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 ...

It's already time to celebrate the best of 2009, and we start with a look at the top records in the worlds of dubstep, wonky, grime, and funky. No summary of the year in dubstep would be complete ...

In the new issue of NME, Jaimie Hodgson explains how dubstep took over the world in 2009. He notes that the genre has spawned “a slew of hybrids and offshoots” – and that’s true, but there’s a key ...

When Matt Mason left last year as editor of RWD magazine, the UK’s foremost urban publication and one that supported grime even before it was called grime, he delivered a prediction: funky house would ...

It was an uneasy alliance of artists with different ambitions but UK funky primed us for Afrobeats and the all-conquering pop-house If you want to understand British club music’s eternally giddy flux, ...