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 ...

We sat down with Jayvee "DubsteP" Paguirigan and had a lengthy discussion about his story, as well as his early conversion to VALORANT, which helped the squad become one of the strongest VALORANT ...

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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 ...

Meet seven groundbreaking producers who are leading the charge for a more inclusive and musically experimental dubstep scene. By the 2010s, dubstep had landed in the United States, and artists like ...

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Watch the video of "Katy on a Mission" by Katy B: Regular readers of theartsdesk will know that I have written extensively about the sound's cultural and artistic significance (here, here, here and ...

UPDATE (12/23/2019): Honorable mentions were added and “Bangarang” by Skrillex was removed and replaced as it was erroneously listed as dubstep. It’s safe to say that this decade has been the biggest ...

The moment everybody probably should have realized dubstep was totally fucked came in 2007, when Caspa and Rusko’s Fabriclive mix dropped. Rather than incorporating a bit of wobbly sub-bass here and ...