In an extract from Aftershock, a definitive new history of dubstep, DMZ’s Mala, Coki and Loefah recall the bass drops and pacifist mentality that went into their creation By the turn of the millennium ...

January 2006 is a landmark date for the six-year-old sound of dubstep. In one weekend, through the coincidence of two massive events-- DMZ and Radio 1's Dubstep Warz-- the scene has gone through ...

Peter ‘Loefah’ Livingston, one third of the team behind seminal dubstep label DMZ and, later in his career, head of the Swamp81 imprint, has launched a new record label. Named School, the label is a ...

As part of our day of exclusive Magnetic Man content, Artwork charts the rise of dubstep: 'Dubstep is global, but there are still people round the corner from where I live who don't know what it is.

Loefah's contributions to the DMZ imprint are considered by many to be key moments in the evolution of dubstep, while Pinch prides himself on his "chest rattling" bass frequencies. Kromestar also ...

Cook’s images have previously featured on record sleeves such as Burial’s ‘Untrue’ and Dubstep Allstars Vol.2. She’s also exhibited her work via an installation ‘Who Wants A Rewind?’ at Tate Modern in ...

LOEFAH with KNIFEHANDCHOP , SEK ONE , CRYOGENETIC and YTEE at Crosstown (178 Bathurst), Saturday (April 7). $15. 416-362-7677. Rating: NNNNN In just the last year, dubstep has gone from a somewhat ...

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 the trends, fusions and cross-genre mutations we’ve witnessed within dance music over the past ten years, the furious explosion of dubstep and the cataclysmic expansion of grime have been two ...

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 ...