Kode9 Quotes
Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.
There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.
When a country is at war or in economic depression, underdevelopment or tightened security, it sets an affective tone or mood, which seeps through into everyday life via all kinds of channels.
Hyperdub started in 2001 as a web magazine, but we also did a few events in the early days before becoming a label.
Technical devices or processes which receive intensified investment during cold or hot wars spread through societies contagiously once their monopoly by the state has been undermined.
Audio virology is not a metaphor. It is to be taken literally. It maps real processes of mutation, transmission, contagion and memory within music culture.
