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.

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.

A one-word book does appeal to me.

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

Never make eye contact with a stranger when you’re having a churro.

How can you trust people who are poor and own no property? ... Inequality of property will exist as long as liberty exists.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.

If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed.

We ought to be respecting the principle of equality.

Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.

When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later.

I read good. I was an English major.

Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you.

How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast!