Standing in the backyard of his recently purchased Silver Lake house, U.K. dubstep producer Rusko is having an epiphany. “I'm a man!” 25-year-old Chris Mercer yells into the sky, standing in front of ...
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 ...
Tracing how the genre's signature deep bass and sparse rhythms have permeated every corner of electronic music since the '00s. Coined by French philosopher Jacques Derrida in his 1993 book Spectres of ...
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.
After a multi-year hiatus apart, two of the most influential dubstep producers in the electronic music industry, Chris Mercer (Rusko) and Gary McCann (Caspa), have reunited as a formal duo to make ...
For whatever reason, there's always some weird misconstrued notion that dubstep is automatically a future take on the reggae and dub styles of yesteryear. You can almost spot a "newbie" in the 140BPM ...