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 ...

Los Angeles bass factory SMOG Records may be deeply associated with the city that its founder 12th Planet calls home, but those early adopters of dubstep have found kin all over, especially as the ...

Ridiculous, appalling, offensive, comically crap, hollow, awful, dubstep by numbers. It’s not difficult to find a dance music fan frustrated by the rise of Skrillex, Nero, Bassnectar and their ...

Born and raised in Hammersmith, Silkie‘s foray into music production began like so many others. Aged 15 he created his first tune, ‘Darksquare’, with school friend and fellow member of dubstep’s ...

Get ready for a heavy-hitting day & night of drum & bass, jungle, and dubstep in the heart of Manchester city centre. This FREE pop-up rave brings together serious sound systems and a stacked lineup ...

2002. Dubstep is a fledgling sound emerging from the roots of UK garage, 2-step and a love of old Jamaican dubplates. At the time the genre barely exists outside of London and even within the capital ...

It’s 1.30AM on December 5 and a brightly coloured sea of ravers are crammed into the corner of a cavernous heavy goods vehicle unloading bay underneath a shopping centre in the centre of Bristol. The ...

For more than a decade, DJ Mary Anne Hobbs has built a reputation at BBC Radio 1 for having musical tastes that are as cutting edge as they are eclectic. In the past, her show was as likely to feature ...

Given the incredible upward trajectory over the past 18 months of Digital Mystikz and Loefah, it was perhaps inevitable that their DMZ rave would blow up, but no one truly expected it to happen in the ...