When Mount Kimbie, the London-based production duo of Kai Campos and Dominic Maker, dropped 2010’s critically-acclaimed debut album Crooks & Lovers, the media swiftly christened them poster children ...
Circa 2007, an obscure underground UK sound called dubstep erupted like a volcano. And it left behind a crater flooded with the molten elements of bass music that have since solidified into ...
Just half a decade after its initial wave of popularity, still swaddled neatly in the glow of a relatively new genre, dubstep has been granted the game changing pre-fix of "post." The phrase ...
This weekend, a new series of events for "electronic music" kicked off in London. In the short essay below organiser Glenn Max, who founded the Ether Festival and who runs East London's Village ...
After dubstep had seemingly ran its course in the early 2010s—taken so far from its South London birthplace it was barely recognisable to those who sculpted it in the first place—several other genres ...
John Grant's album Queen of Denmark was one of last year's most intriguing word-of-mouth successes. Recorded with his Texan chums Midlake, it's a warm, funny, slightly bitter, sometimes petulant, but ...
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On his guest-heavy, pop-oriented debut LP, Bristol-based post-dubstep producer Liam McLean leans on formula and shows a crippling indecisiveness. Grime, R&B, stadium pop, and dubstep all come in for ...
Certainly at the Dimensions Festival, the boundaries seem pretty fluid. I was there to DJ myself (with the Sound Of The Cosmos and Slugrave collectives), as well as to interview artists and simply to ...