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.

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.

Both analog and digital developments have intensified the viral nature of sonic culture.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

The sound needed a hub to grow, and that hub was Big Apple.

how lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman...

To get lost, all you need is poetry.

...spiritual or emotional pain doesn't become a memory so much as a bruise ...

Conse­quently the Wolfenden recommendations will be indefinitely rejected, police prosecutions will continue and Clive on the bench will continue to sentence Alec in the dock. Maurice may get off.

Bush said the unemployment situation is turning around. Last week alone, 5,000 people started working for John Kerry.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

Earth is a silly name for this planet.

Anyone that says looks don't count is lying. Of course they do. Even babies go to the attractive face. It's the way humans work.

Lack is more in means, than in principles.

The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.