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I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage,…

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The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

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Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.

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There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the…

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Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the…

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When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which…

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Most music culture these days runs on systems and networks devised to deal with the aftermath of thermonuclear war. Music culture has…

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Basically, there were three aspects of dub that influenced dubstep. The most important was playing the instrumental versions of vocal garage tracks,…

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Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

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A one-word book does appeal to me.

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Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

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Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory…

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Because we live in a condition of ubiquitous music and media, and near infinite technological memory, it is much easier for local…

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The acceleration and saturation leads to things becoming outmoded, or out of fashion before they've even happened. That's a pretty complicated situation.…

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