With the Skream (above) remix of La Roux's In For The Kill having become one of the anthems of this year's Glastonbury, dubstep is taking further steps towards the mainstream. Beats are crucial to the ...

Packed with powerful beats, bone-crushing sounds and tempo switches designed to amaze, dubstep continues to be the hottest genre around. Which is why the new Computer Music Special is all about ...

Queasy Games will add new sounds this week to Sound Shapes, its well-received musical platformer, with sound packs for '80s and dubstep music, publisher Sony Computer Entertainment announced today.

“Who gon stop me,” from Jay-Z and Kanye West’s Watch the Throne, begins with an orbiting, distorted vocal sample, then explodes into a rush of quaking bottom-end and pulsating, chunky mid-range. These ...

A character called Kosta Elcher, described in today's Arts & Books as an "LA music marketeer" (whatever that is), thinks there is a "fundamental need" to fuse British dubstep and American hiphop. I ...

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 ...

Intricately woven broken beats, textures both gritty and cosmic, a haunting but inviting motif with sub-level bass that at times rattles the entire atmosphere. We are of course talking about the ...

A new sound is infiltrating nightclubs across the world. From humble beginnings in Croydon, its combination of heavy bass, minimal Detroit pulses and sombre rhythms has struck a chord with electronica ...

Ridiculous, appalling, offensive, comically crap, hollow, awful, dubstep by numbers. It’s not difficult to find a dance music fan frustrated by the rise of Skrillex, Nero, Bassnectar and their ...