Born out of a merging of garage production and grime rudiments in the early 2000s, dubstep emerged with a small but devoted following centred largely around the seminal London dubstep night FWD>>.

Though it’s often been suggested that the fundamentals of dubstep descend from a lyrical prophesy in Morris Day and the Time’s 1984 hit “The Bird,” in which Day intimates that “you don’t need no ...

One of the most prohibitive – or exciting, depending on your perspective – aspects of UK urban dance music is dubplate culture: the circulation of unreleased tracks between tight-knit circles of ...

Of all genres with complex legacies, dubstep ranks as one of the strangest. It’s less than 20 years old, yet already feels like it’s been through more ups and downs than a low-frequency oscillator. A ...

Dubstep is a tricky one. Like electro or deep house, it can be a descriptor for multiple types of music that are often in direct opposition to one another but confusingly called the same thing. Most ...

We trace the history of an amorphous subgenre that fused dubstep with R&B, ambient music, post-rock and IDM When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how ...