One of the pioneers of dub and electronic dance music, Mad Professor, was born Neil Joseph Stephen Fraser in Guyana. In the late ’60s, at the age of thirteen, he moved to London, where his father was ...

Sub.mission dubstep is arguably the most influential music authority in Denver. Consistently winning Westword’s Best Of Denver awards for various shows and events, Sub.mission has been bringing the ...

If you want to get technical about defining Dubstep — discuss things like beats per minute and syncopated triplets — we’ll be here all day. For local dub selector Manny Martinez, aka Intager, aka Zero ...

A look at the ever growing influence of dubstep and its appearance in the #1 hit “Hold It Against Me” by Britney Spears. With a new year comes new music. Just when 2011 seemed like it would birth more ...

Tracing how the genre's signature deep bass and sparse rhythms have permeated every corner of electronic music since the '00s. Coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of ...

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 ...

“Who gon stop me,” from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne, begins with an orbiting, distorted vocal sample, then explodes into a rush of quaking bottom-end and pulsating, chunky mid-range. These ...

Lately it would be easy to assume that dubstep = halfstep. Indeed lots of recent dubstep sets are dominated by this style, which uses one snare per bar and is designed to give a slower, skanked out ...

The dubstep producer Mala recorded sounds for his new album, Mala In Cuba, during a trip to Havana with the BBC DJ Gilles Peterson. About a decade ago, a duo named Digital Mystikz put out a series of ...

Pop music has not been at a loss for trends in 2011. Over at Slate’s Music Club, 2011 has been discussed as the year of whistle-pop, the year indie and R&B made nice, the year of the people’s mic, and ...

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 ...

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 ...