Blackdown

If you read this blog regularly or have follow dubstep for a bit, you’ll know what happened early in 2006: dubstep, to the complete surprise...

RINSE Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy last Thursday 11-1am. Download the show here until the Rinse podc...

So I’m at home last Friday after a long hard week, relaxing after some food and everything's nice. Except there’s this nagging feeling i...

Two years after flu prevented it , Dusk and I are finally making our Bristol debut. We're well up for this, given how much incredible mu...

As I alluded to in my recent interview with him, Grievious Angel has done an amazing mix, originally for On The Wire but now showcased by F...

Keysound Recordings 008 geeneus ft. riko, wiley and breeze "knife & gun" a) "knife & gun" b1) "knife & ...

The other week I rolled through the free Adidas/RWD Mag/Kano gig at the O2’s Indigo. A few years ago I saw this talk by this hairy hilarious...

New Pitchfork column from me on Zomby and grime's inroads into the mainstream but on its own terms.

RINSE Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy recently. You can download it here . Dusk + Blackdown on Rinse Oct...

· Spyro v Maximum · Spyro v Marcus NASTY · Marcus NASTY v Mak 10 Over the last month, the rate of acceleration of the funky scene and ...

LDN007 a) dusk + blackdown ft farrah and teji "kuri pataka (the firecracker girl)" b) blackdown ft farrah "con/fusion" ...

In July I covered Dot Rotten’s mixtape for Pitchfork but the full interview that went with it, remained on tape. Finally I found a spare (l...

It's the rise of the boundary smashers aka The month in dubstep, grime, garage, funky, soca-grime, wonky, UK hip hop-that-thinks-it'...

Come on my son!!!!! UPDATE: ah bollocks, yet another win for an indie band. Ah well, probably no bad thing for a man who above all really wa...

Pros of funky, to me: · It's an exciting new urban London movement. · It from the same communities that gave you dubstep and grime, an...

RINSE Dusk and I were back on Rinse rolling the grimey, wonky and skippy. Was a lot of fun, again. **Dusk + Blackdown on Rinse August 08** ...

Roots of El-B CD 1 "The Club" Ghost [Ghost] 2 "2000" Ghost [Ghost] 3 "Express" El-B [Ghost] 4 "Show A Li...

A few months ago I interviewed Grievous Angel for use in my Pitchfork column. Now the dust has settled on that, I wanted to publish the who...