V Festival Dubstep and grime have been listed as new words in the latest edition of the Chambers dictionary. Dubstep is defined as a "type of ...

Lloyd Bradley, the author of ‘Sounds Like London: 100 Years Of Black Music In The Capital’, traces the city’s musical history: It’s difficult to believe that calypsonian Lord Kitchener could have too ...

A new sound is infiltrating nightclubs across the world. From humble beginnings in Croydon, its combination of heavy bass, minimal Detroit pulses and sombre rhythms has struck a chord with electronica ...

Dubstep was first coined back in 2002 by Tempa founder Neil Jolliffe. It’s a pivotal player for many reasons, perhaps most importantly of all, for the early championing of Skream, who would go on to ...

Dubstep and grime have been listed as new words in the latest edition of the Chambers dictionary. Dubstep is defined as a "type of electronic popular dance music developed from drum and bass". Grime ...