Los Angeles via Brooklyn via Trinidad and Tobago MC Juakali has been lacing flows over bass-influenced tracks since his debut on Pinch’s Underwater Dancehall record in 2007. In that time the globetrotting lyricist has remained innovative across dub, reggae, dubstep, dancehall, bhangra, grime, electronic and experimental genres, always keeping the anchor of bass as the […]

Just in time for the holidays, the magnificent dubstep (and beyond) maestro Skream drops his Freeizm Album as a gift to the world  — the perfect soundtrack for tearing open wrapping paper, finding that Pneumatic Grappling Hook you were hoping for, and running around the room like a retarded chicken. Or if its after Xmas, […]

It’s a great day today, as is any day that Bassnectar (aka Lorin Ashton) drops a new mix. His IDJ Mixtape was bonkers, and this BBC Radio 1 DJ Mix recorded in London is just as nice. As Lorin explains, “It’s been SOOOOOO long since I’ve had a chance to put together a good mix […]

We were lucky enough to discover Jimmy Edgar back in 2008, thanks to our hometown party luminaries DROID BEHAVIOR. It was 2am on the 2nd floor of a crumbling warehouse in downtown Los Angeles, in a suffocated room of about 75 sweaty, frenzied future-music enthusiasts. The scene was a perfect complement to the exquisite sounds […]

Hot off the success of his Mos Dub mixtape, NYC producer Max Tannone drops a similar treatment on Mos’ frequent Partner-On-Mic, Talib Kweli. Dub Kweli is exactly what it sounds like — dub-rinsed versions of some of Talib’s best tracks, just in time for that Labor Day Weekend Cookout. And best of all, of course […]

What do you get when you mix Jeff Wayne’s seminal 1978 version of The War of the Worlds with the wobbly bassiness that is dubstep? Dutch producer erwtenpeller wanted to know, so he created this top notch mixtape. Hot diggity. Richard Burton, Phil Lynott and David Essex narrate the H.G. Wells’ classic, with instrumentals by […]

Let’s face it, Diplo made his name on the mixtape — first with his Hollertronixxx mixes with Low Budget back in the day, and then his gamechanging Piracy Funds Terrorism mixtape that put M.I.A. on the map back when she couldn’t even read a map. Then there was his superlative mix with Santogold, Top Ranking, […]

As a pioneering producer of dubstep, Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman) has intricately explored the effects of sonic frequencies on human beings — used for positive results, his groundbreaking sub-bass tracks laid the foundation for the flourishing dubstep genre. But the doctor in Goodman (he has a PhD. in Philosophy from from the University of Warwick, […]