Blog jam: Underground dubstep blog OneFortyDeep picks a playlist of choice minimal sounds to prove your prejudices wrong Andy HL writes: "OneFortyDeep was started on a whim during a period when money ...

Two years ago the Decibel Festival in Seattle, which had until then stuck closely to its original techno mission, had a new sound du jour: dubstep. It was 2009, the style’s bumper year. The London ...

Dubstep music started in London around the turn of this century. Derived from styles such as garage, dub, and drum and bass, dubstep is known for downtempo rhythms with an off-kilter shuffle. A strict ...

What do heavy electronic beats, big bass, live drumming and a solo saxophone have in common? They are all featured in the music of up-and-coming Colorado-based duo Big Gigantic. Big Gigantic has been ...

Last August I explained how, by taking influence from the glacial Germanic techno of Basic Channel, a group of dubstep producers had managed to make a subtle, refined analogue sound, in contrast to ...

AT 1 a.m. on a Saturday night last month Jonathan Davis, the frontman of Korn, sat on his tour bus outside of Wild Bill’s, a bunkerlike nightclub in this Atlanta suburb where his band had finished ...

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 ...